Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion 3265
xerid writes "I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 last night, and the theatre was packed & sold out for each showing. Today, I read on Michael Moore.com about the movie breaking records. However, what I haven't seen was coverage on Slashdot, about the movie's opening day." I saw the film on friday and was really impressed. But while it speaks much truth, and has many funny parts as well as truly heartbreaking ones, I don't know how many votes it will sway. But since there is very little other news so far today, why not talk amongst yourselves!
Re:Truth? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let the flamewar....COMMENCE! (Score:5, Funny)
Now we have two subjects for the flame war! Cool!
Re:Truth? (Score:5, Funny)
dude ate allot of hamburgers (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Extreme views (Score:2, Funny)
In other words, this pretty much sums up your position, eh? [prisonplanet.tv]
Re:Truth? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Personally, I thought differently... (Score:4, Funny)
Wow. Keeping my secrets discreet...why didn't I think of that.
One scene seemed completely faked (Score:1, Funny)
There is a scene were Dubya personally interviews Saddam. Saddam replies to Bush: "George, I am your father". Bush: "Noooooooo!" And then a light saber battle ensues.
Re:... but I'll defend to the death his right... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Extreme views (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, if you listen to the right people, I think you'll find that Coulter is a small fat guy with a beard [rotten.com]...
(It's a Rotten Library link, dudes, nothing sick or twisted there...)
Re:Let the flamewar....COMMENCE! (Score:3, Funny)
My point in making the post was, if I want to get into a political discussion on the merits of this movie, I will go to a political site.
Heh, I thought I was the only one who listens to both Hannity and Franken.
I get tired, though, of reading about what does and doesn't belong on Slashdot. If you want a site that does only technology I'm sure you can find one. Even easier, you could just, you know, not read this article. On the right side of your browser you will find a little elevator thingy known as a "scroll bar". Just click on that and pull the mouse toward you to bypass any article which does not interest you.
Re:Dishonest (Score:3, Funny)
Who are you talking about - Moore or Bush?
Rush Limbaugh (Score:2, Funny)
Extremism sucks in all its forms.
Re:Let the flamewar....COMMENCE! (Score:4, Funny)
I live in a triangular room, you insensitive clod!
Thanks fot the explanation... (Score:5, Funny)
Are Americans really that stupid as to need an explanation for what the term "Word-of-Mouth" means?
NO! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Extreme views (Score:2, Funny)
The Republicans, equivelent to the UKs conservative party, and the Democrats, equivelent to the UKs conservative party.
(not mine, but funny anyway)
Re:Personally, I thought differently... (Score:5, Funny)
I remember once reading about a (17th century) playwright who had (proudly) measured the success of his play by the fact that four ushers had been killed at the premiere.
Re:Truth? (Score:2, Funny)
"What you don't know about popcorn could KILL YOU! Comining up next....on FOX News!"
Re:Sports writer says: ... most powerful movie ... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Sports writer says: ... most powerful movie ... (Score:2, Funny)
Yes because French film critics aren't interested in films at all, they sit around all day talking about how much they hate George Bush and the war in Iraq.
Actually, you might want to think about growing up and joining the real world some day.
Re:Let the flamewar....COMMENCE! (Score:3, Funny)
Just be thankful that Jon Katz didn't review it.
Re:We have a free market of ideas in this country. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Let the flamewar....COMMENCE! (Score:3, Funny)
Speaking as a troll, I think that the only way this great nation can be free of all the evil communists and terrorists is by electeing GWB as world leader.
Re:Extreme views (Score:3, Funny)
Because the extreme right-wing is so under-represented in american media -- you'd better be careful you're not getting a biased view by watching this!
Re:Truth? (Score:3, Funny)
A partisan congressional committee decided there was no link between Osama and Saddam. This from a culture that created the phrase "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Both had a larger enemy in the US than they did with each other. I'll bet there really was a connection.
On the other hand, an impartial judge agreed with the claims of victims of terrorism that there WAS enough evidence to link Saddam and Osama, and allowed a suit against Iraq for reparrations for the deaths of their loved ones.
Just because a congressional committee (The only creature known to man to have over 4 legs, 4 eyes, and 2 mouths, and yet have no brain) decided for political reasons there was no connection, and a Big Fat Stupid White Guy claims there was no connection, this is not enough to say "We now know that isn't true."
Re:We have a free market of ideas in this country. (Score:5, Funny)
Thank God for the Bible! It's kept GWB II the most honest guy there is, even after the White House was tainted with the evil liberal lies of the previous 8 years! Imagine all of the lies that W could be telling- but we can be sure he never does thanks to that little black Book.
Praise Jesus!
Re:What out for Michael Moore lawsuits through.... (Score:3, Funny)
And what would you have had him do in those 5 minutes? Assuming that he didn't need to stay there while the secret service cleared an exit? Would you have liked him to get on the phone and call Washington and tell them.... what? To figure out what the hell is going on? To wake up all the generals? To figure out if more are comming? What would have happened differently had the man jumped up out of his seat screamed out "HOLY SHIT KIDS, WE'RE GOING TO FUCKING DIE!" and then run out of the room? Beleive it or not, the government can operate mostly without a president. Furthermore, there was nothing for him to command, because everything he could have ordered was already being done.
What is debatable is whether or not he should have gone into the classroom in the first place after having been informed of the first attack and having seen the memos al qaeda was planning on attacking the world trade center, and was planning on hijacking airplanes.
1) The memo never said they were planning on attacking the WTC.
2) In the past, Hijackings have been used as hostage situations for political purposes. Something like this was a very remote possibility.
3) After the 1st plane hit, no body knew what had happened, and most people thought it was an accident. Planes have hit the WTC before, and it's not a terrorist attack. No one knew what to think of it until the second one hit.
Re:Dishonest (Score:5, Funny)
Agreed, and this is proof how biased /. is (Score:3, Funny)
I have really had it with this site. The libs have taken over.
Re:I am not American (Score:2, Funny)
yeah, and then bush will have elvis play at his re-election party
Re:Extreme views (Score:2, Funny)
This is the US, son, Land of the Free - so you can just take your newfangled "centimeters" system and go back to Russia.
Re:The New York Times on Moore's facts... (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah. He believes that an imaginary guy in the sky talks to him every day and tells him to kill people.
He also believes that one day, he'll be able to read all of those big words in "My Pet Goat".
Re:America the Beautiful, Biased and Babooned (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Let the flamewar....COMMENCE! (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:BEFORE the flamewar commences... (Score:4, Funny)
He didn't have to tell us. We knew.
Re:Dishonest (Score:1, Funny)
No, dude, that's a rooster.
Re:Let the flamewar....COMMENCE! (Score:5, Funny)
Absolutely true. There is still some debate, however, as to exactly which half.
Re:Let the flamewar....COMMENCE! (Score:2, Funny)
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Yeah, but the extra gov't debt to cover that $400? That'll be with us forever!
For those outside the United States and Jamaica... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:BEFORE the flamewar commences... (Score:4, Funny)
missing from the movie is michael moore trying to get john kerry to recruit his kids to join the military and fight in iraq. he did afterall vote to go to iraq didn't he?
Re:A Review by Jeff Jarvis (Score:3, Funny)
There's a difference between someone you disagree with like Limbaugh, and an outright liar like Moore....
Apparently Limbaugh is not a liar, and Michael Moore is.
Jarvis must be on Oxycotin as well.