- Classification: 15
- Studio: Optimum
- VHS Release Date: 18 Oct 2004
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (82 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00061RYYI
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,606 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Farenheit 9/11 is a film that covers much of the ground that Michael Moore's books like Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country? have covered but also casts an eye over the events of the Iraq war and how this has changed peoples perceptions and allegiances within the USA.
Parts of the film are disturbing as it is strikingly graphic in some places showing the sort of footage that the News refuses to show and some have criticised the film for going too far in doing this while others have said he is biased. Those who are concerned about bias should be aware that Michael Moore is biased, this is a film by a man who champions the causes of those who can't be heard but does it in often outrageous and inappropriate ways and a man who does not ally himself to either of the main political parties.
This is a hard hitting undoubtably anti-Bush film about lies, deception, perceptions and changing ideas in a post 9/11 world and a tirade against a US President and a unjustified war that people feel very strongly about one way or another. Definitely a must see film though those who'd support the Republicans are unlikely to agree with much of the content and ideas.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Michael Moore has made, in Fahrenheit 9/11 (the temperature at which truth burns), an hilarious and yet at times, moving, documentary.
The hilarious part (and one of the best things about the film) is the fantastic archive footage of President George W. Bush (the second, all hail!). We see him in his younger days bragging about how lobbyists like giving him money because he has unfettered and direct access to the president, his daddy; we see him in his current incarnation as Commander in Chief, making a solemn pronouncement calling on all nations to defeat the scourge of terrorism and then in the same breath, asking reporters to admire his golfing prowess.
Moore goes in to the background of Bush's failed businesses before he became one of the most unpopular and divisive presidents in U.S. history, businesses that include Arbusto (emphasise the "bust") and Harken Energy; Moore also explores the exceptionally close relationship between the theocratic and repressive and thoroughly anti-democratic royal family of Saudia Arabia and the Bush family via their connections through the Carlyle investment group, a relationship that may well have had a significant importance to the events of 11th September, 2001; a lot of this seems to be drawn from Craig Unger's expose, House of Bush, House of Saud (Unger is interviewed on the film).
The moving parts of the documentary are those seen from inside Iraq before, during and after the American invasion, the human costs of the war, the impact it has had on real people's lives, both Iraqi civillian and the working poor of the U.S. army - working poor because the chicken-hawk politicians who voted for the war wouldn't send their kids off to fight it.
Many will try and smear this film as being one-sided but this film simply brings to light facts that many people would prefer not to be confronted with, maintaining comforting illusions about 'democracy buidling in the Middle East' et cetera. This film could be described as being, "Chomsky for Children" and that is high praise indeed.
Nice use of Clapton, too!
The hilarious part (and one of the best things about the film) is the fantastic archive footage of President George W. Bush (the second, all hail!). We see him in his younger days bragging about how lobbyists like giving him money because he has unfettered and direct access to the president, his daddy; we see him in his current incarnation as Commander in Chief, making a solemn pronouncement calling on all nations to defeat the scourge of terrorism and then in the same breath, asking reporters to admire his golfing prowess.
Moore goes in to the background of Bush's failed businesses before he became one of the most unpopular and divisive presidents in U.S. history, businesses that include Arbusto (emphasise the "bust") and Harken Energy; Moore also explores the exceptionally close relationship between the theocratic and repressive and thoroughly anti-democratic royal family of Saudia Arabia and the Bush family via their connections through the Carlyle investment group, a relationship that may well have had a significant importance to the events of 11th September, 2001; a lot of this seems to be drawn from Craig Unger's expose, House of Bush, House of Saud (Unger is interviewed on the film).
The moving parts of the documentary are those seen from inside Iraq before, during and after the American invasion, the human costs of the war, the impact it has had on real people's lives, both Iraqi civillian and the working poor of the U.S. army - working poor because the chicken-hawk politicians who voted for the war wouldn't send their kids off to fight it.
Many will try and smear this film as being one-sided but this film simply brings to light facts that many people would prefer not to be confronted with, maintaining comforting illusions about 'democracy buidling in the Middle East' et cetera. This film could be described as being, "Chomsky for Children" and that is high praise indeed.
Nice use of Clapton, too!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
The film should be seen several times : it's simply too dense to be appreciated fully on a single viewing. Michael Moore's sense of humour is an acquired taste, too ! So much information, so much coverage, so much to and fro in a good attempt to give us a complete picture. Biased ? Not really : he shows both civilian and military victims, bleeding, questioning, angry. He points his finger at authority, but his main target is, without a doubt, George W. Bush : he unclothes him, gently, but firmly, showing how unworthy he is of the job he is paid to do.
There is something sadly wrong with a democracy that elects such a man, twice ! However, Moore has not been censored...yet ! Isn't that a good sign ? We in Europe like or dislike the USA for many things : I cannot but admire Moore for tackling a manipulator who is manipulated and getting away with it ! As Bush says to Moore 'Behave' ! Let's hope there are always people like Moore who are never silenced...
When's his next film ?
When there's another wrong to be put right ?
There is something sadly wrong with a democracy that elects such a man, twice ! However, Moore has not been censored...yet ! Isn't that a good sign ? We in Europe like or dislike the USA for many things : I cannot but admire Moore for tackling a manipulator who is manipulated and getting away with it ! As Bush says to Moore 'Behave' ! Let's hope there are always people like Moore who are never silenced...
When's his next film ?
When there's another wrong to be put right ?
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I showed this to my year 11 class. Occasionally funny and often shocking but always informative. It opens people's eyes to the hypocrisy and deviousness of politicians and their... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mr. J. B. Poulton
Worth viewing whatever your beliefs...
I'll try and type this without being political but that would always be hard considering the nature of this 'documentary/propoganda' (depending on which side of the fence you sit). Read more
Published 5 months ago by BPR
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Published 5 months ago by irenemary
Biased but interesting never the less
Michael Moore's politics are very similar to mine and I agree with most of what he has to say in his films. Read more
Published 7 months ago by E. B.
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a brilliant watch. just what us brits needed. reminds me of nick robinson bbc presenter when he told Busg to do one. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mr. D. Hinds
Amazing, can't recommend enough.
It's like a veil being lifted - so much truth, honesty and injustice revealed. I have read a lot about 9/11, about Bush and the Iraq war, and all I can say is this film, for me,... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mr. M. T. Dodwell
Watch it for the facts alone
Michael Moore might not be to eveyones taste, but everypone should watch this, to see and learn about some of the facts of 9/11 and Iraq. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Prowler
Let the Eagle Soar
Anybody who thinks that Bush's side of the story needs to be told or that in making this film Moore has somehow manipulated the facts is living in cloud cuckoo land... Read more
Published on 10 April 2010 by Mrs. D. Guest
Brainless, hyperbolic, crowd pleasing, garbage. Should be in the...
Just a few examples of how ridiculous this "documentary" is;
- In a long and paranoid (and tedious) section at the opening of the film, he makes heavy innuendoes about... Read more
- In a long and paranoid (and tedious) section at the opening of the film, he makes heavy innuendoes about... Read more
Published on 2 April 2010 by Chris_Carlisle
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this dvd is worth buying as are all Micheal Moore films ,its entertaining and factual but it is one mans personal view as to wether everything it portrays is the absolute truth,... Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2010 by G. T. Potter
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