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  • There is no possibility that Fahrenheit 9/11 is going to win the Best Documentary Oscar this year......because it wasn't entered. Moore decides to keep it out, click to read why. Love him or hate him, you gotta respect him for it

  • Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
 #60636  by Zeus
 Wed Sep 08, 2004 1:37 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/messa ... 6">here</a>

There is no possibility that Fahrenheit 9/11 is going to win the Best Documentary Oscar this year......because it wasn't entered. Moore decides to keep it out, click to read why. Love him or hate him, you gotta respect him for it</div>

 #60638  by Kupek
 Wed Sep 08, 2004 1:44 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>And this is getting him lots more publicity... he's such a trooper.</div>

 #60639  by Zeus
 Wed Sep 08, 2004 1:50 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It has? I had to go to his own website to check it out, it hasn't been on any news program. And there's no stage like the Oscars, period. You can't get publicity like winning an Oscar, even for a film everyone's seen</div>

 #60640  by Stephen
 Wed Sep 08, 2004 2:06 pm
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>False. I read about his announcement a few days ago in The Dallas Morning News and on multiple news websites.</div>

 #60641  by Zeus
 Wed Sep 08, 2004 2:11 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah? Well, I read the Toronto Sun everyday and listen to the radio news as well and I haven't heard shit. Maybe people up here just don't care :-)</div>

 #60643  by Tessian
 Wed Sep 08, 2004 5:25 pm
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>respect him for actually admitting his movie wasn't a documentary? I think not</div>

 #60644  by Eric
 Wed Sep 08, 2004 5:48 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Dude nobody respects Moore but you, the rest of us see through the bullshit.</div>

 #60655  by Flip
 Thu Sep 09, 2004 12:54 am
<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>So he pulls it so he can get it on tv faster, then at the end says dont expect it to come out on tv before the election...</div>

 #60658  by Torgo
 Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:28 am
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I saw it on both CNN and Fox News a few nights ago.</div>

 #60659  by SineSwiper
 Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:19 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I really don't think you can count any of the movies as documentaries. They all have opinions laced within. A real documentary would be something akin to a show on the History Channel.</div>

 #60661  by SineSwiper
 Thu Sep 09, 2004 3:36 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Google News says 339 articles on it. You lose.</div>

 #60664  by ManaMan
 Thu Sep 09, 2004 8:55 am
<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I'll be amazed the day the put one of Moore's pieces of "docuganda" on the History Channel.</div>

 #60665  by Tessian
 Thu Sep 09, 2004 10:29 am
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>of course they're not, yet he got an award for it anyway. So like I said, I'm not going to applaud the man for finally admitting it</div>

 #60666  by Zeus
 Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:17 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I was talking about mainstream media up here. Sorry, but I don't scour the Internet all day for news, I have a life</div>

 #60667  by Zeus
 Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:18 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah, kinda messed up, huh? He could always dream, I hope</div>

 #60668  by Zeus
 Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:19 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I noticed.....too bad, but at least he's helped usher along a whole wave of documentaries and political questioning shows on TV</div>

 #60669  by Zeus
 Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:21 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>His style is more of the new wave of documentaries, mixing entertainment with fact, with some opinion thrown in. All of the new ones are like that. I think the only difference is that the new ones don't hide their bias anymore.</div>

 #60675  by Tessian
 Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:39 pm
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>"new wave of documentaries" ? Uhm, no, you can't just go twisting the definition of something because you didn't fit the original criteria. They're not documentaries. They're closer to propoganda than documentaries</div>

 #60679  by SineSwiper
 Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:44 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>You all misunderstand. I mean ALL of the "documentaries": Supersize Me, Fog of War, Bowling, etc.</div>

 #60680  by SineSwiper
 Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:46 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Well, unforunately, the Oscars doesn't have a category for "propaganda", so "documentary" will have to do.</div>

 #60681  by SineSwiper
 Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:48 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I don't need a life of Google. I can use Google News and it's on the FRONT PAGE.</div>

 #60688  by Zeus
 Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:32 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>All "documentaries" are biased, unless they're of the vien of "in order to make a basket, you do this"; every last one of them. Hell, even all the shows like Unsolved Mysteries and everything A&E shows is biased, yet they're not called "propoganda"</div>