Have to see the village this weekend–I don’t want too be told of the ending.
Best so far: Spiderman 2. good movie.
Worst: Lost in translation was pretty boring, I Was dissapointed. Cold mountain was good, but my wife’s from western NC(less than an hour from Cold Mountain), so the scenes of the blue ridge(that were obviously NOT the blue ridge) just ruiined the movie.
kinda off topic.
I haven’t seen F-911, so I can’t comment myself about it too much. From what I hear–even from people who despise Moore(as I do) it’s very entertaining, as are Moore’s other films.
However, as with his other films, you can’t take it all as the truth. So many little bits of it are B.S., carefully placed to give an impression of something, without taking the responisbility required in an all out statement.
For example: The shot of the newspaper headline stating Gore won in hand recounts.
That line came from someone’s letter sent in the OPINION section of the newspaper–and not from the paper itself, let alone the headline.
This leads people to believe that Gore DID win the recount, because, realisticaly, few people bother to read up on such facts, so they’ll take what moore puts in front of them as fact.
Several MAJOR newspapers and News agencies, including CNN and the New York Times(and many more), took it upon themselves to PERSONALLY supervise several recounts of the Florida ballots. In EVERY case the results showed that Bush won by an even wider margin the the “official” vote count.
That’s just one bit of mis-direction that moore used in the film.
I’m sure a lot of the stuff that looks bad is true, however. Face it, Bush is a politician. Dig deep enough for facts about any politician, and things get ugly.
I was a big fan of Moore in the past. I knew his work involved slight of hand and factual manipulation(if not simply lies), but I was still able to enjoy his work as comedy–he is funny as hell…..that *******….(It’s like Ben and Jerry’s Ice cream. I HATE HATE HATE their socialist, PC, tree-hugger, PETA loving to the extreme mentality….that’s why it ****es me off that their ice cream is so good–I HATE likeing it!)
Bowling for columbine ****ed me off too much though. His work was fine as long as it didn’t hurt me. Now, I have people coming up to me saying”I saw columbine, and I am worried about all these guns”.
In that movie, he just went too far.
I was very disapointed with the Moore film aswell, I didn’t hear a single new fact, not a noviest thought, not a new context. But remember Moore is not a journalist, he is more a propagandist so don’t expect a balanced movie from him.
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