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shamrock_uk · 10-14-2004, 02:37 PM

Well, I personally didn't really rate this film and found it very disappointing. Some of it was funny in places, most of what he pointed out I already knew, and I thought it wasn't a patch on Bowling for Columbine. Most of that film was well-written and executed (Charlton Heston interview aside) whereas Fahrenheit 9/11 just came across as bashing Bush for the sake of it.

Maybe it needed to be done to an American audience, but it was just same old same old as far as I was concerned...

Edit:

Whilst I think, as it's been brought up, I was reading an interview with a senior Bush administration official a couple of weeks ago, basically admitting that al-Zarqawi is much more of a mythical figure than we have been made to believe. To paraphrase him, they were giving informants $100k a time and basically being told what they wanted to hear. He said that al-Zarqawi was originally a fairly low ranking fighter desperate to make his name, but the evidence linking him to all these atrocities is actually virtually non-existent (consider in the videos the figure is always masked) and there have been cases where he is apparently in several countries at once. Apparently lots of separate groups have been carrying out terrorist attacks and just using his name without him really being involved. I'll see if i can dig out an online source...

[ 10-14-2004, 02:52 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]

10-14-2004, 02:37 PM	#35
shamrock_uk Dracolich Join Date: January 24, 2004 Location: UK Age: 42 Posts: 3,092	Well, I personally didn't really rate this film and found it very disappointing. Some of it was funny in places, most of what he pointed out I already knew, and I thought it wasn't a patch on Bowling for Columbine. Most of that film was well-written and executed (Charlton Heston interview aside) whereas Fahrenheit 9/11 just came across as bashing Bush for the sake of it. Maybe it needed to be done to an American audience, but it was just same old same old as far as I was concerned... Edit: Whilst I think, as it's been brought up, I was reading an interview with a senior Bush administration official a couple of weeks ago, basically admitting that al-Zarqawi is much more of a mythical figure than we have been made to believe. To paraphrase him, they were giving informants $100k a time and basically being told what they wanted to hear. He said that al-Zarqawi was originally a fairly low ranking fighter desperate to make his name, but the evidence linking him to all these atrocities is actually virtually non-existent (consider in the videos the figure is always masked) and there have been cases where he is apparently in several countries at once. Apparently lots of separate groups have been carrying out terrorist attacks and just using his name without him really being involved. I'll see if i can dig out an online source... [ 10-14-2004, 02:52 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]