Fahrenheit 9/11

Before I begin, I’ll refresh your memory about the controversy surrounding the latest documentary by Michael Moore… “Fahrenheit 9/11“… Basically Miramax were producing it, but parent company Disney didnt want them to release it, so it was sold off to Lions Gate by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, same as what they did with Kevin Smith’s “Dogma” in late 1999, it went on to recieve top plaudits at the Cannes Film Festival in May. This brings us up to this weekend where it opened in the States and, supposedly, raked in $8m in ticket sales on it’s opening day, easily beating the previous record, Moore’s “Bowling For Columbine“.

Now be warned, this is your typical Michael Moore film, don’t be expecting an unbiased view on world events, the man does not like George W. Bush and everything he stands for… That aside it’s actually quite an enjoyable film, though I liked “Bowling For Columbine” and his books “Stupid White Men …and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!” and “Dude, Where’s My Country?“, both recommended to me by my dad…

It explores everything he wrote in “Dude, Where’s My Country?” which I expected, that being the stealing of the presidential election, his family links to the Saudi Royal Family and the Bin Laden family, his links to Haliburton and Enron, the pointlessness of the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq… You know the deal surely.

I would advise most everybody go see it, it’s the first film I’ve been to see that got a standing ovation at the end (I kid you not) and that’s the highest recommendation you can get, not just from me, but a theater full of paying patrons in Marietta, GA. who stood up at 9:30 pm on Sunday 27th June and gave this film a worthy round of applause…