Moore declares new film to be toxic and dangerous… again….
I think we’ve all heard these claims from Moore about his movies before, haven’t we?
Oscar-winning documentary maker Michael Moore, who this week unveiled plans for a follow-up to his anti-Bush polemic “Fahrenheit 9/11,” said on Friday the new film would cover topics so “toxic” he probably should not make it.
But Moore, whose work ranges from an expose of American gun culture in “Bowling for Columbine” to a scathing critique of U.S. health care in “SiCKO,” relishes controversy, so his unnamed new movie will likewise be risky, he told reporters at the Cannes film festival.
“It’s something I shouldn’t make, something that is dangerous,” he said.
Is is just me or is this hype of Moore’s becoming something of a mantra for him? He said it about Bowling, he said it about Fahrenheit, and he said it about Sicko. Not one of those films turned out to be either “toxic” or “dangerous”, largely due to the hefty amount of factual errors, inaccuracies and outright untruths contained within them. But no… *this* one will be different:
At box offices, his new movie will face risks. Recent films dealing with the current wars, such as “Stop-Loss” and “In the Valley of Elah,” were commercial flops.
But Moore said he believed those movies failed because most Americans no longer support the wars, whereas in 2004, when “Fahrenheit 9/11” was released, most Americans still backed U.S. military pursuits in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He believes “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which ranks as the top-grossing political documentary of all time with more than $220 million at global box offices, was a hit because it told audiences things about the Bush administration that they were surprised to hear.
Similarly, he said his new movie will succeed by exposing information about President George W. Bush and his policies that will leave audiences stunned.
“What I’m going to say in this film is what probably 70 percent of them (audiences) don’t want to hear,” Moore said.
Yes, Mr. Moore. You’ve got something right. We probably aren’t going to want to hear what you have to say in this new film venture of yours. You see, we’re all getting a little tired of your fictional diatribes against America getting masqueraded as documentaries. If you’d like to truly shock us… how about making this movie… I don’t know… based on the truth? That would certainly shock me.
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Or maybe the fact that Bush was by far the best choice two terms in a row makes a statement about how bugshit nuts the American left has gone.
Actually, this article has me really wanting to see this film. I’m incredibly optimistic about this.
Why, you ask?
Because I’m doing the math, here.
Maybe it’s a stretch, but check it out…
read these quotes with an open mind…
Similarly, he said his new movie will succeed by exposing information about President George W. Bush and his policies that will leave audiences stunned.
“What I’m going to say in this film is what probably 70 percent of them (audiences) don’t want to hear,” Moore said.
“It’s something I shouldn’t make, something that is dangerous,” he said.
He’ll talk about Bush in a way that will stun people?
70% of Moore’s audience (which tends to be rabidly left-leaning) won’t want to hear it? (virtually the same percentage that are polling in disapproval of Bush?)
It’s something Moore feels he should not do, and is dangerous...???
Don’t you get it, people?
He’s finally going to tell the truth!!!!
Ooooh goody. I simply cannot wait.
He believes “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which ranks as the top-grossing political documentary of all time with more than $220 million at global box offices, was a hit because it told audiences things about the Bush administration that they were surprised to hear.
Yeah, surprised because they’re all memes off internet conspiracy websites....
Posted by Vermin on 05/31/2008 at 03:07 AM
Or maybe the fact that Bush was by far the best choice two terms in a row makes a statement about how bugshit nuts the American left has gone.
Word… and they’re doing it again this time. People are tired of republicans running things… but they may win just because the dems can’t put up a mainstream candidate…
SlOre--
I think you’d have a hard time arguing that Hillary Clinton is something other than mainstream. In my opinion it’s more accurate to say that the entire left and center thirds of the political spectrum are listing so hard to port that anything and anyone in the right third is a better choice.
Vermin said:
I think you’d have a hard time arguing that Hillary Clinton is something other than mainstream. In my opinion it’s more accurate to say that the entire left and center thirds of the political spectrum are listing so hard to port that anything and anyone in the right third is a better choice.
I couldn’t agree with everything you just said more if I tried. Perfectly stated my good man! :)
I have to say though, speaking just for myself of course, with everything going on in the political arena these days I would be HAPPY to pull the lever for Hillary. HAPPY I tell you. I’d rather vote for her than McCain, but I’ll take McCain over Obama every single day and four hundred times on Sunday. Ack… what a mess this election season is! :(
So what exactly is the point of making a film about a President who won’t even be in office anymore by the time the film comes out?
Maybe Moore’s next project could be a scathing documentary on the Reagan administration!
How much you wanna bet Moore will option the film version of Scott McClellan’s book?
I offer these five simple words to Michael Moore:
“Get the fuck over yourself.”
So what exactly is the point of making a film about a President who won’t even be in office anymore by the time the film comes out?
Knowing Moore, so he can finally claim success in ousting Bush! It’s not like the wackjob leftists he preaches to have a firm grasp of how our govt. works. They’d actually buy it.
He can’t go after Charlton Heston again, and it’s always more fun to beat a dead horse that’s still breathing. It’ll be two hours of the following:
“SEE? SEE? I told you! I told, you and you didn’t listen! Did I mention that I won an Oscar, and saved JimK’s wife? The doctors tied her to these train tracks, and I rode in on horseback and whisked her from certain death, and as the train roared by, I happened to notice who the engineer was.
It was BUSH! Shame on you, Mr. Bush! Shame on you!”
Posted by yngcelt on 06/03/2008 at 03:45 PM (Link to this comment | ) “So what exactly is the point of making a film about a President who won’t even be in office anymore by the time the film comes out?”
The Kool aid drinkers are now saying McCain = Bush.
So if McCain were to loose…
The same great minds who can believe all that PC doublethink might just go for it…
Just listened to a Q&A;with Moore, and he said that the working title for his film is ‘While America Slept’ and is going to be about “All the shit that has gone on in this country whilst we were distracted by the War in Iraq. I will reveal thos people that have gotten away with literal murder, and a tonne of money whilst America was looking the other way.”
(May not be a direct quote, but the jist is there)
So Moore is finally going to take on Democrats? *ba-dum-ching*
But sounds like another equivalent of a clips show, snagging video clips that have already been aired on the news and showing them as if they were something shocking and new he’d discovered.
I read in Newsmax that good Old Michael Moore is publishing a 2008 Election Guide. I believe it should be out sometime in August.
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But truth isn’t always very interesting. What if President Bush is just plain dumb? Really, what if our President is really, honestly stupid? It explains a lot of the dumb things he’s done, but it’s not much of a movie. If there’s no sinister plot, and nothing nefarious to expose, there’s no real drama in it. It just ends up being a bit sad, and a bad reflection on the voters who put him into office twice.