Hell Yeah, I'll Be There

[lame54]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/26-5

Published on Saturday, September 26, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
'Capitalism' as Comedy and Tragedy Now Playing in NY and L.A.
by Michael Moore
Friends,

The time has arrived for, as Time magazine called it, my "magnum opus." I only had a year of Latin when I was in high school, so I'm not quite sure what that means, but I think it's good.

I've spent nearly two years on this new movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story," and have poured my heart and soul into this project. Many early critics and viewers have called it my "best film yet." That's a hard call for me to make as I'm proud of all of my films -- but I will tell you this: What you are about to see in "Capitalism" is going to stun you. It's going to make some of you angry and I believe it's going to give most of you a new sense of hope that we are going to turn the sick and twisted mess made by the last president around. Oh, and you're going to have a good laugh at the expense of all the banking and corporate criminals who've made out like bandits in the past year.

I'm gonna show you the stuff the nightly news will rarely show you. Ever meet a pilot for American Airlines on food stamps because his pay's been cut so low? Ever meet a judge who gets kickbacks for sending innocent kids to a private prison? Ever meet someone from the Wall Street Journal who bluntly states on camera that he doesn't much care for democracy and that capitalism should be our only ruling concern?

You'll meet all these guys in "Capitalism." You'll also meet a whistleblower who, with documents in hand, tells us about the million-dollar-plus sweetheart loans he approved for the head of Senate Banking Committee -- the very committee that was supposed to be regulating his lending institution! You'll hear from a bank regulator why Timothy Geithner has no business being our Treasury Secretary. And you'll learn, from the woman who heads up the congressional commission charged with keeping an eye on the bailout money, how Alan Greenspan & Co. schemed and connived the public into putting up their inflated valued homes as collateral -- thus causing the biggest foreclosure epidemic in our history.

There is now a foreclosure filed in the U.S. once every seven-and-half SECONDS.

None of this is an accident, and I name the names others seem to be afraid to name,,,

[barbtries]

1. i'll be in raleigh nc

looking forward to it

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Saw it last weekend

It's fabulous.

[peace frog]

7. Planning to travel two hours to see it

in the nearest large city. A Michael Moore film is as welcome as swine flu in my small, very conservative rural community.

[fasttense]

3. I will have to see it when it comes out on disc.

Here in a very rural and very red part of TN, they will never play it in the theater (we only have 1).

[Altoid_Cyclist]

5. We have the same thing here too (central PA), but we have a lot more screens.

I only get a chance to see MM's films when I can buy them.

People around here (most of them) are terrified of the truth.

[lame54]

4. Unrec-ing freeper among us

[peace frog]

6. But of course

Freepers hate and fear Michael Moore with an unfathomable vehemence.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. And the funny thing is his new movie is saying much of what they are saying about the bank bailouts

He does (justifiably, IMO) blame Reagan which will piss them off. But I don't see a lot they can criticize in this film.

[peace frog]

9. Freepers will always criticize MM

doesn't matter that they agree with the points raised in his films. He is their living personification of pure evil, and no amount of logical discourse will dissuade them from this position. Might as well argue with a brick wall.

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. I saw SiCKO on opening weekend at a packed theater. Called

them to ask if they will be carrying Capitalism. Nope. Not one local theater is carrying it.

So, I take my money elsewhere.