Posted on 10/06/2009 9:43:33 AM PDT by AJKauf
“Love” means never having to get your facts straight.
Oscar winner Michael Moore, the far-left documentarian behind Bowling for Columbine, Sicko, and Fahrenheit 9/11, is back with Capitalism: A Love Story.
This time he’s telling us our capitalistic system is evil and needs to be put down, and naturally, most film critics are looking past his dubious techniques, wildly partisan potshots, and other gimmicks they wouldn’t swallow from any other documentary director. But cracks are beginning to show in Moore’s media fan club. Some critics are actually holding Moore accountable for his shrewd cutting and splicing.
Capitalism scored a 73 percent “fresh” approval rating on rottentomatoes.com, one of the leading review aggregators. That’s down from the 84 percent earned by Fahrenheit 9/11 back in 2004 and the 93 percent rating he earned two years ago for Sicko. Capitalism drew a tepid $4.8 million in its first weekend of wide release, less than his more commercial hits.
By now, critics can’t simply applaud Moore and his tactics blindly...
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Due in 2010, it will explore the only possible solution to overpopulation: death camps and forced cannibalism. According to Moore's docudrama, only 12,000 death camps worldwide can reduce our burgeoning population of nearly 7 billion to a more managable 500 million. As he craftily points out, the canning plants that are being seized in the guise of Bailouts can be used to package the human meat for DELICIOUS and REFRESHING snacks for these remaining people for over 100 years, making all farming unnecessary and sparing the lives of those poor little farm animals! The most poignant film from the populist collosus ever! Two thumbs up, ripped off, and eaten!
Moore is a cretin who doesn't even have the basic manners to take his hat off indoors. He looks like a car wreck and is a posterboy for Mickey D's supersized fries.
LOL, Laz!
Um, this isn’t a joke.
Capitalism is NOT alive and well. It died last year with the corporate bailouts and government buying up shares in corporations left and right.
From Roger Ebert’s review:
“Here are two shocking revelations Moore makes. The first involves something that is actually called “dead peasant insurance.” Did you know that companies can take out life insurance policies on their workers, so that they collect the benefits when we die? This is one form of employee insurance they don’t have a problem with. Companies don’t usually inform a surviving spouse of the money they’ve made from a death.”
This is common practice on a movie production. The producers want insurance against the actors and others involved DYING before the completion of the project. The overrun costs to replace someone in front of the camera would be expensive (if the project can be salvaged at all).
More shocking is that some universities ALSO take out/offer life insurance policies on their students.
Not just movies.
Key employees with critical skills, usually participants on long-term projects where a good deal of the R&D is still locked up in the employees head.
Of course, there usually has to be a fiduciary interest in the insured. You can’t just insure anybody that looks like a good bet (I wish).
I remember a case where two brothers in Arkansas (?) began putting homeless men in abandoned trailers and plying them with large amounts of liquor. Of course, they insured the doomed alcoholics with their buddy, a local insurance salesman.
They made a good chunk of change before they were caught. One suicided in jail.
Seems like Moore would lose some of his clout and influence now that his ilk are in total control of the government. He is not needed anymore. If McCain were president now this film probably would have been hyped even more.
With all his millions you’d think that Mr. Sicko could spring for a bar of soap and a razor.
Moore should be on the “climate change” science committee.
Same honesty and analytical ability.
Wonder if The Dark Knight cashed in on Heath Ledger? After all he wasn’t available to do interviews and promote the film.
Orson Welles demanded that either Peter Sellers be fired or he'd walk (on Casino Royale). The directors had to use a cardboard standup of Peter Sellers for a later scene.
Ed Wood was resourceful enough to hire a chiropractor to take over for Bela Lugosi so that The Ghoul Goes West footage could be salvaged for Plan 9 From Outer Space.
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