It may well be that he wears his influences on his sleeve but on the whole they seem a bit capricious. His film is, I will agree with you, unique. But that doesn't salvage it from the un-polished feel and the stilted overused Tarantino movie regularities like the nicknames. Nearly every fucking character in the movie had a little 'what they call him' intro where Samuel L Jackson voiced over background info on this new person the audience was meeting. I'd be impressed if he grew a little as a writer and didnt need to side track the story just to intro a character. As it stands, it's still a so-so movie and his originality was undeniably lacking.

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I think that's become such a trite criticism for Tarantino, something that people pull out by default when they want to put the man down because it's easy and so many other people have done it. I mean, Tarantino has certainly said how influenced he was by "man on a mission" films when making Inglouious Basterds, but in the end, does it feel like any "man on a mission" film you've ever seen? What film, in particular, does it seem like he's ripping off here? Or director? Tarantino wears his influences on his sleeve, sure, but he generally ends up using those influences to come up with something fairly unique (with the possible exception of Kill Bill Vol. 1, which was still about a million times better than most of the schlocky kung-fu films that inspired him).

It may well be that he wears his influences on his sleeve but on the whole they seem a bit capricious. His film is, I will agree with you, unique. But that doesn't salvage it from the un-polished feel and the stilted overused Tarantino movie regularities like the nicknames. Nearly every fucking character in the movie had a little 'what they call him' intro where Samuel L Jackson voiced over background info on this new person the audience was meeting. I'd be impressed if he grew a little as a writer and didnt need to side track the story just to intro a character. As it stands, it's still a so-so movie and his originality was undeniably lacking.

You know I was going to look this up when I saw this vid and post it at the same time, but got side tracked. Love this song. Good sift!


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I thought you may find it amusing that your "Balloon Man" post triggered my memory caused me to submit this...
http://www.videosift.com/video/Robyn-Hitchcock-the-Egyptians-Balloon-Man

Thank you!

Expecting reasonable answer from QM? Srsly?

What next he concedes that global warming is real?

He will simply state that it's his right to use downvotes as he sees them, and that we are all pinko Nazis for trampling on his freedom which will side track into some attack on Radical Islam.

@Rotty,

Actually, not entirely true. There was a second part to that interview that isn't very popular, probably because it was about the actual issues and not this little argument that's erupted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F91hq6Js9Rs&eurl=

Also, aside from the interview with Wolf Blitzer, there are TONS of other TV shows that have had him on their show and they had a very interesting conversation about the real problems in health care. So this one specific time when Moore got side-tracked and decided to get upset on the innacurate segment played before -he was even allowed to speak-, I'll excuse, because I would've been plenty pissed off myself.

Check out just about every other TV show that allows guests, he's been on most of them already, and they've all been interesting. Also, it's also good to mention that aside from this segment that showed minor 'inaccuracies', all of the other TV shows that have had him have said that his documentary is not only powerful, but checks out with them as a good source of information. So if you want "the truth on exposed health care", i think it's safe to say at this point that the documentary itself is an excellent source.

Also, a 'good debate' between Gupta and Moore about the movie would actually be a bit hard to have, because it seems to me that aside from these very small differences in statistics, they both believe in the same thing. Several times Gupta heard Moore speak and said "I agree with all of that".