Saturday, July 03, 2004
Theone thing I'll remember from this article is that Cameron From Ferris Bueller's Day off was 30 years old when he made the movie.
THat and it was a slow freaking entertainment news day. Other than that Brando guy.
Friday, July 02, 2004
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Wow, I bet Bush and Condi never thought the White House press office was going to hand out copies of their completely unscripted and off the cuff notes to each other to the entire media
{Cheney expletive} retards.
During the singing of "God Bless America" in the seventh inning, an image of Cheney was shown on the scoreboard. It was greeted with booing, so the Yankees quickly removed the image.
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Having the vice president of the "honor and integrity" adminstration tell a Senator to "Go fuck himself" on the floor of the senate is bad enough, but now this.
US Vice President Dick Cheney said he had no regrets about using the F-word in a confrontation with a Democratic senator this week.
"I said it ... and I felt better after I said it," Cheney told Fox News Channel in an interview in which he also quashed speculation that he might withdraw from the Republican party ticket for the November 2 presidential election with George W. Bush.
Here that America? The Vice president gives a nationally syndicated interview to tell everyone it "feels good" to tell people to "Fuck off".
What will we tell the children?
Seriously. Stop and think for one instant that Vice President Gore tells Trent Lott to go fuck himself on the senate floor. Then gives an interview with CNN saying how hes glad he did it and it "felt good". The Clinton shrugs it off saying its no big deal?
Here that Kids? The vice president says if it feels good, tell em to fuck off!
The collective outrage from the right could power Vegas for over a decade.
Monday, June 28, 2004
Saw the movie yesterday. my impressions, for wht its worth.
The 7 minute deer in headlights look on bush face after he was told we were being attacked was shocking. I mean ive read about it and seen brief snippets before, but watching the whole 7 minutes tick by, while he sits there confused and befuddled, reading a children’s book as 3000 people are dying, was just shocking.
There were some parts that were so genuinely moving it was incredible. The story of the mother who’s son is killed was the closest I’ve come to ever seeing anyone be able to portray something like that to someone who has no idea what its like. Just amazing.
There was another moment that was so effective. So many times when we see and hear images of 9/11 they are from video cameras, so they all have this low video sound. All the images of the planes are from far away so you cant hear anything. Moore cut to black and just had the sounds of the planes and the people screaming and running. Im not sure but I think the sounds of the planes were either created, or at the very least augmented, because they made the sound of the planes hitting this gigantic horrible sound that shook the theater, then screams an crying, and then the sound of an approaching plane, and another horrible sound. Even thought here was no video, it left the most sickening feeling.
And then Moore slowly faded into images of the day but wisely didn’t once (as far as I can remember) show the buildings, or the flames, or the bodies. It was all video of peoples reactions. Disbelief, praying, crying. The image of one woman just looking up and screaming “oh my god there jumping” was just horrible.
The rest of the movie was all impressive. I think the Saudi bush link thing is a little overdone. Theres so much bigger targets, but he only had 2 hours. Showing a glimpse of what its like on the ground with the troops is eye opening. Scared stupid kids who are surrounded by people who hate them.
Paul Wolfowitz’s hygiene is as disgusting as his politics.
Ashcroft is legitimately insane.
Like the other reviewers have said, it works better when Moore is offscreen and just lets the camera tell the story. The story of the mother, and the story of the Christmas eve with the troops, really worked. The schticky Moore reading the patriot act in an ice-cream truck, not so much. And those recruiters at the mall were creepy.
I don’t like Moore much since his columbine movie was full of factual mistakes, but this one from what I’ve read gets everything right, and it is amazingly effective. Once you see it, you realize why all the rightwingers are deathly afraid of it.
And by the way, we were at the Sunday matinee at 4 pm, and it was packed to the rafters. The movie made history and was #1 this weekend with 21 million.
Thumbs up.
Now watch this drive.
