‘Expelled’: critical flop, good numbers
May 5th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

Expelled Expelled

Was there even a critic that did like ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’? Words as ‘propaganda,’ ‘insulting,’ ‘brainwashing’ and ‘hysterical’ were used to describe this documentary. Jokes about its subtitle and just plain ridiculing made this a movie nobody in their right mind would watch. Right? Wrong!

While it does have a metacritic.com score of 2.0, it still managed to make $6.6 million including last weekend. This makes it the 13th highest grossing documentary in the US. “It’s done exceptionally well when you look at it as a documentary film,” producer Mark Mathis said.

He blames the media for not getting more people to see his movie. “Michael Moore comes out with a film and Michael Moore gets large amounts of time on morning shows –- NBC, ABC, CBS, cable networks. He gets tens of millions of dollars of free publicity because Big Media see the world in general the way he does.

Can you really blame the media for not picking up on what most describe as the worst movie of the year? He should be happy the little controversy made him the $6.6 million. I didn’t see the movie, but as I understand it, it wasn’t worth a penny of that $6.6 million. At least you can accuse Michael Moore of some objectivity.

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