Ping! Thought you might find this of interest based on our previous conversation. It's another review (this one by Mark Steyn) written as if the second hour of the film doesn't exist.
I owe you a response to your long and detailed freepmail. Meanwhile, my Dem younger brother is putting the squeeze on me to see it with him next Tuesday, when he comes down to civilization from Bishop, California. I am consulting my conscience on that one.
Having now read your freepmail, regarding the second half, I take it you think the selective use of vinettes was very effective agitprop, or assuming you think the selection rings true, effective revealing of that the emperor has no clothes? I think I probably should see, and post a vanity. I keep saying I should do it on various topics. Maybe this time I will follow through.
I was more upset by Moore's manipulative sketch of the dead soldier's mother, and her visit to Washington.
The pictures of the wounded soldiers... Hell, war is ugly. The soldiers said that themselves. That it changes you forever.
But damn, folks, people DIE in conflicts. We lost the same amount of men and women that get killed in auto accidents over a 4 day weekend.
That said, Bush is going to have a real hard time getting re-elected, IMO. It's shameful and disgusting that some of my friends and fellow Americans fall for this type of bullsh*t.
I told them what is wrong with Halliburton getting contracts? I asked them who they would hire to build their airplanes. Lockheed or Boing. Certainly not Air-Buses-R-Us.
Well it's only Halliburton or Bechtel, IMO. Hire the best.
Sorry for rambling, but the movie depressed me a bit as far as Bush's chances.