Ask Mick LaSalle: Why is Moore saying other countries know best?
[...] the countries that he goes to in the movie, such as France, Iceland, Portugal, Norway and Germany, aren’t full of citizens cramming themselves onto boats to go live in the United States.
[...] there’s a lot to recommend this country over others — its founding documents, its constant mission to improve, and a whole cultural history that allows people to reinvent themselves at any stage of life.
(And I haven’t even gotten started on our movies, music and literature.) But America can also be pretty harsh, lonely and unforgiving, where other countries have a gentler way of life.
The point I’m making, and that I think Moore is touching on, is that, at a certain level of affluence and functionality, choosing one way of life over another becomes a matter of preference — or maybe just what you’re used to.
Interestingly, the most strident on this score are people who have never had the chance to travel.
Recently, on a radio interview, he said his body of work stacks up against any other actor’s work.
Don’t you know who I am? I’m Johnny LaRue! But then, that’s the disease that besets everybody at middle age — the desire to be respected.
If you go to a movie tailor-made for a niche group of nerds/geeks and expect it to win an Oscar, you, sir, are a fool.
[...] what about homelessness disqualifies a person from recognizing a good restaurant?
Yes, I’d be a fool if I’d expected “Deadpool” to be a potential best picture winner.