Thursday, May 06, 2004
Michael Moore
There's a lot of irony in a guy who spends a lot of time railing against the evils of big business complaining that one of those big businesses (Disney) won't distribute in an election year his highly controversial film linking Bin Laden and George Bush. Hey, I think he has EVERY right to make movies about anything he damn well pleases, but that doesn't mean companies are OBLIGATED to face the firestorm which would result from being the distributor behind an extremely controversial film.
Moore blames it on Disney's fears that it would lose tax breaks in Florida. Okay, let's pretend that is true. Why is it wrong for a company to think about things like it's ability to continue to benefit from something that affects it's profitability.
Find somebody else to distribute your bloody film, Mike. The "I'm constantly pissed off" act is getting a bit old, and I'm starting to wonder if your films are more about making money than making changes in American society.
As a side note, take a bit of time to think about what effect a skewed vision of American society has on the rest of the world. Americans have more context within which to view your movies (I thought Bowling for Columbine was a GREAT film, and made some very important points, even if I don't agree with everything you said). The rest of the world doesn't, and it just feeds into a bunch of anti-American stereotypes.
There's a lot of irony in a guy who spends a lot of time railing against the evils of big business complaining that one of those big businesses (Disney) won't distribute in an election year his highly controversial film linking Bin Laden and George Bush. Hey, I think he has EVERY right to make movies about anything he damn well pleases, but that doesn't mean companies are OBLIGATED to face the firestorm which would result from being the distributor behind an extremely controversial film.
Moore blames it on Disney's fears that it would lose tax breaks in Florida. Okay, let's pretend that is true. Why is it wrong for a company to think about things like it's ability to continue to benefit from something that affects it's profitability.
Find somebody else to distribute your bloody film, Mike. The "I'm constantly pissed off" act is getting a bit old, and I'm starting to wonder if your films are more about making money than making changes in American society.
As a side note, take a bit of time to think about what effect a skewed vision of American society has on the rest of the world. Americans have more context within which to view your movies (I thought Bowling for Columbine was a GREAT film, and made some very important points, even if I don't agree with everything you said). The rest of the world doesn't, and it just feeds into a bunch of anti-American stereotypes.
