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02-26-05, 02:49
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Just finish watching Fahrenheit 9/11 and man, did I regret buying this DVD...  Though the "show" has it's interesting plots, I don't know if I can truly believe the entire thing that was presented... The start of the show managed to captured my attention till about halfway when the images of war and killings and deaths turned me off...It's gross | ||
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02-26-05, 04:06
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 | Yeah, it's not the greatest picture I've seen, though I think it's worth people seeing it, just so they don't back or hate it without having seen it for themselves... It is blatantly a 2 hour attack on Bush, and because of that, it loses any integrity it might have held... The end of it's just a blatant pull at the heart-strings too, which I wasn't too fond of...
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02-26-05, 07:34
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| I am still wondering about the alleged conspiracies were true, why is there no investigations going on? If indeed the bin Laden families were allowed to leave the US almost immediately after the 9/11 tragedy when all flights were grounded, who authorised it and why? This "show" definitely made me think a lot of why why why...  | ||
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02-26-05, 07:47
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| There's nothing false in it, but the truths have been edited together in a way that suits Moore's arguments... The best known example of him using this technique is in Bowling For Columbine where he's on about the NRA rally taking place in Columbine a week after the shootings, then he cuts to Charlton Heston saying something like "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hands", I haven't watched it since before Xmas, so I'm not that fresh on it. Anywho, the point is that that clip wasn't actually from the Columbine rally, but from an entirely different one, but was edited together to make it look like Heston said that at Columbine... With films making such sweeping generalisations, you've got to remember to think for yourself and question what's being said. If it stands up to the questioning, then it's good, but don't take Moore's word as gospel any more than Bush's...
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03-06-05, 08:46
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| The film is a lesson in irony. Michael Moore is against Bush's "propaganda", but Moore himself is making a propaganda film. I'm not pro or anti Bush (seeing how I'm not even a US citizen), but that film seems no better than the old 50s propaganda films from the US. If McCarthy was left-wing, he would've been quite proud of Moore. It just goes to show, everyone has an agenda. Personally I say, shoot 'em all and let God decide! (2 Saddam-era Iraqi dinars to anyone who knows where that quote came from!) | ||
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03-14-05, 03:08
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03-15-05, 17:27
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| Ah, The Simpsons... The cause of and solution to all of life's problems... (Hopefully that's a slightly less vague paraphrase)
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02-21-06, 06:08
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| Farenheit blew me away. I laughed, I cried and I cursed. I walked out of the movie theatre and my whole body was tingling. The movie is a courageous exposee of what corporate America does not want all of us to see. Moore brilliantly shows how corporations and the rich congressmen who answer to them, are willing to shove America into war to increase their profit margin. This movie is more than an indictment of Bush, it is an indictment of a system which would allow Bush and Congress to lie to americans and lead them half the way around the world to line the pockets of the wealthy. | ||
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