I watched the first 15 minutes of Slacker uprising and that was more than enough for me. What a self-aggrandizing bore. The original title of the movie was Captain Mike Across America and that reflected more the direction it went. And I am not talking about the 60 city tour of Michael Moore across the nation in the weeks before the last general election. That and its goal of getting people out to vote, hence the ‘slacker uprising’ title, I commend. But making a movie about seemed pointless to me, beyond getting his name even further out.
I think the aim of the movie and its release right before the next, i.e. current, election is the same: hoping that it would influence those people to vote, who would otherwise note. If that is the goal, then I think there is very little chance that this movie can accomplish it. It does not give any good reasons. Showing one excited person after the other, getting caught up in the spirit of voting en mass could have been influential, but here they just seemed flat to me. My wife and mother-in-law watched the whole movie and they appreciated some of the musicians playing their songs and seeing them out there. If that’s the best the movie has to offer, then why not just watch those (or your favorite) artists on their own.
Instead of watching this movie, why don’t you convince a few more people to vote. That would be time better spent.