Farenheit 9/11
So I figured the crowds would have died down enough by now to go see this movie, and I was sort of right. There wasn't a line out the door, but there were still a hell of a lot of people for a Tuesday at Cinemapolis. Now maybe I've read too many of Moore's books, seen too many interviews with him and whatnot, but there just wasn't anything really new here. It was a solidly put together documentary with his usual humour and wit, but it was just old news to me. Nothing in there was new or startling or even that thought provoking to me. Insted it seems that Moore has just relied on his segments with Lipscomb, a mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, to pull at our heart strings, which it does. But for someone like Moore who's had such solid films in his past this seemed like a cheap lazy way out. On more of a ironically funny note he did end the movie on a quote from Orwell's 1984 (and then the best Bush quote ever "You fool me once..."), which just so happens to be the book I was reading right before the movie.
RATING: Worth a Regular Ticket Price (But No Need To Rush Out), Worth a Rental