Official....Review of Fahrenheit 9/11

Karsten

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http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/?GT1=3584

Quote of the final wrap for thouse who don't have the patience to read the whole thing:

If Michael Moore had had his way, Slobodan Milosevic would still be the big man in a starved and tyrannical Serbia. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been cleansed and annexed. If Michael Moore had been listened to, Afghanistan would still be under Taliban rule, and Kuwait would have remained part of Iraq. And Iraq itself would still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime family, bargaining covertly with the slave state of North Korea for WMD. You might hope that a retrospective awareness of this kind would induce a little modesty. To the contrary, it is employed to pump air into one of the great sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten culture. Rock the vote, indeed.
 

FrogDog

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This movie looks great. I hate Bush and I'm sure I'll hate him even more after watchin' this!
 

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Originally posted by: Karsten
http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/?GT1=3584

Quote of the final wrap for thouse who don't have the patience to read the whole thing:

If Michael Moore had had his way, Slobodan Milosevic would still be the big man in a starved and tyrannical Serbia. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been cleansed and annexed. If Michael Moore had been listened to, Afghanistan would still be under Taliban rule, and Kuwait would have remained part of Iraq. And Iraq itself would still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime family, bargaining covertly with the slave state of North Korea for WMD. You might hope that a retrospective awareness of this kind would induce a little modesty. To the contrary, it is employed to pump air into one of the great sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten culture. Rock the vote, indeed.

Hm what an unbiased review! I don't think the guy realizes that there are other methods to solve problems other than war.
 

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Originally posted by: BaboonGuy
Originally posted by: Karsten
http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/?GT1=3584

Quote of the final wrap for thouse who don't have the patience to read the whole thing:

If Michael Moore had had his way, Slobodan Milosevic would still be the big man in a starved and tyrannical Serbia. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been cleansed and annexed. If Michael Moore had been listened to, Afghanistan would still be under Taliban rule, and Kuwait would have remained part of Iraq. And Iraq itself would still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime family, bargaining covertly with the slave state of North Korea for WMD. You might hope that a retrospective awareness of this kind would induce a little modesty. To the contrary, it is employed to pump air into one of the great sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten culture. Rock the vote, indeed.

Hm what an unbiased review! I don't think the guy realizes that there are other methods to solve problems other than war.
There are? Would those be the economic sanctions that get placed on such a country ... only to not work? I'm interested in hearing your ideas.


This movie looks great. I hate Bush and I'm sure I'll hate him even more after watchin' this!
Well, then, you'll be doing exactly what Michael Moore wants you to do. I thought the point of life was to develop your own opinions and *not* be heavily influenced by those such as Michael Moore?
 

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Unless of course, your beliefs require you to cherry-pick your reviews.
 

Aharami

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this movie is very controversial. i'm not gonna read any reviews untill i see the movie...come to my own conclusion..and then decide whether the review was justified or not
 

mflacy

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Originally posted by: MAME
what a horrible biased review

What makes it biased? Christopher Hitchens is as liberal as it gets. He is a professor of liberal studies at Oxford plus a contributer to The Nation, a left-liberal weekly magazine, since 1982.

If anything, he is an intellectual who's pissed that his party/beliefs are being tarnished with a movie made by a self-contradicting moron.
 

Fingolfin269

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Originally posted by: mflacy
Originally posted by: MAME
what a horrible biased review

What makes it biased? Christopher Hitchens is as liberal as it gets. He is a professor of liberal studies at Oxford plus a contributer to The Nation, a left-liberal weekly magazine, since 1982.

If anything, he is an intellectual who's pissed that his party/beliefs are being tarnished with a movie made by a self-contradicting moron.

'Owned' doesn't even begin to describe what you just did...
 

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Originally posted by: BaboonGuy
Originally posted by: Karsten
http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/?GT1=3584

Quote of the final wrap for thouse who don't have the patience to read the whole thing:

If Michael Moore had had his way, Slobodan Milosevic would still be the big man in a starved and tyrannical Serbia. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been cleansed and annexed. If Michael Moore had been listened to, Afghanistan would still be under Taliban rule, and Kuwait would have remained part of Iraq. And Iraq itself would still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime family, bargaining covertly with the slave state of North Korea for WMD. You might hope that a retrospective awareness of this kind would induce a little modesty. To the contrary, it is employed to pump air into one of the great sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten culture. Rock the vote, indeed.

Hm what an unbiased review! I don't think the guy realizes that there are other methods to solve problems other than war.

Yup, lets engage peace talks while genocide is still carried out. Think it through.
The review is totally biased AGAINST Moore. The movie probably conveys an image of Bush's warmongering, but that doesn't mean Moore is totally against war in general.
 

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Originally posted by: Aharami
this movie is very controversial. i'm not gonna read any reviews untill i see the movie...come to my own conclusion..and then decide whether the review was justified or not
 

wkabel23

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Originally posted by: Tiles2Tech
Originally posted by: BaboonGuy
Originally posted by: Karsten
http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/?GT1=3584

Quote of the final wrap for thouse who don't have the patience to read the whole thing:

If Michael Moore had had his way, Slobodan Milosevic would still be the big man in a starved and tyrannical Serbia. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been cleansed and annexed. If Michael Moore had been listened to, Afghanistan would still be under Taliban rule, and Kuwait would have remained part of Iraq. And Iraq itself would still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime family, bargaining covertly with the slave state of North Korea for WMD. You might hope that a retrospective awareness of this kind would induce a little modesty. To the contrary, it is employed to pump air into one of the great sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten culture. Rock the vote, indeed.

Hm what an unbiased review! I don't think the guy realizes that there are other methods to solve problems other than war.
There are? Would those be the economic sanctions that get placed on such a country ... only to not work? I'm interested in hearing your ideas.

Remember the Soviet Union?
 

Karsten

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Originally posted by: MAME
what a horrible biased review

Biased? Just shows the usual defense. Instead of looking at who has written the review (A VERY vocal left wing advocate) it is just assumed that because it criticizes Moore it must be the evil right. Not a very strong sign of intelligence!
 

JSClark

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This movie looks great. I hate Bush and I'm sure I'll hate him even more after watchin' this!
Well, then, you'll be doing exactly what Michael Moore wants you to do. I thought the point of life was to develop your own opinions and *not* be heavily influenced by those such as Michael Moore?[/quote]

Your right about the point of life, but is it all of a sudden not cool to have an open mind to someone else's opinion?

I hate Bush with a passion, yet I'm very interested to see what MM has in store, not because I totally believe in him, its because I like the way he tells it.
 

Fingolfin269

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Originally posted by: JSClark
This movie looks great. I hate Bush and I'm sure I'll hate him even more after watchin' this!
Well, then, you'll be doing exactly what Michael Moore wants you to do. I thought the point of life was to develop your own opinions and *not* be heavily influenced by those such as Michael Moore?

Your right about the point of life, but is it all of a sudden not cool to have an open mind to someone else's opinion?

I hate Bush with a passion, yet I'm very interested to see what MM has in store, not because I totally believe in him, its because I like the way he tells it.[/quote]

Rofl you like the way he lies? That comment makes no sense. We all know that Michael Moore fabricates the majority of the 'facts' in his movies and yet the reason you like him is because you 'like the way he tells it'. Please explain that as I'm trying to figure out what it is that you mean exactly. Do you like hearing lies that you know are lies? Do you tell people that the KKK became the NRA because it was in a 'documentary' by a guy so it must be true? (well, it was something like that... KKK-->NRA I think is how it went)
 

Zenmervolt

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Originally posted by: Karsten
Originally posted by: MAME
what a horrible biased review

Biased? Just shows the usual defense. Instead of looking at who has written the review (A VERY vocal left wing advocate) it is just assumed that because it criticizes Moore it must be the evil right. Not a very strong sign of intelligence!
Precisely. A Slate.com article (especially by this author) condemning Michael Moore is the equivalent of Fox News calling for a Bush impeachment.

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