Michael Moore's Next Takes On Capitalism And has an October release date
He attacked gun culture in Bowling For Columbine, George W. Bush's Iraq War in Fahrenheit 9/11 and the American health-care system in Sicko , but now Michael Moore is set to take on capitalism itself in his as-yet untitled next film - which is due out in the US on October 2 and hopefully here soon after.
The film sounds like a return to his Roger and Me filmmaking roots, as that 1989 film had him attempting to tackle the head of General Motors for closing down the plant in Moore's hometown of Flint, Michigan, leaving the town in an economic mess. This time, however, the target's global capitalism itself, with Moore planning a comic look at the corporate and political shenanigans that culminated in what he describes as "the biggest robbery in the history of this country" – the massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer money to private financial institutions.
The film will come out a year and a day after the US Congress voted for the Wall Street bailout, and comes two years after Moore's last effort, Sicko. So are we still excited by a new Moore documentary? This one's shooting fish in a barrel - isn't it?
L: Rhubarb
I don't really get the hate for him, he's flawed, but only in the way that all documentary makers are.
oger & Me is a very good movie, and easily his best. Bowling For Columbine is an interesting, thought-provoking movie ruined by the frankly horrible ending that doesn't achieve or mean anything, and Fahrenheit 9/11 was okay, but again ruined by distorted facts and Moore's obsession with himself as some kind of crusader. I'm not particularly right or left wing but Moore's do... Read More
Lots of people hate Michael Moore, especially Americans. I'm in between, sometimes I like his stuff and sometimes I don't. Sicko was quite interesting, as was Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 911, I didn't care for. ... Read More
L: JoeyPottr
I just won't watch any kind of film that exposes the problems or twists the problems that America has to deal with. I'd rather be mindless and watch Transformers than watch something like that.
hat's just ridiculous.
I'm not a fan of Moore by the way, the way he dresses up empty rhetoric and self-absorbed soapboxing as "taking a stand" really gets my goat. ... Read More
Gee, you sound like Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Man TRUTH, you can't handle the TRUTH !!!!!! ll I admit for school reasons I had to watch Fahrenheit 911 one time, and it was shit. I've seen trailers on his other films but I just won't watch any kind of film that exposes the problems or twists the problems that America has to deal with. I'd rather be mindless and watch Transformers than watch something like that. People like Michael Moore, Bill Maher, make me just tired. I don't care what his t... Read More
People hate Michael Moore i think because he get's to the truth and some people can't handle the truth of the matter in hand rather it's dealing with Bearing Arms, exposing the bulls*** truth that is the war in Iraq, or shedding the light on this country's poor healthcare service, he gets to the truth, but sometimes it's just people don't want to hear it or they can't accept the truth. ... Read More
L: Tech_Noir
L: JoeyPottr
Michael Moore's full of you know what t even watch his crap films. opinion, and I have reasons for it.ote]
Yes, he has a point of view that he's passionate about - and you disagree with that view or his passion.
lthough if she hasn't seen the films ("I won't even watch his crap films") it must make it difficult to actually know that they are crap? ... Read More
L: JoeyPottr
Michael Moore's full of you know what t even watch his crap films. opinion, and I have reasons for it.ote]
Yes, he has a point of view that he's passionate about - and you disagree with that view or his passion. ... Read More
