Oliver Stone, Michael Moore Spearhead Late '80s Revival

Matt Welch | September 8, 2009

Booze-soaked lesbian-hunter Oliver Stone, apparently no longer looking for Fidel, has fixed his eagle political eyes back onto Wall Street, the New York Times reports. We missed ya, Gordon Gekko! Here's how the profile ends:

"We wouldn't have done this movie in 2006," he said. "Things were too loose. I didn't want to glorify pigs."

Speaking of Castro admirers and the porcine, you've heard by now that Michael Moore is back, with Capitalism: A Love Story. I rather enjoyed the trailer:

Alas, and predictably, Moore didn't stop at the righteous objection to bailing out the rich. Check out Time magazine's description/lament of how Moore ends the film with a CHALLENGE to the nation's sheeple:

At the end Moore says, "I refuse to live in a country like this — and I'm not leaving." But this call to arms demands more than a ringleader; it requires a ring, an engaged citizenry who are mad enough not to take it any more. That's unlikely to happen. Moore's films are among the top-grossing documentaries in history because they are pertinent populist entertainments. The question remains: will Capitalism: A Love Story rouse the rabble to revolt? Or will audiences sit appreciatively through the movie, then go home and play the cat-in-the-toilet video?

Yeah! When are Americans going to rise up against their...liberal president and his Democratic majorities? Confusing!

Jeff Scott and David Kelley wrote about the "Gekko Echo" way back in Reason's February 1993 issue. And Brian Doherty wrote about "The Left's Weeping Clown" back in 2002.

Comments

J. Darnyell|9.8.09 @ 9:23AM|#

And te Tampa Bay Bucs will make it all the way to January.

Joe M|9.8.09 @ 9:24AM|#

SHUT THE FUCK UP, MICHAEL MOORE.

John-David|9.8.09 @ 9:26AM|#

Chavez/Zelaya 2012!

|9.8.09 @ 9:27AM|#

At the end Moore says, "I refuse to live in a country like this - and I'm not leaving."

So shed some of that lipid-laden blood in defense of your principals, you fat, lazy, worthless, bitch-about-capitalism-but-reap-all-of-its-rewards piece of shit!

!|9.8.09 @ 9:41AM|#

John-David,

So shed some of that lipid-laden blood in defense of your principals, you fat, lazy, worthless, bitch-about-capitalism-but-reap-all-of-its-rewards piece of shit!

He is one of those socialists who has volunteers for that. They think they are union members, until it is time for contract talks.

Rich|9.8.09 @ 9:56AM|#

I'm kinda hoping Moore will show up at the premiere wearing this.

|9.8.09 @ 10:01AM|#

What does he mean by "capitalism?" Does he mean private ownership of property or does he mean government money given to private citizens? I bet he wouldn't like it if everything he owned was nationalized and divvied out based on need.

Mike M.|9.8.09 @ 10:06AM|#

I couldn't have come up with a better and more appropriate line for the limousine liberal's limousine liberal, the phony's phony, than Moore did himself. Well done, sir.

|9.8.09 @ 10:17AM|#

I feel sorry for Michael Moore, in a very small way. Poor guy still can't grasp the very large difference between capitalism and corporatism.

|9.8.09 @ 10:20AM|#

The question remains: will Capitalism: A Love Story rouse the rabble to revolt?

I expect it will have about the same impact on law and society as his movie about Columbine did.

Isidor Feinstein|9.8.09 @ 10:21AM|#

Whenever I look at the appallingly obese Michael Moore, one thing comes to mind: He thinks O.J. is innocent.

That's right. Innocent.

But just 'cause he "may" be wrong about that, doesn't mean he's NECESSARILY wrong about capitalism being eeeeeevil, right?

(That'd be a fallacy!)

Karl|9.8.09 @ 10:37AM|#

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. You are going to have to shed a few pounds, son.

|9.8.09 @ 10:40AM|#

Will Moore's next film be about the unions that have paid off Congress? Oh wait... what am I thinking.

alan|9.8.09 @ 10:40AM|#

Or will audiences sit appreciatively through the movie, then go home and play the cat-in-the-toilet video?

Are they suggesting that Moore's movies are more substantive than a video of a cat falling into a toilet? They should put that claim on YouTube because it is a raucous laugh in itself.

|9.8.09 @ 10:41AM|#

Oliver Stone, Lesbian Hunter? You lost me, Matt. Cool name for a band though ...

|9.8.09 @ 11:01AM|#

Where's the sport in hunting lesbians? Just camp out across the street from the roller derby parking lot.

|9.8.09 @ 11:42AM|#

Just follow the Subaru tracks. Works every time.

David|9.8.09 @ 11:44AM|#

I clicked the link. Where are the freakin' lesbians?

|9.8.09 @ 11:55AM|#

I'm getting tired of filthy rich fucks bitching about capitalism.

@|9.8.09 @ 12:18PM|#

Most of capitalism's opponents (not to mention its proponents) can't properly define the word. But defining our terms is so old-fashioned. It forces us to be consistent and truthful, a hindrance for propagandists of Moore's ilk.

!|9.8.09 @ 12:33PM|#

I went straight for the lesbian link too. I request a refund.

|9.8.09 @ 2:06PM|#

And how much will Mike make on this bunch of crap...

J.D.|9.8.09 @ 2:28PM|#

While waiting for Oliver Stone's "Wall Street 2" to come out, I found a movie about stock market corruption called "Stock Shock."

It exposes all sorts of market corruption. "Stock Shock" follows several Sirius XM investors through their experience of watching their stock go from almost ten dollars a share---down to 5 cents/share. "Stock Shock" suggests this might be due to "naked short selling" and other market manipulation by high rollers on Wall Street. I don't know if I'm a believer, but at least it gives a good review of how our stock markets are engineered. Amazon.com has it and stockshockmovie.com

|9.8.09 @ 2:43PM|#

At the end Moore says, "I refuse to live in a country like this - and I'm not leaving."

So if the country remains like this, he is saying that he must die.

|9.8.09 @ 3:07PM|#

I refuse to live in Michael Moore's idea of a country, and I'm not leaving either.
I suppose that makes us enemies.

|9.8.09 @ 7:28PM|#

I've always disliked Marxism and though it was wrong, both practically and morally. But It's occurred to me that Karl Marx, with his predictions about how the poor workers would rise up against the rich owners of capital, was wrong on another level. His whole theory assumes people are not completely brainwashed, absolute morons who will consistently act against their own self-interest because they are so easily misinformed.

Marx was a moron on so many levels. If he were alive today, he'd be watching American Idol.