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whatever happened to michael moore?
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Merrick
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Re: whatever happened to michael moore?
Apr 10, 2007, 16:20
Brilliantly put there, HoD!

Pooley, can you explain why you hate Moore?

I've no doubt he made some money off his movies; why does that make him phoney?

He'd only be a phoney if he didn't mean what he said in those movies and was just doing it to cash in. Are you really suggesting that?

When Moore started making his movies there was no market for that sort of thing. He really opened the door for popular political hard-topic documentaries. I can't remember the last one I saw in the cinema before bowling For Columbine. Now there's always at least one doing the rounds.

I've no doubt, in these more polarised times, something like that would've happened to a degree, but it was Moore that pioneered it. Even if, like most of us, you aren't comfortable with everything he's done, he still deserves respect for what he's normalised, how he's shifted the use of film to talking about things with a voice that dissents.

The 'making money of the suffering of others' thing is nonsense. Can nobody put out a film, movie or book that deals with real issues then? Do you level the same charge at newsreaders, lecturers and journalists?
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