Michael Moore is surely going to win over new converts with his sarcastically titled new documentary on the financial meltdown, “Capitalism: A Love Story.” The doc is still scheduled for a October 2 release via Overture and Paramount. We still think, “Bailout” was a better title. The Oct 2 date is the same as Scorsese’s “Shutter Island.” Somehow we can’t see it competing, but it’ll probably a limited release (though currently that’s not the case).
“It will be the perfect date movie,” Moore said in a press release. “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.” Love Moore to death, but ugh, not feeling this angle at all. [Variety]
Small Update: Michael Moore.com has a teaser image.
Yeah, well it certainly fits in to why I can't stand watching his movies: even when I agree with him, his passive-aggressive baby talk tone makes me cringe.
I hear what you're saying, but I wish things like that didn't put off people so much. I feel like people are looking for any small excuse to tune out Michael Moore, or more importantly tune out issues that they feel like they can't change and moving on to the baseball game or whatever it is most Americans do.
He's a polarizing figure, and at this point he doesn't really seem interested in bringing in a new audience, which is kind of the problem.
I love it that Moore is calling his film "Capitalism", when in reality, the US has not had a [free-market] capitalist financial system since, arguably, 1913, or at the very least, since the collapse of Bretton Woods in '71.
But thus is the nature of statists: create the problems and crises, and then blame it on the market, citing a need for greater regulation (vicious cycle to high hell).
-dantes