Stop Roger Simon Before He Prognosticates Again!

Nearly a year ago, Roger L. Simon's predictions that Spike Lee's "feature career is over" was, with the success of Inside Man, shown to be loony (box office receipts doubled the budget).

His crystal ball is apparently still cloudy.

January '05:

...Moore was never really part of Hollywood. He is sui generis, a self-taught maker of (semi) documentaries. Most who are thought of as "Hollywood" are not documentarians to begin with. They are fiction filmmakers, show people. They adopted Moore for a short while to make a point which is now fading even for them. Most people in Hollywood now see, although maybe they won't admit it, that democracy in Iraq is extremely important. For Moore, it's over.

Riiiiiiiiiight. That's why Sicko got produced by the Weinstein Company (who backed such non-Hollywood fare as Scary Movie 4, Clerks II, and Hannibal Rising) and distributed by Lionsgate (known for such non-Hollywood fare as Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Saw II and the forthcoming Hostel: Part II).

But Roger may be right. The reception's been lukewarm at best. The first review called Sicko "brilliant and uplifting," but you can't trust that liberal, Commie broadsheet. You know, Fox News.


So to sum up: Roger Simon doesn't know shit about movies.