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September 23, 2008
Michael Moore is Giving Away His New Movie
Maybe a learnt lesson from when SiCKO was leaked on Google Video last year, Michael Moore is giving away free downloads of his latest documentary Slacker Uprising, his get out the younger person vote flick.
Is there a catch? Kinda. "This is being done entirely as a gift to my fans," Moore writes on his website for the movie. "The only return any of us are hoping for is the largest turnout of young voters ever at the polls in November." So yeah, free is good, but your right to vote is even better. A preview of the movie is below.
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yeah, I was gonna download this thing today but I just didn't get around to it...
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I was gonna vote in the elections today but I was too busy watching a Michael Moore movie on my couch with my buddies.
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i have provided a download link for you slackers
http://slackeruprising.com/download/location.php?utm_medium=download&utm_source=31647364
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here's a better link:
http://slackeruprising.com/download/
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This tool doesn't need to make any more cash from his films. He charges a minimum $50,000 appearance fee to do college tours annually, and he nets at least a few mil from this kind of work every year.
When he was paid to come speak at USC in 2005, it was the biggest waste of our tuition money I had ever seen.
While I do enjoy Moore's earlier work like Bowling for Columbine, his mock-u-mentary style is a poor excuse for raising voter awareness. A two-hour paid political endoresment for Obama would have been about equivalent.
Without flaring up an entire political discussion on this thread, I simply wish to say that it's a kiss-off when filmmakers and musicians already well-endowned financially claim to be going "indie" by releasing free content on the internet. At this point, it's an afterthought.
On a side note - Margaret Cho was an equally dissapointing paid guest, brought to USC in 2004. Private universities have way too much cash on hand and enjoy spending it frivilously.
UCLA invited him that same week. Taxpayer money hard at work.
As a final note, I sincerely doubt he would have known what campus he was on unless there had been a convenient USC ball cap waiting for him on the podium.
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I agree with MarkSLindsey. I don't think schools should be paying anyone with other points of view (other than their professors) to come and speak at schools of higher education. Who wants a mixture of ideas and opinions? Especially people with - gasp - different opinions than our own. Inflammatory ideas?? ...on a college campus?! You're practically begging for young college kids to be free-thinkers! Truly Scary. The thought has me shaking in my proverbial boots.
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@linkracer:
Just to clarify, any opinion and any person should have freedom to express themselves, especially on a college campus.
I think universities paying folks like this to come speak and basically talk about nothing are just wasting students' money. If Moore showed up pro-bonno, it'd be a different story.
My point is that he just seems to have built a career on selling his slant of ideas for cash, and all of a sudden woah here's my next movie for free! Just seems kinda lame, i don't buy it. Where's the $40m he maid on Sicko? On his tab at taco bell.
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"Where's the $40m he maid on Sicko? On his tab at taco bell." --- To note: a few million of it Michael donated to Barack Obama and Barack Obama related PACs. But you're right, the rest of it is at taco bell. Look at him. He just can't stay away from the Baja Chalupa.
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Is he in LA? If not, then why post this on LAIST