Comments on: This Angries Up the Blood!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:30:39 +0000

That was my first comment there!

By: JohnFN

JohnFN — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:12:59 +0000

Tell that to Theo Van Gogh.

By: Kit

Kit — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:06:31 +0000

SPAMMER ALERT!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:08:20 +0000

That should have been “his own political views.”

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:04:32 +0000

I was surprised to find that the same reviewer did write a review of “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

And it’s actually not too bad:

As much as the jurors at this year’s Cannes Film Festival insisted that the Palme D’Or was awarded to the best film in competition, it was a sign of the times that they chose to honor Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, marking a clear and decisive victory for ideology over aesthetics. A Bush apologia made with the same mixture of speculation and low blows wouldn’t even have warranted an invitation to Cannes, but the jurors can be forgiven for getting caught up in the excitement. A free-ranging dirty bomb of a movie, Fahrenheit 9/11 argues for a regime change, and it forwards whatever half-realized or marginally persuasive arguments it’ll take to get the job done. Sloppy as cinema and dubious as journalism, the film nonetheless seethes with such anger and urgency that it feels like a historic provocation, one that could popularize truths that have been soft-pedaled by an acquiescent media.

For Bush’s failures in leadership, Moore submits footage of the president on the morning of Sept. 11, placidly reading a book called My Pet Goat to Florida schoolchildren seven minutes after being told that a second plane had hit the World Trade Center. It’s a powerful ploy, but it’s also deeply unfair: How could anyone be expected to process the news before witnessing its magnitude? Moore also swings and misses on the Saudi front: Special favors were clearly granted, but the ties binding Bush, his National Guard buddy James Bath, and the bin Laden clan make for a vague case of guilt by association.

There are other parts of the review where he injects his own political reviews into it, but if I had read this review at the time, it wouldn’t have angried up my blood.

By: jacob

jacob — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:49:39 +0000

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By: JohnFN

JohnFN — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:34:39 +0000

Or the relentless anti-corporate, anti-Bush, anti-government, anti-America memes in nearly half of all productions. That’s courage, putting Dick Cheney’s photo in the murderer’s office. Taking on the Religion of Peace and depicting it, not a bit.

You wonder what these folks would do in the face of Sharia themselves.

By: JimmyC

JimmyC — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:53:22 +0000

I’d go a step further, Skip, and say that it takes courage even if you DON’T live in Iran. The Danish guys who wrote the Muhammed cartoons weren’t living in Iran, and neither were Ayaan Hirsi Ali or Theo Van Gogh. But look what happened to them.

By: Lars Walker

Lars Walker — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:50:10 +0000

I’m sure the reviewer saw a whole lot of moral ambiguity in The Matthew Shepherd Story.

By: Mighty Skip

Mighty Skip — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:48:05 +0000

Actually, it takes a lot of courage IF you live in Iran. The point on the reviewer is obviously lost.