Dreadful Elon Musk hit-piece documentary only serves to fuel Dems frenzy against him before midterms
The new Elon Musk documentary, “Musk”, is an excruciatingly boring four hours of Luddite fearmongering and left-wing sermonizing.The point clearly wasn’t entertainment.The movie is so awful that even in Musk-loathing Manhattan it played to empty theaters, with just a handful of die-hard green-hairs at the 3 p.m.
Saturday session I endured.It was such a box-office flop it’s been pulled from almost all theaters.This past weekend there was a single 10 a.m.
session in all of Manhattan, while you could barely find a ticket to see the riveting new documentary about Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, “You Can See Everything.”Musk opened Oct.16 after a test run on four screens and, as of Sunday, had earned $643,432, according to Box Office Mojo.“You Can See Everything” opened the same day and has earned more than $45 million.
That’s because it’s a thoughtful treatment of an actual villain who tricked cancer patients and defrauded investors.Filmmaker Nathan Fielder also had incredible access, moving into Holmes’ house with her family before she went to prison.“Musk” filmmaker Alex Gibney, on the other hand, set out to do a hit job, so had zero access to his subject.Instead, he created an AI-generated version of Musk saying evil things, accompanied by ominous music.Yes it really was as bad as this.But it serves a purpose as propaganda to fuel the Democrats’ anti-Musk frenzy before the midterms.From the Bulwark to CNN, Democrats are salivating about using their anticipated new power to destroy the world’s richest man.Obama bros fantasize about nationalizing Musk’s companies.
They say Musk will have to buy a townhouse in Washington because he’ll be spending so much time testifying in Congress.They say he’s going to need all his trillion dollars for lawyers to fight a barrage of criminal charges.They can’t wait for him to be behind bars.This from the same people who a minute ago were railing against the “weaponization” of the just...