Outfoxed and Sicko

I'd say that Outfoxed was a well made documentary but after the first 20 minutes I really just wanted to turn it off both because it had already made its point of how Fox news manipulates news and the fact that it is disgusting how much power it has. Going into this movie I already knew how crazy and conservative Fox news is and their obsession with throwing out its "fair and balanced" slogan just from watching a little bit of the Glen Beck show and hearing critiques of Fox from The Daily Show. What really struck me is how often Fox repeats its point to really drive it into the viewers' brains. The montage with all the different reporters who kept on calling Kerry a "filp flopper" over and over was extremely annoying but it is ingenious to repeat the same thing over and over until finally the viewers start believing the newscasters because it's been said so many times. I don't think Fox would bother me so much if it didn't constantly claim that it is "fair and balanced" all the time; nothing on it is fair and balanced. The liberals on the regular shows look inferior to the conservatives and do not get as much time as the conservative hosts. Once a guest starts to voice his/her opinion on a topic that the host doesn't agree with, they get cut off immediately. The the worst host that does this is Glen Beck who repeatedly yells at his guests to shut up and then attacks their character at a later show, this is not only annoying but incredibly childish and its amazing that Fox can get away with this.

I've already seen Sicko before and so I was prepared to see all the nonsense of our health care system exposed. After seeing this movie made me want to live in Europe more than before. There really is no reason why the US should have such a terrible health care system that basically kills thousands of people a year by denying them the right to proper health care. The most shocking part of this movie to me was that even Cuba, a country with hardly any resources when compared to the US, has a much better health care system than the US. The movie was shot very well, the personal stories of different people from around the world and their dealings with health care make good arguments in and of themselves.An annoying part of the movie that I just picked up on was the comments that Moore threw in about the Iraq/Afghanistan wars, these comments really didn't flow with the argument being made about health care.