Sicko

Armstrong

Anyone seen Sicko yet? Definitely Michael Moores best yet. Will make you laugh and cry. Well worth watching.

ActorSeeksJob

Have seen it myself, thought it was quite good but I definitely wouldn't agree with you about it being michael moores best yet. preferred his over movies compared to sicko

bigslick

i think this was a very good movie. I cant seem to find a way that he can get slated for this, as its all true. i cant believe the richest country in the world is in such a state.

well done to mr. moore for bringing this plight to the worlds attention

Watched it a few weeks back and while I found it enjoyable, it was at the same time amazingly misleading in it's examintion of the differant health care systems.

Galvasean

I hear it was only shown on 441 screens in America. Does that leave any hope for a cinema release here?

Venom

Saw it a few weeks ago and its a cracker of a movie. You go from laughing your ass off to feeling like crying in the space of a few seconds. Moore user's a lot less of his trademark stunts in this movie than his previous one's. Sicko is a must see for Moore fans and it will change how you look at the Irish heath system

BlitzKrieg

I cant seem to find a way that he can get slated for this,

He's getting slated over how he makes the british health system seem like a dream when it has problems of its own (not nearly as bad as the US) but none of his critics can fault him on his potrayel of the US health system.

lostexpectation

I think what the google health marketer did with the blog about counter ads justifies this film and it potential flaws.

ixoy

Galvasean wrote:

I hear it was only shown on 441 screens in America. Does that leave any hope for a cinema release here?

Definitely. It's got Moore's name attached to it - it will be shown. I imagine it'll be a limited release but we will see it. 441 is not a bad number by any means, and it's ever expanding (still AFAIK).

Krusty_Clown

I enjoyed the docu-movie up until he described how he 'anonymously ' wrote a cheque for his biggest web adversary's ill wife..

I thought he came across conceited and shallow. If he really meant the gesture, he would have kept it anonymous, instead of including it as part of the movie. $12K means nothing to Moore either so I think it came across as more of a two fingers to the website owner..

Good movie Michael, but would have been far better without that 45 second snippet..

Galvasean

ixoy wrote:

Definitely. It's got Moore's name attached to it - it will be shown. I imagine it'll be a limited release but we will see it. 441 is not a bad number by any means, and it's ever expanding (still AFAIK).

Checked today, its up to 701

Master Shake

Krusty_Clown wrote:

I enjoyed the docu-movie up until he described how he 'anonymously ' wrote a cheque for his biggest web adversary's ill wife..

I thought he came across conceited and shallow. If he really meant the gesture, he would have kept it anonymous, instead of including it as part of the movie. $12K means nothing to Moore either so I think it came across as more of a two fingers to the website owner..

Good movie Michael, but would have been far better without that 45 second snippet..

Good point Krusty...I was at a preview of this film a few weeks ago with Moore in attendance. Afterwards he was asked about that stunt (I admit I didn't much like it when I saw it in the film). I have to say he explained himself fairly well. He explained that, despite his obvious political leanings, he does not hate/despise his opponents. The health problem faced by his most noisy e-critic showed up the very problem that Moore was highlighting in the film, and that (almost) no-one in the States is immune, no matter how much insurance they think they have. By giving the needed $12K, he claimed to be displaying the 'give to all equally' mentality which is absent from the US healthcare regime. Also, when they shot that scene, they had no idea that it was going to end up in the final cut.

IMO the film is MUCH broader than an expose of US healthcare. Moore uses the healthcare crisis as an obvious example of a wider societal attituse problem (hence his interviews with Tony Benn). Moore correctly puts the boot in to a particular mindset and national consciousness which does not care for its most needy, and instead, (literally) dumps them on the street. I believe Moore's message, which he aims primarily at his fellow countrymen, is that if a society follows the profit-first, survival of the fittest, dog-eat-dog mentality, then people (usually those least able to afford it) getting screwed over is the price you pay.

All in all, an excellent film. I was also very pleasantly surprised by his answers to us in the audience. But, I gotta tell ya, the man is even bigger in real life than on camera.

Not going to start a new thread when there's a few old ones here.. Really liked the movie and I'd advise anyone to watch it.
My own brother fell on a building site in New York last year, broke one or two ribs but couldn't go to hospital cause of no health insurance.. Just had to lie up for a long time. And a girl I lived with last year amassed a 97,000 dolllar bill for a broken nose so she had to skip back home.
I think I like the movie alot because I've heard two stories close to me that go along with exactly the point Moore is making.

8/10.