Just got back from seeing Farenheit 9/11.
My views on the subject should not be terribly surprising. I thought the movie was very good. It presented important material that everyone should have available to them. I think, surprisingly, that Michael Moore was not over the top as he usually is.
I would, of course, like to hear what people right of center have to say, preferably after seeing it, but it’s a free Internet…
I highly recommend this movie.
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
You’ll laugh & you’ll cry, you might cheer
Amazing that the Fri 4:30 show I went to was sold out with people sitting in the aisles!!
The audience loved it, laughed a lot & cried a lot, and broke out into spontaneous applause several times. My wife and I found it very entertaining.
I recommend you see it, and plan ahead. People in Manhattan were begging for tickets last night, and the lines were around the building!
Re: You’ll laugh & you’ll cry, you might cheer
In PA, that is illegal as it is a fire hazard.
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It’s probably illegal in all states. Call the Bush people and they can put a stop to this madness.
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
Awesome movie. My saturday afternoon show was also sold out, and the entire audience burst into cheering about 10 times throughout the film. I dont feel like typing a lot right now, but I really think everyone needs to see this movie. It will seriously be a violation of your own rights as a US citizen if you do not go see it. We all deserve to know the truth.
Funny stuff…
Fanatics are often known for giving an unbiased opinion. I’ll wait for it to hit T.V. and have a good laugh, just like I did after watch Bowling for Col.
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The odds of me going to see Fahrenheit 9/11 is about equal to the odds of you going to a Republican fund raiser and about equal to the odds of me going to a Democratic fund raiser.
The odds of me going to see Fahrenheit 9/11 is about equal to the odds of you sitting through an entire 3 hour broadcast of the Rush Limbaugh radio show.
In short, it ain’t gonna happen. I’m certainly not going to pay money to see it and I don’t even want to see it for free. I haven’t seen Bowling for Columbine and I have absolutely no desire to see it either.
However, this movie might be entertaining for me. 
Oh yea Zod, its all just a big joke. The whole movie is made up. In fact, the september 11th attacks didnt even happen! Its all just fun and games Zod! Have your good laugh and go vote for Bush, he’s really a great guy.
Saw it today (Sunday) at a 5:00 show that was not very full. A fuller theater usually gets more spontaneous audience response, but they did clap at the end.
I found the movie educational (in its way), but not as entertaining as Bowling for Columbine. Graphic war scenes in there.
We’ve been getting the Bush administration’s propaganda for a long time. It was refreshing to get some quality propaganda from the other side.
Of course it’s propaganda. It’s laid on thick, and I didn’t agree with everything I saw, especially the long section that points out all the ties between Saudi businessmen and politicians with the Bush family and their business associates. Though this is certainly related to the bigger picture, I was not able to make out why having a public business relationship with other people in the oil business is such a scandal.
The truth is always good. The hard part of course is detecting truth and separating it from bullshit. Surely this movie has both. But it does a good job of pointing out some of the major bullshit the Bush administration has been selling us for the last few years.
I didn’t feel that he had a strong overall message (other than George W. Bush sucks). I think even stronger was the message to think, read, and vote. No voter registration in the theater that I noticed. That would probably be more prevalent during the busier hours.
Does Michael Moore hate America? I haven’t seen this in his films (This, Bowling, and the one about General Motors and Flint). If you had grown up in Flint, MI you might have more of a feeling of where he’s coming from. I’ve visited Flint. It’s a sad, sad place.
Saw it today (Sunday) at a 5:00 show that was not very full. A fuller theater usually gets more spontaneous audience response, but they did clap at the end.
I found the movie educational (in its way), but not as entertaining as Bowling for Columbine. Graphic war scenes in there.
We’ve been getting the Bush administration’s propaganda for a long time. It was refreshing to get some quality propaganda from the other side.
Of course it’s propaganda. It’s laid on thick, and I didn’t agree with everything I saw, especially the long section that points out all the ties between Saudi businessmen and politicians with the Bush family and their business associates. Though this is certainly related to the bigger picture, I was not able to make out why having a public business relationship with other people in the oil business is such a scandal.
I did agree with other parts. I picked up a few pieces of information that better explained for me the Bush administration’s “agenda” against Iraq that dates back way before 9/11.
I was fascinated by the part where Bush is at the elementary school on the morning of 9/11. When an aide notifies him of the second plane hitting the second WTC tower, he does nothing. He’s in the middle of listing to the kids read from a book, but for nearly seven minutes he just sat there. Weird. I hope whoever I vote for would have gotten up and started asking questions and making decisions.
The truth is always good. The hard part of course is detecting truth and separating it from bullshit. Surely this movie has both. But it does a good job of pointing out some of the major bullshit the Bush administration has been selling us for the last few years.
I didn’t feel that he had a strong overall message (other than George W. Bush sucks). I think even stronger was the message to think, read, and vote. No voter registration in the theater that I noticed. That would probably be more prevalent during the busier hours.
Does Michael Moore hate America? I haven’t seen this in his films (This, Bowling, and the one about General Motors and Flint). If you had grown up in Flint, MI you might have more of a feeling of where he’s coming from. I’ve visited Flint. It’s a sad, sad place.
If you find Michael Moore annoying, is his movies still worth watching?
When I say annoying I mean, I have yet to find him anywhere in the media without getting a desire to throw something at him. I agree with alot of what he’s saying, but I don’t like to see it presented that way.
If the movies are good I don’t want to let my oppinion on Michael Moore get in the way, but I don’t want to pay for an evening of being annoyed.
Dude, grow up and smell what you’re shoveling in… I am simply stating that all Moore has done is make another propaganda film, whoop-di-doo! You are going to find very little truth in his films, especially one released essentially as a campaign time anti-endorsement. People who take Moore to be a voice of reason need to have their heads checked. Enjoy him for what he is…ENTERTAINMENT(if propaganda entertains you).
BTW, I wasn’t even talking about voting for Bush, this was a conversation about Moorse but now it is very clear to me why you think the film is valid truth. I guess you can vote against Bush, well maybe once you’re 18 you can 
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it’s the lil’ things that entertain me
impressive opening weekend i’ll catch it when it gets to south africa, gotta see Shrek 2 first
No. If you don’t like Michael Moore, you’ll really hate his movie!
Sorry about the double post earlier…
has anyone seen “supersize me” yet? its a really really good movie and you think twice about fast food
Micheal Moore speaking of Americans in Europe…"They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet… in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pricks. "
I find it amazing that anyone one the left would seriously support this guy. I can see watching it for entertainment value, but to consider this educational is just funny. A documentary? Doesn’t that give the impression that the film is only documenting reality? I would say that what MM did was take a series of images and sound bites and interweave them with his own political opinion to create a movie that supports his own beliefs. Not exactly a unbiased factual documentary. 
This quote appears in this Daily Mirror (UK) article. This publication misquoted my mother during her trip to Afghanistan in January of 2002. You’ll need to provide a when, where and to whom for this to be anything more than an often enough repeated fabrication turned to fact by the power of the Internet. The quote appears on lots of websites, but no other newspaper that I can find.
This sentence, “These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control.”, does appear in Moore’s book, “Dude, Where’s My Country”. Did Moore really repeat himself almost verbatim or did an enterprising journalist in need of a quote create one?
You went and saw it then?
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
I don’t waste my money at the movies, but I may download it and watch it for free. 
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all documentories are biased twords the authors opinion. there are no unbiased documentories. right wing,left wing, creation or evolution etc. they are all made to suit the makers opinion.
Even documentaries about lemmings are subject to being fudged.
Hopefully documentaries about things like the Civil War can be trusted to be true, factual, and without bias. Sadly, I’m sure that is not the case. There are certainly some biased documentaries about the Civil War when they get into the areas of race and politics. Any documentary about a subject with a political agenda should be treated as propaganda rather than an unbiased portrayal.