I liked Roger & Me; I loved TV Nation.   It’s not that I disagree with Moore’s beliefs, or think he “ought to” be more objective if he’s going to call it a documentary, blah blah.   But something about this movie bugged me, and I can’t quite put my finger on what it is.   There is a certain smugness to it that I think weakens the whole enterprise; this particular method of agitation is not, I suspect, as effective as Moore thinks it is.   Again, I see his point — I just think his chosen way of making it is not the best.   On the other hand, the movie got a lot of people talking and arguing, so there’s that…I don’t know.   I can’t put my finger on exactly why I found it off-putting in the end — obviously the content itself is very troubling, and seeing the Columbine video was not what I would call a highlight of my media consumption last week, but, you know, that’s as it should be.   I would have preferred that he let that content speak more for itself, I guess.   (2/16/04)

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