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"Roger & Me's" popularized scene was him being moved past at the GM shareholder's meeting. "Bowling for Columbine" had the Heston interview where he said dumb, racist things. "Fahrenheit 9/11" is all about "My Pet Goat." "Sicko" had the guy who lost a finger. Admittedly I haven't seen "Capitalism: A Love Story" but apparently the big scene in that is him attempting to citizen's-arrest the directors of AIG.
Where are the salient points? That's a bunch of attention-grabbing nonsensical bullshit, much like claiming that you got Hugo Chavez drunk by chance in the middle of the night and he formulated policy statements based on it. If Moore presents well-reasoned arguments, they're buried under the marketing strategy for his work: be the sociopolitical commentary equivalent of "The Tom Green Show." I have yet to hear policy recommendations in any of his films beyond a lot of wouldn't-it-be-nice hokum about how Canadians leave their doors unlocked and it's ironic to have a museum in Flint where animatronic car-building machines and hard-hatted workers sing together despite a population made redundant by said machines. #michaelmoore
10/28/09
Thank you.
Of course, the world might a better place if Hugo Chavez knocked a few back, but such decisions are above my pay grade. #michaelmoore
10/28/09
First, Sicko may not have convinced me that Cuba's or France's healthcare systems are better than ours, but it did convince me that it's idiotic that we don't have universal healthcare. Americans accept "socialism" in other forms (e.g., Social Security, free education); why wouldn't they agree that healthcare is just as important a right as education? The fact is they do, despite the attempts by the insurance industry to change the subject. The film was very persuasive on that point.
Second, in Bowling for Columbine, he made some very simple points about America's gun culture. Again, the fact that he can be misleading doesn't cancel out his point; for example, just because he lied about the timeline between applying for a bank account and getting a free gun, the point remains that IF YOU OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT YOU GET A FREE GUN. That is wack.
I could go on and on.
Fahrenheit 9/11 makes many, many points. I saw it with a Republican friend of mine, who was affected by it very much.
He makes plenty of policy recommendations. Some I agree with, some I don't. But they're there -- in fact he beats you down with them. I'm frankly shocked that you claim to have not heard them. #michaelmoore
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Mickey Rourke? Ate him. Angelina Jolie? Tastes like chicken... #michaelmoore
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Are you listening world?!?!?
10/12/09
I love how only girls can get away with shit like that.
O-H?
10/12/09
Like these girls, I'm from a state like Ohio, and yes, I did leave home after high school, but generally speaking I had a purpose for going wherever I went--college admission, then a job offer, another job, then grad school admission. I'm not saying this to brag--I'm making less than these girls--but I live in a mid-size city where I can live quite comfortably on what I make. And whenever I moved cities I had a vague idea of what I'd be doing there before I arrived, so I was never completely unmoored. High school classmates of mine have ended up in New York, but they got there *after* getting job offers.
I'm not saying "let them get jobs" as a person would say "let them eat cake"--I realize it's hard to get work right now--but it seems to me that with that in mind, they would have done well to stay put until they had some real prospects, or move to a cheaper city if they really wanted to chance it. Moving to NYC with Mary Tyler Moore dreams in 2009 just sounds insane. Did I say Mary Tyler Moore? Sorry, I meant Sex and the City. It's just a tv show, girls!
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One of the biggest websites in the world, the NYTimes, mentions that they are "thinking about" starting a blog, including what it will be called, and, on the day that the story runs, the blog does not seem to exist.
Not only that, but these journalism alum couldn't be bothered to even research that. Twintown.com is a guitar website and twintown.blogspot.com is also taken. Twintown.wordpress.com is taken by a squatter who probably wouldn't mind selling the address. All that took about 30 seconds of typing on my lunch break that these up-and-comers evidently are unable or unwilling to do.
Talk about wasted free publicity. This was a god-damned article on the internet. Why didn't they have a site up and running for the article to link to, thereby driving traffic?
(And yes, I know the answer is that they are lazy, unable to come up with a coherent life plan and/or otherwise unintelligent)
Talk about your wasted opportunity.
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