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The tables are turned on revolutionary filmmaker Michael Moore in this documentary by Michael Wilson, who believes that America isn't as polarized and troubled as Moore makes out to be in his movies. ...( read more 
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MCT:September 24, 2008
As a professor of American history a few years ago, I realised that the biggest obstacle to my teaching was not that students knew very little about the subject, but that what little they knew they got from Michael Moore, and was consequently wrong, simplistic and very confused. Rather than merely teach them, I had to waste hours untangling a jumble of prejudices, factoids and outright lies that all came from one single source: Michael Moore's movies.
It is obvious to me that to undo the damage done by this brazen, bullying and hypocritical manipulator would require at least twice as much time as all of his films, TV series and public interviews put together. So how does Michael Wilson's film fare within the limits of its two hours?
To be blunt, I felt that the film was about half as effective as it should have been, but whatever it does manage to accomplish needed so badly to be done that it is definitely worth watching and supporting.
I felt Wilson lost precious screen time by being a little too "Michael Moorish" about his subject, i.e. by being infected himself by Moore's informal and anarchistic approach to documentary film-making. I personally would have edited out the humour (like the search for Michael
Moore in New York) and the profanities (which would have left all of Penn Jillette's interventions in the dustbin) and focused instead on what I found to be the film's greatest asset: Wilson's interviews of the various people who were duped by Moore in one or the
other of his movies.
Now that was brilliant. What you realise is that all of these people - bank employees, Congressmen, U.S. soldiers, etc. - were literally conned by Moore: they were
tricked into telling the story he wanted to tell, through clever manipulation and editing, and were effectively silenced by a voice that pretended to speak on their behalf while in fact trampling on whatever they actually had to say. The deconstruction of this process is fascinating.
As for Wilson's self-criticism, I initially found it a waste of precious time (the film is the kind of documentary that documents its own making in a few self-reflective scenes), but it pays off in the end when Wilson explains how easy it is to fall into the trap of manipulating people to achieve your ends, so that truthfulness in documentary film-making requires true personal asceticism.
Even if you are lucky enough never to have seen a Michael Moore movie (I have seen two of them), or feel you are clever enough to have seen through his distorsions and lies, you will definitely learn something from "Michael Moore Hates America", not only about how this demagogue has fooled millions, but about how any documentarist may be tempted to do so. -
MCT:April 2, 2008As far as documentaries go, this is standard fare. I enjoyed the depth they reach when exposing some of MM's methods of film making.
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MCT:January 24, 2008
The accusations keep on flying, and it almost seems by now that everyone's lying. That's probably as near the truth as anyone will get!
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MCT:May 23, 2007Only flaw was the title - very misleading! The documentary isn't just about Michael Moore, or even hating him, but about how documentaries are made, and how they can turn into manipulative propaganda. What keeps this documentary from doing the same thing as Moore is that it is ruthlessly self-critical, and Mr. Wilson seems just as disturbed by David Horowitz as by Micheal Moore. It's the one anti-Micheal Moore documentary that liberals can appreciate and enjoy.
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MCT:January 11, 2007The title pretty much how i feel, i hate that shitty nation aswell but michael Moore is one of the best directors and a film down-grading his work should not be aloud, he is a pure genious.
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MCT:December 19, 2006
It's a good film. It's a shame that I can hardly find people willing to discuss it without resorting to name calling.
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MCT:November 8, 2006Now I hate MM even more. Wilson does a great job of putting this doc together. I thought it was going to be cheap and flimsy, but it's not. It's something that actually tells the truth and opens our eyes to Moore's UNBELIEVABLE bullshit in "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 9/11."
The film is honest and open. The director even rips himself when he realizes that he actually stoops to Moore's level a couple of times.
Interviews with many of the people from "Columbine" and "Fahrenhet" who feel they were misrepresented and lied to. Great documentary. The REAL truth. -
MCT:October 23, 2006
Really well done, I had expected to turn this off after only about 10 minutes, but I sat through the whole thing, and really put me in a new perspective. Well done.
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MCT:October 20, 2006I despise Michael Moore. Anything that exposes him for they lying Anti-American socialist trickster that he is, is good in my book. People need to wake up and see him for what he really is.
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MCT:June 24, 2006the absolute shittest idea for a doco, and im definitely not being biased, being that i like mikel moore. of all the things to make a doco about, this dickweed makes one about a doco-maker. y didnt he interview mikel moore if this wilson fuk thinks hes king-shit!!
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MCT:June 10, 2006
Not this sounds like a movie!!! It's about time some real filmmakers produced something of truth, honesty and decency. If only I could get my hands on a copy up here.
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