Michael Moore's Sicko - This might hurt a little!!

"This Might Hurt A Little" !! What could have been a better tagline for the poster above.?No matter what my opinion about Michael Moore is (hint: its not GOOD), I have to admit that the man is a marketing genius. He knows how to create enough controversy so that people go and watch his one-sided documentaries.

He's probably one of the few film makers who's documentaries have that extreme polarizing effect on the audience (primarily American). The (politically) left people love them and the politically (right) hate them, which goes on to say, that most people agree with or like to see the works of people that endorse what they already believe in. Sad news for creatives who want to show change and difference of opinion....

Anyways, Moore's new documentary is called Sicko and it's his take on American Health Care System. This should be a cakewalk for him because no one likes the American Health Care System and Michael Moore knows how to embarrass people on screen. I am sure he'll draw tons of cheers from the audience for this one and will have another blockbuster documentary.

If the topic is not controversial enough, Michael Moore has already started generating pre-release controversy. According to IMDB -

Appearing to bestow on him the kind of free publicity that has made Michael Moore the best-known and best paid documentary filmmaker in the business, the U.S. Treasury Department has notified the filmmaker that it is conducting an investigation to determine whether he violated the U.S. trade embargo when he took a group of 9/11 rescue workers to Cuba for treatment. The Cuba journey is included in Moore's upcoming documentary about the U.S. health-care system, Sicko, due to debut at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19. According to the Associated Press the government notice said that the Treasury Department had "no record that a specific license was issued authorizing you to engage in travel-related transactions involving Cuba." The A.P. said that after receiving the notice, Moore placed a copy of his film in a "safe house" outside the country. Meanwhile, Daily Variety reported today (Thursday) that The Weinstein Co., which is releasing the film had hired Chris Lehane, Al Gore's press secretary during the 2000 campaign, and New York publicist Ken Sunshine to handle the expected flak from the health-care industry over the film. "If the HMOs strike, I'm going to need two guys who can strike back," Harvey Weinstein told Variety.

I probably won't watch it in the theatres like I did with Farenheit 911, but being a sucker for controversy and conspiracy theories, I'll probably watch it on DVD at some point. If any of you ends up watching this movie when it comes out this June, please feel free to post your review here.