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Summary: have fun and revolt at the same time!
Review: If you're a Michael Moore fan, this is essential for you. Roger & Me should probably be the first thing you see, but after that the best thing I think would be the first season of the Awful Truth. Moore goes after all the targets you thought needed to be attacked, and a few you wouldn't have thought of. (Who outside of Ohio had heard of that chicken coop with 11 million birds?) If you're liberal at all, you'll have a ton of fun seeing Moore heading into corporate headquarters and demanding a change (his specialty) and, surprisingly, getting his way a lot of times, going after those pesky Clinton impeachment folk, and otherwise trying to give the working man his fair share. You'll be a better person having seen it.
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Summary: Funniest thing I have seen in 20 years
Review: I laughed so hard at "The Awful Truth" that I seriously thought I might hurt myself! It is THAT funny! Descriptions of lying politicians being chased by Puritans screaming "Repent! Repent!" and a choir of Christmas carolers (who have lost their vocal cords due to cigarette smoking) serenading workers at tobacco company headquarters don't quite do this video justice. You have to see it to believe it. And then you will want to show it to EVERYONE you know. The "Sodomobile" portion of this tape may well be the funniest and most wonderful thing ever put on film or videotape. Bravo to Michael Moore - if he never made another film in his life he would deserve Sainthood for this one. He is a comic genius with a heart and a clear head for political satire.
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Summary: Awful... but truthful too
Review: Michael Moore is one of the few journalists out there who understands and acts on the need to present the story as it stands, regardless of the consquences. He refuses to sell his soul in order to satisfy media magnates, and this means we get a combination of (a) the hidden reality behind the big media stories, and (b) a rather irreverent look at the way many large US corporations operate. Both of these are tackled in humourous ways (Crackers the Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken taking on Disney was an absolute classic), but can also be alarmingly sober (e.g. cold-hearted insurance company refusing to pay out to save a client's life). The Awful Truth is thus social conscience as well as great entertainment. We need Michael Moore - he helps to keep things honest. If he does something you disagree with (e.g. anti-war speech at the Oscars), just put your prejudice on the back-burner for a minute and think about the issue from another angle. As the great Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn said (in 'Maybe The Poet'), "...maybe you will not agree, but you need him to show you new ways to see." This is, after all, the essence of free speech.
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Summary: Humor is Truth, Truth Humor
Review: Thank God for Michael Moore! And thank the distributors of this video for getting the recent seasons of "The Awful Truth" available for the non-cable subscribing audience so quickly. In characteristic form, Moore skewers the hypocricy of Washington, law enforcement and corporate America. He even takes on bible bangers, hitting the road with his "Sodom-Mobile" taking a mini gay pride parade to meet up with Fred Phelps' funeral-picketing homophobes. With so much entertainment packed in the twelve episodes, I'll pick my 3 faves: 1. Dressed as Puritans, a crowd pickets Ken Starr's house for the filth of his publication, The Starr Report. 2. Mike places a personal ad and seeks out a date for Hillary Clinton. 3. Mike responds to the repeal of a restaining order placed on him by a business at 30 Rockefeller Plaza by a hilarious montage which reunites him with his favorite Plaza locations.
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Summary: entertaining and truthful
Review: I've been a Michael Moore fan for awhile now. I've watched The Big One and TV Nation repeatedly during times when corporate media begins to bore me and I need a dose of reality. As others have said, The Awful Truth is more of the same. Its definitely not for those who have a Disney-esque, G-Rated view of the world we live in. Honestly, though, I found The Awful Truth to be more difficult to watch than his earlier works. Moore is still sarcastic, funny and extremely unapologetic for revealing what he believes to be true. This is what I admire about him. Yet, there are many situations he addresses where even humor can't disguise the injustice and outright inhumanity our society is blind to. I was excited to see the scenes about the Christmas carolers who went to Phillip Morris and about the funeral rehearsal staged in front of an HMO after reading the editorial reviews listed on this site. I was in for a shock when instead of laughing as I usually do at Moore's antics, I was crying for its victims: the man who needed a pancreas transplant and his 4 year old daughter and cancer striken, voice box dependent carolers. I think the Awful Truth reveals a Moore who is angry and more biting than I've seen him before, but who wouldn't be when the truth is exposed? There are happy endings to these episodes...I can't wait to see what the next season holds in store.
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Summary: A man, a mike, a camera, and a mission.
Review: If you have never seen any episodes of THE AWFUL TRUTH, here is the basic premise: Michael Moore, the documentary filmmaker on wheels, spends a half hour showing you (and a studio audience)segments where he and his intrepid band of associates travel all over the country, attempting to right wrongs...or at the very least shine the blinding light of factual truth into some very dark corners (health insurance loopholes, police force admission requirements, the notorious Fred Phelps of Topeka, KS who demonstrates at funerals of people who have died of AIDS, etc.). A lot of fact finding and a little tongue-in-cheek humor make this an entertaining--and insightful--series to watch for yourself...and then show to your friends!!! (and have you seen BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE yet?)
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Summary: deacon from minnesota
Review: I would have to say that the recommendation or the lack thereof from the states of California and Ohio on March 26th. of this year sold me on buying this first season of Michael Moore's show. When a product such as Mr. Moore's gets that much negative review from the conservatives of the country it has to be very worthwhile. Incidentally, I'm one of the few who applauded his honesty at the Academy Awards (Just where are all those WMD's that the president and his advisers swear are in Iraq? Wasn't that what the president's war was all about?) Mr. Moore reminds me of the great political sage/cartoonist Walt Kelly, who, during the Vietnam War era of Dick Nixon, placed in the mouth of his cartoon character, Pogo, the profound proclamation, "We have met the enemy and he is us!" Mr. Moore's style reminds me of one of the sayings of the great comedian, W.C. Fields, who once said, "There comes a time in a young man's life when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation." Thanks Mike.
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Summary: A look into the underbelly of America
Review: I caught a few episodes of The Awful Truth on the tele and must say it is a pretty mixed bag. I liked the episode on guns, where Moore went to the NRA with his new idea for a mascot, a walking talking gun. Needless to say they wanted no part of it, but it was much more to the point than was "Eddie the Eagle," or whatever the NRA calls its stuffed bird which tries to warn tots of the dangers of guns while at the same time it fights any and all legislation on the hill to combat the proliferation of handguns. But, at other times Moore sounds pretty sanctimonious, such as when he is wheeling through New York in his rented Taxi refusing to pick up white folks. In other words it is the Michael Moore many have grown to love, not afraid to take on the big boys, and at the same time pointing out the many inherent weaknesses in our society.
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Summary: Free Speech
Review: Many thanks to the "reviewer" who, like all of the flag-waving, jingoistic fascists demands that we supress any dissent and has the audacity to decide what's "right" or "wrong" or "correct" expression. I count myself among those who love the America our founding fathers envisioned, not the America of McCarthy and Nixon. The McNixons want us all to shut up and tell us what to do, or say, or buy if we "love America". Well, I love America so much I'm buying Michael Moore's work; and I'm STAYING in America and fighting for America and it's flag, despite what the counter-revolutionary Stalinistas want - a silent, compliant, slave-state.
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Summary: He is NO hero!
Review: After less than an hour I had to stop watching this diatribe.
Moore does little but play the loud-mouth obnoxious bull who you just agree with to get him out of your china shop.
He rants..and rants, but really does little but pander to the extreme liberal left.
Though some of the wrongs that needed righted were a very serious commentary on what needs fixed in this country, Moore's way of handling it is silly and immature.
I have to wonder how much he cares about the "causes" he takes on as opposed to the [money] he'll see from the selling of it.
Do I agree with some of the causes? Yes
Do I agree with Moore on his way of handling it? No
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