New Michael Moore Movie Looks At The Financial Meltdown. It Opens Oct. 2nd, Don't Miss It
By Susie Madrak Thursday Jun 11, 2009 6:00pm
This comes out just two days after my birthday. Guess how I'm going to celebrate?
Michael Moore wants his money back. Actually, he wants your money back, if you lost any in the financial meltdown.
And though he knows that probably won't happen, the filmmaker at least wants to stick it to the people who took it.
The still untitled film, which opens Oct. 2, will zero in on the corporations and politicians he says caused the global financial crash.
Wall Street robber barons are Moore's new on-screen enemy.
"The movie is not going to be an economics lesson; it's going to be more like a vampire movie," the filmmaker jokes. "Instead of the main characters feasting on the blood of their victims, they feast on the money. And they never seem to get enough of it."
When the collapse walloped the country last September, Moore says he knew not only that it would matter to regular people, but also that the inherent decadence was ripe for his style of satire.
"If you go to see my movies, even if you don't agree with everything in the movies, you're going to have a good laugh," Moore says. "I want them to walk out at the end saying 'Wow, that was something!' And in this case, maybe they also walk out asking the ushers, 'Um, excuse me. Where are the pitchforks and torches?' "
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and ill watch it online...then go to the theater and give moore my money...cuz he makes me laugh
Stick it to the Man, once again!
would be a good name for the flick.
starting Jan 2001 well it's a little late.
There was no shortage of people warning what would happen with another Bush in charge.
The right despises Moore because he's survived and succeeded through the tsunami of lies and bullshit they rained on him.
I envision a movie poster of a man in a three-piece suit, close-up from waist to chin, cigar drooping into the photo, each arm holding a big bag-o-cash, with the word "BAILOUT" in between.
Addendum: Maybe put a spark-spewing fuse coming out of each bag like bombs.
The George Parr Investment Banker interview
part 2
part 3
"Its been up and down, sometimes I had good years, other times I had incredible good years..."
"its not a reward for failure, its compensation for failure..."
would be welcome.
Bring Back Crackers the Crime-Fighting Chicken.
The financial meltdown is actually just a culmination of having three hard right corporate extremist administrations (Regan, Bush and Bush) and a soft right Democrat (Clinton) enacting policies and removing regulations to the point that Corporate America became an out of control monster. This is the result of 30+ years of Reaganomics or Voodoo economics as Bush senior derogatorily called it before he took office and then continued it unabated.
The FED is also a major player in the financial meltdown fiasco:
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/fedreservebank...
Next up for Moore please.... Part two of Sicko....................
I wish he would do a follow up of the Sicko movie and expose the bribery and corruption involved in the attempted Health care reform.
The list of senators on the take from health insurance companies is staggering and coincidentally includes all the major players involved in the so called reform! They have all been bribed to the tune of millions of dollars each.
Title "The Korporatist whores!"
so there he is at 85 broad, goldman's HQ. yo michael that's getting really old. although it did pay off well in "the big one".
i also appreciated when he did it on his TV show in mid 90s. he and his corporate crime chicken came to my employer CS First Boston to ask our CEO way they reneged on a promise to NYC for a tax incentive provided there would be no layoffs. then they laid off 1,000. security guards said he was polite.
as was case with fahrenheit and sicko, i'll be first in line to see this one.
I hate Michael Moore's movies and refuse to watch anymore of them. Still haven't watched Ferhenheit 911 and have owned it for what 2/3 years now and wouldn't buy Sicko because it would probably make me sick.
It is not because I am a righty; it's because I agree with most if not all he says and it sends my blood pressure through the roof. He puts it out there and although the right tries to refute what he says he is usually in the ballpark(where as reichwingers are on freakin Mars)as far as the truth goes and nothing gets done to right the wrongs. Where are the pitchforks indeed.
One of the great things about his movies is the actual videotaped proof countering Right-wing talking points.
Watch the films and the next time you're confronted by some Right-winger spewing some nonsense, you'll know it's total BS and can provide the footage to prove it.
I still think of the scene in Sicko where his in-laws would not visit the U.S. from Canada w/o buying "travel health insurance" first out of fear getting sick in the U.S. could bankrupt them.
You are right on Mugsy.... He's always right and has the evidence to back himself up, BUT his movies are wasted on us because we already get it. The people that really need to be exposed to the truth will never sit down and watch his stuff. They have been indoctrinated to believe he's a nut job and they mindlessly parrot derogatory talking points about Moore without ever even seeing the movies.
You can only offer the evidence ..... but I doubt they will watch it.
They are so stupid, it wouldn't matter if they did watch them.
Their reaction would be to defend the fascists, like the Bush family crime syndicate. They are complete dupes, and will do anything for the people who are actually screwing the s**t out of them.
--moments of any film I've ever seen and as a film major I've seen a ton. Michael Moore and Errol Morris ("The Fog of War": Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara") are considered to be documentary filmmakers, but they are much more; both are artists who understand the language of film and how to tell a story using their unique stylistics. You owe it to yourself to watch both of these masterpieces.
Michael Moore is unafraid to tell the truth. I love how he calls BS on the usual media pimps.
If only there were more like him ...!
Dang..I have to wait that long?
Could not have a better birthday present. The man is a patriot and a freakin' genius!! His Farenheit 9/11 made me cry and Sicko should be required viewing for every doctor, senator and congressman in the country..First, do no harm.
...sticks it to that mega-prick Phil Gramm. If there is one man I want to see get his come-uppance (other than the evil Darth Cheney that is) it's that sniveling lobbying SOB Gramm.
--haunt him to his death. He epitomizes the arrogance of 'greed is good,' along with many others I too hope Moore lambastes.
as the Titanic, sinking slowly but steadily, while the RICH people pile into diamond-encrusted golden lifeboats clutching huge bags of money, while the "USS Bailout" rushes to THEIR rescue, leaving the "steerage" (ordinary everyday) folk to drown.
Oh yeah, and the iceberg would look like an "invisible hand" and be labeled "Free Market". Ha.
Ingenious. Really, very good analysis.
I am ready with my pitchfork and torch! Why wait for the movie? Let's go NOW!!!
Bush, Cheney and the rest of the crew jailed, and an open trial is the number one demand.
Only the 'free marketeers' out there are afraid of dissenting opinion...
It helps to think of it this way...
Take the last 29 years for example....we've followed the con-servative Milton Friedman/Grover Norquist fairytale BS and what has it brought us....yep, a redux of 1929...like we never learned our lesson...
Real conservativism died with Eisenhower, and 'modern conservativism' was perverted by Buckley & his 'followers'...though at least with Buckley you could have a debate to some extent...but in the end he always fell back to his true believer syndrome...
That's the problem with 'free market'/Supply Side crap...they practice it like its a religion (shhh...it is, its a cult) and have 'faith' that it will work out.... Unfortunately the empirical evidence is in and this ideology is even more bankrupt & bereft of logical reason than our current economy based on paper wealth & GDP based on financial 'services' instead of tangible 'real' goods & products (the kind with a physical end result that can be used & reused)...
My conservative neighbor and I regularly debate over the left/right divide, particularly over media bias. He feels he has scored a point in the lack of coverage by left wing news sources of an incident in China where Tim Geithners speech on the soundness of the American dollar was met by dirisive laughter by students. Now this seems to me to be in line with any number of news items I might normally read here or Huffington Post or TPM or Thinkprogress. Have progressives really decided to ignore this item?
http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAnd...
collin999 accidentally inverted the numbers in his/her handle....pity.
I just watched Sicko again last night . Was funny watching the clips of the fright wing bullshitting about countries that do have comprehensive health care for the masses. Its amazing that so many Americans care so little about their fellow countrymen/women. Its always about "wheres mine" and " How much can i make off it ?" Any other nation would have to be fucking insane to embrace the US health care model. Its pathetic and id be embarrassed if i were an American. The righties will rail against the fact that Moore has a few bucks in the bank .At least Moore earned his money.
The part where the woman's little girl dies because the hospital refuses to treat her breaks my heart everytime I watch it. What has this country turned into?
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