Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Movie Review: Fahrenheit 9/11
As I have not seen this (and been advised not to see it in theatres), I will post my friend Robert's review.
A full discussion thread follows at LM Fanzone.
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I won't waste a whole lot of time here, because the reviews and popular reaction to this film have me completely bewildered.
First of all, I liked Bowling for Columbine. It was funny...It was smart at times...it always asked good questions....I simply disagreed with the "answer" that life in a free capitalist democracy is inherently evil and that America is to blame.
Now, on to this latest "documentary".
All politics aside, it was pretty scattered and incoherent...flowed poorly and honestly didn't make a whole lot of sense. At its best it was pretty bad in this respect.
Injecting politics, and the truth...
This thing is a real shocker.
It is loaded with half-truths, distortions, and outright lies. I don't have time for all of them....but here's a couple of favorites...
The 2000 Election. "everything was going according to plan..." ABC, NBC, CBS report Gore (who won the election) as the next Presiden. Fox News decides they want Bush to be president -- so they take a slanted view on the news -- and lie -- to project George W as the winner. The head of Fox is good buddies with the Bushies. They cut a deal with their good ol boys in the SCOTUS...decide not to count the votes of black people...and go ahead and make W President even though he lost the election.
OK, folks...this is pure fiction, but at least it is funny.
What bothered me more was the fact he addressed the 9/11 terror attacks....without discussing Terrorism...or terrorists.... You see, this had nothing to do with terrorists. This was a big con, and it was all about Bush. More later...
O yeah, Iraq....I never realized what a happy, tranquil place it was before we intentionally bombed the shit out of tens of thousands of little brown-skin children. That Saddam was a pretty nice guy.
Anyway... back to the missing terrorists...
So, Bush hooks it up with his buddies in Saudi Arabia -- including Bin Laden -- got Cheney to hook up a back door deal with Halliburton...and put the master plan together.
Bin Laden kills Americans, including many minorities, while Bush would agree to hide the threat. Then, Bush would in turn let Bin Laden get away. Then, he could have an excuse to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq, so they could take all the oil money. This would flow back through Halliburtion -- or the Carlyle group we're a little confused...but somehow get back to George HW, George W, Cheney, Baker and gang. The real beauty of the deal is that they could send a bunch of poor black kids to get killed in the Middle East....in effect, getting paid to do a little Ethnic Cleansing.
It all makes sense...
So I was taking all of this in stride...already willing to discount it as absolute absurdity with no real consequence to the safety of Americans, our troops, or our political process....then a funny thing happened when the movie ended....
95+% of the packed theatre...in NW Austin...stood and applauded. Yell, screamed. "Don't forget to Vote !!" was the battle cry as they scampered out the theatre...passing others in line to say "Two Thumbs Up !!".
That was last night. I had a panic attack after that...and have since decided to say Fuck the World.
You know, the hatred of Bush is pretty widespread...and I knew this. The surprising thing is how blind and ignorant that hatred is.
This thing was transparent, guys. Either they were too Dumb to see through it, or simply didn't care about The Truth.
I do not recommend viewing. Watch Bowling for Columbine instead.
Very Sad...and Evil.
1/10
A full discussion thread follows at LM Fanzone.
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