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Sunday, June 27
Plain and simple, this is a muss C moovie. But it's really not that plain and/or simple. I didn't find it that amazing and it wasn't even the best Michael Moore documentary I've seen... that title belongs to Bowling For Columbine. So why is it a muss C? Cause everyone sez it is and who wants to be left out of the conversation, eh? Don't get me wrong, it raises numerous valid questions about the policy and actions of Premier Bush and his staff, but I think Moore went a lil too overboard with his biased propaganda. If you want get a point across, don't you have to explore both sides of the story?
And yeah, it's an important film for this election year, but it surely isn't timeless. If Bush wins in November, Moore and his opinion lose. And if Bush doesn't, was it Moore's doing or just the fact that people are sick and tired of the Bushman in the first place? Either way, in years to come, all the hype and hubb-bubb will die down and Michael Moore will take his muckraking to someone else's backyard. I mean, if Moore made a doc about any president, say Rutherford B. Hayes, he could make him look worse than Hitler sans watermelon.
F-9/11 is basically a liberal movie made purely for liberals. At the screening I took in, the very democratic NYC crowd applauded at every chance possible. It's really hard to get your point across when yer preaching to the choir, eh? But what about those voters/viewers who are on the fence? Well, they probably won't dislike Bush any more than they did before, but then again, they don't really want to vote for J Kerry either. And what about the conservative Bush supporters? They'll just dismiss it as a bunch of liberal soapboxing, which is basically is. Personally, I think Howard Stern and his censorship ordeals with the FCC have bigger impact on the election, than F-9/11.
However, I still urge you to go and see this slanted, yet honest documentary and form your own damn opinion. I mean, who's not going be entertained by 2 hours filled with Bushisms, him goofing off, and looking like an idiot, right? And besides Napoleon Dynamite, there really isn't anything that umcredible out in the theaters right now. But if you really want to see a jarring documentary that explores the political problems of yesterday and today, then look no further than last year's worthy Oscar winner, Errol Morris' masterpiece The Fog of War. Now let me get off my soapbox.
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