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 ...

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 ...

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 ...