michael moore is great, but flawed. He is obviously on the right side, sanity, and he can be very funny and smart, but in almost all of his work there are always the moments when I think he just goes into crap land, and it hurts all the other material he has in the project. He knows its propaganda, it's set up to fight for a side, and counter arguments are left out, and that's fine, but I think he intentionally goes batty in just one or two places so the work is more open to criticism, and thus controversy, and thus publicity, and while I don't think he's looking for the buck, it's still commercialized descent from the establishment. My argument against Sicko was that I hoped for a lot more. This was my least favorite of his movies and from the subject material it should have been his best. I was hoping for more stories of our broken corrupt health care and how those were connected to flaws in the system, but I got a lot of shaking fire fighter's hands in Cuba, which to me didn't have anything to do with Health care. So instead of spending his time looking at real problems and solutions he was just setting himself up for the anti-Moore news story he wanted, showing how Moore made a Dirty Communistic movie about Cuba... better see it, to love it or hate it. ... I think the health care system is broken in a lot of ways that he didn't get into at all, and I give him negative points for that.
yes and no.
Date: 2008-02-18 11:02 pm (UTC)