Simply Perfect

hyped garbage

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

The film attempts to make an analogy between Obama and the wizard in the Wizard of Oz. It's mostly short clips of interviews with random people on the street, speeches of liberal/progressive leaders made to sound evil, interviews with old white guys who spew right-wing propaganda, and some lousy animation.Otherwise, this is just a grossly inaccurate portrayal of liberals/progressives. The point of the film is to equate Obama with leaders who used Marxist/Lenninist ideas to justify building oppressive totalitarian regimes. But, the film fails to note that there is a huge difference between progressive ideas in the USA and full-blown communism of the sort that some interviewed in the film suggest.Take one example early in the film. Jerome Corsi appears to naively think that progressives are advocating that *all* of the money one makes from a hard days work just goes to someone else. While the incentive to work hard may disappear if this were the case, society also suffers greatly when the lower and middle-class work hard for little pay and no health insurance - just so rich folks can get far richer. If those who are well off don't want to help pay for better public education, how can those who are poor realize the American dream? If uneducated can't get a good job because the minimum wage is too low, why work? Why not rob, steal, or sell drugs instead? Should we then blame people for being criminals and lock them up forever? Too little *or* too much income inequality can lead to serious problems in society. Progressives recognize that income inequality is too extreme in the USA and is continuing to get worse, and a more equitable society would help us all be better off. Taxes are not that high in countries that have figured this out and that provide good social services (e.g., just Google "tax rate in France" and you'll see the gross exaggeration in the film) - not so that people can become dependent, but so that they can have more opportunities, get back on their feet when they fall on hard times, not lose their home or go bankrupt when a medical emergency happens. Since when is the idea about caring about and helping your fellow human being a bad thing?The film unfortunately just goes on spreading misinformation and right- wing conspiracy theories. The only interesting thing I found about the film were ordinary people's perceptions of how they thought Obama's policies would affect them and whether they (wrongly or not) thought he could really do much to turn things around in just the few years of his presidency before this film was published.

This movie is filled with 2nd rate animation, political demagoguery, and racism. The points trying to be made here are that Barack Obama is a charlatan just like the Wizard of Oz, and Democrats are evil. There were no facts, statistics, or any other metrics mentioned throughout the narrative in order to objectify these accusations. Instead, we are barraged with images of Obama as the great Oz juxtaposed with totalitarian leaders such as Stalin, Lenin, and Chairman Mao laced between sub-par animation and senseless interviews with random people found on the streets. I began to wonder if the people being interviewed were paid off to say what the producer wanted them to say, as most of them all came back around to the Wizard of Oz analogy. Was that just a coincidence? Maybe, but I'm more apt to believe that the questions being asked were leading.

This movie is filled with 2nd rate animation, political demagoguery, and racism. The points trying to be made here are that Barack Obama is a charlatan just like the Wizard of Oz, and Democrats are evil. There were no facts, statistics, or any other metrics mentioned throughout the narrative in order to objectify these accusations. Instead, we are barraged with images of Obama as the great Oz juxtaposed with totalitarian leaders such as Stalin, Lenin, and Chairman Mao laced between sub-par animation and senseless interviews with random people found on the streets. I began to wonder if the people being interviewed were paid off to say what the producer wanted them to say, as most of them all came back around to the Wizard of Oz analogy. Was that just a coincidence? Maybe, but I'm more apt to believe that the questions being asked were leading.

Great, eye opening movie about new and old progressives in the US. Progressives are the new Socialist/Communists in America. They are using their power to destroy the culture in America, just like the Bolsheviks in the USSR. People will look back in history and see many similarities between the people that seek power and the ones who prevent the government from freeing the people from their grasp. This experiment will not last because the overspending and the debt will create a vacuum to destruction. There will be deniers at first and very arrogant people joining the progressive movement. Then they will soon realize, it was a lie. There is a reason why Marx was a great thinker but not a great creator because if you actually implemented his dream there would be destruction, poverty, and conflict.