And the People's Choice Goes to... Fahrenheit 9/11

[Disgruntled70sHab]

The People's Choice Award for Favourite Movie goes to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. I always thought it was a documentary and that's what he was calling it until he came up with an idea on how to flog it as a movie. He wanted to air the documentary on the eve of the presidential election but to do so would disqualify it as a documentary. So, without knowing if it would air or not, he conveniently submitted his film in the movie category.

I guessed his ploy worked and people liked it enough to vote for it. Sigh!

Here's the link.

jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2005/01/09/871777-cp.html

Cheers.

[Habs_fan_in_LA]

Not fiction and not non-fiction.
The Lord of the Rings setting for a reality show.

[blaise]

I deliberately didn't see the film because I didn't think there'd be anything in it for me. I could well imagine the content because little of it was new. Moore was right most of the time but he made some questionable leaps of judgment and resorted to overkill. I'm glad he made money and made the right wingers mad. Overstuffed hemorrhoid-plagued draft dodgers like the drug-abusing prevaricator Rush Limbaugh have been getting away with murder for years in feeding the unwashed boobs with shameful distortions.

[Montrealer]

Disgruntled70sHab said:

The People's Choice Award for Favourite Movie goes to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. I always thought it was a documentary and that's what he was calling it until he came up with an idea on how to flog it as a movie. He wanted to air the documentary on the eve of the presidential election but to do so would disqualify it as a documentary. So, without knowing if it would air or not, he conveniently submitted his film in the movie category.

I guessed his ploy worked and people liked it enough to vote for it. Sigh!

Here's the link.

jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2005/01/09/871777-cp.html

Cheers.

I can't understand complaints about the People's Choice awards. It's like complaining about any other popularity contest - they don't measure anything but popularity!

I don't watch the People's Choice awards because I already have an idea what's popular - "Hey, you were the #1 Neilsen rated show on TV! And shock! You're the people's choice award winner!"

Good for Moore, but it doesn't really mean anything.

[M. Beaux-Eaux]

Blaise said:

I deliberately didn't see the film because I didn't think there'd be anything in it for me.I could well imagine the content because little of it was new.

OK.

Moore was right most of the time but he made some questionable leaps of judgment and resorted to overkill.

Hmmm, pretty darn emphatic opinion for a feller what din't see the film.

[blaise]

M. said:

OK.


Hmmm, pretty darn emphatic opinion for a feller what din't see the film.

I heard loads about it on TV talk shows. It was so well annotated (yeah, I know annotated implies written comments but you get the idea) that only the images were missing, and I saw clips of those.