Viewing Thread:
"Farenheit 911."

Saw this last night.

Go and watch it. If you can find a cinema near you that's showing it, that is.

Not sure if that was just a general comment or aimed at me but if so all i said was Bush is a rubbish leader and the Iraq war was unjust. Everyone apart from the cave dwellers will know that by now.

I don't like all the crap around this. Michael Moore might exaggerate and sensationalise, which is wrong, particularly when he attacks others for doing such things (!) and generally for hypocrisy etc (and consequently indefensible). But then again, who are the real bad guys?

Cyclone wrote:
>
But then again, who are the real bad guys?
i think they call them selves americans. :)

Erm is it me or do half of you not even know whatthefuck you're talking about?

gamesfreak wrote:
> Oh, so what the radio says must be true.
>
> I'll remember that next time Moyle's tells us to burn our genitals
> off.

It was a debate type program, it was serious not a funny morning show.

its just you.

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> I mean, I know the war in Iraq was based on false information and
> have a basic knowledge of events, but I'll still come out
> enlightened. And you can bet that there'll be people going to see
> this who only know what they've read in The Sun and are about to get
> a rude awakening.

If you think that anything Michael Moore says is any less sensationalist and biased as something you'd read in The Sun, then maybe you need a rude awakening. If Michael Moore is the straw that breaks the Republican camel, then he's forgiven, but I'd never go so far as to pay to see his propoganda.

Starlight wrote:
> Erm is it me or do half of you not even know whatthe**** you're
> talking about?

Please don't swear on these forums, there are filters for a reason.

What exactly was sensationalist about Bowling for Columbine, then? I mean, apart from the re-edited Heston interview and a few misleading video edits here and there, all of the information used was fact, was it not? And don't just point me to a 'Michael Moore is a LIAR OMG!' website, because they're written by retards.

I'll reserve judgement until I've actally seen Fahrenheit, but I imagine I know what I'm letting myself in for. Comparing Moore with The Sun is a ridiculous comparison - Moore has absolutely nothing to gain from exposing these untruths, and the fact that he's lambasted for making such things public saddens me greatly. Don't play the money card either, Moore's been making documentaries for years, so it's not like he set out to make a quick buck.

Not many people are trying to make a difference out there, but he's one of them. Someone down there was right, who's the real bad guy? The dude who orders a war on a little brown country based on false information, on the dude who does everything he can to expose him as the murderous liar he is?

Anialater wrote:
"It was a debate type program, it was serious not a funny morning show."

Those shows are usually the funniest things on the radio anyway.

Everyone has an opinion, unfortunately it's usually the stupid ones that like to excrete it out repeatedly in anyone's face they can find.

If you are not destroying, you are building. Michael Moore provides an angle that not many could ever see easily. The documentary about Moore himself does exactly the same.

You are welcome to your decision and stance, but what bothers me is the pride that people will take when it comes to changing it or being challenged. Your opinion is not the last bastion of hope, it's no more than simple reason. If you will not provide yourself with as much information as you possibly can with an open mind, then don't expect your opinion to ever truly count.

Bowling for Columbine was great, looking forward to this.

Mr Snuggly wrote:
And you can bet that there'll be people going to see this who only know what they've read in The Sun and are about to get a rude awakening.


Ah, but will they? Surely people who'll go and see this will be ones who have a rough idea what Moore is about already.