Michael Moore to shoot "Fahrenheit 9/11 1/2"

[Trilobyte]

Yes, it's true...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/11/film.fahrenheitfollow.ap/index.html

Seriously, this isn't going to have nearly as much political impact as the first film. The meaning is lost now that Bush is reelected. But personally I wouldn't mind seeing a follow-up.

[badnarikin04]

Yes, it's true...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/11/film.fahrenheitfollow.ap/index.html

Seriously, this isn't going to have nearly as much political impact as the first film. The meaning is lost now that Bush is reelected. But personally I wouldn't mind seeing a follow-up.

<applause>

And it's jot just the Bush hating that makes me absolutely love him, it's the fact that bigwigs fear him more than Osama and the like just because he's in search of truth.

[Davo]

Just out of curiosity, what political impact did the first one have?  The whole point was to get Bush out of office.  Bush was re-elected.  So the movie seems to have failed at its purpose.  I suppose if you want to classify a few more Kerry votes as being 'political impact', it would count.  But just because Old Media loved it doesn't mean it had great political impact. 

[DaleC76]

Sequels are never as good as the original, anyway.

The only ones that were as good or better was Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Empire Strikes Back, maybe The Bride of Frankenstien, or Spider-Man 2.  Friday the 13th: Parts 3 and 4 were also superior to the overrated original.

Everyone always mentions The Godfather:  Part 2 as a great sequel, but I don't think it was as good as the original.

[Silent Hunter]

Sequels are never as good as the original, anyway.

The only ones that were as good or better was Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Empire Strikes Back, maybe The Bride of Frankenstien, or Spider-Man 2.  Friday the 13th: Parts 3 and 4 were also superior to the overrated original.

Everyone always mentions The Godfather:  Part 2 as a great sequel, but I don't think it was as good as the original.

You forgot Shrek 2 and From Russia With Love.

[opebo]

Yes, it's true...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/11/film.fahrenheitfollow.ap/index.html

Seriously, this isn't going to have nearly as much political impact as the first film. The meaning is lost now that Bush is reelected. But personally I wouldn't mind seeing a follow-up.

<applause>

And it's jot just the Bush hating that makes me absolutely love him, it's the fact that bigwigs fear him more than Osama and the like just because he's in search of truth.

For his sake I hope the Bush administration percieves his work as a net positive in terms of public opinion.  I'd hate to see him meet with an 'accident'..

[J. J.]

Yes, it's true...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/11/film.fahrenheitfollow.ap/index.html

Seriously, this isn't going to have nearly as much political impact as the first film. The meaning is lost now that Bush is reelected. But personally I wouldn't mind seeing a follow-up.

<applause>

And it's jot just the Bush hating that makes me absolutely love him, it's the fact that bigwigs fear him more than Osama and the like just because he's in search of truth.

For his sake I hope the Bush administration percieves his work as a net positive in terms of public opinion.  I'd hate to see him meet with an 'accident'..

Michael MooreBigMacs is an accident and a coronary waiting to happen.

[Democratic Hawk]

I wish Michael Moore would kindly sink into oblivion

Dave

[Mikem]

And it's jot just the Bush hating that makes me absolutely love him, it's the fact that bigwigs fear him more than Osama and the like just because he's in search of truth.

Are you serious?  Moore in search of the truth?  He might as well be Joseph Goebbels. 

A local radio station had him on to talk about his new film, and the nut would not shut up about how Kerry actually won the popular vote and that the election is going to be reversed.  Yes, the vote count was off by over 3.5 million by Moore's account.  The radio station actully hung up on him while on the air because he would not shut up about how Bush really lost and Kerry will take office in Jan.

[badnarikin04]

And it's jot just the Bush hating that makes me absolutely love him, it's the fact that bigwigs fear him more than Osama and the like just because he's in search of truth.

Are you serious?  Moore in search of the truth?  He might as well be Joseph Goebbels. 

A local radio station had him on to talk about his new film, and the nut would not shut up about how Kerry actually won the popular vote and that the election is going to be reversed.  Yes, the vote count was off by over 3.5 million by Moore's account.  The radio station actully hung up on him while on the air because he would not shut up about how Bush really lost and Kerry will take office in Jan.

He's probably distressed because he worked so hard to get him out of office. The man deserves a Bush loss.

I give him a pat on the back for the conspiracy theory though. You gotts love conspiracy theories.

[A18]

Moore is a piece of human trash

[badnarikin04]

Moore is a piece of human trash

Thanks, Phillip, for another predictable post of right-wing mouthpiecery.

Now c'mon, if he glorified Bush in the movie, you'd love him. Hypocrite.

[A18]

If it wasn't full of lies and distortions, I wouldn't think you were a total moron for defending him

[badnarikin04]

How can you be sure that it's full of lies and distortions?

Nobody can. I just praise the movie for it's cinematic value. It's very clever.

[A18]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fahrenheit+911+lies+distortions

He's a fascist piece of trash. I don't know why any libertarian would like him, small l or big.

[Jake]

Moore is a piece of human trash

I agree...with Phillip

[A18]

Moore is a piece of human trash

I agree...with Phillip

Everyone agrees with me. You're just the first to admit it.

[Redefeatbush04]

I saw Farenheit 9/11 for the first time tonight. I had been putting it off because I did not want to subject myself to biased propaganda. It was however an excellent documentary, one might say a masterpiece. I am not sure whether everything he said was true, but if it were indeed false, I would expect the Bush administration to have pointed it out, and made a big deal about it.

[A18]

I saw Farenheit 9/11 for the first time tonight. I had been putting it off because I did not want to subject myself to biased propaganda. It was however an excellent documentary, one might say a masterpiece. I am not sure whether everything he said was true, but if it were indeed false, I would expect the Bush administration to have pointed it out, and made a big deal about it.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fahrenheit+911+lies+distortions

You don't need the White House to think for you.

[Peter]

When I saw it I thought it was a pile of crap.

It generally tried to reduce everything to an emotive argument, rather than try to take Bush head on with correct logical argument - that would have impressed me. Though I suppose Moore can be forgiven since most of the Religious Right reduces itself to specious and emotive arguments when talking about gays, abortion and porn.

[M]

There is hardly a true word in the thing. The movie was largely a series of half-truths, assumptions, and outright lies. But then, no one ever praised Leni Reifenstahl's "the Triumph of the Will" as being an exceptionally factual analysis of the state of geopolitics in 1936. BTW, the master was Sergei Eisenstein.

[Alcon]

Michael Moore ain't Leni Reifenstahl.

And I don't really like his movies at all. They're half-truths. He should just present the facts as they are, even with a bit of spin. He puts too much spin.

It's possible to find touchingly disturbing things in this administration without resorting to this kind of twisting.

[M]

He is not literally Leni, no. He does not propagandize an ideology or nation, either; nor does he film in German. But like Leni, his films are filled with patent untruths (lies) used to promote a political viewpoint.

[Alcon]

He is not literally Leni, no. He does not propagandize an ideology or nation, either; nor does he film in German. But like Leni, his films are filled with patent untruths (lies) used to promote a political viewpoint.

It is hardly brainwashing, though, and it is also hardly brainwashing something as horrible as Nazism.

[badnarikin04]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fahrenheit+911+lies+distortions

He's a fascist piece of trash. I don't know why any libertarian would like him, small l or big.

I don't care if he's a fascist, a hippie, a pedophile, or a dog eater, i just like watching his movies.