Manufacturing Dissent
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Movie Reviews of Manufacturing Dissent
Movie Review: An Incovienient Truth:The Michael Moore Documentary
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has not been released on DVD yet, yet there is a already a review! I decided to join in. I saw the trailer and I am looking forward to purchasing this DVD. Unlike the American public who jumps on the bandwagon of popular controversy, I always do my homework before I form my opinion. I always felt uncomfortable about the wide acceptance that Moore has achieved with his controversial statements and movies. He is by no means a champ at anything more than being lucky. Just as Madonna was lucky when she arrived on the scene. There are several types of talent, and very important ones seem to go unnoticed in a day and age of modern superficial times.
I hope that the liberal people who truly believe in MM will open their 'open liberal minds' and put it to the test. After all it was not produced by the right wing republicans so it cannot be a conspiracy against Mr. Moore unlike what Mr Moore has done to President Bush. I am not advocating support for Bush by that statement. I am making a very deep comment about the double rule that only applies to liberals and not anyone else.
Free your mind and open your head
Movie Review: The truth is here to see...
Summary: 5 Stars
...though, as a lot of the other reviews demonstrate, it's easier for some to look the other way. There's no getting past the reality that the ends justify the means for many people ("The True Believer" that Eric Hoffer dissected so brilliantly). As it happens, I caught this documentary recently on Sundance though it's now about two years old. No histrionics or transparent animus at work here. Just a steady-handed evisceration of your basic ethically-challenged narcissist. The film scores its points effectively through the testimony of former associates--supporters disillusioned and friends betrayed, going all the way back to Moore's slithering exit from Mother Jones in the early 1980s. No right wing bogeymen to aid and comfort the denial crowd, just the likes of publisher Adam Hochschild, labor attorney Guy Saperstein, Nader lieutenant Jim Musselman, film maker Kevin Rafferty, film critic Jack Matthews, writer Christopher Hitchens, Ralph Nader himself, and so on. Definitely worth viewing.
Movie Review: An intriguing and fair film for Moore detractors and fans alike
Summary: 5 Stars
Some other anti-Moore films have fallen short, but Manufacturing Dissent provides a fair and interesting view of Michael Moore's filmmaking tactics.
I first only thought that Fahrenheit 9/11 was Moore's only film with twisted facts and out-of-context imagery, but it seems that's been Moore's process from the very beginning, from Roger & Me on down.
While other reviewers criticize these filmmakers of repeating Moore's own techniques, they did so in attempting to get an interview from Moore that he never granted. Instead, they were frequently dismissed and even removed from an event on one occasion.
Bottom line: Michael Moore does not make documentaries, nor has he ever. He makes movies, if only to entertain an audience that he would be lost without.
Give this documentary a try -- while the editing and flow of the film is a little jaunting, the lies it exposes is worth giving it 5 stars.
Movie Review: An Inconvenient Truth About Michael Moore
Summary: 5 Stars
Most intelligent people can decide for themselves after seeing a film done by Michael Moore whether it's factual or not, but I think many people instead may want to believe it if they agree with it, or disbelieve it if they don't. But the most telling thing about this film exposing Michael Moore's tactics is that his most staunch supporters...the people who know him personally and have worked with him...disapprove of his methods and talk about his distortions in his films. When his closest collaborators are willing to be interviewed saying he twists the facts, and outright lies, I feel vindicated in my suspicions about Michael Moore. This is a good film telling the other side of the story about the real Michael Moore. I highly recommend it to people who want to know all sides of an issue, and not just the side they agree with.Movie Review: A well done piece of work.
Summary: 5 Stars
I just finished the film and enjoyed it. Many of the comments I have read in this forum seem to take the position that it is okay to make a point using half-truths. I don't. The film suggest Moore uses half-truths and then give specific examples. The film also suggest Moore has no problem surprising people he wants to film with unscheduled meetings, but apparently does not like the technique used on himself; again, the film give excellent examples.
The well read, well educated friends I have asked about Moore's films were not aware of his reputation of manipulating scenes. They took his documentaries as being just that, straight honest documentaries: not satires. I do not think my friends are unique.
Moore preaches to the choir which, for the most part, I am one. But I want my preachers to be honest.