I’ve enjoyed the 30 days I’ve seen so far. I’ve heard “Where in the World Is Osama Bin Ladin” was a huge joke and waste of time. There’s a point where I enjoy the Michael Moore films – Roger and Me was good, and I really loved TV Nation. His other films have great points. I think what I don’t like about him is what he does afterwards. Too many old school hippie style protests that, honestly, do not have the commitment that the ones in the 60s did. I think HST said it best – it became less of a cause and more of a thing to do. Its easy to be the guy who shakes things up, but when it comes up to actually making the stuff happen…eh. Visit his website – its interesting how quickly any negative comments he used to make about Obama regarding health care are hard to find.

Super High Me: http://www.superhighmemovie.com/sample/videos/

No, it’s NOT a film about some tongue in cheek anti-semitic, self-loathing jewish person. It’s about smoking pot.

BLK

- Super Size Me was a stunt not a documentary. We are all agreed.
- After watching Super Size Me all I wanted to do was go to McDonald’s.
- Super Size Me was not an inditement of McDonald’s per se. Spurlock says as much in the movie so shame on him for allowing the marketing of that movie to suggest as much.
- Glad to hear that Morgan is engaging the more traditional aspects of documentary with 30 Days. The fact that he is not insisting on being the subject for all the experiments shows growth as a film maker, IMHO.
- I will be adding 30 Days to my NetFilx line up directly.
- Michael Moore is a douche.

BlK

This show is just super awesome. Agreed on all points. No shiny cymbals in this one, just dry no-commentary-no-bullshit docs.

And you are in luck, Sandy. They just aired season 3 (another six episodes) back in June. Surely your Tivo goblin can hunt those episodes down at some odd hour of the night. Included in S3 are Working in a Coal Mine and Life on an Indian Reservation, two of my favorites.
They are actually filming season 4 at the moment or soon but it probably won’t air until next spring.

Spurlock is definitely from the Michael Moore stunt-documentary school but is way smarter… or assumes we are… and let’s footage speak for itself as much as possible. There’s just enough reality-TV confession/interviews and music to make it seem slick but the ‘experiements’ seem genuine (or at least honest about the things they fudge). Top Marks.