Fahrenheit 9/11 double disk extra features (DVD)

The events of September 11th will be forever etched in the minds of every person who watched the atrocities unfold on television. Personally, I shall never forget the moment when the first tower collapsed. It seemed unthinkable that such a thing could ever happen and I don’t think I was alone when I felt that this would be the start of a terrible chapter in our world’s history. Fahrenheit 9/11 is the brain child of American film maker, Michael Moore. In this film documentary, Moore sets out to investigate the events that took place in the years after 9/11. It is no secret that Moore is a staunch opponent of George Bush and his policies and the film provides ...  Read the complete review

This film is particularly hard to write an objective review about because it naturally stirs up strong feelings in just about everyone who watches it, and it’s easy to label it as brilliant, or appallingly bad, depending on your stance on the emotive subject matter. I myself was guilty of leaving some scathing comments about the_mad_cabbie’s review on Ciao of this film because I felt it was flavoured with too much of his own political bias and he put his own misleading spin on the messages that Moore delivers in the film. Rather than criticise other people’s reviews, however, I’d like to stand up and be counted by attempting to deliver a review which strives to be ...  Read the complete review

At lunch over the summer someone asked me if Big Brother was about a bunch of related people and, when I said the name came from the term in the Orwell book, I was met with blank glances. The same goes for my comment that Fahrenheit 9/11 seemed to take its name from the Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451. But I didn’t go to see it because I thought it would be anything like that film – one I enjoyed many years ago. I went because (a) I was living in the US and (b) in the US it was the most talked about film for months [and, I suppose, because (c) I’d already seen everything else currently showing over there]. I’ve read “Stupid White Men…” I’ve seen TV ...  Read the complete review

Since watching F9/11 I've been debating exactly how to review it, and how to rate it. I was finding these issues much harder for this film as I do for most. My primary concern was whether to rate it as a film or as a documentary. These two things in many cases would be one and the same, but in this case it isn't. My view of Michael Moore has shifted slightly over time. Episodes of "The Awful Truth" and his book "Adventures In A TV Nation" were two of the earliest things that introduced politics to me. Before these, I found politics dull and uninteresting. Moore opened a more accessible door into the realm of politics, which of course is ...  Read the complete review

So the American elections are out of the way for another 4 years and still Bush is in power despite most of American seeming to be against him during the last 4. There are a large number of people around the world who cant stand Bush and know it isn’t safe to have a man like him ruling in America. One such man is Michael Moore, who it can easily be said isn’t Bush’s biggest fan. So tonight I finally sat down to watch Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 after months of putting it off. I’m not a fan of Bush and a number of his policies I certainly don’t agree with. That said I’m not really a huge fan of Moore either. I read one of his books and although I found it mildly ...  Read the complete review