Saturday, June 26, 2004

Fahrenheit 911
ok. so now that I've seen this movie I think all the fuss about it is really stupid. None of the information in it is all that controversial or new ... not if you pay attention to the news anyway. The whole movie plays way more on your emotions, or tries to, than it barrages you with facts. It's like people overhyped it because of what they thought was going to be in the movie. It's less of an expose' and way more of a fuck-this-war-and-the-coward-who-started-it kind of a film. It's not exactly the most well done documentary either. The Corporation is a documentary along the same kind of lines as far as its politics go, but it has a hundred times more information packed into it, it flows better and it seems WAY less childish. The concept of this movie seems, basically, to have been, "Ok everybody, lets take all the film and news clips we can find and then take some of our own footage and make a movie that is really just a list of all the crappy stuff George Bush has done in office. We'll even throw in some really stupid stuff with the patrot act and an icecream truck to point out how the government trivialises things like war, rights and peoples lives. Not really to inform or alert, but just to remind people what a dick this guy is before we let someone appoint him to the presidency again." Michael Moore is definately an attention-starved blowhard, but if he and his big pile of anti bush film clips gets the guy out of office, good.