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The other day my wife and I planned to go and see Michael Moore's documentary Sicko. We've heard it's a brilliant movie which exploits our Country's dysfunctional health care system. Our neighbors eighty-two year old mother had seen it and said it was really good. In-fact, she said at the end everyone stood up and applauded.
So I'm on the Net looking to find where Sicko is playing and much to our surprise, it isn't being shown anywhere close to where we live, here in Northeast, Philadelphia. Out of three movies theaters and with a total of forty eight movies being shown, Sicko isn't one of them. I called one theater to find out why the movie wasn't playing? Only to be told that it was, up until last Friday. It was there for three and a half weeks. A "limited release." And the other two AMC theaters? They didn't even bother showing it.
The selection of movies we could have gone to see: Hairspray (I hear John Travolta's looking good as a woman?) which is playing twice at two of the theaters, Underdog, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Who's Your Caddy? The Bourne Ultimatum or The Simpson's Movie. Now you wanna talk about "dumbing down" the American people?
If I could interject one caveat. Speaking of John Travolta, you would think with all of the millions he's made over the years making pictures, that just "once" he could collaborate with some of the other Hollywood elite and put together a documentary depicting the growing fascism and the downward spiral our Country is taking, such as Moore's done?
Present day life in America is far more serious than any musical.
