Does any real person seriously believe the movie is anti-right or whatever? I mean, people who have seen the film? Because there was a baby in the audience when I went to see it and I think even he got the joke. If anything "Tex Richman" was a jab at movies that use standard capitalist bad guys. He even turns good at the end.
(Yeah) In all seriousness, you make a good point. (But) That point demonstrates why the producers are being stupid.
Some commentator who not even I've heard of, in the middle of a debate on Fox, made the anti-Muppet comment. Then, a bunch of other (usually liberal) commentators at other sites picked up on it, largely in an effort to say "those dummies at Faux Republinazi Shill News...how ignorant they are" and started publicizing the little known commentator's previously barely noticed remark.
Potential audiences now heard over and over about the "communist" muppet charge and--in a another example of how the internet is a giant game of "telephone"--a significant bunch of them thought this really WAS a another "liberal propaganda" film from the same Hollywood that keeps Sean Penn and Roman Polanski employed.
And the movie then--ahem--"underperforms" at the box office.
So, you'd think the producers would then say "we've got a good movie here, we don't need controversy, look at what happened because of this" and pretend that Fox News and the whole incident never existed. Basically let the whole thing blow over and get back to marketing the movie in other countries and on DVD.
But nooo.....
Instead, they start the whole thing up again, thereby likely convincing even MORE people that their movie is some sort of leftist agitprop in yet another series of wacky misunderstandings.
Pretty dumb on their part. Sure, they'll make a few liberals--who've probably already seen the movie or don't plan on it anyway--chuckle over one giant media corporation sticking it to the other giant media corporation. But they've also just taken it upon themselves to do again the exact same thing that hurt their box office the first time when it was done by a bunch of bloggers.
