I'm kinda "negatory" on Michael Moore.
His first pseudo-"docomentary", a hatchet job on GMC CEO Roger Smith (
Roger And Me) was funny, but only because I liked his anti-big business stance (I admit, I'm just an ex-hippie who hates them inhuman bastiches in the first place) and what he did to this corporate creep who almost singlehandedly turned many parts of Michigan into a ghost town, while running his self-aggrandizing corporate agenda right into the stratospere.
But even as I was watching it, I recognized a hatchet job...to wit:
1) He (Moore) would barge in on the guy when he was unprepared;
a) Corporate dudes
never allow that for P.R. reasons. Even I know that. Interviews are GRANTED.
b) Smith had no idea who Moore was in the first place, so naturally, he got ignored.
Then, Moore would act like it was
such a crime that Smith refused his intrusions. Wah, wah, wah.
2) Moore can (and did,)
EDIT whatever happens. That means that even if the guy says something cool, it'll end up on the cutting room floor, leaving long pauses between Moore's supposedly "cutting" questions, and expanded (embarrassing) pauses on the part of of his
victim du jour.
Not fair.
So if you go to see this so-called "documentary", please keep in mind what it is, and what Michael Moore's "product" is all about. It ain't about reality, it's about how you can brainwash people by using (and ABUSING) the medium of film.
Personally, I think he's a jerk.
But I think some of the gun freaks around here may think otherwise.
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