FuzzyTagz
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Curapedi
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Philippa
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
gloverethan
This movie had nothing to say about capitalism. Instead it was a bunch of petty whining about Democrats vs. Republicans. The arguments are crap, there are no real sources for anything. This movie is a sales pitch for liberalism, pure and simple. Moore couldn't even bother to look up capitalism in the dictionary. He talked about government programs and called them private throughout the entire movie. This movie is god awful.I made 4 pages of notes on this movie before giving up. It never talks about the 2008 crisis being due to the government creating a no risk zone for banks (removing capitalism from their businesses). It didn't mention that cooperatives are capitalistic (and it even said that them making profit is good, while other companies making profits is bad). It's literally that childish. This movie is pure trash.
mcnoranora
I genuinely appreciate Moore's film but it also saddens me deeply that he is not brave enough to point his finger at US."The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a FEW POINTS and REPEAT THEM OVER AND OVER" (J. Goebbels) - On WAR for PEACE, WHICH SIDE are you CHEERLEADING for? America is FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY. YES WE CAN!"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it" (A. Hitler).THE 1% KNOW THAT THEY ARE MANIPULATING US - WE, THE 95%, DON'T KNOW THAT WE ARE BELIEVING THEM 95% of the time. Who buys more Nike trainers, smokes more Marlboro, watches more TV (including the commercials!) - the 95% or the 1%?Who wears soldier's uniforms to invade countries for exploitation (and murder people in their millions over the years!!!) - the 95% or the 1%? Who believes and cheers for WAR FOR PEACE? 1% can't cheer that loud!!!Who buys more products produced in 3rd World Countries and thereby creating misery and dependency - the 95% or the 1%?How can the 1% elect and reelect human rights violating Presidents if they have only one percent of the votes?How can the 1% do the daily work for CIA/US Army/NSA etc with a proved record of severely violating the rights of the 95% if they all work on Wall St.?As long as we take the $1000 cheque for cleaning the house we have just been kicked out of we have NO MORAL FOUNDATION TO BLAME THE 1%.It's not CAPITALISM that humiliates US, it is OUR CONSUMERISM of lies. It's 1% dealers vs. 95% addicts. It deeply hurts me to admit but I am one of you.
swillsqueal
Saw most of CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY tonight via SBS. Moore makes a case against capitalism and then tells his audience that if 'evil' is just removed, democracy and 50s working class standard of living in Flint, Michigan can be restored in America herself....with the help of local Catholic priests and bishops. A sometimes amusing flick, ultimately though another unsatisfying exercise in radical liberalism. The sentimental cosmopolitan republican Gore Vidal once said that Harry Truman was the President most responsible for setting up the 'National Security State'. Michael Moore seems to think it was Reagan. Anyway, the longed for democracy has apparently been achieved amongst WWII's losers: Japan, Germany and Italy....(sigh) more progressive nationalism than you can shake a stick at, Moore's CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY. Capitalists and landlords made up the ruling classes of the USA from the get-go...along with the slave owners. There were no good old days of democracy--that story is 'mythistory'. In fact, democracy and capitalism are incompatible and only accepted as being necessarily connected by the majority because so many believe that the system can be run 'fairly' and with 'Justice', beliefs Michael Moore encourages.
itamarscomix
As is usually the case with Michael Moore's movies, he brings some very valid points, wrapped in manipulative gimmicks and appealing visuals. And it works, it entertains and it sends its messages across, but now more than ever it feels forced; Moore offers very little substantial information, instead forcing his point and attacking his enemies with vicious relentlessness.Capitalism: A Love Story is a good piece of documentary cinema, but it's much less important than Sicko, Bowling for Columbine, or even Fahrenheit 9/11 - which was also heavily manipulative but much more effective and actually had something important to say.
