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Adenoid_Hynkel

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Tue May-18-04 08:49 PM
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More FAHRENHEIT 9/11 reviews

both positive-if you can make it through the self-important ramblings of Harry Knowles and skip the neocon talkback, they're worth your time

http://aint-it-cool.com/display.cgi?id=17587

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buycitgo

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Tue May-18-04 08:53 PM
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1. great! put them all here, maybe? spread them around, paul revere-like

here's another rave:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0405180387may18,1,2703037.story?coll=chi-news-hed

.......A scathing look at the Bush administration, before and after the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks, "Fahrenheit" is replete with a radical analysis of the war's true aims, heart-rending footage of those killed and their survivors (American and Iraqi) and typical Moore saucy humor about the failings of the mighty.
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The first part of the film deals with the Florida dispute in the 2000 presidential election, numerous connections among Bush, his family and friends and the bin Laden family and Saudi Arabian ruling elite. It also examines the Bush administration's seeming disinterest in worldwide terrorism or bin Laden before 9/11. "We had a president who was asleep at the wheel," Moore reiterated. What follows 9/11 in the film though, is even more disturbing: a portrayal of a nation in the grip of fear ("I wanted to show how manipulated.") and of a war fought with dubious premises and painful results.

"Fahrenheit" balances scenes of raw anguish (notably with Lila Lipscomb, distraught Flint mother of a dead American soldier) and increasingly surreal looks at Bush and his colleagues, primping for cameras and incessantly repeating their pre-Iraq War litany on "weapons of mass destruction." (The movie though spends relatively little time on the weapons and United Nations battles. "That's old news," Moore said.)

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"I hope to influence people to leave the theater and become good citizens," he said. In response to a question about the movie's possible intended effect on Bush's re-election campaign, he quipped, "You have to get elected, before you get re-elected." "Americans," he said, "once they're given the information, they act accordingly and act from a good place."

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spooked

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Tue May-18-04 08:53 PM
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2. Here's a link to all the reviews so far..

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Fahrenheit911-10004132/reviews.php

A great site for movie reviews...should pick up all of them

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buycitgo

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Tue May-18-04 08:57 PM
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5. thanks for that site!

don't care for rotten tomatoes that much, for various reasons, but if they have the most comprehensive listing, good for them!

it's taking forever to load for me (one big reason I don't like)

can you give an idea of how the reviews are shaking out?

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Generic Other

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Tue May-18-04 09:06 PM
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7. A stomach turning image...

"...a shot of Wolfowitz sticking his pocket comb in his mouth and sucking on it to slick down his hair before a TV interview."

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-10004132/reviews.php?critic=all&sortby=default&page=1&rid=1281816

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osaMABUSh

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Tue May-18-04 08:53 PM
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3. MM outdid himself this time - do ya think they'll be a backlash?

Against Moore, the Dems, and Kerry because the film is so anti-Bush? Will it matter? Or will it actually fan the flames and bring more into our camp?

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spooked

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Tue May-18-04 08:57 PM
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4. It will make people wake up!

Won't it be wonderful if movie-gowers in THIS country give it a standing ovation in the theatres? That will surely make people more comfortable with the idea of going against the regime.

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NMDemDist2

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Tue May-18-04 08:57 PM
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6. i have stated before, the Freepers won't go, but some

"undecided" will go to see what all the buzz is about, and we may pick up a few :D

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buycitgo

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Tue May-18-04 09:37 PM
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8. come ON, people......get the lead out.....get the word out!

keep this up there

use one of the few media resources not taken over by the fascoids

spread the word

one by one

make people aware

think of the power those Abu Graib pictures had

think MOVING picures........more ways than one

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