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Post by rob strong on Jul 4, 2004 19:20:27 GMT 1
just got in from a preview screening. very thought-provoking. essential viewing, whichever side of the divide you stand on.
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Post by gus on Jul 5, 2004 3:21:02 GMT 1
keep trying to download it but end up with something completely different im a huge michael moore fan and im very jealous of you rob!
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Post by coswave on Jul 5, 2004 3:48:57 GMT 1
I loved the film, thought provoking indeed. I thought it was better than Bowling for Columbine. It was more professionally done, presenting more fact and less of Michael Moore's infamous confrontational tactics to interview people, not that there's anything wrong with that. Anyway, highly recommended for those who haven't seen it yet. By the way, Letterman’s Top Ten List: “Top Ten George W. Bush Complaints About "Fahrenheit 9/11": 10. That actor who played the President was totally unconvincing 9. It oversimplified the way I stole the election 8. Too many of them fancy college-boy words 7. If Michael Moore had waited a few months, he could have included the part where I get him deported 6. Didn't have one of them hilarious monkeys who smoke cigarettes and gives people the finger 5. Of all Michael Moore's accusations, only 97% are true 4. Not sure - - I passed out after a piece of popcorn lodged in my windpipe 3. Where the hell was Spider-man? 2. Couldn't hear most of the movie over Cheney's foul mouth 1. I thought this was supposed to be about dodgeball
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Post by rob strong on Jul 5, 2004 12:57:53 GMT 1
im a huge michael moore fan and im very jealous of you rob! there were preview screenings all over the uk yesterday, and it seems that despite the advertised opening date being 9th july, many places are showing it all this week. check local listings? i've been to preview screenings for quite a few, usually non-blockbuster, movies. this was by far the busiest i've been to. the editing of different speeches together, the use of 'shiny happy people' to soundtrack bush's cronies shaking hands with various members of bin laden's entourage, and the sickening feeling induced by 'rockin in the free world' over the end credits...great stuff.
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Post by gus on Jul 5, 2004 14:15:03 GMT 1
my hometown cinema probably wont even show it as its run by idiots looking at their schedual its gonna be shrek 2 and spiderman 2 untill september! but the one i usually go to in the next town has fahrenheit on weds!!!
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Post by iain egg on Jul 5, 2004 23:42:27 GMT 1
thx for the reviews gents. Hope to see it soon, maybe in Nw York which would be interesting...
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Post by gus on Aug 12, 2004 11:18:08 GMT 1
just watched it for a second time and i have realised its a piece of shit.
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Post by untitled on Aug 21, 2004 9:38:19 GMT 1
just watched it for a second time and i have realised its a piece of shit. Exactly what I think too. The film is obviously a simple anti-Bush campaign that presents 2 hours worth of biased and slanted views that only raise hate in this country from the left and from the right. People on the left are going to eat up every bit of the film and people on the right are going to piss all over what they think. That gets us nowhere, of course. The good ol' fashioned American way, I guess.
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Post by An ex-cowboy on Nov 29, 2004 17:11:09 GMT 1
As a Flint native and resident for 21 years of my life, I can tell you that Moore is not from Flint proper but actually from the outlying country suburb of Davison. I could also tell you that the man inhales doughnuts, but you could probably tell that yourself. 9/11 was very funny and very provoking but also very scattershot. I think Moore would have been better off sticking to his thesis, which used social inequality as an anti-war argument (an interesting framing). Moore unfortunately has this tendency to wander. I would reccomend a book entitled "Rivethead" by Ben Hamper, a GM line-worker turned author and one of Moore's former buddies. The local library should have it. It is a great, hillarious book about life in Flint. Last I knew Matt Dillon was trying to get a movie of it made with him in the lead role.
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