Anybody Want to See Fahrenheit 9/11 with Me?

[queerbychoice]

Anybody want to see Fahrenheit 9/11 with me? Anyone who lives in northern California want to see Fahrenheit 9/11 with me? Because if I don't commit myself to seeing it with someone I have a feeling I'll just put off until forever the idea of ever seeing it at all, because that's what I always do with all movies. But I feel like I should probably make some sort of effort not to do that with this one. And I'd be happy to drive two or three hours out of my way if somebody would just make sure I see the thing.

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[allyscully.livejournal.com]

Argh, why didn't I read this before, I just went to see it with a friend of mine at the theatre on Ethan

(and at the very end a random audiencemember threw his/her waterbottle at bush-on-the-screen and we all clapped mightily.)

[rhekarid.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. I....could do that. But wouldn't that be a big waste of your time? And I'm not much of a movie person either. Why do you need to see it with someone else?

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Because if I see it with someone else I'll have to pick a day to see it and stick to that, whereas if I see it by myself I'll keep putting off the day to see it and never end up seeing it at all.

We should go see it together. It can be a big ironic demonstration, two of the most un-movie-people ever seeing a movie. When are you free? Not including this weekend, because this weekend is hopelessly busy for me.

[rhekarid.livejournal.com]

At the moment, anytime that isn't Tuesday. I'm not exactly running a tight schedule here, so it's not likely to change, but I'll tell you if it does.

[datagrok.livejournal.com]

You may be interested in this article, as a counterpoint to the movie. (It is very critical of Moore.)

http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/

(I have not seen the movie nor read the whole article. But it was recommended by a friend of mine whose intellect I respect. In other words, though not a fan of Moore, she's not a Bush-loving redneck either. Me, I'm scared and confused by politics.) ;)

I did see Bowling for Columbine. I could understand and agree with most of what Moore was trying to say, and I'm glad there's somebody out there to offset the giant homogenous corporate media conglomerates, and make people think about the information they're fed. But thinking about the movie afterward left me feeling mislead, as if I had just watched a propaganda film. I'm wondering if Farenheit 9/11 will feel the same.

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

You could always come over to the UK, I'll be going to see it when it opens in a couple of weeks :)

[inkstained.livejournal.com]

What Michael Moore creates is basically propaganda, but it's propaganda for the right side at last. We need somebody to kick the public up into a frenzy so they can stop letting the government get away with what it does. As much respect as I have for the man, Bowling for Columbine can't really pass as journalism.

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[inkstained.livejournal.com]

Oh interesting, this article is written by Christopher Hitchens - the guy who wrote "The Trial of Henry Kissinger."

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[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Of course you just watched a propaganda film. How could you not know that in advance?

The commentary on Michael Moore that I have been most impressed by so far is Roger Ebert's here. I am perfectly aware that he has done things wrong, quite a few of them even. I do not consider him any sort of saint. But I still want to see the movie, and since I already knew every single thing that everything I've read has said the movie mentions, since I already read the same sources of that information that Michael Moore did and I already posted links to all those sources in my journal as I came across them, it is not as though I'm going to see the movie to learn anything new about 9/11. No, I'm going to see the movie to learn how effective and honest a job the movie did at propagandizing. Why? Because Michael Moore is right that it could affect the outcome of the election, and I want to get a sense firsthand of how good an effect it's likely to have, and how much of the effect will be dissipated by the audience getting informed by movie critics that the information was presented dishonestly.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

So, how are Friday or Saturday for you?