Fahrenheit 9/11
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Movie Reviews of Fahrenheit 9/11
Movie Review: Some Grains of Salt in Otherwise Good Documentary
Summary: 3 Stars
I like the topics Michael chooses but I sometimes think he's in it for the money. Some conservatives created a counter to this movie entitled FahreNYPE 9/11. I watched that too. It shows Democrats also hanging out with middle easterners in flowing robes and hoods. Michael Moorer made it sound like it was all conservatives doing that. You know guilt by association.
Then Michael asks congress people if they have any sons or daughters in the armed forces, tyring to make a point that if they did they wouldn't vote to send then to die in Iraq. When one congress person tried to explain that he did have children in the armed forces his mike was cut since that didn't help the story line.
In this movie, George Bush is shown speaking to a crowd saying something like "You are my people/base." Made Bush look like he was an elitist hanging with other elitists. In the Farenhype counter movie they show how Moorer took this speech completely out of context. They don't show Bush leaving the podium and going to sit down right next to Al Gore. Al Gore and Geroge Bush were at the same meeting.
Please Michael Moorer you don't need to lie or fabricate. Just tell the truth. The facts are strong enough. This doesn't take away completely that there is much good in this movie.
Movie Review: 2 stars out of 4
Summary: 2 Stars
The Bottom Line:
For every good point he scores, Moore finds six bad ones--you don't need to be a conservative to find this is a very poor piece of filmmaking and, frankly, quite a bit of a bore.
Movie Review: Creep!
Summary: 1 Stars
Over the course of my many years on this earth, I have voted for more Republican candidates for president than Democrats. In the last four elections, however, my votes went to: Nader (twice), Kerry and then Obama. It's hard for me to imagine that history will not come to judge George W. Bush as our worst president ever.
Be that as it may, I doubt that there have been many worse documentary film makers than Michael Moore. To cite just one example from "Fahrenheit 9/11," there is a short clip where Bush appears to be standing in the midst of a bunch of fat cats, talking about his "base" (i.e., the "haves and have-mores"); this clip was plucked, misleadingly, from a massive fundraising event/dinner put on by the Catholic Church in which both presidential candidates (Bush and Gore) were in attendance, and at which both poked a little fun at themselves for the purpose of giving these donors to Catholic charities a few very good laughs. Moore's film cut made it look like Bush was SERIOUSLY pandering to this group. He did this throughout the "Fahrenheit" mockumentary, and I would recommend that you watch the rebuttal-film, "FahrenHYPE 9/11," to see just how extensively Moore's "end justifies the means" philosophy makes an absolute travesty of documentary filmmaking.
"FahrenHYPE" was hastily put together in only four months after Moore's picture came out, and it has its own over-the-top right wing political ax to grind, but it's quite straightforward with its message, and it doesn't use gimmickry and duplicity to push its pro (2004 pre-election) Iraq war agenda. If, however, you can get beyond having to watch some clips of the shrill Ann Coulter, and a few others, the film's real value--amounting to well over half its 80 minute length--consists in pointing out the many spliced, diced, and edited fabrications and distortions (lies, really) that Moore used to go after a president who so sorely lacked the intellectual heft, ecumenical breadth, and diplomatic skill for the job.
Movie Review: You can't have your twinkie and eat it too
Summary: 1 Stars
You can't have your twinkie and eat it too ! Which is it, fat boy ......Did America drop the ball by not being on top of national security or are we unustly persecuting those misunderstood people who only want to express their religious beliefs ? --- As usual, Michael wants it both ways which means it is ALWAYS ONLY Michael's way. Michael only asks and answers the questions he wants to ask and answer and always avoids answering any questions which might threaten his position or asking any questions which does not support his position.
How does Michael accomplish this ? He uses the oldest trick in the book which is to avoid answering a question by answering the question with another question rather than an actual answer. I am a retired Detective who was @ WTC on 9/11 and I was lucky enough to survive unlike the other 3,000 innocent men , women and children who perished on that terrible day. Simply put -- Moore is a fraudulent, hypocritical, flawed director who makes films comprised primarily of fiction and markets them as fact. Moore dishonors all of the people who were lost on 9/11.
Movie Review: Mockudrama
Summary: 1 Stars
Moore uses the hammer of partisan demagoguery to pound another nail into the coffin of the once-venerable documentary. There's so much to criticize our government about, yet Moore feels it is necessary to mislead and distort the facts. I wouldn't hold this movie up as a shining example of First Amendment rights; using Moore's standards of free speech, all of the evil politicians and corporations are exercising their freedom of speech to mislead and distort, and anyone can be made to look incompetent or evil, even Moore. Moore has some good points to make, but he fights fire with fire. A documentary should be made about documentaries!