Three World Wars

[Paul]

I finally decided to watch these two movies back to back so I figured it would be appropriate to say something about them here. I will keep this brief.

Fahrenheit 9/11

Michael Moore's proverbial documentary about why he hates George W. Bush. Not nearly as controversial as the hype or criticism would suggest. The main theme of the movie is that Bush capitalized off the 9/11 attacks to enrich himself and his business companions. He makes a fairly good case and plays fast and loose with the facts. Overall a good documentary but falls incredibly short of being relevant. Not to be trusted as a source.

My rating: 3/10

Fahrenhype 9/11

This movie as a whole amounts to nothing more than a propaganda piece in defence of the George W. Bush administration and his private war. It is aimed at the Democratic Party and fails to back up any of the pro-war propaganda. I counted one guy use the term "conspiracy theory" half a dozen times in the first half hour as his sole basis for shooting down the idea that opposition to the war is a viable moral option. This movie is possibly the best documentary defining the war-profiteering mindset of American Republicans. A contrarian thinker will see through all of it immediately and recognize that 99% of the material fully supports the idea that there is a concerted effort to destroy America. Basically what the filmmakers have done is interview Dick Morris in an effort to shift the blame for 9/11 from Bush to Clinton, incite violence against Islam and justify the Patriot Act. Example: Dick Morris plays off Moore's mistake of applying the facts to a catastrophic point of view and uses our support of Israel to debunk the idea that the war is all about oil. The movie also fails to indicate that the same people being interviewed are the same people doing the interviews, until Dick Morris is shown asking Ed Koch about Iraq.

high points of the movie
-thoroughly debunking details about Moore's assertions such as the one that Bush spent most of his time in office on vacation before 9/11
-Dick Morris: "Clinton still said no." [to nabbing terrorists]
-Ann Coulter: "I'll pay a thousand dollars to any liberal who ever mentions the Kurds."

low points of the movie
-Ed Koch: "If I were a congressman..."
-Ed Koch: "I thank God we have the Patriot Act."
-Ed Koch comparing George Bush's foreign policy to the Monroe Doctrine.
-Some senator from Georgia talking about how he lopped off the heads of some snakes in his yard without discussing it with other people as a "preemptive attack" in order to convince the viewer that's what we should do to Muslims in the Middle East.
-The same senator using a long list of Illuminati-controlled events to give us alternative lessons of history to Vietnam.

My rating: 0.5/10

[psk]

Thanks for the review. I really do not care about MM's opinions, nor his movies. I had not even heard of the other one. But you did a good job of sharing with us their stupidity.