Rick1948
Joined Feb 2001
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I am now convinced that Michael Moore is one of the most influential film makers of this generation. Forget Spielberg and Lucas. I am an avid Woody Allen fan and still love his films but Michael Moore has jumped in and become an entire nation's conscious. Even though I have realized for years that there has to be a better way for health care, Moore crystallized every feeling I have ever had about what needs to be done about it. All it takes is an open mind and anyone will see that changes need to be made to our health care system and needs to be done now. Many people in this nation claim the moniker "Culture of Life". Those who view this film will see that it is anything but a "Culture of Life" and we aren't even speaking about violence overseas. We are speaking about the covert violence against Americans who happen to get sick without enough funds to get the treatment they may need. Health Insurance companies in this country do more to harm Americans than any terrorist could.
Every time I see this film I can't help but wonder if the people behind it were trying to scare us or just point out the absurdity of the establishment. This is either the worst of one of the very brilliant films of all time. The plot, acting and everything else about this "film" is so amateurish that the must be playing with out heads.... hmmm maybe that's it. I am surprised they didn't use elementary school kids just to scare us more. Perhaps this is what the "Bushies" watched when they came up with the "Lets scare the Holy _____ out of them and use it as our political campaign plan" The star of the show is the piano man. He epitomizes the entire film of REEFER MADNESS
Well as usual any sequels are usually worse than the original. This is no exception. The only saving grace besides John Goodman is the finale especially BB King, Eric Clapton, Lou Rawls, Isaac Hayes etc... It's too bad that this movie was not up to par since it was dedicated to John Belushi, John Candy and Cab Calloway. I normally defend Dan Akroyd on most of his movies but on this one he certainly lacked any originality and he failed to build upon the very good original. John Goodman added some pizazz but most of the players were there usual selves. These are musicians not actors. The music was good the acting not so good.