― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 June 2004 04:42 (twenty years ago) link
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― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 7 June 2004 08:00 (twenty years ago) link
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 January 2006 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 20 January 2006 03:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
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― gff, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
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― kingfish, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link
That film largely revolved around Mr. Moores fruitless attempts to interview Roger Smith, then the chairman of General Motors, after his company closed plants in Mr. Moores birthplace, Flint, Mich.: an interview that occurred, Ms. Melnyk and Mr. Caine said, although Mr. Moore left it on the cutting-room floor
― gff, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Moore's worst infraction, however, was also the most intimate. There's a scene that depicts a 'Great Gatsby' party, ostensibly an arrogant display of wealth in the face of Flint's misery. It was actually an annual fundraiser for a battered women's shelter, something Moore had supported in his Flint Voice editorials. One guest, a middle-aged man, speaks about Flint's many virtues and comes across as a heartless, privileged ass. Moore does not disclose that this man, Larry Stecco, is an acquaintance of his, a lawyer who had given money to the Flint Voice and performed pro bono civil rights work in the area. Stecco is now a judge, and Larner met with him. We learn that Moore asked Stecco a misleading question to elicit the desired quote. Stecco sued Moore and won; he tells Larner that the black actors paid to pose as 'human statues' at the Gatsby event sued as well (Moore chose not to film the white actors). In a commentary for the 'Roger & Me' DVD recorded in 2003, Moore not only fails to mention any of this he continues to badmouth Stecco as part of 'the other side'. If Moore is this dishonest toward a friend at a tiny local event, he can scarcely be trusted on matters of world-historical scope. Larner's summation hits the mark: Moore 'exhibits both a solid show-business instinct and a cold, hard core of relentless ideology, an attitude that, as with Leninists of yore, will always put the cause of increasing human well-being before the well-being of any particular human, and will put the meta-truth before the actual, immediate truth of any situation' (p. 78).
― gff, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― gff, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link
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― kingfish, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link
While Moore's background is in grassroots organising and muckraking journalism, his ticket to fame was America's flourishing medium of satire a medium he did much to reinvent. His forebears range from Charlie Chaplin to Abbie Hoffman, as Kevin Mattson observed in a 2003 critique for Dissent. Today, Moore operates in a crowded comedic field, much of which could be called 'post-ideological'. Jon Stewart of 'The Daily Show' is unmistakably liberal, but he can be equally merciless toward George W. Bush and Hugo Chávez. Bill Maher, a spirited Bush-basher and opponent of the Iraq war, staunchly defended Israel's July 2006 bombardment of Lebanon and gave an obsequious interview to Benjamin Netanyahu. 'South Park' routinely mocks the pieties of the right and the left. But in Moore's top-grossing documentaries and polemical books, there is no mistaking where his flag is planted. And despite his old-school labour movement roots, he fully understands (to quote Mattson) that today's 'young people are reached via satellite dishes and mega-mall bookstores rather than through cafés or union halls or small magazines'.
― gff, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link
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― milo z, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
He said point-blank that the CIA trained and funded bin Laden, which I have not seen corroborated.
― Fluffy Bear, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― gff, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― gff, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm not defending Moore's shortcuts so much as I don't care that he makes them. It doesn't bother me, its par for the course with filmmaking. I don't accept anything he displays on-screen as "the truth" and am saddened and surprised that anyone would do so.
― Fluffy Bear, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fluffy Bear, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― abanana, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fluffy Bear, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― gff, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
The characterization of Leninism as being concerned with the well-being of humanity is rather disingenuous. Or at least overly simplistic.
but milo the writer's concluding sentence about there being "no question which side his flag is planted on' is made in contrast to the other previous three examples - the implication being that the side(s) the other "post ideological" comedians/critics take are more nuanced, balanced, etc., that it ISN'T clear which side their flag is planted on.
― milo z, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link
October 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhydyxRjujU&feature=player_embedded
― gossip and complaints (suzy), Friday, 21 August 2009 10:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Basically my first take-away from this is MIA has nailed the social protest OST market 4 lyfe.
― gossip and complaints (suzy), Friday, 21 August 2009 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/09/17/movies/1247464643127/exclusive-clip-capitalism-a-love-story.html
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 September 2009 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
finally saw this last one, maybe his second best after F 9/11.
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 November 2009 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Finally saw it too. The first half is his best stuff in years. The part 40 mins in about "Peasant Death" secret life insurance policies is more shocking than anything else in the film.
The last half though, where he starts doing his usual stunts, is far less effective, and the whole Obama wins people fight back tone is silly and naive. That's what you get in a movie finished right after his election.
Of course after seeing MM in "Unreasonable Man" it's hard to take anything this guy says seriously.
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 7 March 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
this guy is a #1 troll
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Monday, 15 March 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
he tweets:
Liberal pundits are saying we should "stand up to Obama!" Really? How should we do that? More begging? More "tsk tsk"? More "pretty please?"
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link