Did you see "Fahrenheit 911" ?

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Did you see "Fahrenheit 911" ?
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Tue, 06-29-2004 - 1:31pm

Did you see "Fahrenheit 911" ?



  • No
  • No, but I plan to
  • Yes


You will be able to change your vote.


 

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Registered: 04-04-2003
Thu, 09-09-2004 - 10:46am
I could be all paranoid and try to detect hidden sarcasm (about the source as being acceptable), but I've decided to take your post at face value. :o)

It's possible that Moore still had a comfortable childhood. I don't know what his grandfather and father did for GM. One of them or both could have had an executive position. He may have lived in one of the bigger houses in the town, I don't know. That doesn't mean that the loss of income from something like this wouldn't have been equally devastating for all employees when it came. His whole town was impacted and he probably saw friends in even more dire circumstances than himself.

You have to admire someone who tried to bring this to the attention of a wider audience (and try and do it with a little humour).

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Thu, 09-09-2004 - 11:05am
No sarcasm intended at all. I was trying to gracefully cede the point to you. I tried to find it for a few minutes, but utlimately it wasn't important enough to me to spend too much time on it.

I do admire humor, and I must say that I enjoyed the film many years ago because of the humor. It did nothing to change my POV, though. Michael Moore's films expose him for the socialist conspiracy chasing nutcase that he is. ;)

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Registered: 05-09-2003
Thu, 09-09-2004 - 11:10am
Excellent post Suemox... I agree wholeheartedly. I honestly couldn't care less where he's from- I don't think it has to do with anything. While I don't agree with everything he does, I've enjoyed his films and I admire him for speaking his mind.

"Without music, life is a journey through the desert"...

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Registered: 04-04-2003
Thu, 09-09-2004 - 12:10pm
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I'd thought so. Thanks :o)

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Well there's a market for that. And there's quite often a kernal of truth in the things that he says. You don't have to agree with everything. After all nobody's perfect, including Michael Moore.

*singing* God Bless America.

;o)

No sarcasm intended either.

:oD


Edited 9/9/2004 12:12 pm ET ET by suemox

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Registered: 08-05-2004
Thu, 09-09-2004 - 2:39pm
Just wondering: what other movies has Moore done? This is the first time I've heard of him so I was just wondering. Can you find the other movies on dvd's and stuff? XOXO.
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Registered: 09-02-2004
Thu, 09-09-2004 - 2:48pm
He wrote Bowling for colimbine,Roger and Me and down size this. His movies are not always Bush bashing, he also went after clinton, and he goes after big business like Nike, and other companies that go over seas for cheep labor.He wrote Dude wher's my country, and stupied white men. They are in hard back and paper back now. Most of his issues before 9/11, have been about the people of flint michigan, where the poverty rate is at an all time high. But some of the other issues are with the NRA.Just to name a few. hope this helps.
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Registered: 08-05-2004
Thu, 09-09-2004 - 2:50pm
Speaking of Florida I heard on the local news that there's this woman who's trying to get a one-count for the ballets and then put them in a box and lock it up and not be able to open it up for ten years after the count. I think they should have it every where. Maybe then there won't be much fighting and no more recounts and stuff. XOXO.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 09-13-2004 - 11:24am
The NYT is maintaining it's neutrality??? Oh, my goodness...


Times: Moore Can't Reprint Article

Sep 10, 11:39 AM EST

The Associated Press

NEW YORK -- The New York Times will not permit Michael Moore to include an article criticizing its own reporting for an upcoming companion book to the DVD release of the filmmaker's "Fahrenheit 9-11."

"We strongly value The Times's neutrality in its election coverage and we are determined not to associate ourselves with any work in film or print that attacks either candidate," New York Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis said in a statement released Thursday.

Moore's "The Official `Fahrenheit 9-11' Reader" is scheduled to come out next month in conjunction with the DVD release of "Fahrenheit 9-11," Moore's take on President Bush, the Iraq war and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The movie, which relentlessly criticizes and ridicules the president, has earned more than $100 million at the box office, a record for a documentary.

The Times article, published in May, was a self-analysis of the newspaper's pre-Iraq war reporting, including Bush administration claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

"In some cases, information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged," according to the article.

Moore's publisher, Simon & Schuster, said several other publications granted Moore permission to use material, including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Only the Times refused.

"Michael Moore attracts controversy and this is no exception," David Rosenthal, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and publisher, said in a statement Friday.

"Fahrenheit 9/11," which won the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival in May, was controversial even before it reached theaters, in July. The movie lost its original distributor when the Walt Disney Co. refused to let subsidiary Miramax Films release it because of its political content.

Miramax chiefs Harvey and Bob Weinstein bought back the film and arranged for independent distribution through Lions Gate Films and IFC Films.

http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=168465











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Registered: 04-08-2004
Mon, 09-13-2004 - 3:18pm
yes i saw Fahrenheit 911. in fact i saw it 3 times. i thought it was very informative and helpful in gathering information for an informed voting decision. i can't wait for it to come out on dvd so i can watch it again if necessary before election day. my family is so pro-bush, that they think very negative thing about bush is just made up to smear him. i just wish more people would see it before the election, to get another side of bush instead of just the one side (positive) that we've all been exposed to. the movie maybe one-sided as the critics have said, but haven't we all heard enough of the positive? aren't we all ready to read or see some of the other?
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Registered: 03-25-2004
Mon, 09-13-2004 - 3:43pm
I may buy a few copies, there are some people that haven't seen it in the theaters, that I would like to give it to so they can watch it at home.

 

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