Not being a movie person I have no idea what sort of magazine (beyond being about movies, duh) this CinemaBlend.com might be. This is the only article from it I have ever read. But the writer had an experience that brought shivers to my arms just reading about it:
Sicko started; the stereotypical Texas guy sat down behind me and never stopped talking. He talked through the entire movie… and I listened. The first ten to twenty minutes of the film he spent badmouthing Moore to his wife and snorting in disgust whenever MM went into one of his trademark monologues. But as the movie wore on his protestations became quieter, less enthusiastic. Somewhere along the way, maybe at the half way point, right before my ears, Sicko changed this man’s mind. By the forty-five minute mark, he, along with the rest of the audience were breaking into spontaneous applause. He stopped pooh-poohing the movie and started shouting out “hell yeah!” at the screen. It was as if the whole world had been flipped upside down.
And it was what happened after the movie was over that’s the really remarkable part.
If it’s still in the theater (Jackson TN? I have my doubts) when I get a job and can think of spending money on anything but food and gas for job interviews again, I’ll go see SiCKO. Otherwise, DVD. But those of you who do have incomes at present should go ASAP.
Somethin’ seems to be happening here. Read this story and tell me what you think.
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So NOW I know why all the serious people hated it
It’s like I keep having to lower the bar everywhere. Gets old after awhile.
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
The bit about conservative Dallas?
Ya’ll have no idea how true it is. Ok, at least a couple of you do.
The big SUV’s with W stickers? I visited Camp Casey outside Crawford when Cindy Sheehan was first camped outside the Prez’s drive. The Saturday I drove down there I found myself in the middle of a huge stream of cars from Dallas, all going to Crawford to tell Cindy she was full of it, to tell her that W was the best thing to happen to the nation since the first GW - you know, the George Washington GW.
For this kind of thing to happen in Dallas is beyond remarkable. It’s a “the day the earth changed” kind of thing.
We’ll see if change really takes root.
Jake
Lots of Sickos in Dallas
The sort of problems and the sort of treatment they have gotten in our health system are turning what might have been easily restrained serfs into protestors even in Dallas. When your health insurance refuses to cover your accident or illness, and gets away with it because the deck is stacked against you, suddenly you’re not content to take the corruption. And Michael Moore does a great job. See it, and yes, pay for it. He deserves to get paid for getting in our faces with our defunct health care system.
Ruth
More Moore
I haven’t seen SICKO yet. but made my now teenage son watch Bowling for Columbine when it came out on DVD.
Maybe after those people saw and were activist-ated ( made to become activists) they started thinking maybe they were wrong about Moore and his movies, Maybe now they’ll revisit Columbine and Farenheit.
Xan, for some reason I thought you were from East Tn, I figured near Chattanooga. We’re practicly neighbors. <—-waving from the Big M-Town :-)
If y’all have a Malcos way up there in Jackson, I’ll snail-mail you a moviebucks book. Or better yet, come on down 1-40 90 miles or so, and I’ll throw in the popcorn and soda of your choice . And watch it with you.
(Seriously, email me your address, and the coupon book is yours.)