Starring: John Ashcroft (II), James Baker III, James Bath, Khalil Bin Laden, Stephen G. Breyer Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 99 Release Date: October 05, 2004 Running Time: 122 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: June 25, 2004
Product Description: In the most controversial film of the year michael moore presents an opinionated view of the role played by money & oil in the wake of the tragic events of 9/11. Moore uses captivating & thought-provoking footage with revealing interviews & his own brand of satire. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/27/2005 Run time: 122 minutes Rating: R
Oh, America... Oh, Democracy... Lord. Help us! ^ I tried for a long time to avoid this documentary because I didn't need more evidence of Bush's mental infertility. I don't care how he reacted to the 9/11 attack, after all, we all have our own predictable reactions! I do give a damn though about how we were played... again to make money for a few individuals!
Now that Bush is finally out of the office; I watched this documentary as an act of personal grieving over our precipitous descent into a nightmare during the past few years. It is, also, my angry, heart felt response to those who either can't see or refuse to see this cruel game of deception and destruction.
For the love of whatever you believe in... Ask yourself: why 140 Saudis were allowed to leave the country after 9/11? What is the connection between the Carlyle group and the Bush's family? What is the connection between Saudi oil money and the Bush's? What is that we allowed the Taliban Minister in 2001? Why our media didn't allow us to see our American soldiers die in Afghanistan and Iraq, while the whole world witnessed it?
After all...Britney Spears and America trusted Bush; Please God... have mercy on us!
farenheit ^ i dont like people who make money off of others suffering like this movie did
i can't complain it was good ^ i purchased this DVD and i was very impressed. it was worth the $ and i would definitely recommend to a friend.
jim
Entertaining, but not the best Anti-Bush film ^ There are two types of liberals (or were back then), those who did their research, and those who didn't. I'm undecided about Michael Moore, but I can say that what he's promoting is mostly to be against Bush, and I agree with that. However, I would suggest Greg Palast's film Bush's Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy as a better film to show, if you want to expose Bush. Greg Palast might not be as entertaining, but he clearly has done more research and interviews both sides. Michael Moore does that as well, but he really tries to push them to look bad. Greg Palast also lets the story tell itself, Michael Moore tries to tell the story.
Creep! ^ Over the course of my many years on this earth, I have voted for more Republican candidates for president than Democrats. In the last four elections, however, my votes went to: Nader (twice), Kerry and then Obama. It's hard for me to imagine that history will not come to judge George W. Bush as our worst president ever.
Be that as it may, I doubt that there have been many worse documentary film makers than Michael Moore. To cite just one example from "Fahrenheit 9/11," there is a short clip where Bush appears to be standing in the midst of a bunch of fat cats, talking about his "base" (i.e., the "haves and have-mores"); this clip was plucked, misleadingly, from a massive fundraising event/dinner put on by the Catholic Church [in which both presidential candidates (Bush and Gore) were in attendance] and at which both were expected to poke fun at themselves for the purpose of giving these donors to Catholic charities something to laugh at. Moore's film cut made it look like Bush was SERIOUSLY pandering to this group. He did this throughout the "Fahrenheit" mockumentary, and I would recommend that you watch the rebuttal-film, "FahrenHYPE 9/11," to see just how extensively Moore's "end justifies the means" philosophy makes an absolute travesty of documentary filmmaking.
"FahrenHYPE" was hastily put together in only four months after Moore's picture came out, and it has its own over-the-top right wing political ax to grind, but it's quite straightforward with its message, and it doesn't use gimmickry and duplicity to push its pro (2004 pre-election) Iraq war agenda. If, however, you can get beyond having to watch some clips of the shrill Ann Coulter, and a few others, the film's real value--amounting to well over half its 80 minute length--consists in pointing out the many spliced, diced, and edited fabrications and distortions (lies, really) that Moore used to go after a president who so sorely lacked the intellectual heft, ecumenical breadth, and diplomatic skill for the job.
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