Shout out for Michael Moore- Fahrenheit 911

[wilt the stilt]

This movie only gets better every time I watch it. It is so "on". Everything rings true.

[Berlum]

1. "This movie sucks. It's all truth and shit like that." - George AWOL Bush (R)

[El Supremo]

2. >>>

[tridim]

3. I saw it again last week, it was mind-blowing.

Way better than "Hubris" on MSNBC IMO.

[RiffRandell]

4. Saw it at the theater the weekend it came out.

It runs on the movie channels, but I can't watch it anymore--it pisses me off. I thought (as it ahould have) it would have influenced the 2004 election. Nope---people are stupid.

When I think of all the lives lost and maimed because of Iraq, I get really depressed. We own the Dvd.

[El Supremo]

12. Me too.

I haven't watched it since we lost the 2004 election.

[Johonny]

5. all his movies do

I watched his first two films like 2 years ago and it was like a documentary of what happened only at the time it was just a few communities like Flint. But the rest of the US manufacturing soon followed and the communities where those companies resided generally had as few answers to fix the problem as Flint.

[Mr Dixon]

6. IMO

I have DVD copies of all his films, no bootlegs, roger and me sent chills down my back thinking about 2006 to now with people begin kick out of their home, bowling for columbine and Fahrenheit 911 were on, yet our society fails to listen to the truth or think for themselves.

[Mnemosyne]

7. The media helps vilify anyone that tells the truth these days. nt

[HughBeaumont]

8. Absolutely a great film. Never seen a movie theater applaud when a film finished.

Which is why it pains me to make the next statement:

Fat lotta good it did . . . The Failure Fuhrer and Gunga Dick regained their undeserved seats (via Ohio chicanery), the destruction continued and imploded, and it was only AFTER said implosion that Americans finally realized how awesomesauce their choice was.

Well, almost.

There was still 2010. Yeah, thanks, DUHmerica. Thanks to gerrymandering, we're never going to get these clownshoes out of our House now.

It's kind of par for the course for ALL his films.

Did UHMerica wake up about gun control/regulation after Bowling for Columbine? I think we know the answer to that one.

Did UHMerica wake up about Universal Health Care after Sicko? NAAAAAAAAH. We're still mired in 20th-Century for-profit health scare. This country isn't progressive and likely never will be until it's too late.

Did UHMerica do something about it's CEO Larceny Industry after Capitalism, A Love Story? NAAAAAAAAH. They waited for the whole mess to blow over and it pretty much did and they pretty much got away with their fortunes while laying off workers and taking more profit. I'm convinced that the only way they'll stop being greedy is if a few of them are running for their lives.

[valerief]

9. And DUHmerica still has youth enlisting to protect and defend the assholes and mercenaries

take jobs to protect and defend the assholes for a bigger paycheck.

[whathehell]

14. "DUHmerica" still has many being propagandized with few life choices..

Maybe you be thankful you're not one of them and be

a little less harsh and condescending on those who are

[dreamnightwind]

15. Seems you are both correct

It's a mixed bag, like most things. A lot of our military and mercenaries are true believers, USA! USA! and look forward to cutting their macho teeth on some 3rd world person's ass. That may offend, but it doesn't make it inaccurate.

Then there're the people who have few career options and need work. That's a sad state of affairs, and I do cut those people some slack, people will do what they think they have to to survive.

I agree with what I saw as the main sentiment of the post you responded to. It may offend, but it does a lot of good to preach anti-militarism in this age of corporate resource wars. We should discourage enlistment as much as possible, at least until there are foreign troops at our shores. The rest is pretty much just empire and capitalism using our military for the benefit of the rich.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. The full movie is up on YouTube for free....

[freshwest]

11. Saw it in a multiplex theatre in a conservative area. By the end, people were crying and outraged.

I also saw 'Passion of the Christ' in a small town theatre in a conservative town and with all ages. Everyone was weeping, so dumbstruck at the torture they could barely breathe or get up at the end, and when they finally did, they looked humbled. It turned some Bush supporters away from his policies in shame: it was torturing the innocent.

MM's film SICKO also made converts of the same kinds of people, as they'd only heard the propaganda of how great our system was and how terrible health care was in rest of the Anglosphere. Reaction was reported in the DFW area, and else where where it's been shown. My friend in Norway who saw it was horrified. No idea what Americans have gone through. Comment was: 'Your government must HATE the American people.'

MM made important films. I missed getting 'Capitalism A Love Story' from COSTCO when they carried it. I bought 'Fahrenheit 9/11' and gave it to friends as I couldn't watch it again.

It has those scenes that exposed the lies of Bush - how he told the arms people that they were the ones he was working for and they applauded.

The scene with him giggling, looking for WMD under chairs at that dinner with all the Washington press. It was the most depraved thing I'd ever witnessed on video - shameless they all were.

The media did nothing with that and it should have been played as often NG carrying on about some salacious sex crime day after day - but that's what those celebrity or 'human interest' stories are all about - to not discuss the bigger crimes being commited daily.

But then, they all supported the Iraq War and covered it like a Hollywood movie review, breathless with excitement - all of them a boatload of actors selling it. Anyone who did not was shown the door. The media is complicit in genocide and every form of corruption.

Them up there using the public airways for their own greed and pleasure, with their fine hairdos and clothes and bright shiny faces. They can go straight to hell.

[Cleita]

13. I own it. I watch it every now and then and each time something new

stands out to me.