Michael Moore’s doc will be released October 2. Paramount Vantage is handling the distribution. Moore’s movie is about: the disastrous impact that corporate dominance and out-of-control profit motives have on the lives of Americans and citizens of the world.
From the press release -
On why he chose to make a ‘love story,’ Moore stated that it was time for him to make a ‘relationship movie.’ “It will be the perfect date movie,” said Moore. “It’s got it all — lust, passion, romance, and 14,000 jobs being eliminated every day. It’s a forbidden love, one that dare not speak its name. Heck, let’s just say it: It’s Capitalism.”
Who loves you, baby? Variety’s Dave McNary posted the story last night. Moore also announced it on his Facebook, after inviting his many fans to submit their ideas.
33 Responses for "Michael Moore’s New Movie is Called…Capitalism: a Love Story"
and here we go again…
Ah yes… another mockumentary from the king of farce.
Go ahead. Somebody ridicule me for say that… I know you want to. Michael Moore’s only semi-intriguing and semi-truthful “documentary” was Sicko (and possibly, MAYBE Bowling for Columbine). And all you lefties can stop while you’re ahead… I’m not a right-winger. I’m not conservative in the LEAST. But I know a waste of celluloid when I see one.
His films, if anything, should be nominated for best original screenplay with all their fudged facts and twisted timelines.
I’ll pass. Thanks! Takecarenowbyebyethen…
Michael Moore is an American treasure. He is to documentary filmmaking what Tiger Woods is to golf. He is good at what he does, knows how to market and has a rabid fanbase. I am sure his new work will be great. As for Bowling for Columbine, probably one of the ten best films of the decade.
Did anybody watch American Carol or Farenhype? It’s laughable when the right tries to get one over on Michael Moore.
At the end of Fahrenheit 9/11, the audience in the small southern town whistled, cheered, and burst into spontaneous applause. Strangers congregated in lobby and hung out, wired and energized, too jazzed to leave the theater and go to their cars.
It was electrifying. Scorsese, Scott, Fincher, Eastwood, Tarantino should be so lucky.
I don’t always agree with Mr. Moore, but I loved Columbine, 9/11, and Sicko, and this is right up the alley I’m living right now. I’m SO there.
does he want another Oscar?
Anthony, don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining! Your use of “leftie” and “waste of celluloid” shows what side u clearly side with. Only a conservative would have such hostility towards Moore. Why the fuck would libs hate him? He’s one of the funniest and most scathing critics and satirists who champions our collective causes.
Anyway, I LOVED “Bowling For Columbine” (one of my all-time favorite docs), and enjoyed “Fahrenheit” immensely, so I’m definitely there for this one (I still haven’t seen SICKO, don’t ask me why, but I’ll definitely see it before this one comes out).
“At the end of Fahrenheit 9/11, the audience in the small southern town whistled, cheered, and burst into spontaneous applause. Strangers congregated in lobby and hung out, wired and energized, too jazzed to leave the theater and go to their cars. ”
I saw it in Jacksonville, FL. Surprisingly, the audience reaction was the same here. During every showing I went to (at least 3 or 4), it was a mix of young and old, black and white. One of the more amazing movie experiences I have seen.
The reaction was the same in my small town near Toronto. Seeing a Michael Moore movie in a theatre is a very unique experience. I don’t care so much if he is wrong or right, at least Moore is thought provoking and gets people talking about important issues. What is so wrong with that?
I saw it FOUR times, and one of those times was while on vacation in Gainesville, FL (which I’ve always heard is a pretty conservative city), and it indeed was the same reaction you guys experienced. It was surprising, but I was delighted!
“I don’t care so much if he is wrong or right, at least Moore is thought provoking and gets people talking about important issues. What is so wrong with that?” AMEN!
i must agree, Michael Moore is a treasure.
I couldn’t be more excited for the film.
The documentary genre – like it or not – owe a lot to Moore.
I’m a documentary purist, so it’s hard for me to respect Moore when IMO it’s a stretch to call his films documentaries. Anyways, while entertaining, Sicko was rather half-assed. How did Moore miss the shot of the list of top health care systems in the world, where Cuba actually ranks BELOW the United States. Way to undermine yourself.
I will never forget the shot in Roger and Me of Flint with “Wouldn’t it be nice” by the Beach Boys playing? One of my favorite shots in any film I have seen. The sad thing is that many more parts of Michigan look like that. He could make Roger and Me now and not much would have changed from 20 years ago.
The problem is that Moore doesn’t get people talking about important issues, he gets people talking about Michael Moore. Of course, that’s less his fault than the fault of the 24hr news networks for being a platform for partisan bickering instead of anything actually important.
Michael Moore has every right to make whatever “documentary” he feels compelled to do. The problem I have with him, besides his one-sided leftist agenda, is that he hates the society in which he lives and makes vast amounts of money from it. He is what I would call a “do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do” Liberal. There is nothing wrong with questioning our leaders and the pervasive pop culture we live in, but true capitalism is based on creative destruction. And many on the left, such as Moore, despise this concept. They want the Federal Government to control all of the private sector economy. For example, the Government taking over General Motors and giving it to that corrupt, entitled United Auto Workers union. All that being said, I will defend Moore’s Constitutional right to say whatever he wants, even if it is incredibly misleading and against my own personal ideology. That not to say that everything he says is a lie; its just that his followers eat up everything he produces as fact.
So, let us give Moore his due. He’s a very shrewd Marxist who has made millions of dollars off of a raving segment of our population. More power to him. I did get a chance to meet Moore at a Detroit Pistons game though. He was a very nice man. And me being a conservative, I don’t think it is appropriate to go after the man’s physical appearance. Attack the message, not the messenger.
Thank you Sam! You saved me the time of writing all that. Moore has never lived in a truly socialist country, and had he, he’d realize that not having the ability to reach for the stars and not having the potential to make millions dumbs everything down and make everything mediocre at best. The quality of products suffer and everyone resigns themselves to a life of mediocrity. This is why people come to America and feel so oppressed in socialist countries. Socialized health care is not better, and don’t drink the Kool-Aid. Having the government run everything and tell you that you can’t make a ton of money off of your brilliant idea because it’s not fair to the rest of the people who didn’t think of that idea, is a soul sucking way to live. Yes, there is greed and there needs to be more regulation, but to come to the conclusion that capitalism is bad is VERY dangerous, and once we go down that road, there’s no going back.
Let me guess. Michael Moore will show us that capitalism is stupid and communism/socialism is the way to go!
Liberals are so predictable.
Let me guess. You voted for Sarah Palin?
haha
(Craig, did we lose part of your comment?)
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much of Michael’s ego will be sown in that movie?
Haha: the only predictable thing I see here is people’s hyperbolic hyperventilating about communism, socialism, and Marxism. Can you folks please give us some new talking points?
As a Finn, I have never understood why most Americans consider good healthcare system (like NHS in Britain) being part of socialism? It’s very foreign idea to almost all Europeans really. It’s just great way to secure that you get standardized health care whenever you need without any hassle with insurance companies. I don’t live in UK but I do appreciate the fact that when in need, I get an appointment with my GP in less than two weeks and pay for it about 12€. I get spezialised medical treatments swift and cheap too. I had a day case surgery for my legs this summer and paid for it less than 100€ with medicines. And my medicines are very cheap compared what you guys in States pay for them. I have never felt even slightest twinge of socialism coming my way because of these nice benefits, in fact capitalism works pretty efficiently here too: in good and bad. During my lifetime I might pay with taxes for someone else’s cancer treatments, fertility treatments or what not, but again: it might be me in receiving end. You never know. =)
it seems only logical that a social critic who
exposes ugly and obvious WTF’s of society
would be treated with rabid and damning
contempt. look at the posts here.
the fact that he does it with an honest-to-God
sense of humor makes him all the more
hated. people hate it when the joke (that is
actually funny) is on them. (did someone here
honestly think AN AMERICAN CAROL was
funny?)
those living in glass houses love to throw
stones at the guy—and they love to use
the hypocrite moniker.
so, he makes money…what of it?
isn’t that the most blessed activity in life,
according to conservatives? is he to make
large-scale Hollywood movies and live in
a tent? is Al Gore supposed to pump the
lever on a rail car so as to travel from
town to town on his lecture tours?
oh well.
defending the likes of Moore won’t convert
anyone already set in their minds.
i just look forward to his films. they are
the docu equivalent of Pixar. the fat guy
shoots and scores with each one.
“the only predictable thing I see here is people’s hyperbolic hyperventilating about communism, socialism, and Marxism. Can you folks please give us some new talking points?”
Yes just like the “It’s all Bush’s fault” mantra that dominates the responses to any criticism of the current administration.
Food: A Love Story
“it seems only logical that a social critic who
exposes ugly and obvious WTF’s of society
would be treated with rabid and damning
contempt. look at the posts here.
the fact that he does it with an honest-to-God
sense of humor makes him all the more
hated. people hate it when the joke (that is
actually funny) is on them. (did someone here
honestly think AN AMERICAN CAROL was
funny?)
those living in glass houses love to throw
stones at the guy—and they love to use
the hypocrite moniker.
so, he makes money…what of it?
isn’t that the most blessed activity in life,
according to conservatives? is he to make
large-scale Hollywood movies and live in
a tent? is Al Gore supposed to pump the
lever on a rail car so as to travel from
town to town on his lecture tours?
oh well.
defending the likes of Moore won’t convert
anyone already set in their minds.
i just look forward to his films. they are
the docu equivalent of Pixar. the fat guy
shoots and scores with each one.”
Please. I saw Fahrenheit. It was all propaganda. The fact that Bush won Florida was not of fictitious election results but of a faulty ballot system. I remember well and, as a centrist, I refuse to get my intelligence insulted by his documentary ‘facts’. Same with the Iraq war thing. He shows happy Iraqis before the war but no mention of Saddam’s human rights abuses or mass graves of Kurds. They show a woman crying after bombs have been dropped but he doesn’t show the images of Iraqis celebrating after Saddam was overthrown. I remember everything well.
If you ask me, ‘Fahrenheit’ was your typical liberal one-sidedness which disgusts me as much as the conservative one-sidedness of Coulter, Limbaugh and O’Reilly. It’s funny how Moore will show Americans killing foreigners but won’t show the abuses Saddam committed to his own countrymen. I guess unless foreign deaths don’t come at American hands, part-time peaceniks like Michael Moore don’t care.
“I guess unless foreign deaths don’t come at American hands, part-time peaceniks like Michael Moore don’t care.”
Do you not see that atrocities and slaughters that come as a direct result of incompetent and greedy American executive decisions weigh heavier on the conscience of some Americans than whatever appalling deeds other dictators around the world choose to perpetrate against their own citizens?
Is every documentary supposed to be about everything bad that ever happened any place at any time? Or should filmmakers try to have a focus and a point of view like, you know, normal humans.
dear Oscaroholic:
i’m flattered that you used
my entire post.
and i guess i can’t be surprised
that you proved my point completely.
“dear Oscaroholic:
i’m flattered that you used
my entire post.
and i guess i can’t be surprised
that you proved my point completely”
Yeah, say what you want. I don’t apologize for my comments at all, just like Michael Moore is not sorry his documentaries are one-sided. Goes to show how one-sided you are. Timnes like these make me thankful to be centrist and not be involved with the arrogances of both staunch conservatives and radical liberals. I wouldn’t mind seeing a documentary that exposes Michael Moore’s own WTF’s.
Michael Moore wants to tax multi-millionaires to the point where universal health care can be offered to the poor masses for free, even if this means no more rich people, period.
Fine.
Anyone remember when the owner of the anti-Moore site, Moorewatch, was almost forced to shut it down due to – ironically enough – an expensive medical emergency, but Mike donated a few grand to the cause and life went on? (The site is still up, but comatose.)
I, too, am over way my head in medical debt through no fault of my own, and repeatedly tried to contact multi-millionaire Michael Moore to see if he would reprise his paradigm of the rich (regardless of race, creed, color, political affiliation) giving to the poor (regardless of their race, creed, color, political affiliation) with no strings attached.
Nothing. So I asked said site owner if he could perhaps reach out, but he, too, basically told me to “get f-cked, a–hole.”
It may be too late for many of the sick and disabled to wait for President Obama, whom Michael campaigned and likely voted for, to confiscate Michael Moore’s upcoming “Captialism” payday, much less distribute it fairly. It seems the masses need to remind Michael of this serious problem, ask him to remember his roots and convictions by donating, again, freely, now. Not if and when the film does okay.
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