Saturday, April 17, 2010

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

This film just reinforced how much I dislike Michael Moore films. Besides Roger & Me, all of his films are horribly one-sided, narrow-minded, and unintelligent. He seems to be getting worse the more he makes.
This movie looks like it was just slapped together at the last minute; he even includes scenes from Roger & Me as filler.
His most common tactic of pursuing interviews for his film is he walks up to big buildings with a loudspeaker, and asks for the chairmen to come out. Dude, if you were a professional and had any self-integrity you would go through the proper channels to arrange these interviews.
He is trying to make it seem like all the important people are ignoring him because they are greedy, but really he likely never called any of them, and he knows he's not going to get a respond from them because he doesn't want a response from them.
Michael Moore presents himself as the "common man", but he comes across as a really "stupid man" who does no research, and thinks he can convince his viewers to change the world by running around the outside of a building with police tape.
Real documentarians actually do research and organize their interviews. You would never see Errol Morris doing what Michael Moore does.

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