Fahrenheit 9/11 on channel 4 9:00pm 10 Sept.

Me neither, accorRABing to the wikipedia article it seems Michal Moore signed a document saying all the facts and figures stated in the documentry are true however :) George Bush's family history is fascinating, americans must be really ignorant or brainwashed on a whole. :o
 
Do remember one thing about Michael Moore.... his documentaries are great, but he does like to embelish a little bit himself for that extra "angle".

Do a google on "bowling for columbine" to see the lengths he went to to get a story! (i.e. a shooting convention in Denver that was actually held I believe before the Columbine disaster but was portrayed as being held after the disaster...)
 
Agreed. The scenes with the families of soldiers killed in Iraq, are easily the most powerfully uncomfortably scenes I've ever watched.

It baffles me how Bush got in not once, but twice. Seriously I remember the front page of the Daily Mirror after the last election. 'How can 54,000,000 people be that dumb?' Says it all really.
 
The movie although it makes very good points like all Moore's docu's is heavily flawed in presenting the actually downright facts,not acknowledging positives or like another poster mentioned being edited cleverly against the actual truth in the production of the docu.Sicko was another one that deliberately put across the USA as being the only flawed nation and edited other countries health service as fantastic when it failed to point out the many flaws in those services too.

Remember his documentarys are very entertaining to watch but take them as seriously factual as The Sun newspaper.
 
Don't worry you're not the only one. It's just that most people depise Bush, so anything (sensationalist or otherwise), like this film, that brings him down a peg oe two is to be applauded.
 
I was also thinking about this when watching Sicko, Moore obviously didn't read the newspapers about NHS cuts, the junior doctors, hospital closures, NHS not performing well etc. whilst he was in England at the time.

However, he's only trying to put over a point to the Americans that a free health care system works. You have to agree that mentioning all the current flaws of the NHS are hardly going to win american approval.

Anyways, Fahrenheit 9/11 was entertaining yet factual, congruous to the Moore style of documentary.
 
Moore's films are always enjoyable, but often misleading - its worth watching the films, then doing your own research afterwarRAB, rather than taking what he says as gospel.
 
I agree. His films are compelling but take them with a pinch of salt.

He can be quite ignorant sometimes too. I'm thinking of a comment he made where he suggested that the solution to the problems in Northern Ireland was for all Protestants to convert to Catholicism.

As an Irish person, I was covering my ears and screaming Nooo!!!! :) A bit simplistic don't you think, Michael?
 
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