Michael Moore S&D

Ugh, like this election needs his half-assery We have enough full-assery as it is.

Total fucking dud

yeah, right? One of about 6 people in the country who told us Trump would win.

interview

What you’re going to see is, on day one, he’s going to rescind a dozen or more of Obama’s executive-branch regulations. On day two, Republicans will start printing laws the way you print fliers for a homecoming dance. Before the liberals and the Democrats can get their heads screwed on straight, they’ll have 20 laws passed. Building a wall. Creating a Muslim ban. He’s shown how he’s going to do it. He’s going to get away with it by making it a ban on Muslims who come from the following countries. He needs just enough cover for his crowd to say, “Oh, he’s being reasonable there. He’s not banning all Muslims.”...

I met (Trump) in 1998. Roseanne Barr — after her sitcom was over, they gave her a talk show. I was on, and Trump was there in the green room. He sees me, goes to the producer, and says, “I can’t be on the same show. I saw that General Motors movie, and he’s going to attack me.”

The producer said [to me], “Is there any way you can help me?” I said, “Oh brother, I’ll go talk to him.” I walked over, shook his hand — it was very clammy. I don’t honestly remember the size, but it was moist. He said, “We don’t have to mix it up out there.” I said, “Why do you assume that about me? I’m from Michigan. We don’t really know you. The only thing that sticks in my head is you were one of the few guys that was on the cover of Playboy.” He laughed. I said, “It’s Roseanne. She’s a comedian. You have nothing to worry about here.”

He stayed, and we did the show. And it wasn’t until last year that it hit me: People think he’s stupid — he’s not stupid at all. He played me; he got me to not be myself, to not talk any anti-corporate talk. I thought I was going over to relax him. What he was doing was undoing me so I wouldn’t be Michael Moore. This guy is good....

Tom Hanks should be the template of who the Democrats should run. He is beloved by tens of millions of people, and he’s smart, and he operates from both his brain and his heart. As far as I’m concerned, he has good politics.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/michael-moore-donald-trump-democrats-election-1201960466/

well he was doin' ok til that last bit

so Ocasio-Cortez has some screen time in this one; freshly edited!

Here's the exclusive trailer for Michael Moore's (@MMFlint) newest documentary "Fahrenheit 11/9." It's in theaters Sept. 21. pic.twitter.com/eHLPy1J9o4

— HuffPost (@HuffPost) August 9, 2018

Oh great he’s reusing that asinine title

well F9/11 did gross $221 million globally, so not a hindrance

The official poster for my new movie! See you all at the theaters across the U.S. on Opening Day, September 21st! #Fahrenheit119 pic.twitter.com/khZrBMqqSQ

— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) August 15, 2018

Brief reminder that “Michael & Us” is a great podcast by two leftists from Toronto that reviews every MM-wannabe agitprop flick released.

https://m.soundcloud.com/michael-and-us

11/9 takes on the Clintons, Obama, and liberal apathy along with the Grifter... and...

It was, according to Moore, Trump’s discovery that (Gwen) Stefani made more money on The Voice than he did on The Apprentice that made Trump announce his candidacy, to goad NBC into seeing how popular he was. It backfired, but the wheels started turning.

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/7/17831208/fahrenheit-11-9-review-michael-moore-trump-liberals-tiff

Was thinking last night that I'm going to be a lot more forgiving of Spike Lee's recent indulgences when this movie comes out.

Spike did not predict the election correctly, tho

Okay so Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, I've got my eye on you.

Saw the new one purely for something to do--there's not a film of Michael Moore's I've found anything more than mildly diverting. The best part is where he goes after Obama for his handling of Flint; I don't remember Obama ever looking so bad. (Assuming Moore's presentation of events isn't taken out of context--never a sure thing with him.) The rest goes on. Without even addressing specifics, it's hard to get past that oppressively facetious tone of his.

Even by Moore's own gimmicky standards, this hits rock-bottom twice: commissioning a water truck to visit the Michigan governor's house (so Moore can take the hose out and start spraying water over the fence), and playing audio of Trump over footage of Hitler.

sounds ok to me

Honestly, it's not. It's embarrassing, even if--maybe even especially if--you agree with the sentiment. The Hitler thing is as crude and as obvious as a dumb Facebook Photoshop or something. A high school student could do better.

ok so this documentary was bleak as hell. is there any truth to it? are "renewable" energy sources not really renewable at all?

here's a counterpoint someone else prepared earlier:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/07/michael-moore-far-right-climate-crisis-deniers-film-environment-falsehoods

the film isn't skeptical about climate change. it's really doomy. the filmmaker -- not moore -- implies that humans need to drastically rein in their consumption and also their numbers through population control. basically he thinks industrial society cannot continue, not in any form that would look familiar to us.

maybe the far right finds these arguments convenient because it sticks it to reformers but that's just a secondary effect. i am mostly just freaked out by the idea that i shouldn't have faith in wind and solar. is that true?

did you read the link?

There are real issues and real conflicts to be explored... ...But they are handled so clumsily and incoherently by this film that watching it is like seeing someone start a drunken brawl over a spilled pint, then lamping his friends when they try to restrain him

Bill McKibben went after it in Rolling Stone too.

yeah, they did mckibben dirty in the film. even i knew he wasn't in the pocket of fossil fuel companies, what a fucked up charge to make.