Sold out...

You know it, I went to see Farenheit and it was sold out, which didn't suprise me a bit. I can't wait to see how it does over the weekend. In the meantime, there is some of the inevitable resistance from the right over the advertising of this film. The Boston Herald reports today on the decision of a legal panel from the FEC to ban ads that promote the film after July 30th.

Their justification for such legal action is that they consider Farenheit to be a political advertisement, as opposed to a film that naturally gets to run trailers because of it's status AS A FILM. I suppose one could argue that the nature of the film is political and therefore inadverdantly advertises against a candidate, yet not only has Moore never endorsed Kerry (which if he had might make it more like an advertisement), but neither is it technically an advertisement for anything other than the movie itself. Wouldn't IFC and Lionsgate films also have to be in the business of political advertising for it to be considered as such? If the FEC manages to make this happen, it's hard telling how far such limitations could go. On the other hand, I am guessing that the reason why companies and unions would be prohibited from advertising against a candidate 30 days before primary election would be so that partisan powers don't flood the media, and voters can be more clear on issues(even though the media is flooded by partisan powers anyway).

Also, got to read a decent, critical review of the film over at slate, go check it out... laters