Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

aphrodisiaciix It's 2017, Obama is no longer president, Donald Trump has been in office for over 2 months now. We've seen nothing change since the time of this documentary. The biggest change (and most unpredictable) has got to be... Donald got elected. See the irony? What does that say about the mentality/desire of this nation?Obama's presidency did not do justice to his constituents; and he himself became just another helpless politician in the pockets of the rich of the corrupted Wall Street and corporations.The top 1% is still enjoying their taxes cut and the expansion of their wealth. The middle-class is shrinking both in size and spending power. The low-income class is expanding and continuing to suffer in their dark landscape of misery.Justice is still leaning onto the side of the rich and the privilege ones. The banking industry is still under-regulated and Wall Street is still operating the same way as before the bailout. No one (except maybe a few low-echelon people) in the financial sector get indicted let alone go to prison.The band plays on, the champagne corks pop, and the capitalism party dances all the way to the bank... until the next bailout...

willcundallreview Michael Moore is a documentary maker who just seems to find things that seem like fresh problems, but really he's always having a go at the government. Capitalism: A Love Story is a documentary movie that highlights the economic system and what it has and hasn't brought to the average American since basically the end of WW2. Moore investigates bailouts, government posts held by corporate big wigs and basically as always throws a few punches at George W. Bush (not literally of course). He very much gets into the whole story, I believe that Moore has made this so that anyone can be interested, not just people who know a lot about economics and that is pretty important for him to have achieved. Now I'm not going to pretend I know all about the economy of the United States of America, or that I knew all the details about the crisis that shook the USA between 2007 and 2010, but Moore helps you understand. Now OK he doesn't always explain so well but he gets it right in terms of letting you know what went wrong, or why things were morally wrong etc, sure even Moore seems confused a lot of the time with some terms but it doesn't matter because you can see where the wrongs are in this and who made them. As with some of his other documentaries like "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Sicko" he really gets at government, in fact you could even says he tries to rally people to make a change, and it works because his message is convincing.Now some parts of this I did feel don't really get you on his side, I mean with these type of documentaries the main person is trying to turn you onto his side throughout, the first scenes I felt did not. He paints a picture of the hypothetical view of what people will think of the USA in how ever many years, one is a cat on the toilet and then the contrast is a family being evicted. Now the eviction part is explained by the end but really he does little to make you feel for them because their predicament isn't explained well enough and it doesn't start the movie off that well. I think this is also one movie where really your political affiliation may affect how you might see this, if you're on the right you might have reservations on this, on the left you may full heartedly agree or if your in the middle you may find this has a few good points but ultimately fails at some others. For this isn't about political affiliation though, no this is more a question of what is right for everyone in the USA, I'm not from the country but it isn't hard to see in this documentary some of the hardships of the average person particularly during the crisis. I didn't quite like Moore's personal use of Catholicism to try and get a point across, He should if he wanted to make that point have used all religion and not just his own to try and say that for religious people it is morally wrong, but to be fair whether you follow something or not the wrongs in this are plain to see for all.So overall Moore has produced a convincing documentary, maybe lacks some of the more cutting edge arguments he brings up in previous one's but still by the end I feel wins you over. It can't have been easy to make it about this, instantly I feel many will be turned off by the economic side because it is confusing, but Moore like I said before gets it across to you well and in a way that you can finally at the end, understand.

LeonLouisRicci There have been a number of excellent Documentaries and Dramas about the near financial collapse in the late 2000's and there can't really be enough. The exploitation of the rich on the poor or less fortunate is hardly anything new in Human History, but here we are. Needing to be reminded once again how the deck is stacked and decadence delivers once again. Cue Michael Moore.Moore's shaggy black comedy strokes are here once again to deliver this as irony and entertainment. He is quite a master at this type of thing and is the best of this breed of shoot from the hip filmmakers. His conservative critics love to personalize the assault on his audacious claims, usually starting their witticisms with: "the fat guy", or "needing a bath", Michael Moore is at it again.When debating, if you are in trouble and can't refute the facts, begin your attack on a personal level. So when you see this you know you are doing something right and MM knows that is exactly what he is doing. Something right."We need the deviate in society", says Lenny Bruce, "we need the deviate to tell us when we are screwing up". The voice from the wilderness that is heard and headed, or at least draws attention to the kind of things that the Mainstream Media is reluctant or restricted from presenting.Love it or hate it. Mr. Moore's relentless rants and brightly lit mirrors are a welcome and fun way of telling us when we are screwing up and we do screw up quite a bit so he is here to stay. The scruffy curmudgeon, the gadfly in the ointment, is a sorely needed entity picking away at our peccadilloes.

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain Michael Moore puts aside the majority of his comical shenanigans. It helps the film in terms of sincerity, but damages it's entertainment value. Moore usually has a way of making us laugh while getting us to think. Here, however, he makes some misguided choices. Actor Wallace Shawn discusses politics, Moore asks priests if Capitalism is evil, and he only interviews people that fail to define what derivatives are. His commentary and added effects to news archive footage is sometimes well done, but usually lacks subtlety. As always, he brings forth some horrendous injustices. It would just be nice to see him offer a defense for his accused.