Sicko (Special Edition)
by Michael Moore
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Actor: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Michael Moore, Reggie Cervantes, Tony BennDirector: Michael Moore
Brand: MOORE,MICHAEL
Writer: Michael Moore
Producer: Amelia Green-Dove
Producer: Amy McCampbell
Producer: Aneetha Rajan
Producer: Anne Moore
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: Chris Aldred
Producer: Christine Fall
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Weinstein Company
DVD Reviews of Sicko (Special Edition)
DVD Review: What?
Summary: 1 Stars
This film simply doesn't give enough facts to conclude that America needs better health care. Moore's message is that medical assistance should be free when people need it. He travels to different countries talking to happy individuals about how their health care is free. Apparently money grows on trees everywhere but in America. With simple economic principles in mind, how can anyone watching this film be convinced of his message?
There are many signs of a broken health care system in our country, but there has to be better documentaries or books that provide more facts than this stupid "documentary." Moore states many "facts" and statistics without citing his sources. He comes to silly conclusions based on no evidence. When watching this film, I can't help but wonder how much of his information is made up and how much information on this issue is left out. The entire movie is made up of him talking to dozens of individuals about how health care is free in other countries but not in America. Its an emotional film and makes you feel for those in trouble but still doesn't explain just WHY its free in other countries and not here. Anyone in the right mind knows that nothing is free and you get what you pay for. Just because someone NEEDS medical assistance doesn't mean that it can be magically available. This leads me to believe that this film portrays the need for an alternate reality that doesn't exist.
If you want to watch a film that successfully investigates the health care system of America, this is not it. This doesn't even meet the definition of a documentary. Its just liberal propaganda that supports the illusion of free health care. I wouldn't even recommend this film for a good laugh. There is no point in watching it! If you want to join Moore in his journey to an alternate universe where stuff is free simply because Michael Moore says it should be, than this is just the film for you. It surprises me how many people and critics gave this movie good ratings.
DVD Review: Review of "Sicko" by Ronald Remmel
Summary: 5 Stars
America has a conservative political idea that less government is better government, because government supposedly provides services less efficiently than capitalist enterprise. Thus private health insurance should provide better medical care than a national health care system such as in Canada, England, and France. Michael Moore makes the case that in fact health care, even for the insured, is poorer in America. He cites many cases where an insured person's medical condition is not covered, or his share of the expenses is exorbitant. In my own case I am under Medicare, but I must still pay several thousand dollars for medication. Moore's movie should help conservatives rethink national health care.DVD Review: Moore for President 2012!! He knows what is best for our country!
Summary: 1 Stars
I am so honored to have Michael Moore as my political party!! Forget left and right, democrat or republican, I am 100% a Michael Moore'er!!!
Moore knows what is best for our country!!! Making $$$$$ from DVDS about Columbine, 9/11, health care, and the like... riding around in private jets, and owning Halliburton stocks proves that he cares about the average American and sticks to his beliefs.
Heck, I even dropped out of my history and economics classes because I felt Michael Moore knows about everything in life and he is my God!.. I buy all his DVDs to ensure that he has enough money to buy his corporate jets...!!
Moore for president 2012!!!
DVD Review: THIS IS THE REAL AND HIDDEN SIDE OF AMERICA
Summary: 5 Stars
THIS IS THE REAL AND HIDDEN SIDE OF AMERICA. What more additional evidence or explanations do people possibly need to get this fact that we have a major problem here? People are neglected and thrown on the street because their insurance premiums aren't high enough or just cannot afford to pay health insurance. I am worried that it will take hundreds of millions of people bankrupt and out on the street just because they cannot afford health insurance (not mortgage, car loans, educational loans, credit card debt) to demand REAL CHANGE.
Some main things you have to keep in mind
(1) The Universal Health Care is NOT FREE as Moore keeps advocating.
(2) There are also many people who are discontent with European-style universal health care.
Reforming medical industries is not possible unless we reform our monetary policy, fiscal policy, foreign policy, and civil liberty policy. They all go hand-in-hand. We have cut our wasteful spending on military budgets, foreign aids, drug wars, welfare, social security, education, subsidies, tax breaks, lobbying, etc.
There are many alternatives to what we have right now and what they have in Europe. One alternative is to have a single-payer medical insurance system as everyone knows. The other is to give people tax credit to cover their medical insurance. The third option is a hybrid of the two.
People are deluded in that they believe America is a free country. They are waking up slowly, but it will take more than anything we have ever experienced to turn this nation around.
DVD Review: FATSO
Summary: 1 Stars
A fatso who is ten calories away from a coronary is running... walking around criticizing the health care system. Am I the only one who sees the stupidity in this?
Description of Sicko (Special Edition)
Following on the heels of his Palm d'Or winning Fahrenheit 9/11 and his Oscar winning film Bowling for Columbine, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Moore's new documentary sets out to investigate the American healthcare system. Sticking to his tried-and-true one-man approach, Moore sheds light on the complicated medical affairs of individuals and local communities.SiCKO is more like a controlled howl of protest than a documentary. Toning down the rhetoric of past efforts--no CEOs, congressmen, or celebrities were accosted in the making of this film--Michael Moore's latest provocation is just as heartfelt, if not more heartbreaking. As he clarifies from the outset, his subject isn't the 45 million Americans without insurance, but those whose coverage has failed to meet their needs. He starts by speaking with patients who've been denied life-saving procedures, like chemotherapy, for the most spurious of reasons. Then he travels to Canada, England, and France to see if socialized medicine is as inefficient as U.S. politicians like to claim--especially those who receive funding from pharmaceutical companies. Moore finds quality care available to all, regardless as to income. He concludes with a stunt that made headlines when he assembles a group of 9/11 rescue workers suffering from a variety of afflictions. When Moore is informed that detainees at Guant?namo Bay--technically American soil--qualify for universal coverage, he and his companions travel to Cuba to get in on that action. It's a typically grandstanding move on Moore's part. And it proves remarkably effective when these altruistic individuals, who've either been denied treatment or forced to pay outrageous costs for their medication, experience a dramatically different system. Nine years in the making, SiCKO makes a persuasive case that it's time for America to catch up with the rest of the world. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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