Comments on: An American Carol’s Disappointing Box Office Due to Ticket Fraud?!

By: Leroy Malone

Leroy Malone — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:54:35 +0000

Yes…but the real ticket fraud occurred in the 4th weekend when nobody saw it.

And Chris Farley is rolling in his grave at the stupidity of his brother. You can’t be more unfunny!

By: J

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:33:38 +0000

The film was very funny! strip the political jokes and it was just a C+ or B-. But the political direction will make political liberals cringe and chuckle (if you can laugh at yourself – liberals can be whiny when people disagree with them and cry “closed-minded) and political Republicans laugh out loud and clap. Notice I said Republicans, I think many conservative libertarians and free-thinkers will disagree with points of the film but WHO CARES, its FUNNY! If you like the politically focused episodes of Southpark then I think you will like this film, Republican or not. This film is (a) for entertainment (b) geared toward political conservatives. That makes it possible to laugh WITH them or AT them. That is the great thing about comedy!

One more note: The reason extreme conservatives seem to be so “conspiracy theory” oriented is because of the lack of objectivity in the media and in our culture. Being liberal seems to give you a free pass for inconsistency and a lack of logic. Mind you, there are many smart, logical political liberals, but the majority are idiots… However, when many political conservatives are idiots, all of a sudden they are back-woods, ignorant, gun-toting (like those who built this Country) jack-asses.

This election there are millions voting for a guy based on race. Anyone saying anything about him has to tread lightly or you are a racist. I live in a University town with the local (non-university based) population predominantly African-American. I see tons of this bias liberal bigotry and it is never covered by the news (they won’t touch it with a 10-foot pole) but if some stupid, ignorant red-neck calls talk bad about “lazy blacks” everyone goes crazy shouting “racist.” Basically this ignorant white punk gets reamed (rightly so) while a presidential candidate can talk about “white folks greed” as if somehow greed is a racial issue.

The media is bias folks, open your eyes! Fox is not “fair and balanced,” talk radio is predominantly conservative (duh) and CNN, CBS, NBC are clearly liberally bias (I took journalism in college, most media is liberally bias)

Bottom line: Get past your own bias and your political bias and go see a funny movie!

By: Better Right that Red

Better Right that Red — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:08:42 +0000

Ok, so how many people on this post are crazy liberals, raise your hand. Oh, let’s see, all of you, surprise, surprise.

By: Bob M

Bob M — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:11:25 +0000

I saw American Carol on Saturday night. It was funny but not great. I suppose it was on par with other lampoons of its type. I don’t think any movie of this type ever makes a killing at the box office.

That being said, I was given a ticket stub for a different movie when I purchased tickets for American Carol. I read about the “ticket fraud” accusation on the internet after I got home and I still had the ticket stub in my pocket. Sure enough mine was for a different movie. At this theater you buy the ticket and go right in. No one collects the ticket which is in this case just a receipt.

Was it ticket fraud or a conspiracy? Liberals would have to be mighty desperate to railroad a stupid movie of this type and the pimple faced teenagers behind the counter didn’t look like they had a political agenda.

Still, it is a strange occurrence considering the other reports.

By: Goon

Goon — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:40:00 +0000

if Postal’s hype couldn’t save it on DVD, I don’t see any reason this would either. Then again, by the time this hits dvd it may be seen as ‘comfort food’ as they deal with McCains impending humiliating defeat.

By: Jon Rocks

Jon Rocks — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:06:21 +0000

This is dumb. I like that “An American Carol” got made– not that I went out to see it. But did the producers really expect it to make a lot of money? No– this will have a better life on DVD. Actually, it probably should have been released straight to DVD.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:33:53 +0000

BWAHAHAHAHA! The producers should thank their lucky stars that the movie did as well as it did. What did they expect? Did they have focus groups that told them this would be a massive blockbuster? Conspiracy? Give me a break. I’m guessing that they are saying that a lot more people saw the movie than the weekend gross numbers would suggest. Ridiculous.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:36:10 +0000

This supposed “conspiracy” makes bo sense, I can’t even wrap my head around how it would work.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:42:21 +0000

@ Bryan:

That would be pretty funny. But I think David Zucker has proven that he is incapable of being funny anymore, so I don’t buy it!

By: Dan from New Jersey

Dan from New Jersey — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:28:18 +0000

The best thing Kevin Farley did was 2ge+her, the MTV boy-band parody movie.

By: Ryan M.

Ryan M. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:21:03 +0000

Everyone pretty much said it already.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:05:56 +0000

Sounds more like the producers of a political satire are spoofing the ‘voter fraud’ conspiracies of 2000 and 2004.

A joke? Probably. A funny joke? Maybe not so much.