Whoops, Michael Moore, This Is Your New Trailer
Michael Moore released a trailer for his new movie this weekend, you guys:
Woof. I like Michael Moore, but the guy sure does open himself up to criticisms of self-promotion and propagandistic cult of personality! In the past he has been criticized for distracting from his "message" with too much focus on his own schlubby "charm" and "wit." And I'm not saying that he has to respond to these criticisms or stop doing what he wants to do if that is what doing what he wants to do entails. It's his movie! But this is some pretty rough stuff. The only take away from this trailer is that the movie is about the economic crisis, lower case, and that it FEATURES AND WAS DIRECTED BY MICHAEL MOORE, uppercase. Also that the humor is going to be low-grade, sub-par Bill Maher. Yikez.
Thing doesn't even have a name? What? Michael Moore Presents Stealing For a Rainy Day. There. Problem solved. Seriously, get your head in the game Michael Moore. I cannot always be there to hold your hand.
Posted by Gabe at 10:00 AM in Trailer
Tags: C.R.E.A.M. | Economic Crisis | Michael Moore
Stop saying "You Guys." It's a creepy affectation.
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I like it. It makes it feel like we're friends even though we've never met and probably wouldn't like each other.
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I disagree, I think it makes it sound like Gabe is sitting us down for friendly chit chat. He could do worse and say "hey...ladies."
Anyways, I know this question is always asked whenever a Micheal Moore movie comes along...but who is he really making these for? Is he expecting the crazy chance that Sarah Palin will go watch and be all "whoops, wrong side! I should probably also tell Bristol no one is falling for her Abstinence Speeches either. Gotta rethink things now, and save some sharks!"
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jowls + breathy "good" (1:04) = creeper status
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I didn't get creepy. It was more of a muppet vibe.
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Get the money
Dollar, dollar bill y'all!
YaknowhatI'msayin?
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Your wit is as sharp as a rubber ball, and you certainly don't deserve that avatar/username.
Moving on...
Although Moore takes certain liberties with his subject matter and on the whole tends to generalize a whole lot (all Canadians leave their doors open comes to mind), he still makes more good points than bad in his 'documentaries.'
And unlike many, many others in the limelight, he seems to be trying to use his clout for legitimate causes, not just to increase the amount of followers on his twiiter page.
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Your mom is totally going to see THE NEW MOVIE.
we're all putting food on Michael Moore's family.
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No, we're all putting food on Michael Moore.
Michael Moore: Super Size ME
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Ohh... because of how Michael Moore's fat, right? Gotcha. Never heard that before. Is he? Oh, and you worked in another documentary, because... documentaries, right? Bravo to you. Bravo.
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Michael Moore is the white Tyler Perry.
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i think michael moore is an extreme wannabe of spike lee.
OOHHHH LOOK WHITE PEOPLE HAVE PROBLEMS TOO!!!
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instead of Malcolm X white people get Malcolm in the Middle
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Right, because black people aren't paying for corporate welfare and are totally unaffected by the recession, and also banks aren't foreclosing on their houses.
What the fuck are you talking about?
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youre the problem with michael moore, the movies and message are fine. but the people like you, thats where it ends
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hey, michael moore, go home: men who look like old lesbians
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the humor is going to be low-grade, sub-par Bill Maher.
So, sub-sub-par?
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It's like Carlos Mencia crossed with Bono crossed with :(
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I'm sure he will be calling folks parasites and what not, but isn't Moore just a leach on the capitalist system? If some socialist paradise ever existed what function would he serve except to make people feel better about their own personal appearance? Isn't it a bit odd to chastise people for being greedy when you are like, you know, fat? How many starving _______ could have survived off of the calories it took to plump up MM?
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Conservatives who think everyone on the left is a socialist are no different than liberals who think everyone on the right is a fascist.
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obligatory Bowling for Bailout 2: the Edge of Reason comment.
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Michael Moore is an annoying blowhard, and he takes an awful lot of creative license with his so-called documentaries, and he tends to be right a lot.
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I've enjoyed his movies in the past, but targeting the economic crisis just seems like bad taste.
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Wait, what?
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He said, "I've enjoyed his movies in the past, but targeting the economic crisis just seems like bad taste."
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As opposed to Fahrenheit 911 and Bowling For Columbine? In which actual people were murdered?
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By that I mean docs made about situations which people have emotional connection to as a result of people being murdered. Not that people were actually murdered in those films.
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Well I agree, those were equally terrible incidents, but this thing that's happened has affected my life extremely. I didn't have hot water last week. I couldn't study for my finals because I had to work more. I have 2 jobs (three if you consider school). This economic crisis affects much more people than 9/11 or Columbine.
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So then wouldn't you want someone to make a documentary about how this crisis is affecting people like you?
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WAIT. What the FUCK? So this one is too touchy because the economic crisis has affected you? But it was okay for his other two films because obviously that didn't affect anyone at all? Or it just doesn't matter who it affected cause it didn't affect you so you could enjoy it objectively?
I don't care who the hell you are or what the fuck you believe in, Michael Moore is a lying douchebag. The end.
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Not so much. Roger and me is about the econemy and poverty, and well, capitalism's flaws. The thesis of bowling for columbine is a little convoluted but there is that part about the 4 (6?) year old kid who shot the other kid, and the part with K mart, and all that stuff is about the econemy, plus the military industrial complex, dick clark, racism and poverty. Farenheit 9/11 talks about oil a lot, again capitalism, and he appeared in teh canadian documentary, "the corporation". so i would definately say this is in character for moore and you are not understanding his films.
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I want to punch him, right in his smug crinkly eyebrows. That's his weak point and the only way that he can truly be defeated without respawning.
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We had to watch Roger and Me in my sociology class and it was the most unpleasant experience I have ever seen. Completely disregarding Michael Moore's opinions (which I guess I agree with, whatever) he's pretty much the douchiest documentarian ever. He (obviously) lies to people to get them to appear on camera, and then if they say something he disagrees with, he'll edit it to try to make them look stupid, even though sometimes their arguments are totally valid and he should really be presenting a counter argument, not editing in sarcastic cut-aways to lint rollers! I hate him.
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Its probably the worst thing about watching one of Moore's documentaries and obviously many others, is that you never know what the editor has been up to. Unlike 'Religulous' where the editing is so blatant and cheap that it can't really be taken seriously as a documentary.
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It sucks when you agree with someone in principle, but when that person expounds upon your shared viewpoint, he sounds like a fucking douchebag.
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I know that as a liberal I'm supposed to love Michael Moore but I actually want to punch him in his stupid face.
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I've enjoyed all of Michael Moore's movies but if I was in the theater when this came on I would do the slouching-in-your-seat-you're-so-embarrassed thing.
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I went and saw Michael Moore speak locally several years ago and for some reason he said at one point "this guy in the front row hates me," and I'm pretty sure he meant me. I couldn't figure out what he was talking about beyond the fact I had my arms crossed due to the tight seating on the bench I was sitting on.
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