skinfan133 Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 I'm thoroughly astonished at the phenomenon known as Michael Moore. Here is a guy who has hoodwinked a lot of people into believing he is genuine. I honestly think he doesn't give a rat's ass about anything he makes in terms of movies, it's all a means to an end. he really is a genius: make a movie decrying the concept of freedom of markets while using that very concept on multiple levels in order to make cash off of it. ****ing brilliant and I'm not exaggerating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACW Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 He is a bit of a pompous windbag. He was on Howard Stern this morningOy, TWO pompous windbags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 I like Uncle Buck Uncle Buck wasn't Michael Moore. Perhaps you're confusing John Candy and Moore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelarkascend1ng Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 i'm sure it'll be as mildly thought-provoking as any of his other endeavors (some better than others, i might add) but the kind of irony that's displayed here is getting to be ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.C.O.L.B. Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Oy, TWO pompous windbags. Why don't you like Stern? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACW Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Why don't you like Stern?Ponpous, arrogant, yet thin-skinned. Don't get WHY he's so popular.Also maybe a bit of jealousy (hell, I wish I had HIS money and his wife). And before you say useless w/o pics: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.C.O.L.B. Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Ponpous, arrogant, yet thin-skinned. Don't get WHY he's so popular.Also maybe a bit of jealousy (hell, I wish I had HIS money and his wife). Lol, he's on the radio man. That comes with the territory. I think they're all a bit pompous, arrogant and thin-skinned. I'm a bit of a radiophile and I still say he's the best I've ever heard. Nothing else ever made me literally LOL as much as he did. And I actually think his wife is a bit overrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 I'm a bit of a radiophile and I still say he's the best I've ever heard. Nothing else ever made me literally LOL as much as he did. Rome / O&A / Kornheiser / Petros & Money, all better and funnier than Hoo hoo Opie and Anthony are much funnier then Stern. I haven't laughed to Stern once. Not once. But that's a topic for another day. The main point Moore wants to make, the thing that drives him craziest, is his notion that capitalism, far from being a system that rewards excellence, is a scheme set up to make a profit on absolutely anything. He fears it has in recent decades turned American society into a culture that says money is the only value, and he has a number of cases he wants to use to make his point. These include:* The scandal surrounding a for-profit juvenile detention center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in which two judges got millions of dollars in kickbacks from the owners for sending more than a thousand juveniles to the establishment. * The little-noticed portion of the congressional testimony of Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III, the US Airways pilot who miraculously landed his plane on New York's Hudson River, who told legislators that his pay has been cut 40% in recent years and his pension terminated. * The strategy of major firms to take out life insurance policies on their employees -- known in the trade as "dead peasant insurance" -- that pays off to the companies, not to the employees' survivors. Though he started on "Capitalism" before last year's Wall Street meltdown, Moore delves into that collapse as well. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-capitalism23-2009sep23,0,178374.story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEANDWARF Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Ponpous, arrogant, yet thin-skinned. Don't get WHY he's so popular.Also maybe a bit of jealousy (hell, I wish I had HIS money and his wife). And before you say useless w/o pics: And he bash capitalism. Does this dude think she is married to him for his looks. C'mon Michael, let's get back to reality.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACW Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 And he bash capitalism. Does this dude think she is married to him for his looks. C'mon Michael, let's get back to reality..I was talking about Howard, not Michael. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Socialism Soup Kitchens and Bread lines for the masses Socialism where the A students in life should be equated to the C-, D+ and Incompletes of the real world. Capitalism = Money And Money is the root of all success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwdj75 Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/09/23/walletpop-review-michael-moores-capitalism-a-love-story/wow just wow And as a capitalist pig I agree with this, religion shouldn't be linked to capitalism. I don't agree with the clergymen, or bishop that capitalism is evil at all, I'm all for it, but I believe that mixing capitalism and religion could become a very bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiingspadee Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 I'll see it - on netflix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haithman Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Did someone say greed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnyderShrugged Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 I take it Mr. Moore will be donating his capitalist profits from his films and other ventures to the collective then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEANDWARF Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 I was talking about Howard, not Michael. whoops :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisenberg Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Lol, he's on the radio man. That comes with the territory. I think they're all a bit pompous, arrogant and thin-skinned. I'm a bit of a radiophile and I still say he's the best I've ever heard. Nothing else ever made me literally LOL as much as he did.And I actually think his wife is a bit overrated. Spot on man. The Stern Show at it's best is the funniest stuff I've ever heard on the radio. I'm going to be pissed when it goes off the air because my morning commute will feel about 100x longer . . . and yes . . . Beth O is INCREDIBILY overrated. (Obviously, I understand that she's probably hotter than whoever my wife turns out to be but comparable to what Stern could have gotten she is very average IMHO) ACW, have you ever actually listened to Stern other than small doses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACW Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 JMU, not really. I don't think I could stand it in large doses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 I liked Sicko. The thing that bothered me was the reaction people had to it. It exposed how the government has helped to increase the costs we pay, yet somehow most folks seem to have taken from it, that we need more government involvement. I don't get it. He has been able to do that with a lot of his movies IMO. Charlton Heston should have shot his fat ass. I wonder when he'll make a movie that blames somebody else for his amazing fatness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Considering his last movie nearly pushed me over the edge in less than 15 minutes, I doubt I'll be getting my popcorn ready for this next load of crap. Charlton Heston should have shot his fat ass. Having just watched "Ben Hur" tonight for the millionth time, that made me LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baculus Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Yes, I will see it. I think capitalism has had some recent blows, and we may be approaching a crises worse than what we recently experienced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baculus Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Michale Moore isn't agitating to remove the free market, private enterprise, and division of labor. He has always opposed "Big Business" and run-away capitalism that abuses the working and consumer class. This is the sort of capitalism that arises from government-sanctioned monopolies, created by a Congressional-lobbyist-business relationship. Desiring a free enterprise economy does not mean we have to accept all abuses of the business world. If that were true, then the private world would run everything. Why don't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrabR Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Moore's movies are more his own thoughts, than facts. He uses facts and bends them the way he wants to to read Example in sicko, insinuating Cuba's free health care is better than ours. What good is free health care if they do not have the stuff to treat you In bowling for Colubine, he ambushed a senile old Charlton Heston and made K-Mart out as a villian for selling legal ammo He is the Anne Coulter of the left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubbs Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 Michale Moore isn't agitating to remove the free market, private enterprise, and division of labor. He has always opposed "Big Business" and run-away capitalism that abuses the working and consumer class. This is the sort of capitalism that arises from government-sanctioned monopolies, created by a Congressional-lobbyist-business relationship. Desiring a free enterprise economy does not mean we have to accept all abuses of the business world. If that were true, then the private world would run everything. Why don't they? Despite Moore's reputation, based on what I've seen, I actually agree with this. A lot of folks will paint him as some sort of borderline Communist, but I actually think - at least before seeing his latest film - that he's more of a Teddy Roosevelt-ish anti-corporatist type. Which, I believe, is a position that's much easier to defend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuler74 Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 Just saw it and had some good points that should wake people up with whats going on in the country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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