Michael Moore

[Guest DARRYLXWF]

A friend has just directed me to this guys website, www.michaelmoore.com, and from what I can tell, the guy's insane. Anyone know anything about him (i.e raped as a child perhaps?)

[Guest Vern Gagne]

All I know is he's a phoney liberal. He lives in a high priced mansion in Manhattan.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

He makes some interesting points, but there are times I wish he'd pull some of the crap he does with businesses at my workplace -- the people he does this to are so ill-prepared for his crap...

[Guest DeputyHawk]

i think he's a very entertaining voice of dissent within a vacuum of disinterest and apathy, and should be encouraged at all costs. he's like the u.s. version of mark thomas, and funny as hell. people like moore and thomas are needed to keep us on our toes. he may occasionally take his product somewhere it doesn't need to go, but on the whole i think what he does is fantastic.

[Guest Mystery Eskimo]

So do I. I wouldn't take a lot of what he says particularly seriously, but he's good fun.

[Guest DeputyHawk]

exactly. he sometimes needs to be taken with a shakerful of salt.

[Guest J*ingus]

Eh, I've never been a fan of the "annoying invasive expose journalism" genre, where some self-important muckraker busts in on "the bad guys" (usually security guards or receptionists) and generally tries to make everyone's life hell. Same reason I don't like Tom Green, actually.

[Guest danielisthor]

Eh, I've never been a fan of the "annoying invasive expose journalism" genre, where some self-important muckraker busts in on "the bad guys" (usually security guards or receptionists) and generally tries to make everyone's life hell. Same reason I don't like Tom Green, actually.

And i thought i was the only person that hates Tom Green.

[Guest godthedog]

Eh, I've never been a fan of the "annoying invasive expose journalism" genre, where some self-important muckraker busts in on "the bad guys" (usually security guards or receptionists) and generally tries to make everyone's life hell. Same reason I don't like Tom Green, actually.

i don't think tom green's purpose was to bust on 'the bad guys', i think he was just trying to be generally annoying.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Anyone see his second movie "The Big Hit"(right title?) If so what did you think?

 

I liked the Payday part when he got those suites that they were closing the plant because they were too efficient...

[Guest danielisthor]

basically i just checked this guys web site out and i think he's a wanker living in his parents basement, eating doritos, watches and reads news all day long and thinks that this website and his opinions on the happenings around the US and the World are his legacy to the world.

 

I mean he's taking up the cause of the 3 idiots who were overheard in the SHoney's talking about America crying on 9-13, and they lost their internship at some Miami hospital.

[Guest Mystery Eskimo]

Well he's a journalist who's made numerous succesful documentaries, so I doubt he does live with his parents.

 

But thanks for the insight.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

"I mean he's taking up the cause of the 3 idiots who were overheard in the SHoney's talking about America crying on 9-13, and they lost their internship at some Miami hospital."

 

Hmm, well I agree w/ his point at how the media blew the story out of proportion, and he has a right to give the name of the Hospital President who cancelled the students' internships. I disagree with this, but he has a different perspective on it.

 

What I have a problem with is this line on his web site: "GA. A woman, Eunice Stone, eavesdropped on their conversation, and with Tom Ridge's smiling face in mind, decided they were talking about a plot to blow up something in Miami."

 

What if they had been, Mikey? If that had been the case he'd be writing on his web site about how W.'s war on terror is failing and how people aren't getting involved with their communities.

 

I'm glad he put that President's e-mail address up, because I'm sending a line telling him to not let these three med students intern there...

[Guest imajackoff?]

Anyone see his second movie "The Big Hit"(right title?) If so what did you think?

The Big One. I think it's a pretty funny flick. I especially liked the last part where he tries to get Phil Knight, the president of Nike, to open up a shoe factory in Flint, Michigan instead of Indonesia where they pay 40 cents/hr.

 

The funniest thing I had ever seen Moore do is on one of his of TV shows. He was driving a truck around during the Republican primary season with a huge mosh pit with like 50 kids on the flatbed. He promised that his show would endorse the first Rep. presidential canidate that crowd surfed the over the mob. Everyone declined to do it EXCEPT Alan Keyes. The image of Alan Keyes crowd surfing to RATM's "Guerilla Radio" with VOTE FOR KEYES flashing in huge red letters was too much.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

"The funniest thing I had ever seen Moore do is on one of his of TV shows. He was driving a truck around during the Republican primary season with a huge mosh pit with like 50 kids on the flatbed. He promised that his show would endorse the first Rep. presidential canidate that crowd surfed the over the mob. Everyone declined to do it EXCEPT Alan Keyes. The image of Alan Keyes crowd surfing to RATM's "Guerilla Radio" with VOTE FOR KEYES flashing in huge red letters was too much."

 

I saw a bit of that -- the part where Keyes went in. That was a strange sight, to say the least...

[Guest phoenixrising]

Is this TV Nation guy? I used to love that show when it was on...the one I remember most is when he got a congressman to proclaim a certain day "TV Nation Day" before a session of Congress, and the congressman went on to list why TV Nation deserved to have a show of it's own. For some reason that one stuck in my mind.

[Guest EricMM]

i think he's a wanker living in his parents basement

jeez. I mean Moore's no celebrity, but I've known about him for years, BEFORE I took my SOCY100 courses in college.

 

His documentary on businesses shutting down a towns economy to increase profits was really well done.

 

I certainly don't agree with him on everything, but he's a liberal like, he's for protecting the environment like me.

 

I just hate how it always seems to come down to Us against Them.

 

Sometimes Reps are wrong sometimes Dems are wrong.

[Guest Ozymandias]

Even if someone dislikes his personal beliefs the fact that he sent a guy dressed in a Hitler costume into a Swiss bank asking to make a withdrawl automatically makes Moore a national treasure.

 

Verne, just because he - ALLEGEDLY - lives in a mansion/Manhattan penthouse/whatever else the rumor is this week doesn't make him a "phony". He's never claimed otherwise and doesn't condemn people for living in mansions or other pricey places.

 

 

 

 

Moore's newest movie, Bowling For Columbine, opens this Fall. Here's a blurb from Ebert about it:

 

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There is a moment in "Bowling for Columbine" when Michael Moore is at a loss for words for perhaps for the first time in his life. The moment comes at the conclusion of one of the public psychodramas he has become expert in staging, in which he dramatizes evildoing (as defined by Moore) in the way calculated to maximize the embarrassment of the evildoer.

 

His staging is brilliant. He recruits two of the young Columbine shooting victims to accompany him on a visit to Kmart corporate headquarters--where, he muses, they might ask to return merchandise, specifically the Kmart bullets still in their bodies. The purpose of the visit is to request Kmart to stop selling ammunition. After an initial contact with a PR person proves unsatisfactory, Moore and the students go to a Kmart, and the teenagers easily purchase hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

 

Then Moore and his camera and the kids return to Kmart, where a spokeswoman tells them, yes, Kmart will phase out the sale of ammunition over the next 90 days. Moore can't believe his ears. He asks the Kmart rep to repeat what she just said. She does. Moore has won. "This has never happened before," he tells the Columbine survivors.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Darn, now I'll have to go to Wal-Mart to purchase ammo if I want to shoot up my school...

[Guest DeputyHawk]

Darn, now I'll have to go to Wal-Mart to purchase ammo if I want to shoot up my school...

not funny, dude. and kudos to michael moore for finally making a difference.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

"not funny, dude. and kudos to michael moore for finally making a difference."

 

Not funny? IT'S TRUE!

 

I wish some PR person, whenever Mike would approach them about their company taking advantage of some third-world country, would just say for the whole time the camera's on. "Dude, you're so fat." And every time he'd say something, just keep harping on the fact he's fat and will probably die from a heart attack or something...

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Oh, for the record, the part that's "true" in my last post is the fact you can get ammo anywhere, not the fact that I want to shoot up my old high school. If I ever go out in a blaze of glory, it wouldn't take place at my old high school, I can tell you that...