Chatting with Michael Moore is equally amusing and depressing. The Oscar-winning documentarian (Bowling for Columbine) is easily as entertaining as his films, but what he’s talking about is enough to drive you crazy. Case in point: His latest doc, Capitalism: A Love Story, which hits theaters tomorrow. In Part 1 of our OscarWatch interview, we discuss how his growing fame has hampered his filmmaking process, why it’s next to impossible to explain what a “derivative” is, and whether real Catholics need to be Socialists. Follow me on Twitter (@davekarger) for updates throughout the awards season, and watch the interview after the jump.
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Just for the record, A balloon payment doesnt change the interest rate, an ARM loan adjusts the rate a balloon is a loan that at the end of a specified period of time the whole amount is due.
Yeah thanks for clearing up all the financial confusion. You have made the world a much better place. Sarcasm.
Really?! People had no idea that their payment was going to go up?! I find that, much like the rest of the schtick Moore hocks (and gets quite wealthy – thanks to capitalism – off of) is completely unbelievable.
What did people think was going to happen when they were told that they had a 5 or 7-year arm?!
Should I be concerned that Michael Moore is starting to make sense to me? Have I become liberal or has Michael Moore moved to a more populist topic?
I liked another movie: “Stock Shock” because it explains how the whole naked short selling stock market manipulation thing works–through the example of Sirius XM stock. Good DVD. Amazon has it or stockshockmovie.com has the movie trailer.
I will be interested in seeing this movie because I too grew up in Flint, Michigan and am just a little older than Michael Moore. I left in 1969, which was near the time GM started to falter. In retrospect, I think the problems that started to set in can be ascribed to several things: the founders and pioneers of General Motors had died, GREED had entered the picture and it is not always good for business, and workers were losing pride in their product. Why had things been different before: the founders had vision and pride in what they, themselves, had created and managed, the workers were early on creating a new and desired product, then they were creating all the products needed for the war effort during WWII, and finally the 1950s and early 1960s were the catch up time after rationing, scarcity, etc. during the 1940s.
The capitalist Moore and I saw as we were growing up, I think, is the kind of capitalist I wish all others would emulate. His name was Charles Stewart Mott. Check him on Wikipedia. He made money, but he poured it back into his community and thus we were advantaged and took pride in what he had gifted to us. I took an Economics course at the UM-Flint and I know none of these nonsense products we hear about today were covered in that course.
What bothers me now. I have argued that the decay of our industrial structure is our number one defense concern. We need to be self sufficient in our defense products. Also I sometimes wonder if our pioneering in the Computer age will parallel our pioneering in the Industrial Age. Once the computer pioneers are gone, will we lose our edge and become second rate or even third rate.
You’ve become more liberal Kim from Texas. Moore’s always been a populist.
I’m a liberal but I hate Michael Moore as the man is just an arrogant blowhard whose ego demands he always be in the spotlight. Hearing him talk of the evils of capitialism is hypocrisy of the highest order as that’s what he’s based his whole career on. It kills me he still presents himself as “a common man” when he’s got a swank Manhatten apartment and flies first class to Cannes and other film festivals. Frankly he has no more credence than Glen Beck and shouldn’t be considered a real documentary filmmaker.
Both Capitalism and The September Issue should be considered for best picture, but, like animation, will not be because they’re regulated to their own catagory.
Pure socialism(communism) means no right to own anything, not being able to change anything in your life for the better, not having the right to be an individual with freedom of thought, no right to accumulate money, just living of the scraps the state gives you, and if you disagree they’ll kill you or lock you up. Wake up to what this evil man is promoting and don’t take your liberty for granted. If Moore loves socialism so much he can take a Lear Jet to North Korea. I’m from Europe btw, where socialism has infiltrated far too much and is destroying our continent.
Why does everyone seem to think that making your life better requires money?
He never said he didn’t believe in Capitolism! He said there should be more regulation, regulation, regulation!!! As a matter of fact he said he would not even go as far as saying he didn’t dislike or condemn capitolism, he knows it is not bad!! Open your ears,and stop hearing what you only want to hear. For you people who say that he is more dangerous, you obviously do only hear and emphasize what you think are the negatives of what he’s saying. You are the one’s who are more dangerous, because your not even listening to the whole of what he’s saying, but spouting off that he is claiming one thing, when he didn’t even mean it that way. He said part of it. then he rebuffed himself, and made it more clearer of what he meant, for you dumb asses to understand!!!, But of course some of you still only heard what you wanted too. Listen to the whole of what the man is saying, and not only half of it. If you can’t smoke a doobee without forgeting everything, and then come tell us all only half of what you can remember, and half of what he said, then stop smoking weed before you go into the film. And if your just stupid and can only remember half of what you just saw, then don’t tell us all your half of the story. Make sure your telling us the whole of what was said. Because when you tell only half of it, you are the one who is acting more dangerous to the whole of us. I can still remember a president who only told us half of what was going on, and half of what was really said and done. It was called the Iraqi war. Morons!!!
You should follow your own advice.
i believe that we should raise the flag to michael moore,for every thing he’s doing and what he represents,i think that we sould all stand by michael moore,because i believe in what he’s doing,,,,i dont see anyone of you out there,like him,,it takes a big man to do what he’s doing,instead of talking out your back door,,try paying attention to the man and what he’s saying.thanks michael moore,your a great man for doing what your doing.