Anyone seen "Waiting for Superman" movie?

Rotten Tomatoes ^ | 01/27/2011

[iowamark]

Pardon the vanity, but Dennis Miller on O'Reilly last night mentioned this movie on US education as the best of 2010. It looks like it was made by the director of Algore's movie so I would expect a left wing bias.

Has anyone here seen the movie?

[iowamark]

"Waiting for Superman" official site

[Doogle]

...actually it’s very strong anti union, it explains where the money goes.....debunks the “it’s for the children” BS.

[pepsi_junkie]

I heard the filmmaker interviewed. He’s a leftwing guy and he set out to make a leftwing movie but the facts didnt support it and his movie (to his surprise) is more conservative in its positions.

[LdSentinal]

"Why it happened: Guggenheim’s big backers may have actually irked independent-minded Academy members. Worse, his teacher’s union-bashing film was embraced by conservatives, one of whom said his Oscar snub is “the price a political apostate pays in Hollywood for straying off the liberal plantation.” Education expert Diane Ravitch trashed it as inaccurate. A more dispassionate expert says, “The first response to the movie was that it’s about poor black kids, and it’s from the Gore guy, so it must be liberal and good-hearted. And then Ravitch and others portrayed it as basically right-wing propaganda, which unsettled the liberal members of the Academy.

I don’t think the movie is as reactionary as Ravitch portrayed it, but I also don’t think it’s very good.” An Oscar doc voter agrees. “It was a great deal of hype. I felt like I’d seen the story before.” “It also tanked at the box office, relative to what was spent on promoting it,” adds the education expert. “The true unforgivable sin in Hollywood!”

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[Dr. Scarpetta]

I haven't seen this movie. I don't think it came to my area.

[org.whodat]

Lets see it would seem to me that you are advertising.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Trailer on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/185389/movie-trailers-waiting-for-superman-—trailer-1

[netmilsmom]

I saw it in a theater. I never thought I would pay to see a documentary. I cried with the families at the end.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I havd not yet seen "Waiting for Superman".

Another really good documentary is "Mugabe and the White African". It shows what and uncontrolled Marxist dictator is really like. It is interesting that the dictator's thugs used a lot of "share the wealth" rhetoric (where have I heard that before?) as they confiscated private property based on race by threats of and actual violence.

[Mangia E Statti Zitto]

I had the same reaction. Watching those families at the lotteries as their dreams for the kids were shattered was just heartbreaking.

I thought the movie was excellent. It was really thought-provoking.

[Constitution Day]

I’ll have to check it out. Now I have the Flaming Lips song by the same title in my head.

[I cannot think of a name]

“I’ll have to check it out. Now I have the Flaming Lips song by the same title in my head.”

First thought I had when I heard the movie title - wonder if it was used in the movie?

If the movie ever comes to cable I’ll find out.

[Porterville]

80% + of all education budget dollars in the state of California goes to employees and employees benefits.

It has only about 20% to do with the kids on a yearly basis.. even less when considering maintenance and operations of facilities.

[Constitution Day]

I’ll have to as well.

I can’t imagine Wayne Coyne allowing a Flaming Lips song to be used in this documentary if there’s any sort of a conservative theme to it. I like him, but he’s a little out there to say the very least.

[TheWriterTX]

Excellent movie. Exposes the nonsense going on in the Department of Education. Tears the unions to shreds for sheltering terrible teachers, gets to the heart of where the money is being wasted.

My local TP had a trip to the movies to see this. Will infuriate and sadden you at the same time!

Definitely not left wing.

[I cannot think of a name]

“I like him, but he’s a little out there to say the very least.”

Yea, I’ve had to pretty much divorce my connection between artists and their “beliefs.” Otherwise I’d have virtually no movies or television to watch, or music to listen to.

[Constitution Day]

Yea, I’ve had to pretty much divorce my connection between artists and their “beliefs.” Otherwise I’d have virtually no movies or television to watch, or music to listen to.

Isn’t that the truth!

[Stegall Tx]

I have a lib friend who hates it. Must be great. Haven't seen it myself, but I would recommend “The Lottery”, a documentary (available at Netflix) about the New York City school system and how they have a few slots in charter schools available each year. Interesting view of the school district.

[artificial intelligence]

It is and the director a left wing wacko was not even nominated for this movie and the Oscars - shows how strong the unions are in hollywood.

[netmilsmom]

Every woman in the theater was crying.

They had a big showing here for the Union members and then covered their spin on the local news. It was disgusting.