Organization attempting to ban Moore's flick

My attorney says he has no case whatsoever and added that the new edition of the book is due out in eight weeks. Hmmm....

In one pointedly hilarious scene, Moore rallies members of Congress to get their own children to enlist in the Marines.

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In one pointedly hilarious scene, Moore rallies members of Congress to get their own children to enlist in the Marines.

Since the military has been voluntary for decades I don't see the humor in this. Moore may be trying to convey that children of the well to do or policy makers don't join up, which is again not humorous or truthful.

Again, conservative (or Republican) sense of humor: an oxymoron.

Fahrenheit 9/11 is hot, hot, hot rave critics

June 23 2004 at 07:48PM

New York - American critics gave a warm welcome on Wednesday to Michael Moore's caustic documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, praising the movie's scathing humour while voicing some reservations over the director's methods.

"Informative, provocative, frightening, compelling, funny, manipulative and, most of all, entertaining," read USA Today's gushing review of Moore's polemic against the invasion of Iraq and the administration of President George Bush.

"Fahrenheit 9/11 is the year's must-see film," the national daily said, while questioning whether the unabashed bias of the documentary would actually change minds in an already polarised United States electorate.

While acknowledging that Moore's latest piece of agitprop, which won the Palme D'Or at this year's Cannes film festival, could be "nitpicked and second guessed," The Los Angeles Times labelled the film "a landmark in American filmmaking (that) demands to be seen."

The movie opened in New York on Wednesday and can be seen across the country from Friday. It was initially, and very publicly, denied distribution in the United States by Disney, the parent company of Miramax, which financed it.

"With expertly deployed footage and a take-no-prisoners attitude that echoes that of his conservative betes noir, Moore has made an overwhelming film," the Times said.

"It is propaganda, no doubt about it, but propaganda is most effective when it has elements of truth, and too much here is taken from the record not to have a devastating effect on viewers."

Moore, an iconoclast and polemicist, has made no bones about his motive for making the film. "I would like to see Mr Bush removed from the White House," he told the ABC television network last Sunday.

The New Yorker magazine found the film "incendiary and viciously funny" and "Moore's most powerful movie - the largest in scope, the most resourceful and skillful in means."

But it also questioned the film's objectivity and its method of deluging the audience with allegations that are often difficult to sort out and evaluate.

"Fahrenheit 9/11 offers the thrill of a coherent explanation for everything, but parts of the movie are no better than a wild, lunging grab at a supposed master plan," the magazine said.

New York magazine had similar criticisms, saying Moore's film was compromised by too many cheap jokes and a tendency to preach to the converted.

"More often than not, he goes for the guffaw, and as enjoyable as that can be, it falls short of producing the kind of devastating, in-depth analysis that might really challenge the hearts and minds of all audiences, left and right," it said. - Sapa-AFP

My attorney says Bradbury has no case.

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