Posted on 05/18/2004 8:13:05 PM PDT by aft_lizard
CANNES -- In "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore drops any pretense that he is a documentarian to pull together from many sources an angry polemic against the president, the Bush family and the administration's foreign policy. Where "Roger & Me" and "Bowling for Columbine" were personal quests for truth, looking at a subject from different angles and talking to people polls apart in their points of view, Moore stays "on message" here from first shot to last. There is no debate, no analysis of facts or search for historical context. Moore simply wants to blame one man and his family for the situation in Iraq the United States now finds itself in.
The film arrives, of course, amid recent revelations of Bush insiders Richard Clarke and Paul O'Neill, the turmoil over the 9/11 commission and the growing sense that the Iraq problem is not going away anytime soon. And the very public dust-up between Moore and the Walt Disney Co.'s Michael Eisner, which has left Moore momentarily without a distributor, certainly raises the film's profile even further. So the film should reach a large enough audience; the question is: Will Moore be preaching to the choir?
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Will Moore be preaching to the choir? Yes.
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Haven't had the displeausre to see it yet. But if it is anythong like "roger and Me" or "Bowling for Columbine" then it is a litany of mean spirited lies, edited clips, and taken out of context quotes.
And I don't even like Bush- so- I am impartial.
"And I don't even like Bush- so- I am impartial."
I wouldn't say that makes you impartial, just forthcoming.
that is rather well known...lol
This statement is nonsense. Moore hasn't sought the truth in years. The only personal quests for Moore are those that end at his refrigerator.
" So the real question is not how good a film is "Fahrenheit 9/11" -- it is undoubtedly Moore's weakest -- but will a film help to get a president fired?"
This is clearly not Moore trying to create an accurate or even mediocre film...but a political ad. Don't you at least have to create a 527 organization for this? Look for this political ad in a terrorist training camp near you.
Moore is an ass.
LOL.
LOL. I don't think I am that notorious. But thanks for the indirect praise nonetheless!
Ohhh I get it! Hit me over the head with a spoon. You got me!
That was a good one!
ROFL!
DOes this film violate Federal Election Law as a contribution of more than $2,000 to the Kerry camp?
SNIP
The Iraq violence is more gruesome than what normally appears on American TV. One particular sequence follows an American patrol on Christmas Eve, but Moore never identifies who shot the footage. Because Moore is very good at jumping in front of a camera when he is around, one can only assume he shot none of the Iraq footage. But his editing is designed to emphasize Iraqi suffering and U.S. military personnel indifference or even hostility.
Uh huh, no slant there. And he probably claims to support the troops.
"So the real question is not how good a film is "Fahrenheit 9/11" -- it is undoubtedly Moore's weakest -- but will a film help to get a president fired?"
That's why he got the money to make the movie. He had to throw in a Wesley Clark recommendation to seal the bargain.
Touchingly conveys. LOL. Yeah. The bastard didn't refuse show 9/11 images out of respect. He doesn't want people reminded why we have to fight terrorists on their turf.
The Dallas Morning News overnight section had a brief review of the film today. I wasn't familiar with the reviewer, but his review was pretty tepid. He even mentions how this scumbag Moore got angry when reporters at his press conference said there was really nothing new and unknown in the movie. "Disillusioned soldiers isn't new? How about this mother who blames Bush for her son dying in Iraq?!" And how about the parents who don't blame Bush? But, they don't make the movie.
I mean, he had a tepid reaction to the film.
No they weren't. They were hatchet jobs and the work of a cut and splice phoney.
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