(BARF ALERT) 'Celsius' Rant is Tepid and insipid (Boston Globe biased film review)

The Boston Globe ^ | 10/25/04 | Wesley Morris

[raccoonradio]

''Celsius 41.11" has an agenda that's meant to put Michael Moore's ''Fahrenheit 9/11" in its place. In doing so, it assumes the comically defensive attitude of Betty Hutton in ''Annie Get Your Gun": Anything Moore can do, this tedious Bush-besotted lecture can do better. ''Celsius 41.11" refers to the temperature at which the brain starts to die, a fact that the documentary, directed by Kevin Knoblock, is polite enough to tell us, while it shows cruddy footage of a jet flying into the World Trade Center.

As you can guess from the two films' competing temperature gauges, Knoblock and Moore speak different languages. ''Fahrenheit 9/11" is conspiratorial, tragic-comedy musing on the implications of the George W. Bush administration's war in Iraq. It's not entirely clear what ''Celsius 41.11" is aside from a piece of stone-faced reactionism.

Actually, it wonders why so many people all over the world want to demonize the present so. But rather than launch into a series of mind-changing hosannas, it chooses to make its case via a PowerPoint presentation that takes the typical anti-Bush complaints (he didn't win the election, and he didn't do enough to stop 9/11, and he's stealing our civil liberties; plus: what weapons of mass destruction?) and uses them not to polish the president's record but to lambaste Senator John Kerry, the democratic presidential nominee.

[raccoonradio]

Liberal Boston Globe is tepid and insipid. I guess this was to be expected. The best way to combat this biased opinion is to see this movie. I did and it was a hell of a letter better and sensical than the Glob's review of it.

[Izzy Dunne]

so many people all over the world want to demonize the present so.

Huh?
Do they mean "President"?

[Arnold Zephel]

[dirtboy]

Liberals do find the truth to be SOOO boring.

[arizonarachel]

when my fiance and I went to see this Friday night, there was a fat-michael-moore-esqe guy sitting at the end of our row. he was obviously there to do a review - making all kinds of disgusted noises and couldn't sit through the first 5 minutes. When he left I said: "Thank you, A-hole," pretty loudly.

That was sweet.

[Prime Choice]

[BushisTheMan]

All the more reason for me to see this film if the Liberal Boston Globe is panning it.

[Edgerunner]

Brahahahahahahaha...
like it could be any other way to these Boston commies...