Comments on: Sicko is a box-office bomb http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/sicko-is-box-office-bomb.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/sicko-is-box-office-bomb.html#comment-77872 Anonymous Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:22:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/sicko-is-a-box-office-bomb.html#comment-77872 ...sorry, meant "conscience", not "conscious". It's early. …sorry, meant “conscience”, not “conscious”. It’s early.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/sicko-is-box-office-bomb.html#comment-77871 Anonymous Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:20:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/sicko-is-a-box-office-bomb.html#comment-77871 Not sure that evidence of indifference to a very serious problem is anything to crow about...whether one agrees or disagrees with Moore,the subject needs attention. Even skewed attention gets people talking, as this blog demonstrated.<br/><br/>"Sicko" was never shown here (I live in a mid-size university town) except for a brief stay at the "art" theater. Such distribution would influence the box office numbers, I'd think.<br/><br/>Current commercials for the film seen to be positioning it as a comedy. "Moore's funniest film yet!" Leave your social conscious behind, come for the laughs...<br/><br/>Ah well. Not sure that evidence of indifference to a very serious problem is anything to crow about…whether one agrees or disagrees with Moore,the subject needs attention. Even skewed attention gets people talking, as this blog demonstrated.

“Sicko” was never shown here (I live in a mid-size university town) except for a brief stay at the “art” theater. Such distribution would influence the box office numbers, I’d think.

Current commercials for the film seen to be positioning it as a comedy. “Moore’s funniest film yet!” Leave your social conscious behind, come for the laughs…

Ah well.

]]>