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With the same endless charade of nonsense and lies... when does this man quit with the lies... all his films are full of them. I remember "Bowling for Columbine" which was full of lies and statistical errors. The man has said he is only in it for the money and no way his Fahreneit 9/11 crap will change the outcome of an election (because it blatantly lies about the president and 9/11). Just another political profit for this sick man.
I don't need to be listening what happening from a 300 pound leftist. The man has no clue and is just utterly braindead.
By Johnathan Foreman
June 23, 2004— For all its clever slickness, Michael Moore’s “Fahren heit 9/11” does not stack up to such brilliant but evil art as Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda films for Hitler. But it is art in the sense that any piece of effective political propaganda — Julius Streicher’s “Der Sturmer” magazine, the famous Che poster from Alberto Korda’s photo, even the anti-Goldwater mushroom-cloud TV ad put out by LBJ — can be taken as art.
Alert critics will doubtless point out its artistic flaws. For example, its most moving sequence — which features audio from the World Trade Center attacks played over a black screen — is a direct ripoff of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s 11-minute segment in the 2003 film “9/11/01”
What makes “Fahrenheit 9/11” notable is that feature-length movie-house agitprop is a relatively rare and new thing, and that so far it has been treated (for instance by the Cannes Film Festival jury) as something more than the clever (if breathtakingly sleazy) political propaganda that it is.
And the film does offer some valuable lessons for everyone — though not in its topics: 9/11, Osama bin Laden, Iraq, the “stolen” 2000 election, the Bush administration’s fondness for the Saudis, the U.S. armed forces’ supposed recruiting from the “starving” unemployed masses or any of the mutually exclusive conspiracy theories the movie puts forward.
No, the lessons of “Fahrenheit 9/11” have to do with the general degradation of our political discourse, the gross dishonesty of our most feted “documentary” filmmaker and with what Michael Moore’s super-popularity in Hollywood and France adds to what we already know about the ignorance and intellectual poverty of the movie industry and the pathetic, spiteful hostility of our French “allies.”
I don't need to be listening what happening from a 300 pound leftist. The man has no clue and is just utterly braindead.
By Johnathan Foreman
June 23, 2004— For all its clever slickness, Michael Moore’s “Fahren heit 9/11” does not stack up to such brilliant but evil art as Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda films for Hitler. But it is art in the sense that any piece of effective political propaganda — Julius Streicher’s “Der Sturmer” magazine, the famous Che poster from Alberto Korda’s photo, even the anti-Goldwater mushroom-cloud TV ad put out by LBJ — can be taken as art.
Alert critics will doubtless point out its artistic flaws. For example, its most moving sequence — which features audio from the World Trade Center attacks played over a black screen — is a direct ripoff of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s 11-minute segment in the 2003 film “9/11/01”
What makes “Fahrenheit 9/11” notable is that feature-length movie-house agitprop is a relatively rare and new thing, and that so far it has been treated (for instance by the Cannes Film Festival jury) as something more than the clever (if breathtakingly sleazy) political propaganda that it is.
And the film does offer some valuable lessons for everyone — though not in its topics: 9/11, Osama bin Laden, Iraq, the “stolen” 2000 election, the Bush administration’s fondness for the Saudis, the U.S. armed forces’ supposed recruiting from the “starving” unemployed masses or any of the mutually exclusive conspiracy theories the movie puts forward.
No, the lessons of “Fahrenheit 9/11” have to do with the general degradation of our political discourse, the gross dishonesty of our most feted “documentary” filmmaker and with what Michael Moore’s super-popularity in Hollywood and France adds to what we already know about the ignorance and intellectual poverty of the movie industry and the pathetic, spiteful hostility of our French “allies.”
What was I supposed to do? Quote something from Michael Moore's own website or from some leftist website? The fictitious movie is disgusting and just spits on America as a whole. There is only a right and a wrong in this, and I stand as right.
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