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I have some friends who saw the complete movie this week via our community radio station here in NORCAL, KVMR, (www.kvmr.org)and all they could do was talk about the movie last night. He did make this one appearance (By phone and a fundraiser for the radio station) for this premiere (His sister lives around there) but hasn't been up to doing much to get the word out (Maybe it is GOD that doesn't want people to see the movie...didja ever think of that?) and sent this message out via Occupy Wall Street.(who are still around and active)
FROM Michael Moore, who needs our help.
Friends,
Thank you to all who have written to me about my stay this past week in the intensive care unit.
Unfortunately, as you may have heard, I came down with pneumonia. Truth be told, it was pretty serious, and other complications arose. But then, five days later, I was still alive thanks to a combination of Directors Guild insurance, two I-V drips of alleged legal drugs, and a hospital TV that only got FOX News. I was released on my own recognizance, which I tried to explain may not be the best idea. I am now at home resting and binge watching the Real Housewives of The Walking Dead. All my appearances this week and last week supporting the release of my brand new movie, Where To Invade Next (Conan, Bill Maher, Charlie Rose, NPR, etc.), plus a special primary eve screening in New Hampshire, were and are canceled.
Needless to say, Im pretty devastated. This film means a lot to me. To be sidelined I cant fly, I cant travel, I cant leave the house in this, the most important week before it comes out well, you can imagine what Im going through. Trying to get back to just breathing is enough of a burden. To think that my film may now not reach the audience I made it for, lets just say that doesnt help the healing process.
Many of you have asked if theres anything you can do to help me. I have thought about it and, yes, actually, there is something you could do to help me.
I need you to be part of a quickly cobbled-together army of grassroots ambassadors who can do the work I was going to do this week to let people know about the movie and convince as many as possible to see it. I realize you havent seen Where To Invade Next, so Im asking you to do this based on my past work and your hope that Ive made a compelling film that might affect change in this country, that will inspire people to think about things in a different way. I believe thats exactly what Ive done, and many whove seen it agree. I also know this movie can have an enormous impact on the elections this year. Its won a bunch of film festival prizes, its made the Oscars shortlist, and some have called it my best film ever. Possibly, just possibly.
But forget all that.
Heres what I will tell you: You are going to be seriously f***ed up by Where To Invade Next. Its unlike anything Ive ever done. It will truly make your head spin for two hours while you laugh AND cry at the exact same moment, as an audience member said to the cameras on the way out of the movies premiere.
Last week, laying in the hospital, I watched one Presidential candidate attack the candidate from Vermont for his ideas being unrealistic, pie in the sky, and ideas that sound good on paper, but arent going to happen. The truth is, all these great ideas free universal health care, free university, free day care, taxing and policing hedge fund millionaires have already happened in nearly every other industrialized country in the world! And I have the evidence and the film to prove it!
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things you could do right now from your computer or mobile device.
Heres how you can help Where To Invade Next:
First, go see it! Text some friends right now and say, hey, lets go see it tonight! Commit now to go to a theater thats playing it this weekend. Its opening in every major and mini-major city in the country. If you live in a place the size of Binghamton, NY, or Grand Rapids, MI, then theyre playing Where To Invade Next. You can find a theater near you here.
Right now, you can TWEET the following: .@MMFlints 1st film in 6 years is coming out today, and he needs our help with #WhereToInvadeNext! Read & RT! http://michaelmoore.com/WhereToInvadeNextArmy/
Right now, you can FACEBOOK the following: Michael Moores 1st film in 6 years is coming out today, and he needs our help with #WhereToInvadeNext! Read & Share! http://michaelmoore.com/WhereToInvadeNextArmy/
At the bottom of this letter is the hi-res version of the films poster! Feel free to send it around, post it on your social media, download it and print up some flyers, or use it graphically any way that you want.
Send the trailer to everyone on your contact list: ()
If a few thousand of you suddenly became champions and ambassadors for Where To Invade Next, then maybe we can pull this off. I certainly would be forever in your debt. Thanks for being there for me.
All my best,
Michael
handmade34
(22,757 posts)saw it last night and I want the discussion to start!!
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)He should have put it in all the theaters like other movies. It is nowhere playing near me.
Kingofalldems
(38,471 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)"Free universal health care, free university, free day care, taxing and policing hedge fund millionaireshave already happened in nearly every other industrialized country in the world! And I have the evidenceand the filmto prove it!"
Filmmaker Michael Moore on Friday is launching the national release of his new documentary Where to Invade Next, which is said to be both his happiest and "most subversive" movie yet.
In the film, Moore travels to countries throughout Europe and also Tunisia to "pry loose from them the tools theyve been using to make their countries happy, shiny places," he writes, with the goal of "show[ing] millions of Americans what these countries have been hiding from us." Such tools range from eight weeks paid vacation in Italy, to a year of paid maternity leave in Scandinavia, to women with "true equality and power" in Tunisia, to trusting prisons in Norway.
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He continues:
Last week, laying in the hospital, I watched one Presidential candidate attack the candidate from Vermont for his ideas being unrealistic, pie in the sky, and ideas that sound good on paper, but arent going to happen. The truth is, all these great ideasfree universal health care, free university, free day care, taxing and policing hedge fund millionaireshave already happened in nearly every other industrialized country in the world! And I have the evidenceand the filmto prove it!
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More here: http://commondreams.org/news/2016/02/11/michael-moore-says-his-new-movie-will-change-america
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)bcool
(219 posts)Saw it today in St. Louis (actually, in Frontenac, a very upscale suburb), and it was fantastic!
It made me sad, though, to hear how all these amazing ideas that he highlighted in other countries for the most part originated here in the US. If only we could resurrect them for ourselves
I was thrilled to see that it played to an almost full house, and was energized by the outbursts of laughter and applause throughout.
Don't let the R rating keep you from taking your teenagers to see it - the cause of the rating, in my opinion, were a few F words by protesters, a graphic image of a burned African American by a racist mob, and a full-frontal shot of a man and a woman descending into a pool at a spa. Maybe not appropriate for younger kids, but definitely something that needs to be seen by the upcoming generation (the entire movie, that is).
A graphic description of what our country could be like...if only....
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)lets hope everyone that NEEDS to see it...does.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)be caught dead watching it.
From the NYT:
Michael Moores latest documentary, Where to Invade Next, is a sprawling, didactic polemic wittily disguised as a European travelogue. Watching it made me feel like a deprived child with my nose pressed against the glass of a magical toy store in a faraway land. On one side is a happy, harmonious land of productive people. On the other is a world of misery, anxiety, war and greed.
As Mr. Moore invades one country and then the next, beginning in Italy and ending in Iceland, you begin to suspect that heaven on earth is anywhere but in America unless, of course, you belong to the top 1 percent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/movies/review-where-to-invade-next-michael-moores-latest-documentary.html?referrer=google_kp&_r=0
bcool
(219 posts)I'm so sick of the "it's too hard to get any of these things, let's just be grateful for what we have" mentality. With that kind of thinking, we wouldn't have ANYTHING of any value.
I know what you mean, though...the people who really need to see it probably won't, thanks to the right's vilification of Michael Moore.
I wonder if he (MM) would allow the movie to be shown free of charge after it's no longer in theatres? Those of us who could afford it, could rent out theatres in small towns for free showings. Democrats with money (and they're out there) need to get creative with their support of the cause
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)www.kvmr.org skype live or archived at link for two weeks. starts about 9:10 am monday PST....