Fans Of Michael Moore

[KelliV]

Originally Posted by Wetzel

calling them documentaries is misleading and wrong

I agree... I am going to school to become a documentary film maker and when we attended our first class the professor out right told us that if we were to ever make anything like his he would flunk us out of the class. He goes about making his movies the wrong way and is out to hurt people. Documentaries are not souppoused to do that... they are made to inform people.

Originally Posted by mathking

This does not necessarily mean they are not also documentaries. Being a documentary just means presenting facts.

Although I agree on this statement Moore's facts are bogus and they cannot be backed up. Take a look at his movies and then go to the "sources" he uses. When my debate team looked up his research nearly 45% of the sources are not there and another 20% are in places that provide a lot of false infornmation.

But in general I am glad that his work is out there. It is a good thing for other people to see. Even though I hate some of the movies (Bowling for Columbine is pretty good)... they cause people to think and maybe will even inspire others to do research on things that they too feel passionate about. Hey... maybe if I am lucky there will be a larger market for documentaries in the future.

-Kelli