Posted on 10/24/2004 10:50:15 AM PDT by buzzyboop
Election Day -- Nov. 2 -- is highly unlikely to end, but may diminish, the quantity of so-called political documentaries.
The sheer volume of movies hammering President George W. Bush and-or defending former President Bill Clinton and presidential nominee-Sen. John Kerry seems to keep reaching a new crescendo.
Those that played in Pittsburgh theaters this year alone include "Fahrenheit 9/11," "The Yes Men," "Uncovered: The War on Iraq," "Going Upriver," "The Hunting of the President, "Power Trip," "Outfoxed," "Control Room" and somewhat less directly, "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The Corporation."
The few that surfaced from the right received little or no theatrical distribution, including "FahrenHype 9/11" and "Michael Moore Hates America."
The one blip in the stream to swim against the liberal tide and reach 113 theaters today, but only Loews Waterfront here, is "Celsius 41.11," which is subtitled "The temperature at which the brain begins to die."
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
My son and I went to see C41.11 at Shirlington (Arlington) on Friday. Maybe 10 people in the theater for the 1PM showing. Of course, Arlington, VA is enemy territory.
We then went to my place and watched Fahrenhype 911 on a DVD he had purchased at WalMart.
Both excellent documentaries.
I'm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the little local theatre is showing for "free" Fahrenhype 911 on Thursday night! We have posters and banners all over town...BTW the night before they are showing (not MM's) something scathing about the President. Our local Republican Headquarters has asked us not to picket their showing and we have the media on "standbye" should they picket our showing. We shall see....the local newspaper is called the "The Star Democrat" which was renamed many years ago...guess what it was named then...yep..."The Star Republican"!
Yes, I saw C 41.11 on Fri. and bought Fahrenhype 9/11. Today. Both excellent. (And I will say the number of
people at the very first showing of the former, in
Danvers MA, was in the single digits.)
I left the theater feeling that we each need to drag a liberal to see it. A day later, I'm not sure it is compelling enough to convert the brain dead.
I'm leaving to see it in 5 minutes...should I bother?
I just got a hold of the FarenHYPE 9/11 DVD. Thats another good one to watch.
I just came from the theatre here in Houston where it was showing. There were only about six to ten people in the theatre at a showing at 12:55. It may only be here for one week like that Reagan movie was so I wanted to see it.
It was great. I wish I could find a copy of "JOhn Boy" by Larry Gatlin. Great song.
Brad
I look forward to your thoughts on the movie.
I'm surprised they haven't outlawed the movie in Mass.
I thought it was very good. Most of it my husband and I already knew from being political junkies, but if you know any Independents, buy them a ticket and take them to see it! The only part that I really found fascinating was about the Fl. recount. There were a few things, that I (1) didn't know or (2) forgotten. I cried with happiness at the end watching GWB throw that strike over home plate... I know I am sappy!! The 8 people in theater all stood and applauded at the end. Half of them were foreign born and love this country. I talked to two ladies from Sweden, and one lady from Austria, and her husband from Germany. They are all voting for GWB and very proud to call him their president. The other couple left before I could speak to them, so all I know about them is, they clapped and stood at the end.
As we were walking down a residential street to the car, I came upon four windows of Kerry signs along with Bush AWOL and blah blah blah. I was so mad, I told my husband, I could spit on them...LOL
Then as we strolled on, a few doors down, was a cute little garden behind a wrought iron fence. In the middle was one of those five feet wide B/C signs. I was grinning from ear to ear! My husband said, "Don't you feel better now? Aren't you glad you didn't stoop to the leftist way of thinking and spit?" I was laughing and said,"Yeah but you see that big old iron fence around that sign don't you? No one can steal that baby!"
I was disappointed in the turn out.
As for the quality, I thought some of the information on the screen either went by too fast (list of all terrorists attacks against us before President Bush took office) or the information was too much to read in one screen shot... maybe it should have scrolled? I also thought a lot of the pictures were too fuzzy... maybe it was brought up to full size from TV size? Much of the screen text wasn't done well and the fonts were not very smooth. The theatre oversized the projection, so that a lot was up over the top of the screen, and the quality of the movie was reduced. I don't know if that was intentional or not. Now days, I don't think it's conspiracy to believe it was on purpose.... even though, I wasn't raised to jump to conclusions.
The content of the movie was excellent and I wish everyone had to see it before casting a vote.
My wife and I both thought it ironic that the left believes in this huge evil powerful right-wing conspiracy, but that we can't afford or are not talented enough to produce a movie that at least looked as good as Michael Moorse's fakametary.
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