Movie Review (Fahrenheit 9/11) via Sandy

Received via an email from Sandy

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Hi...I've been discussing Dem. politics, Kerry and Moore's movie with several of you the past few weeks. If you might be interested in another take on it. I think both Republicans and Democrats should see it. Both sides may be surprised. I know I was. He took on the Dems. in many scenes, also. See it and make up your own mind--not what rumor, your church or your friendly politician might say.

Moore supported Nadar four years ago with money and his "celebrity" status, not Gore, not the Dems.

He clearly states on all news shows that he doesn't like Bush. BUT, in this movie he gives reasons why--all reasons substantiated from Bush's own speeches, his top advisor's speeches, the network news, both Fox and CNN, and published books and the nation's top newspapers. Even newspaper columnists who don't like him or the movie, have carried positive comments in their columns on the movie. He carries the actual broadcasts, with permission of all the networks.

Despite what you may have heard, Moore takes potshots to the Democrats too in several scenes.

He hires three independent, nonpartisan fact checkers and an attorney before he puts his movies out. One of the news shows carried this information. Data from aired tv news programs have cited attribution of his facts from normal journalist national newspapers of award winning, high quality standards. New York Times, Washington Post, etc. and from books and authors who have covered the events.

He takes time to let many people speak for themselves, both for Bush and against. It is funny at times, poignant at times, sad at times. I hope you will see it.

Batman Deadend

Very cool 8 minute short movie, Batman Deadend. It was made to showcase the skills of a director that would love to be given the chance to direct the next Batman movie.

It is a fairly hefty download at 48MB, but is worth the wait. It does require Quicktime from Apple

Batman Deadend

Recent Movie Reviews

Explanation of Star Rating:
5 Stars: Amazing movie, would watch it every time I happened to see it on TV.
4 Stars: Top notch movie, exceed expectations
3 Stars: Solid enjoyment/entertainment
2 Stars: OK movie, wished it was better, didn't meet expectations
1 Stars: Hated it, upset that I spent money on it.

BTW: In my system, there is no half star... If you have half stars, then why not quarter stars, and on and on

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl:
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines:
Finding Nemo:
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle:
The Hulk:
The Matrix Reloaded:

The best movie in the last month hands down is Pirates. I didn't have high hopes for this movie. The idea of basing a movie off of a ride didn't sound like it would make for good entertainment but they pulled it off and more.

The movie included many scenes that was very familiar to fans of the ride, but was done in a low key manner. A friend of mine has never been on the ride, and had no clue that certain scenes were homages (if that is the right word) to the ride. I found that a little odd, but I guess not everybody has been fortunate to have been to Disney World twice (thanks Sandy and Bryce) and to Disneyland at least 5 times (thanks to Steve and Sharon for my first visit to Disneyland).

The Hulk was ok, wished more time was spent on simply having a very anger Hulk ripping into things...

A quick ranking of Marvel Superhero movies:
1. Spiderman
2. X2 (the second X-Men movie)
3. X-Men (the first one)
4. Hulk
5. Daredevil