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Manufacturing Dissent (2007)
About what you would expect... Triumph of the Will for Idiots
Considering the subject matter, you already know whether you will agree or not with this film. The damage here is how bloody boring the thing is, and how one major interviewee has actually accepted money from Moore to aid his (get ready for it) sick wife that her insurance wasn't covering properly. His name is James Kenefick and the story is on the daily IMDb news feed. Check it out for yourself, but so far all this film proves is that Moore is a charitable human being. As for the rest of it, nothing we haven't heard before from various members of the pretenders to the documentary throne. Just ask yourself why all of a sudden medical industry people are so nervous about Moore. Could it be he has a point? Conservatives get cancer too, and it seems more and more of them are seeing Moore's point enough to cash his check.
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Ever feel like you've been cheated?
Just like High Tension, in that everything that was ripped off the source material was great. However that means every time Aja felt the need to add something (it seemed only to avoid plagiarism) it just slowed the film to a crawl. The original is a tight examination of how the "civilised" can be brutalized to base human instinct and vengeance. The new version is a sloppy statement of how much the French really hate Americans... As much as I usually agree, it feels forced, like having your teacher b**** at you over your older brothers behavior. All in all wait for the "Unrated" DVD or do yourself a real favor and check out Wes Craven's original... As for Aja, two movies down and not one single original idea of any importance. Weren't the French once masters of Film??