This film is going to pack a wallop. People will love it or hate it with not much in between.
All you have to do is look at the IMDb ratings to see that. There's a couple hundred people who gave the movie 10s and a somewhat smaller bunch that gave it 1s and not much in between.
(Makes me wonder how many of these folks have actually seen the film.)
I saw it. I think it ranks with "Columbine" as a powerful but deeply flawed presentation. Mike's work, as always, uses a lot of very gripping images that cannot be argued with: recruiters lying to kids to get them to sign up, babies burned and mutilated by US bombs, and the incredible seven minutes that the Commander-in-Chief of the US military spent sitting in a classroom reading "My Pet Goat" after he had been told the second tower had been hit and the nation was under attack. You think Bill Clinton would have sat there waiting for someone to tell him what to do? Or even, God forbid, Richard Nixon? Hell no.
Now, on the other hand, Mike is as fast and loose with the facts in this movie as ever. He always shoots himself in the foot by making dumb fact errors and editing footage to show his point of view in the best possible light. I wish he wouldn't. Because so much of what he has to say is really important, and really deserves to be heard. Leaving your enemies a big hole through which to drive is just dumb.
Go see the movie for yourself and judge for yourself. You're smart. You don't need Michael Moore to tell you what to think, or Move America Forward to tell you that all good Americans will close their eyes, put their fingers in their ears and hope this movie goes away.
All you have to do is look at the IMDb ratings to see that. There's a couple hundred people who gave the movie 10s and a somewhat smaller bunch that gave it 1s and not much in between.
(Makes me wonder how many of these folks have actually seen the film.)
I saw it. I think it ranks with "Columbine" as a powerful but deeply flawed presentation. Mike's work, as always, uses a lot of very gripping images that cannot be argued with: recruiters lying to kids to get them to sign up, babies burned and mutilated by US bombs, and the incredible seven minutes that the Commander-in-Chief of the US military spent sitting in a classroom reading "My Pet Goat" after he had been told the second tower had been hit and the nation was under attack. You think Bill Clinton would have sat there waiting for someone to tell him what to do? Or even, God forbid, Richard Nixon? Hell no.
Now, on the other hand, Mike is as fast and loose with the facts in this movie as ever. He always shoots himself in the foot by making dumb fact errors and editing footage to show his point of view in the best possible light. I wish he wouldn't. Because so much of what he has to say is really important, and really deserves to be heard. Leaving your enemies a big hole through which to drive is just dumb.
Go see the movie for yourself and judge for yourself. You're smart. You don't need Michael Moore to tell you what to think, or Move America Forward to tell you that all good Americans will close their eyes, put their fingers in their ears and hope this movie goes away.