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These films are not necessarily lacking in originality or heavy-handedness, however: Fahrenheit 9/11 and Going Upriver have earned widespread critical acclaim. Indeed, Moore’s film, which won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, has elevated the political documentary to heights unmatched by previous films of the genre...
...office revenues of $204.1 million as of September 4, 2004, has made Fahrenheit 9/11 the highest-grossing documentary of all time. Hollywood, it seems, has responded to the success of one of its own with an influx of films that prominently laud or criticize the exploits of various political figures...
Also, we would like to take this moment to contradict bloatedly liberal filmmaker Michael Moore: in his movie Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore seemed to imply that recruiting drives only targeted poor neighborhoods. One only need to look at the posh would-be-recruiteds at Fair Harvard to see that that’s simply not the case. Sure poor people are recruited into, like, the army and Harvardians into the army of finance, but both of these armies require “hard work,” in the words of our president...
...American media and the folly of embedded reporting, it is unlikely that people are going to find out for themselves through mainstream media outlets. Under current Federal Communications Commission guidelines the average American viewer would be just as likely to see the kind of graphic wartime violence shown in Fahrenheit 9/11 on network television as he’d be to see Janet Jackson’s nipple again...
...fairest? Kerry didn't seem to mind too much when Michael Moore's cheesy film Fahrenheit 9/11 cast aspersions on President Bush. Most Democrats embraced the film and enjoyed the damage it caused. Now that attacks on Kerry's military record are the hot item, Kerry can't take it and has demanded that Bush call off the dogs. Maybe Kerry should show what kind of man he is by speaking out against the kind of unbalanced politicking that Moore's film represents. Lloyd A. Marshall Gabriola, Canada...