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Discuss: Fahrenheit 9/11 sequel… yes or no?
Michael Moore has announced that he is making a sequel to the biggest, most successful documentary of all time..’Fahrenheit 9/11′ which grossed $119,194,771 at the box office.
“Moore’s new doc could play at Cannes next year, if it isn’t released earlier in the spring. He’s already at work on the film.
“Clearly, we have a movie of global appeal here. Michael Moore is a very talented filmmaker, and this is a branded property,” Meyer said, adding that the Weinsteins helped build that brand.Sequel will pick up where “Fahrenheit 9/11″ left off. In the time since, Bush’s popularity has plummeted, while the Iraq war continues and the economy falters.
“It’s a vote of confidence on Michael’s part and a great partnership for all of us,” Rosett said. “There is a voracious appetite for this kind of commentary.”
Moore has made three of the five top-grossing documentaries of all time. “Fahrenheit 9/11″ is the highest-grossing docu ever domestically, earning $119.1 million. It grossed another $100 million at the international box office.”
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Now we wont get into the debate about whether it was a “true documentary” or not, because that’s neither here nor there, the question at hand is do you think he should be making a sequel? Do we need to see more public President Bush Bashing?(Scott says YES!)
So lets open it up to all of you guys, what do you think about a sequel to this highly controversial, highly profitable flick…
Let me be the first to comment, YES YES YES. This is what we need to compliment the hilarity that will be Oliver Stones ‘W’. We need this to come out the week before he leaves office, and ill be the first to say that for my birthday this year (January 20th) it will be the greatest present ever, to have a different president sworn in on that day!
All that aside, Yes Moore fills the flicks with speculation, and blows things out of proportion but come on! thats what makes them so fan-fucking-tastic!
But he’s already done it. He’d just be beating a dead horse at this point. He got a few jabs in on the administration with Sicko as well. I would at least like to see him take on another social issue that can relate back to the administration, but there’s no need to point at crap and call it crap all over again. If anything, he should do a follow up on “Roger and Me” if he’s going to sequel one of his documentaries.
But there is so much more bullshit now that he can cover in the movie! I think a sequel is much needed..
This would absolutely not be beating a dead horse. There has been so much more that has developed in the last four years.
But my point is that we all know it and are all sick what he’s gotten away with. January 20th, he’s gone. Hopefully the next president will have the balls to put him on trial, but we don’t need another movie reaffirming what we already know.
Move onto a subject that needs the focus. Look how big socialized medicine has become since Sicko came out. What about gays? What about renewable energy (a la Who Killed The Electric Car)? What about the prison system (I am a Criminal Justice major and that has been a very eye opening experience)? What about social issues that can raise awareness and spur some sort of change as opposed to lingering on bitterness and resentment that the majority of the country has? I would love to see a follow up to Fahrenheit, but for now I think there are just so many other issues he should be spending his time fighting for, and not going back to a formula that is easily bankable.
i agree that we all know he is a jackass and has gotten away with alot of bullshit. However I love how Michael Moore shines a light on the bullshit, calls him out in one of the biggest ways and makes everyone hate him! My only hope is that he drags McCain in there too..
He did a sequel for “roger and me” it was called “pets or meat.” It was short, maybe half and hour? If you like Mike go back and find “TV nation” and “the Awful Truth” both are great shows.
He also did ‘The Big One’ which was sort of a related follow-up film… both tackled corporate America. I haven’t seen ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ or ‘Sicko’ yet, but Scott’s talked me into watching ‘Sicko’ which may happen this weekend if I can find time between all the other stuff planned this weekend.
Why not a sequel? Yes, there are lots of issues that need addressing but so many of them lead right back to Washington and fester on the desk of our President. All our problems start at the top, or as my father would say, “shit rolls downhill.”
I understand that it is a “bankable” idea, but the guy (the administration, really) is our most popular problem. And would a sequel really be “beating a dead horse” because “we don’t need another movie reaffirming what we already know?”
We NEED the reaffirmation, obviously, since the fucking guy was voted into office for a second term AFTER Moore’s first dead-horse-beating session was released to theaters.
We (the royal “We”) voted Bush into office a second time. A second time, goddamit! Are we nuts? We must be… but let Michael Moore show us why we are.
I’ll watch the movie. I’ll be furious while doing it, but I’ll watch it.
Lately, around my office and in various public forums, I am hearing more and more people spewing soundbytes of misinformation ALL over the place – about the last 4 years, about Bush, about the war, about taxes, about the supreme court. Many people don’t know jacksh*t about what is happening in the war in afghanistan, or where the the reminants of the Taliban and Al Quaida currently have relocated to (mostly in Pakistan). People can’t accurately discuss facts about “the surge”, and what was happening before and now.
And I’m not saying I’m running into a lot of “stupid” people. (Of course there are those too). Most of who I am talking about are average people, that I know – likeable people with relative common sense. They are people who care about sports more than government or say that “politics isn’t my thing”. They all just read headlines or watch mainstream news and only half-pay attention, they never look deeper or find out the facts. Now that we are in an election year, I was hoping more people would care a bit more to find out what’s going on in the world, and in our own government, but I’m finding that they can’t be bothered.
This is why I believe we need more Michael Moore films – especially a follow-up for Fahrenheit 9/11. Because he is provacative in a time period where very little actually provokes. He plants questions and arguments, people have to stop just repeating sh*t and stop and say “is that really true?” or if they want to debunk him (which many do) they have to find out how much is true and how much is exaggeration and then they get at the truth and talk about it with everyone they know.
I also want to say, even as someone who enjoys and is entertained by Moore’s methods, I thought Sicko was his most subdued, thorough, and balanced film yet. Very very well done. Almost impossible to argue with – the most I heard people say was that they still think he’s an assh*le who has outragous radical opinions (so what? so are a lot of filmmakers) – and my answer is always “if he is an assh*le who got us to look and think more critically about healthcare, so be it”. I consider myself well-informed about healthcare, but I even walked out of that theater and raced home to read more about the systems of healthcare in other countries, some of what he presented in there was shocking (and shockingly true and sad).
So, yeah. Bring on the sequel. We will only benefit as a society from MORE exposure to our own current events, recent history and putting a big spotlight on some of the sketchy and corrupt parts – I don’t care if everyone thinks there is a loud, angry, shouting “assh*le” holding the spotlight… like I said, if that’s what it takes, I welcome it.