Fahrenheit 9/11

[Defiant]

Armaggedon,
It was a great movie, especially the part where Willis was launching golf balls into the Green peace oil leaking boat. I suppose, "We Were Soldiers", "Black Hawk Down" and "Top Gun" are all right wing movies.

[Solomwi]

Diss, what does a picture of Jabba the Hutt have to do with the thread?

cinch, does a straight-to-video production starring Kirk Cameron really qualify as a movie?

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Buying Miramax, the company partially responsible for movies like "Pulp Fiction" certainly would rock the boat, but it makes them money. Wouldn't this movie do the same thing?

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Defiant: The point that was being made is they were Oil Rig Workers...not Oil "Executives"

You're not gonna see Cheney on a rig unless he's taking a professional tour.

EDIT: I've thought for a while that movie was right-wing propaganda...I mean, the only place that any part of the asteroid destroys is Paris.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
Wouldn't this movie do the same thing?

They sold Dogma to another studio. Why on earth would anybody think that a movie likely to be as contraversial but make less money get different treatment?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Buying Miramax, the company partially responsible for movies like "Pulp Fiction" certainly would rock the boat, but it makes them money. Wouldn't this movie do the same thing?

Pulp Fiction really doesn't rock the boat. It didn't cause any outrage from conservatives or liberals.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Dissident
I heard the white house said Mel Gibson would not get any white house visits if a company he has a lot of control over released this movie.

Anyways, Moore has vowed to release this movie before the election.

I kind of hope he can do it. Although I think he's a big, fat, idiot.

Mel Gibson's production company, Icon productions, was in the running among the original production companies who wanted to produce this movie. Gibson bowed out saying that the controversy he was going to go through with POTC was enough for a single year. Also, since 90% of you view Gibson as a right-wing whack job, it kind of follows that he won't wait for a call from the White House to decide that he does not want to be involved with F-911.

The film was picked up (not "saved" as MM says) by Miramax who is co-producing it with MM's production company Dog-Eat-Dog films. Miramax is a much larger fish than Icon productions, so it's not as if Moore had to struggle to find somebody, anybody who will help him make his widdle movie.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Someone released a right-wing movie in the last decade?

Sure. Didn't you see "Forrest Gump"?

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe


Wow!! I hadn't realized Bruce Willis and company were oil execs. Man talk about hands on executives. Seems like we could use more of them.

Bruce owned the rig. Hell, even Ben Affleck could quit his job and within a week start his own fully operational deep sea rig. They were all capitalists.

[Defiant]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
Defiant: The point that was being made is they were Oil Rig Workers...not Oil "Executives"

You're not gonna see Cheney on a rig unless he's taking a professional tour.

EDIT: I've thought for a while that movie was right-wing propaganda...I mean, the only place that any part of the asteroid destroys is Paris.

Yea, true although Willis is the owner of the rig so technically he is an exec, but a working exec. Parts of the asteroid hit New York, but it did annihilate Paris.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Solomwi
cinch, does a straight-to-video production starring Kirk Cameron really qualify as a movie?

Actually, Left Behind was originally released as a video and then released theatrically. I'm pretty sure that's the first time a video-to-movie crossover happened, though TV-to-movie crossovers have happened before (Testament, a PBS made-for-TV movie in 1982, plus one of the mid-90's Jane Austin flicks done by PBS or the BBC.)

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Pulp Fiction did rock the boat, as did Dogma, Kill Bill, Kids, and many of the earlier Miramax films. However...they didn't insult the administration. That's the only boat Disney doesn't rock.

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by cinch


True, but what kind of a situation do we have when the reason a corporation makes a free-market decision is not profit motive (this film will make coin), but fear of the administration?

Come on! What fear of the administration?

The issue is not fear of Bush, but fear of ordinary americans. Disney is afraid of pissing off the millions of Americans who are pro-bush and who would get angry at Moore's piece of crap.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
... as did Dogma, ...

They sold Dogma to another studio. Why on earth would anybody think that a movie likely to be as contraversial but make less money get different treatment?

[chequita guevara]

The same people they were afraid of when they celebrated Gay Days at their parks in spite of a threatened fundi boycott of Disney?