Web Site Wants Michael Moore's Oscar Revoked

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Red Dawn

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Originally posted by: Trinitron
The fact that someone like you is sniveling about it means there must be some Merit behind the fact that it was given the award.

More like singing to the choir. Others like him are the ones who issued the award. Kind of you like you looking in the mirror and saying to yourself. "I'm a smart person."
Yeah that would be as redundant as me looking in that same mirror and saying "Man you are a handsome devil"!
 

Evadman

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Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: Trinitron
The fact that someone like you is sniveling about it means there must be some Merit behind the fact that it was given the award.

More like singing to the choir. Others like him are the ones who issued the award. Kind of you like you looking in the mirror and saying to yourself. "I'm a smart person."
Yeah that would be as redundant as me looking in that same mirror and saying "Man you are a handsome devil"!

Please. Put Down. The Crackpipe.
 

HannibalX

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Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: Trinitron
The fact that someone like you is sniveling about it means there must be some Merit behind the fact that it was given the award.

More like singing to the choir. Others like him are the ones who issued the award. Kind of you like you looking in the mirror and saying to yourself. "I'm a smart person."
Yeah that would be as redundant as me looking in that same mirror and saying "Man you are a handsome devil"!

ROFL! You need no help with that one!
 

bozack

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Originally posted by: Red Dawn
I feel bad for the directors who made "real" documentaries and were either not considered or did not win because of Moore's creation
Come on, do you really feel bad for them??;)

Allright RD you are right, I personally don't give a shaved monkey's behind...but if I were one of them I would be pretty ticked off.
 

Miramonti

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Great film. There's always people with pnis envy to try to put good things down. The effort to revoke the award might be worth an academy award for best science fiction tho.
 

XZeroII

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Originally posted by: jahawkin
I love how this movie is discounted by some when 99.5% of it is factual. There is a cut and pasted Charlton Heston speech, a missle factory that doesn't make nukes when Moore says it does and a few other minor errors (none of which are critical for Moore's message) but the rest of it is true. People are afraid of the message of the film and therefore do everything they can to slime and slander Moore and Bowling.

Much less than 99.5% of the movie is factual, and the facts he does give are manipulated and put into a context that promotes his own view. That is NOT a documentary. That's political persuasion. A documentary must be as factual and non-biased as possible and Bowling by far did not meet that criteria.
 

XZeroII

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Originally posted by: vexcom
I filled out the form, but I changed it a little:

Dear members of the Academy:

Do not let the promoters of this site try to punish anyone who exercises the first amendment in this country, regardless of who agrees with Michael Moores opinions.

I hope you will stand by the freedom of speech, and not try to send a message of censorship to all the aspiring and existing filmakers in America.

Sincerely yours,

It's a DOCUMENTARY. Documentaries are not oppinionated and thus are not covered by freedom of speech. If you want to call it a documentary, you must try to present ALL the facts and present them in a fair an unbiased manner. If he got the award for be oppinion movie, then he would certainly deserve the award.