Discussion Creator / MichaelMoore

First off, this page needs help - it's almost entirely an anti-Moore screed and provides little information on tropes used by his films.

Second, a lot of what was pulled was either rewritten to actually comply with a real trope, or pulled because they weren't that trope at all.

• Hypocritical Humor: Funny how Moore, big-time union supporter, only hires non-union labor for his movies...
  • A better example: Capitalism: A Love Story is an indictment of capitalism, despite the fact that it's entirely responsible for all of his fame and success.

Hypocritical Humor is for when the work itself makes jokes about hypocrisy. Michael Moore being a hypocrit is not this trope (unless he seriously said something like "Ha ha ha, I hate capitalism! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to swim through a giant pile of my money.")

• Just Plane Wrong: During Bowling For Columbine, Moore stands in front of a museum's B-52 and claims the plaque celebrates that the plane killed civilians in the Vietnam War. The plaque in question actually states that during one of the Linebacker operations, the B-52 in question shot down a Vietnamese MiG with its tail gun.

None of this had to do with plane-specific actions. It's an example of Moore misattributing history. Moved to Did Not Do The Research.

• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Pretty much the liberal community's reaction to Moore after he failed to deliver on his promise to oust Bush, with the realization that giving a man like him such a big microphone might have cost them a good deal credibility (some people like to joke that, far from removing Bush from office, Farenheit 9/11 actually helped Bush win by acting so high and mighty that it kept independents away from the polls). Long story short, during the run-up to the 2004 election, Moore was the hottest thing in the liberal community, if not the country, and had become a household name. After the election, though, he pretty much disappeared from the limelight, releasing a movie on occasion, but never reaching the level of popularity he had once had. Nowadays, most liberals won't count Moore among their own, and several liberal pundits (including noted Nation writer Eric Alterman) urge people not to listen to him.

I'm fairly certain there are no liberals that have killed Michael Moore for failing their evil plans. Moved and rewrote for Fallen Creator since it still had some merit.

I added a note near the end about a particular section from the end of Bowling for Columbine - The sequence where he calls up the stairs to Heston and holds up the young girl's photograph - as I felt it was notable, due to it being either blatantly impossible as presented, or proof positive that Moore's cameraman is a wizard with the powers to bend time and space.