Tuesday, June 29, 2004

What is happening to the world!

Because I'm more or less at my computer at work everyday, I'm reading more and more news online. And it saddens me. Take for example, the controversy over Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911. It hasn't opened in my area yet, but there's already a red circle around Aug 5 on my desk calendar.

Well, I would have thought it common sense to only criticise something--anything--only after one has read all the facts. Granted, it's not possible to read everything before one offers his/her opinion, but it sure comes across as dumb to bitch about a film before you have even watched it. I was surprised at an article by an Observer film reviewer:

I'll be reviewing the film in full when it opens here in a couple of weeks, but suffice to say that it was neither the sharpest, the funniest nor the most politically potent documentary screened at Cannes this year.

In it, he was making more noise about the publicity surrounding Moore, and how he is more or less a media whore (my term) about Fahrenheit. I don't know if it has ever crossed the reviewer's mind that maybe the only way Moore is able to "educate" the public in this media-frenzy world, is to make some noise of his own. His methods may not be pretty but it sure gets the message across, doesn't it?

I'm not an American, but I'm curious about how the US Elections will turn out. From Karen's blog, I have been
reading a forum board about the Moore film. I don't think it is my place to criticise anything that I haven't seen but you'd think that if you want to bitch about something, the least you could do is have a coherent argument first! These people are calling him fat and idiotic and "ungrateful heathen." I mean, come on! Are we still in the school yard?

i dont have a problem with his weight. i jus have a problem with his attitude. if he dosent like the gov't then get out of the country or run for Prez and win. he needs to be thankful he has a gov't that allows him to bash the Prez. he is nothing moe than an ungrateful heathen!

would like start off by saying that mr. happy funtime can suck my conservative bush-supporting ****. your an idiot to all are delight. fahrenheit 9/11 is nothing more than a liberal movie, for young voters to vote for kerry. well i will be voting for bush. im 18, and i know that moore is nothing more than a fat idiot that pays his wife to sleep with him.

All I can say is, if you don't have a coherent argument, at least run a spellcheck over what you are going to bitch.

posted by Sharon K at 8:30 pm