ROTTEN TOMATOES: Cannes Wrap-Up: Michael Moore's Latest And Leo's Global Warming Doc Comments

Cannes Wrap-Up: Michael Moore's Latest And Leo's Global Warming Doc

by Tim Ryan | May 20, 2007

Summary

Michael Moore's latest doc, "Sicko," has stirred up more controversy for the Michigan muckraker. Is he onto something with his evisceration of the US healthcare system? Plus, "The 11th Hour," a climate change doc featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, and "Boarding Gate," an unconvincing, sleazy thriller starring Asia Argento and Michael Madsen -- all here at Cannes! Back to Article

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unbreakable_samurai writes:
on May 20 2007 07:53 AM

That's to bad that Boarding Gate isn't better.

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Holly Jolly writes:
on May 20 2007 08:17 AM

Michael Moore needs to try losing some weight if he's going to be taken seriously about health care.

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Now it's dark writes:
on May 20 2007 08:23 AM

Yeah Mike fudges the truth sometimes. If only he could learn to shovel it like those heroes from the Fox news network.

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bribios writes:
on May 20 2007 11:35 AM

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Heh. Well maybe that's where his concern for healthcare costs comes from. Most of his vast fortune is spent on Hostess cupcakes and beat up baseball caps already. The previous poster has a good point too. It's all a bunch of liars and zealots on both sides. That's why politics should be avoided at all costs.
Dunno quite where I stand on that issue. Free healthcare would be pretty nice, but I hear the quality of it can be kind of shite. I guess I'd prefer that we have an option of having public AND private healthcare.

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BrokebackYoda writes:
on May 21 2007 07:10 AM

Why does everyone make fun of Michael Moore's weight, its irrelevent to the point in his movies. And somehow, that's really all people can criticize. Does having free heathcare make you not fat...I wasn't aware of that.

As for Michael Moore...I think he should make a documentary about...Leo Dicaprio...?

Why does he always make documentaries that he knows are gonna be controversial? I'd like to see him do that with a Leo Dicaprio documentary.

With that said I will see Sicko opening day.

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Merlin235 writes:
on May 21 2007 10:20 AM

I like those documentaries about Michael Moore, kinda shows that his documentaries aren't real documentaries, just smear campaigns. Hilarious.

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bribios writes:
on May 21 2007 11:44 AM

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Well, most documentaries are ultimately that. You can't really have true objectivity. However, I feel like Moore tends to spin things waaaaay too much, and personally I view him as the liberal equivalent of Bill O'Reilly. Back in high school I actually used to like the guy, but after reading pages and pages and pages of texts online tearing apart most of the points he makes and revealing his editing techniques (most of these articles were actually written by liberal writers too), I just found the man too dishonest to trust.

Here's a comic that immediatelly made me think of Micheal Moore when I read it. Hope people here like talking dinosaurs....

[url] http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=634 [/url]

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synergyred writes:
on May 21 2007 08:26 PM

I really think Michael Moore should partner up with someone that's a little less focused on entertaiment and a little more on facts. As the review above mentioned, there is good to be found in his movies, but if he really wants to be taken more seriously as a deliver of facts, he shouldn't put such a strong spin on things.

I'm actually kind of interested in The 11th Hour. Sounds like something worth seeing.

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