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So I'm cruising down a list of The world's 40 best directors,
making inexpert judgments here and there. The Coen brothers
should be number 1, not 3, but that's a quibble. I'm glad to see
that Tarantino didn't show up until 19; gives the list an
air of legitimacy. No
Opie so far, that's good. Whoa -WTF? Michael Moore is the world's 28th best film director?
Whatever cachet the selection panel had built up is lost with the huge swooshing sound
of this turd being flushed.
28. Michael Moore
You could say it's Moore's blend of humour, righteousness and
persistence that has made his documentaries so successful, but his
political commitment would be nothing without the film-making skills to
back it up. Bowling for Columbine has been one of the most influential
films of recent years, affecting the public in a way that most
directors on this list will never know, but it would never have become
such a cause had it not been so rigorously researched, painstakingly
constructed and broadly entertaining.
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Through Moore we are able to
document the slide left media have taken in just a very short
time. I don't just mean film; news business
muck-a-mucks will also happily swap imago Dei for imitatio dei if it suits their political dogma. Moore's 1989 signature movie, Roger & Me,
was rejected for Best Documentary consideration because it
wasn't. Moore manipulated time sequences in order to support his
socialist attack on GM CEO Roger Smith. By 2002 the industry had
joined Moore in his mission, and gave him a Best Documentary Oscar for Bowling for Columbine. David T. Hardy [Michael Moore Exposed] does his own documentary work on Moore's movie making.
By 2005, Hollywood was so invested in leftist politics that Razzie awards, given for the year's worst film accomplishments, included these cameos from Moore's brazenly fatuous Fahrenheit 9/11.
Michael Moore may be admired for his directing accomplishments, but to
make the claim that anything he's done bears the fruit of ''heavy
research,'' is farcical. He is, in point of fact, the Democrat
party's Leni Riefenstahl.
Hopefully, some day he, and his clients, will dance on the gibbet
together, because together that have rendered honest public debate DOA.
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