The Awful Truth - The Complete DVD Set (Seasons 1 & 2)
by Tom Gianas
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Actor: Bruce Brown (III), Gideon Evans, Jerry Minor, Katie Roberts, M.J. KarmiDirector: Tom Gianas
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 600 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Docurama
DVD Reviews of The Awful Truth - The Complete DVD Set (Seasons 1 & 2)
DVD Review: The Mean side of Michael Moore
Summary: 2 Stars
It's easy to see why Moore didn't last as a teevee host. I thought he had a tendency to be mean at times.DVD Review: Brilliant.
Summary: 5 Stars
Wouldn't it be great if this were the flavor of today's 'Reality TV'? I think that, despite the success of his films, Michael Moore's impact and courage are under-appreciated. It's about time we take back the media and reclaim the People's Independent Republic of Television.
DVD Review: Comical Moore
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm not sure why Amazon.com didn't print my first review of this set but maybe I should be a little less specific. I'll try again...
I watched the series over a few months so I'll be a little light on detail anyway.
If you're looking for comic relief, this series is a good one. I liked, for example, Moore's pilgrim staff proclaiming Ken Starr's eternal damnation, or the Rudy Guiliani porn shop in New York. Then there's the gay guys in the van dancing before the preacher who is, to put it in a very, very diplomatic way, anti-gay.
There's some useful information to learn too. For example, while I knew the US has overwhelmed other countries in terms of the number of people in prison, Michael puts it in a comical context: a county in Virginia whose population has increased dramatically because of the prison(s) being constructed there, and providing a new base for the county's economy.
Then there's the story of the CEO, paying himself $94 million a year, and a pension of $8 million a year at retirement, while his employee of 30 years is making a pension of barely $500 a month. In the meantime, the CEO is praised by the business press as epitomizing the great corporate chief, while the company is under indictment for several environmental violations, and he's laid off 50,000 American workers for cheaper overseas labor. It's an eye opener.
Overall, though, I find Moore to be a little postmodernist for my tastes. An admittedely over-simplified summary of post-modernism to me is that the world is run primarily by Caucasian, male, heterosexuals. To break from any of those "paradigms" then is superior to the post-modernist school of thought. With that I strongly disagree. First, beyond any doubt the worst, most oppressive boss I ever had was a woman, and arguably the second worst (at least the most corrupt) was a black woman. In addition, some of the most conservative individuals I know are gay.
In this series, Moore implies what I suggest is post-modernism. That I cannot take seriously.
So, if you like Michael Moore's work--as I do--and want to laugh at what amounts to be a series of political satires, this series is for you. If you're expecting to take time in your graduate political science course with a little political education, this isn't for you.
DVD Review: It's ok
Summary: 3 Stars
As with everything Micheal Moore does it is about 50% crap and 50% truth. Some episodes are very good and rasies some interesting points that make you think. Others are over the top and just make you wonder "What was the point of that?" Over all not bad.DVD Review: A hilarious do-gooder
Summary: 5 Stars
Michael Moore cares about people and our country. Well worth watching. i especially liked seeing Alan Keyes in a mosh pit. Hilarious!!!
Description of The Awful Truth - The Complete DVD Set (Seasons 1 & 2)
From acclaimed filmmaker and author Michael Moore comes THE AWFUL TRUTH, the most daring documentary show to hit the American public since Moore's own TV Nation. Now, for the first time, this Emmy nominated series is available in one complete DVD set.I
Can you handle the truth? If you're Mickey Mouse, George Will, a Philip Morris executive, or any one of the corporate no-good-doers who pollute the environment, abandon their customers, or cheat their workers, best be on your guard: Michael Moore has got your number, or at the very least, your home address! Moore, muckraking journalist, guerilla filmmaker (Roger & Me), and all-around nonpartisan offender, follows up his Emmy-winning, albeit short-lived, TV series TV Nation with this even more confrontational series that can be seen on Bravo ("Between the Playboy Channel and Cartoon Network"). This set contains all the episodes from the show's premiere season. It is perhaps the most outrageous television you have never seen. The series is much more than Moore "going in someplace to bug somebody." There is method to Moore's madness. His outrage is palpable as he shames an insurance company into paying for a customer's life-or-death pancreas transplant by staging the man's mock funeral outside corporate headquarters. At the height of Monica-gate, Moore shows Washington, D.C., what a real witch-hunt looks like, complete with shrieking costumed Pilgrims. Other season 1 highlights include the return of Crackers, the plucky Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken, who visits Disneyland to advise Mickey Mouse about Disney's alleged unfair labor practices. Moore also spreads holiday jeer inside Philip Morris by leading a choir of cigarette-ravaged carolers, each of whom must use a voice box. The Awful Truth is not for the faint of heart (or conservatives, for that matter). As Moore remarks after a segment in which his "Gay Team" cruises America in a pink Sodommobile, "We'll never be back on NBC now." You go, Mike!
In the sophomore season, Moore rails against politics as usual and exposes what he calls your "basic, everyday, run of the mill evil corporations." The Awful Truth was anything but comfort television, as witness the episode "Compassionate Conservative Night," in which "Team Dow" and "Team Nasdaq" engage in such contests as "Dunk the Homeless" and "Pie the Poor." In another segment, Moore launches an orange day-glow wallet exchange program after a spate of shootings in which police mistook African American victims' wallets for firearms. Moore makes hay with the 2000 presidential election. In one audacious segment, he offers his support to any candidate who will jump into the Awful Truth's portable mosh pit. George W. Bush's response, "Go find real work," made its way into Fahrenheit 9/11. Only Alan Keyes is game, incurring attacks by the other candidates during a televised debate. In this series' version of a Very Special Episode, Moore presents a short film he directed, "The Choice," in which Moore runs a Ficus plant against an unopposed candidate for the New Jersey House of Representatives. Throughout the season, Moore plants the seeds that will pollinate in his two controversial cross-over theatrical documentaries. Anticipating Bowling for Columbine, one segment takes aim at the NRA with the introduction of a new gun mascot, Pistol Pete, a costumed weapon, who is summarily tossed out of a Las Vegas gun show, NRA headquarters, and our nation's capitol. Moore also turns up the temperature on then-Texas Governor George W. Bush in a segment that pits the man who would be president against his brother Jeb to see which of their respective states, Texas or Florida, will prevail in the number of executions. For a brief and shining moment, the revolution was televised. At 30 minutes an episode, The Awful Truth remains swift (or Swiftian) satire. For fans, this set will complete the Moore manifesto, and give more ammunition to his critics. --Donald Liebenson
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