Michael Moore, the mainstream media and movie critics – it’s the love triangle with no end in sight.
Moore, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind “Fahrenheit 9/11,” is set to release his latest documentary Oct. 2. The untitled film will examine the root causes of the global economic meltdown.
Expect Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and the Democratic party to get their comeuppance at last.
Just kidding.
Moore’s films are consistently lively, often funny and usually so unfair and imbalanced that they deserve massive scrutiny from media types. It’s rare to find someone who takes such advantage of our capitalistic system only to mock, refute and attempt to destroy said system.
That’s the story a curious and frisky press might consider pursuing. Instead, any new Moore film is an instant Oscar contender and bound to draw tons of positive press.
What a shame.
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He’s actually making a film with his guy in office? He went dry during the Clinton years, but as the Obama administration shows, nothing like kicking the Bush/Cheney corpse around for some laughs at the cocktail parties. What bravado. That said, “An American Carol” depicted him wrong – he isn’t wrongheaded and rightminded, he’s just a thug.
The movie will depict the cause of the financial crisis, which will allow him to pound away at his favored targets without laying a glove on the new admin. Problem solved.
I can’t wait to see how he ties all that together. Maybe Dick Cheney was out buying houses with subprime mortgages? I’m sure ACORN will get a love letter somewhere. Given how his last feature fared and the way MSNBC is cooling down, I’m not sure the audience is out there for this, at least at the level of Fahrenheit 9/11.
F9/11 was a special case. Moore was there with the goods at just the right time and captured lightning in a bottle. Sicko was a disappointment, wasn’t timed correctly and didn’t make nearly the same money. I expect this one will be even worse.
Unless the Republicans take back congress in 2010, Moore may as well hang it up for the next 4 to 8 years. The MSM is more credible than him and doing the same job.
Moore did ride the zeitgeist perfectly for F9/11, no doubt.
What galls me is how the press doesn’t investigate any of his claims. Newsweek, I think, debunked some pretty big stuff from one of his last films if memory serves, but it didnt spread to other outlets. They kept playing the “moore is the populist hero” card.
I remember that EW had a sidebar for their “Sicko” piece that made a case for American medicine. I was pretty surprised, as EW is usually pretty on board whatever left-wing idea is popular with the entertainment industry.
I missed that … and am equally shocked.
EW routinely leans left, but they don’t do it in an ugly way, so I usually just swallow hard and keep on reading.
I wonder if he’ll start in Flint again? I envision a lot of lower middle class former homeowners confronting people who now live in the homes or mortgage lenders being ambushed, etc. He’s kinda like Sasha Cohen except not funny and without the nude wrestling.
OK, the thought of Moore nude wrestling is even more off-putting than the fellow Borat sparred with …
Sorry. I’ll have to go to confession for that — and I’m not even a Catholic — I’m a Baptist.
How about a remake of his first “hit” movie, Roger and Me? Of course, instead of trying to get an audience with Roger Smith, he’d have to go after the new CEO of GM, Obambi. Yeah, I’ll be holding my breath waiting for it to premiere.