I have never pretended to be a capitalist. But I respect reality, and I get the fact that I’m in a tiny minority and must function in a society that believes we should all have to work for someone else in order to eat. But I really, truly don’t understand honest, old fashioned, greedy capital people who fail to take my money from me when I’m practically begging to give it to them:

An Inconvenient Truth $1,750,000 +16.3% 404 +282 $4,331 $6,406,000

Mission: Impossible III $1,183,000 -60.8%
1,002 -906 $1,180 $130,003,000

These are the numbers for this week’s box office receipts and reflect weekend gross, percent change from the previous period, number of theatres, percent change from the number of theatres, average take per theatre, and total gross, respectively. Al’s movie is one of only three on the list of the top 50 highest grossing movies to move up.

You know how much I hate TV, and Hollywood is a close second. But I really don’t get it: if it’s all about greed, and it’s clear that the vast majority of movies come out and promptly sink like a stone- well, it’s rather obvious to me that there’s an untapped market that’s just being ignored.

There are few groups that I believe are stupider than our fine Beltway leadership. Hollywood execs and green lighters are working hard to make that list.