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The boy who could fly
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 5:01pm Report to Moderator
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This movie belongs on the list with Hostel, North, and Patch Adams, as one of the worst movies ever made.  This movie sure lives up to the title, I felt sick watching this,

This movie is nothing but left wing, liberal emotional porn, and if ur gonna make porn make something you can jerk off to, not something that makes you want to puke.

First of all this movie only shows one side, that is it, he only shows us what he wants us to see.  Micheal Moore almost commits treason with this film, we need Jack Bauer here to teach this fat fuck a lesson or two.

He does make Canada look good, but his facts are wrong, we do wait more than 10 min to seek medical attention, he only interviews people first in line, it not as glamorous as he lets it looks.

The ending is the most disgusting.  The man who runs the biggest anti Micheal Moore site, his wife came down with a disease so he had to choose between his wife and the website, so he chose his wife, and Micheal Moore says in the film "I decided to send him a check of $12,00 anonymously"  hey you fat fuck, you just said anonymously, but have no worries promoting that fact in your fictional film, what a hypocrite. and now the website is still up and running,

This movie was made by the weak minded for the weak minded, this is the worst piece of trash ever to be put on film/

Now I have to go take a shit cause this movie gave me the runs,


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Posted: July 11th, 2007, 9:11pm Report to Moderator
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What do you expect from Michael Moore?  The truth?

In Moore's Roger and Me, he wrote how the town of Flin, Michigan was destroyed when GM closed down its plant.  Moore didn't mention that Flint was building a huge convention center at the time.  When the film came out, no one wanted to hold a convention in Flint because they thought it was a ghost town.  It was Moore's fault that Flint died.

In Bowling for Columbine. Moore showed footage of Charleston Heston say, "They can have my gun when they pry it from my cold dead hands."  He made it seem that Heston said this in regards to the gun ban proposed after the Columbine incident.  The footage used was so far before Columbine that you see Cornelius and Vera jumping around in the background.

Moore is a master of film editing.  He does magic when it comes to twisting the truth.  The only one with more movie magic is Harry Potter.


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Takeshi
Posted: October 20th, 2007, 8:48am Report to Moderator
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I just finished watching Sicko and thought it was pretty interesting. I guess Michael was trying to say that America should have universal health care and the only reason it doesn't is because big business makes too much money out of things being the way they are.  

He also pointed out that if countries like Cuba, England and France can afford to cover their people with universal health then the USA has no excuse not to.

Given the subject matter of this film, I couldn't say I enjoyed it, but I am glad I saw it. I hope Michael's next doco is about The War on Drugs; I'm sure he could punch a few holes in the arguments of the zero tolerance crowd.  
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I caught a screening of this last night and thought it was pretty interesting.  I think the whole right/left approach is more of an illusion because what he illustrates is correct that big business finds a way to run things.  It also happened in the 1800s with the likes of Carnegie and Rockefeller and it wasn't until Teddy Roosevelt told them to shut the hell up that the government had more of a say in, you know, their own country.

While watching this I did feel some envy for the comparisons he was making to France, Britain, Canadia and even Cuba.  But then I thought...there's gotta be another side to this.  It can't be that simple.  Of course, that could just be me being an American and never being exposed to it.  If someone can explain that, please let me know.  

Overall I did enjoy it.  I know of the aggravations that health insurance can present but God forbid you may actually need it one day, then you'll be thankful to have it.  Late one night in 2004 my mom needed to go to the hospital for a blood infection.  She wound up staying in the ICU for a week.  The final bill came out to around $250,000, but with insurance, we wound up paying about $5000.  I remember when we first arrived at the hospital they asked for her insurance card.  At the time I didn't really understand because I was a retarded high schooler on the verge of moving to Sacramento, but now I get it.

Neat film.  Pretty good.


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I hope Michael's next doco is about The War on Drugs; I'm sure he could punch a few holes in the arguments of the zero tolerance crowd.  


I heard he's attacking the issue of homophobia next


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American population: 302,824,000+ people
French population: 64,102,140 people
English population (2006 estimate): 50,714,000
Cuban (2006 estimate): 11,382,820 people

This is from Wikipedia, but it gives you the rough numbers. How are we going to give universal health care to 3M+ people? Raise taxes? Kill people off?

I'm all for kicking the violent illegal immigrants out. They go back and hurt people in their own country.
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Quoted from ABennettWriter
American population: 302,824,000+ people
French population: 64,102,140 people
English population (2006 estimate): 50,714,000
Cuban (2006 estimate): 11,382,820 people

This is from Wikipedia, but it gives you the rough numbers. How are we going to give universal health care to 3M+ people? Raise taxes? Kill people off?



Not wasting so much money on military spending would be a good start.

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Quoted from ABennettWriter
American population: 302,824,000+ people
French population: 64,102,140 people
English population (2006 estimate): 50,714,000
Cuban (2006 estimate): 11,382,820 people


Ah, and that would be one of the reasons.  Thank you.  

A former member of British Parliament was interviewed in the film and one thing he said that I really liked was "if you can put money into going to war and killing people then you can put money into helping people."  

Not giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants would be a good start, too.



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If you want universal health care your gonna have to raise your taxes.  The taxes here in Canada are horrible, half my paycheck is taken away from taxes, if I made $100,000 a year that wouldn't be so bad, but when you make $20,000 a year it hurts a lot.  So count yourself lucky you don't pay as much as us Canadians.


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If my taxes are going into to worthwhile things like public health, free education and better public transport, then tax away. As long as my family and I have food in our stomachs, a roof over our heads and a bit of spare change for entertainment, we're happy.
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Quoted from Takeshi
If my taxes are going into to worthwhile things like public health, free education and better public transport, then tax away. As long as my family and I have food in our stomachs, a roof over our heads and a bit of spare change for entertainment, we're happy.


Not everyone might feel that way though. Some people have grander dreams tha just getting by, and the state shouldn't smother them.

Now I'm for free education and free healthcare (to some extent) but here in Denmark we have the highest taxes in the world (I pay 50% and I only work freelance) so I'm for lowering them here, simply because a lot my money goes to stuff I don't consider a necessity (like retirement pensions or *shudder* youth houses).


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Takeshi
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I don't think the state should pay for everything, but it should provide the essentials.  

50% is not too bad. If someone with "grand dreams" made a few million a year they'd still be pretty well off. Crikey, how much money does a person need?

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Some dreams are loftier and more expensive than others. Some people want to travel once a year, some people want a summer cottage, others might like to start a production company and make movies.

My point is, it's not the state's job to tell me how much money "I need". If I work hard enough I should be rewarded for that, not punished.

I think 50% is a lot considering I only make about $3000 a year.

I'm for a safety net that provides the essentials. You shouldn't be able to just wither and die in a healthy society. But it should be just that, the essentials.


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Quoted from Death Monkey
I'm for a safety net that provides the essentials. You shouldn't be able to just wither and die in a healthy society. But it should be just that, the essentials.


So we agree then. Excellent.  

However, to make it possible for everybody to have the essentials, in this country, we're going to have slug big business and the rich with heftier taxes. Having 1% of the population control 80% of the wealth is just plain wrong.  

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I see this was nominated for The Best Documentary Oscar. This is like his third nomination in five years. It has to be a record. Good on ya, Big Fella.    

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