Conservative anti-spending movie hits theatres in October
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[release]Meet Ray Griggs, a California conservative who wants to stop government spending through the magic of claymation. Conservatives will probably be hopping on Fandango this fall to get tickets to see Griggs' Michael Moore-style documentary billing itself a "controversial look at government spending" and featuring an animated boxing match between President Obama and Ronald Reagan.
I Want Your Money, which will land in theaters this October, aims to contrast the "two paths" the United States could take -- Obama's approach or Reagan's. The promotional site tells visitors that $182 million is spent during the span of one viewing of the 90-minute film.
Today TPM interviewed Griggs, who said one third of his flick is animated to "make it entertaining for a younger audience." (It includes claymation and 3-D computer animation.)
Griggs, who also brought the comic book flick "Super Capers" to screens last year, is currently working on a film adaptation of Wind in the Willows. Readers might remember him from Rachel Maddow's critique last fall of Griggs' "I guess I'm racist" anti-health care ad.
Griggs, 36, has a young daughter and a new baby on the way and he made the movie because he's "just really worried about the freedoms and the opportunities they are going to have and the amount of debt the nation is taking on."
"We need to stand up and start taking a stand, we need to stop the spending. Reagan had it right," Griggs told TPM. "Whether you're on the left or the right side whatever your view is, we all pay taxes."
Griggs would not disclose the cost of making the film, but said it was self-funded and that he is not affiliated with any organizations that might benefit from such a movie coming out so close to the election. He described himself as a conservative who thinks Republicans are becoming too much like Democrats, but he did vote in the GOP primary this summer.
Among the film's featured interviews are John Stossel, Club for Growth's Stephen Moore, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Ohio's Kenneth Blackwell, Rep. Thad McCotter, Newt Gingrich, Steve Forbes and Andrew Breitbart.
"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money," Huckabee says in the trailer. Portions of the film will showcase tea party activists to show they "are just every day people."
FreeRepublic types seem to be excited about it. Watch the trailer:
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Claymation Reaganomics film, that could not possibly sound worse.
It's like Wallace and Gromit with added demagoguery.
there's the stereotype of conservative being terrible at art, i don't really know why
That dipshit Micheal Moore does shit films, why can't a dipshit conservative who misplaced his trust in Reaganomics?
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;23889936]That dipshit Micheal Moore does shit films, why can't a dipshit conservative who misplaced his trust in Reaganomics?[/QUOTE]
How bout no one does dumbass films and everyone is happy? There doesn't need to be a balance, there can just be nothing to begin with.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;23889936]That dipshit Micheal Moore does shit films, why can't a dipshit conservative who misplaced his trust in Reaganomics?[/QUOTE]
Is anyone saying he can't?
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;23889936]That dipshit Micheal Moore does shit films, why can't a dipshit conservative who misplaced his trust in Reaganomics?[/QUOTE]
Capitalism a Love Story wasn't terrible.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;23889936]That dipshit Micheal Moore does shit films, why can't a dipshit conservative who misplaced his trust in Reaganomics?[/QUOTE]
on what basis do you make these statements
government needs to ban all politicalfags
That trailer looked fucking terrible.
A. The animations sucked
B. Why does everyone hate on Obama? There are three other branches of government.
C. Conservatives... and the Tea Party Idk.
I'm actually interested in this because it actually seems to cover the bases that a movie like this should cover, it's extremely conservative but it's not awkwardly tasteless or completely shoved-down-your-throat obnoxious like nearly everything the party does.
It's a decent trailer, it had to be really stupid to get most people to watch a documentary, hence the REGAN BOXING and COMEDY BILL CLINTON scenes.
subtlety has never been the tea party's strength
Another fresh anti-conservative Lambeth thread.
These animations are terrible.
Anti-Spending movie that cost a shit ton of money and will cost the viewers a shit ton of money.
[QUOTE=Cassettic;23890302]Another fresh anti-conservative Lambeth thread.
These animations are terrible.[/QUOTE]
Please
I'm not JDK
[QUOTE=clonekiller;23890243]That trailer looked fucking terrible.
A. The animations sucked
B. Why does everyone hate on Obama? There are three other branches of government.
C. Conservatives... and the Tea Party Idk.[/QUOTE]
a. yeah they did, but they could have been a lot worse
b. except that maybe obama is pretty much the head public figure for the democratic party, and people are demonizing him because you can't personally relate to and demonize a massive political organization (the democratic party)
c. that is not a point, that is your opinion that everything having to do with a group of people is automatically bad
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[QUOTE=thisispain;23890300]subtlety has never been the tea party's strength[/QUOTE]
what are you referring to
[QUOTE=Cheesemonkey;23890351]
what are you referring to[/QUOTE]
did you see the trailer?
I like how they have the random army lady hugging her kid. Really lets you know that this is about FREEDOM and the AMERICAN WAY
[QUOTE=Cheesemonkey;23890351]a. yeah they did, but they could have been a lot worse
[B]b. except that maybe obama is pretty much the head public figure for the democratic party, and people are demonizing him because you can't personally relate to and demonize a massive political organization (the democratic party)[/B]
c. that is not a point, that is your opinion that everything having to do with a group of people is automatically bad
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what are you referring to[/QUOTE]
He's referring to the Judiciary and Legislative branches which do as much, if not more than, Obama to actually affect things.
[QUOTE=thisispain;23890377]did you see the trailer?[/QUOTE]
well it's pretty obvious that it's a trailer for a doccumentary about the tea party and the republican party, so i don't see how your comment about subtlety fits because they were not trying to be subtle at all with this, in fact pretty much violently the opposite
you would say something like you did if they failed at being subtle or awkwardly weren't subtle. this was pretty much purposefully in your face
I'm not saying every single conservative is a bad person. I'm just saying they just have a few wrong points...
[QUOTE=Cheesemonkey;23890433]well it's pretty obvious that it's a trailer for a doccumentary about the tea party and the republican party, so i don't see how your comment about subtlety fits because they were not trying to be subtle at all with this, in fact pretty much violently the opposite
you would say something like you did if they failed at being subtle or awkwardly weren't subtle. this was pretty much purposefully in your face[/QUOTE]
maybe i'm suggesting subtlety will do them some good
How could you do a movie like this accurately when the president it's on isn't even out of office yet?
[QUOTE=Jimpy;23890547]How could you do a movie like this accurately when the president it's on isn't even out of office yet?[/QUOTE]
You can't, but do you think that stops them?
This seems adequately entertaining.
I giggled while watching the trailer. Maybe I'll rent it.
I like how all the tea party people are old and white and when it shows the 'perfect' family it's all white people. Oh they did include a black lady but that's okay because she's a soldier too!
At least it'll be better than an Uwe Boll movie. Although if he adapts "Wind In The Willows" to feature American accents, I swear I'm going to rip out his throat
I'm going to have something to watch in October.
Hopefully it will be as good as "An American Carol".
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