Made me think of how much I love you...
A little something tailor made for AO...
Micheal Moore Hates America!
I hope this is real, it deserves to be.
Micheal Moore Hates America!
I hope this is real, it deserves to be.
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Originally posted by Matsu
A little something tailor made for AO...
Micheal Moore Hates America!
I hope this is real, it deserves to be.
I hope so too. I've always been a fan of people making asses of themselves.
Originally posted by ShawnJ
I hope so too. I've always been a fan of people making asses of themselves.
I'm sure you like Micheal Moore then. With his fictitious documentary from a fictitious director with a fictitious academy award.
Originally posted by Scott
I'm sure you like Micheal Moore then. With his fictitious documentary from a fictitious director with a fictitious academy award.
He won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. That confers some kind of legitimacy at least. What are you talking about?
There is a bit of a sense that other people making "documentaries" got robbed. Did Moore color outside the lines too much? Or was his effort an avant gaarde challenge of the documentary form/audience?
As for Micheal Moore Hates America, the title at least seems firmly tounge in cheek, and the other side of the propaganda war deserves at least as much attention. It made me laugh, so if they guy can make it entertaining, there's little reason for me to like it any less that Bowling for Columbine.
Open minds people, it's entertainment first, whatever else it may be second.
Originally posted by ShawnJ
He won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. That confers some kind of legitimacy at least. What are you talking about?
No It doesn't.
The distortions begin with the film's title. Lyons reports that, contrary to the title of the film, the two boys who committed the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., did not bowl the morning before the shooting. Although early news reports did state that they had attended a bowling class in the morning, police told Lyons it's simply not true.
This guy obviously got confused and went to see a film called Those Involved in the Columbine School Shooting Went Bowling on the Morning of the Tradgedy wherease everyone else went to see Bowling for Columbine, a film which interviewed the classmates of the killers about the school bowling class they were in together.
Originally posted by Matsu
Bowling for Columbine was great, but was it a documentary, or something else? It might be easier to first agree that it was propaganda, and then that it was interesting or stimulating, or even fun (depending on how seriously you take hollywood, your gun rights, yourself...)
There is a bit of a sense that other people making "documentaries" got robbed.
Please don't go there, I've read enough of your posts to know that the idea of documentary == Truth is beneath you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentaries
If it was propaganda, it is still a documentary.
If it was edited with a certain viewpoint (which is impossible not to do) it is still a documentary.
If it disagrees with what you think is 'true' it is still a documentary.
Originally posted by stupider...likeafox
Please don't go there, I've read enough of your posts to know that the idea of documentary == Truth is beneath you.
Wha? Absolutely not. Did Moore piss off a lot of people? Yes. Is that part of the motivation to shouting him down? Absolutely. Is "Bowling for Columbine" good work? I think so.
To me, to say something is propaganda is not to shout it down at all. Though it commonly intimates a negative campaign, it needn't, in some languages it still doesn't.
I like truth as much as next guy, and nobody likes too much truth in one sitting. I don't understand exactly what you understand about me to make you think that truth is beneath me. For what it's worth, I think Moore, at least in this film, expresses a keen insight a truth.
Ooops, gotta run. I'll get back to it soon.
Originally posted by stupider...likeafox
If it was propaganda, it is still a documentary.
If it was edited with a certain viewpoint (which is impossible not to do) it is still a documentary.
If it disagrees with what you think is 'true' it is still a documentary.
I would argue that it's questionable to even call his works documentaries. Even if they are, they walk a fine line.
Originally posted by Matsu
A little something tailor made for AO...
Micheal Moore Hates America!
I hope this is real, it deserves to be.
This filmaker is the bravest man in north america, just like they included in the trailer. Absolutely.