1"would you like another bit of self satisfaction"
2 "Oh no I just couldnt swallow any more of me own stuff"
1"Just a wee bit more? It will help fill that emptiness in your soul."
2 "Oooh alright. just a wee bit more"
KaBLAMM!!
Posted on 09/06/2004 4:10:34 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michael Moore says he won't submit "Fahrenheit 9/11" for consideration as best documentary at this year's Academy Awards. Instead, he's going for the bigger prize of best picture.
Moore's critically acclaimed film slams President Bush's war on terror as ill-advised and corrupt. The movie has cheered Democrats but enraged the president's supporters, who booed Moore when he visited the Republican National Convention last week.
"For me the real Oscar would be Bush's defeat on Nov. 2," Moore told The Associated Press during a phone interview Monday from New York.
The $6 million film has become a sensation that collected $117.3 million in the United States this summer, despite an early roadblock when the Walt Disney Co. banned its Miramax Films division from distributing the political hot-potato.
In the midst of the presidential campaign, Moore's announcement is a strategic move for his Oscar campaign. Documentaries and animated films have their own categories, but the conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that those niche awards can limit a film's appeal in the overall best picture class.
Moore said he and his producing partner, Harvey Weinstein, agreed "Fahrenheit 9/11" would stand a better chance if they focused solely on the top Oscar.
He also said he wanted to be "supportive of my teammates in nonfiction film."
So many documentaries - such as the gonzo fast-food satire "Super Size Me" and the sober look at Arab television news in "Control Room" - have made the rounds in theaters recently that Moore, who won the best documentary Oscar for "Bowling for Columbine," said he wanted to give others a chance.
Moore also hinted in a recent interview in Rolling Stone he would like the movie to play on television before the presidential election. According to the rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, playing on TV would invalidate its contention in the documentary category, but not for best picture. With the movie coming out on DVD Oct. 5, it's not clear whether the TV deal would happen.
Regardless of who wins the election, Moore said the movie's presence at the Academy Awards in February will provide another forum for Americans to think about its message.
"The issues in the film - terrorism, the war on terrorism, the Iraq war - will be with us five months from now, sadly," Moore said. "The issues that the film raises will be no less relevant, in the new year."
TM & ©2004 WJLA/NewsChannel 8, a division of Allbritton Communications Company
When this election is over and we look back at who was militantly partisan, the Republicans should look to Hollywood. That is a place that needs to be cleaned up. The first order of business should be a Hollywood federal drug task force. The second order of business should be an excise tax on movies. Paybacks should be painful.
Where's John Hinckley whe the country really needs him?
He ought to put himself in for a Purple Heart.
1"would you like another bit of self satisfaction"
2 "Oh no I just couldnt swallow any more of me own stuff"
1"Just a wee bit more? It will help fill that emptiness in your soul."
2 "Oooh alright. just a wee bit more"
KaBLAMM!!
Have there been any really good films this year?
Sorry Im media challenged.
The last film I saw this year was TROY
Unfortunately, so does Hollywood. He's going to win Best Picture.
That's what I'm afraid of. Where are the REALLY good films this year? Beyond the Passion of the Christ, can you name one? Head to head, the academy will give the nod to F-911, because, I agree, regardless of the magnitude and excellence of TPOTC, there is no way the academy gives it Best Picture.
Now Im skeered! L0L
How about submitting it for best propaganda film?
Anyone from Hollywood who is reading this is welcome to.
WAKE UP! You are losing my money. I will not buy your products, your ads, your movies, your schtick, your anything, as long as you sell this tripe and call it quality.
"The Passion of the Christ" is the picture that deserves to win the Oscar. "
I agree; however, I doubt if it will even receive the nomination.
Yeah, and I bet President George W Bush didn't do anything to stop the booing either.
F/9-11 winning the Oscar will be like the Noble peace prize being awarded to Jimmy Carter. The NPP lost whatever credibility it had left soon after. Oscar is in danger of losing whatever prestige it still clings to in event of supporting this pic.
Then he says he wants to give other documentaries a chance since he (hint,hint) is the presumed winner.
Of course the reason the load is doing this is that he knows that all the falsehoods in his fictumentary have been exposed and even the Academy would be hard pressed to justify its nomination.
A best picture nomination should be a shoo since authenticity rules won't be a problem for a work of fiction. If Bush wins, look for an hysterical Hollywood to pour heaps of nominations on this 90 minute waste of time.
This guy?...
Or these guys!?
Michael Moore is a bloated, ridiculous wannabe filmaker whose 15 minutes of fame are done only he won't recognize it. Those men above gave him that right and he should be on his freakin' knees thanking God they did!
God bless our troops wherever they may be.
If Kerry wins, I won't watch it. If Bush wins, I will, and then, I'll hope he wins so he'll have to go up on the stage and realize that it didn't make a damn bit of difference.
Hard to take that list seriously when TPOTC has the same rating as "The Ladykillers".
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