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Two D Bags Upset That Their Hero Isn't Pure Make a Movie

posted 14 years ago by fdog9
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Two D Bags Upset That Their Hero Isn't Pure Make a Movie.....isn't that what this film is about? Moore is human and sometimes not so wonderful and that negates everything else he's done according to the filmmakers.

The filmmakers claim to be liberal and they find out that Moore has temper tantrums and wasn't good at editing Mother Jones and they set out to trash him. Now they are shocked to become the darlings of the right.

What a buncha D bags

[–] liutenantsalt 14 years ago

So "being human" makes it perfectly acceptable to intentionally and knowingly misrepresent and even outright falsify information to make yourself look like a Tin God?

You're the only douchebag here.

[–] fdog9 14 years ago

I think that Moore's movies are fairly accurate.

[–] BoingFwip 12 years ago

I think that Moore's movies are fairly accurate.

Really?

"Think" should never be used when describing a fact. It either is accurate or it isn't.

I've been out egging houses all night with 12-year-olds, do you really think I'm sober?

[–] fullautofury 13 years ago

I'm relatively liberal, but honestly, Moore's films aren't remotely accurate. They're the equivalent of well-produced feature length op-eds, but many of Moore's fans (college aged) are in their phase of misguided activism and take the stuff he says literally (seriously, I know people that take all of their political knowledge from people like Moore and I used to be the same way.)

When he doesn't do his part in publicly informing people that his films aren't intended to be all that factual, he is destroying the documentary art-form, but I know that he runs his stuff like a business and even as he goes on criticizing capitalism, he owns an expensive condo, takes his kids to private school, buys stocks in companies he criticizes and is suing the Weinstein's over $2 million that wasn't paid to him as a result of Fahrenheit 9/11's success (even after receiving $19 million in profit.) Everyone's a hypocrite to a degree, but he's a hypocrite of the highest order and people can only be pragmatic to a point.

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[–] fdog9 13 years ago

I've seen Moore speak several times and I always liked what I heard.

Moore is not against the rich or being rich. He feels that the rich have a greater responsiblity in our society to pay taxes. Its a valid point of view.

Moore owns a nice home in Michigan and a condo in NYC.

Moores children go to private school, but it is more to do with the security risk than with quality of education. Moore has received threats to himself and his family.

I don't feel this makes him a tremendous hypocrite.

[–] nypoet22 13 years ago

i have a very different take on this documentary. in many ways it's an homage to moore's innovations in film. by clipping segments that paint a story opposite to the one moore narrates, the filmmakers effectively deconstruct the new genre of propagan-doc that moore created. if he weren't the target of the doc, he could just as easily have been the one asking the questions.

since this film is made in the exact same style as the ones it's criticizing, i'm pretty sure it is implicitly intended to be taken with a healthy helping of salt. with any luck, viewers will come to look with a more critical eye toward all of the new wave of propagandist documentarians, including moore, davis guggenheim (waiting for superman/an inconvenient truth), and yes, also the makers of "manufacturing dissent."

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