I almost never hate a movie when I see it in a theater

True, except my list mostly results from the selection being left up to a boy, except, thankfully, Last Tango in Paris, for which I only have myself to blame.

Critters 2 was probably my worst movie theatre experience. Except for the part when the guys were yelling "RUDY!" every time Sean Astin appeared on my third viewing of Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers. That pissed me off more than anything.

I'm off to see New Moon directly!

Michael Moore is the left-wing equivalent of Glen Beck

Umm no. Don't think using stock footage to make valid points necessarily invalidates them. Not perfect but in no way comparable to Glen Beck.

Don't think using stock footage to make valid points necessarily invalidates them.

But he's not making valid points. Half of what's in his movies is pure unadulterated bullshit and the other half is too incoherent to matter. A lot of it sounds reasonable on its face if you're already on his side politically, but there's no there there. He's a conspiracy nut with a camera.

Last night's post-dinner DVD was Capitalism: A Love Story, which was about what I expected. I have decided that Michael Moore is the left-wing equivalent of Glen Beck. He finds these little snippets of footage, goes "OOH!" and then jams them into his preconstructed narrative whether or not they actually support his point.

I have felt this way for years and stopped seeing his movies after the Fahrenheit one. What really pissed me off during Fahrenheit was that there was SO MUCH actually abhorrent stuff going on that he did NOT need to lie and conspire and obfuscate, etc. He could have just told the plain truth, and it would have been scary.

Movie review post! Movies reviewed: Shoot 'Em Up; A Fish Called Wanda; Black Sheep; Shadow of the Vampire; The Omen; 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; Michael Clayton; The Night of the Hunter; Be Kind Rewind; Edward Scissorhands; The Deer Hunter; and Almost Famous.

I haven't seen any of Michael Moore's movies, but from what I've heard, I think the minimum of difference between him and Glenn Beck is that Moore takes on genuine issues. I'll let others debate how effective his movies are, but, for example, Roger and Me took on the legitimate issue of the effect of shutting down auto plants on Midwestern Rust Belt cities. I can't see Glenn Beck addressing so substantive an issue.

Roger and Me, in particular, is understated compared to what we later come to expect. He makes me think, though, even if I don't think he's a hundred percent right.

Fred, that's a good point.

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