george_mase Reviews

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

Should be required viewing for any true American patriot

[10/10 · 10 July 2010]

This documentary is about what went wrong with unbridled capitalism and why we need to be reclaiming America. We used to have a middle-class in America, that middle-class is rapidly deteriorating. Michael Moore illustrates how the deregulation led by the banking industry over the past 3 decades has destroyed America in order to benefit a handful of people. This was started under President Reagan who effectively gave the keys of the government away to Wall Street. Moore also profiles middle-class families all across America who while doing all the right things were completely destroyed by bankers and how this is spreading like wildfire throughout the nation. Moore senses hope in the form of our new President - Obama, a man who was so unlikely to win but when it looked as if he was about to the Wall Street bankers switched gears to begin supporting him. It was almost uncanny, he even reveals a memo to its wealthiest clients that a major Wall Street bank sent out which outlined how America is not really a democracy, and that it was a good thing, America was a Plutonomy - owned and controlled by the super- wealthy. It outlined the biggest risk to this was a revolt by the people and that "one man, one vote" was a major threat - essentially that democracy was a threat to American "capitalism". Anyone who loves this country, any TRUE patriot, would watch it and absorb it and help fight the fight against the hijacking of America by big business.

The Perfect Score (2004)

For the foolish only

[1/10 · 22 December 2004]

This film was mildly entertaining, but incredibly dumb. The premise itself pure sucked. A group of teenagers, all from different backgrounds, all too dumb to get a decent SAT scores but nonetheless want to get into colleges they are not qualified to get into. It seems they spend a considerable amount of time plotting a scheme to steal the SAT scores from ETS, but no time actually trying to study and take the test honestly. The dumbest part of the movie was probably when the basketball player who can't get a 900 on the test, and has a terrible GPA reveals he's a math whiz and can "ace" the math portion of the exam. I can see these MTV morons sitting there saying let's not stereotype the black basketball star, so they throw in a quasi-curveball into an otherwise completely brain dead stereotypical group of characters.