The Cinema For 9/25/09: Yet, They Say He's A Hypocrite

Yes, because a hypocrite calls out his boss virtually in an interview last night with another figure who isn't necessarily scared to do that for the oppressed in the nation. Yeah, what a company line hypocrite he is:

It was a revealing moment indeed to just hear Moore talk about his and Olbermann's bosses so candidly on there without fear of getting talked down hard (and the same to the Countdown anchor as well).

Anyway, back to the focus and love for this movie. Joe Neumaher gave it 3.5 out of 4 stars (top story leaked at the top 5) while Claudia Pulg of USA Today says that Moore rightfully called the questions of both Reagan and Clinton as well.

Of course, you have the nut rags like the NY Post Murdoch boys slamming the paper, but that was an unexpected result, wasn't it?

So here’s Michael, trying to get into the HQ of GM and being turned away by security just as he was 20 years ago in “Roger & Me.” Here’s campy archival footage showing communist soldiers on the march and George W. Bush being silly at a photo op. Oh, and here is busted logic, self-contradiction, tasteless jokes and ideas that are demonstrably, empirically wrong.

If you thought that review was awful (and insanely acerbic for a movie review), wait until you see this one, which somehow blames "The Informat" movie just as much, even thought the review is suppose to be about Moore's film ALONE

What’s really happening in these “smart” and “cynical” movies is class warfare: Enormously wealthy filmmakers take pious issue with how others make their money. Moore’s ambush-and-blame methods are bad journalism. His lack of moral, political context is as questionable as ever. Soderbergh’s jaundice is almost palpable. The Informant!’s color scheme—hotellobby beige and living-room orange, both video-blurry—is sarcastically bland.The film’s fake-neutral tone can’t disguise contempt for its Midwestern-American setting. Soderbergh thinks it’s funny to laugh at the mundane—even though a genuinely perceptive filmmaker like Mike Judge based Office Space’s rich observations in just such a setting.

I wonder where "class warfare" got here. And people forget, but, Moore (who is doing better journalism here than most places), isn't a journalist. In fact, he's never been.

But hey, that's what the nutcases paid to slam Moore's movie would do I guess.