Trailer to "Slacker Uprising"
Michael Moore has done us a great service by producing a movie that encourages young people to register to vote. Yes, he is clearly pushing for the Democrats, but so what! At least people will vote - aren't a good number of movies; newscasts; newspaper articles bent towards the Republicans (please!). The writer below Neely Tucker is clearly angry at Moore, I wonder if she is being paid by the Republicans.
The title of her article is also misleading -- she says he is attempting to stir an uprising. I don't think so.... the word "uprising" in her title connotes something bad and violent. He is not doing that, he is only wanting people to vote....
Yes, yes I know he uses it in his title too- but using the word Slacker - throws off the meaning. -- why didn't Tucker clarify in her title that the uprising is about voter registration? He couldn't do that in the title of the movie (wouldn't sound right), but you know how movie titles have to grab you...
She doesn't need to grab us with her title. Enough people hate Michael Moore for his name to suffice. But we at dreamacttexas assure Ms. Tucker that Moore is not staging an uprising... he is just wanting to for people to have a voice.
Michael Moore attempts to stir uprising online
By Neely Tucker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 24, 2008; Page C07
Not playing at a theater near you: Michael Moore's new rabble-rousing documentary, "Slacker Uprising," which debuted yesterday on the Internet ( http://www.slackeruprising.com) as a downloadable freebie.
The 97-minute flick, as subtle as a sledgehammer, is Moore's account of his barnstorming tour of the country in advance of the 2004 presidential election, an effort undertaken to "save John Kerry and the Democrats from themselves." Its message to Democrats in 2008 -- implicit, but screamingly so -- is, don't let this happen again.
His loathing of President Bush already documented in "Fahrenheit 9/11," Moore went to 62 cities in 20 battleground states in five weeks, attempting to register as many young voters -- i.e., slackers -- as possible. In Michigan, he offered his college-age crowd ramen noodles or a pair of "fresh underwear" if they registered, a comedic stunt that the state Republican Party tried to halt via legal action.
In other places, Republican supporters attempted to bar him from the local college campus, or offered student organizations large sums of money to cancel his speeches -- opposition that, of course, helps gin up a little drama for the story Moore tells here. At various rallies, Steve Earle shows up to sing, as do Eddie Vedder and Joan Baez.
This is no appeal to Republicans to cross lines, or a reasoned missive to undecided voters. It's a series of Democratic pep rallies, railing at the Bush administration. The music is great and the pace is often energetic, but Moore the speaker is not nearly as entertaining as Moore the filmmaker, which he seems to intuit in the editing. There are dozens of shots of him taking the podium, but only snippets of his talks, largely because his message can be fairly summed up as: Throw the bums out. Also, blame the media.
The best moment belongs to a little boy in a crowd of Bush supporters heckling one rally. Spotting the camera, the kid bellows: "Michael Moore sucks!"
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