Cannes 2008: Fahrenheit 9/11 Sequel News

dethburger hates Flixster

So MM is making a new "documentary"?


yawn.

May 15 - 08:11 AM

Chris Moore

Let me know when Moore decides to do something original.

Though I am surprised he opted not to release this during an election year. I guess he's more of an "I told you so" kind of person and not an "Out to warn you" person.

May 15 - 08:34 AM

Kirby K

Sweet. Moores' genius at enraging neocons knows no bounds.

May 15 - 10:07 AM

Tommy D

Should be interesting. He only scratched the surface of the truth behind the lies back in '04. Can't wait to see the next installment.

May 15 - 10:37 AM

joe shmo

ok, when they start making sequels to documentaries, you know everything has gone to hell. can't wait for the remake in 2015 after america is morally and financially bankrupt.

does michael moore fail to see the irony in this? he's condemning the bush administration (which, don't get me wrong, i loathe with every fiber of my being) for governing based on their rampant capitalist agenda by making a sequel to the highest grossing doc ever with his "branded property." nice one mike, you're officially a corporate whore. can't wait for 'Celsius 9/11' or whatever it is.

unfortunately, it's not within moore's ability to deliver an honest, sobering documentary like 'no end in sight.' instead he will try to use humor and cheap political tricks which will, as in the original film, ultimately undermine the points he's trying to make. the first movie ran like a 90 minute negative campaign ad and disenchanted as many would-be bush-bashers as it recruited.

it's impossible to argue against the cold, hard facts of a doc like 'no end in sight,' which features the insiders on the war in iraq telling us that their planning was intentionally ignored in order to prolong the conflict. however, once moore begins inserting his own spin on the events, the seed of doubt is planted and we're unable to know if we're being informed or manipulated.

in short, this movie will do more harm than good.

May 15 - 10:48 AM

Frank Ford

"Should be interesting. He only scratched the surface of the truth behind the lies back in '04. Can't wait to see the next installment." "As long as you believe that Oliver Stone.

May 15 - 10:58 AM

Brandon Rogers

Moore only knows how to make propoganda pieces for which at that he is the best. A find his movies to be among the most entertaining in its genre. However, as a documentary filmmaker he fails. My favorite documentary ever is Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. It's witty at times but it's serious and more objective when it needs to be. Moore could take a lesson or two from that film.

May 15 - 11:02 AM

John Webb

Yes another propaganda movie that the liberals will watch and use as if it is the bible. Sad little liberals so sad wishing that clinton was still ruining the world.

May 15 - 11:05 AM

Kevin Crawford

M Moore and his sheep love to make movies denigrating the country that gave him so much. Brainless liberals and their master will once again celebrate intellectual vapidness!

May 15 - 11:43 AM

Floor Man

*SIGH*


Why, WHY must the train comments to this article gradually become a sad and unfortunately large battleground for pointless "political" argumentation?


Guys. It's a movie. Please try to remember that this is ([hopefully] more than not) a MOVIE site before entire posts become full of nothing but broken caps-lock buttons and pathetic attempts at seeming deep through use of ridiculous amounts of prose and pseudo-intellectual metaphors regarding American politics.


Cheers. :)

May 15 - 11:52 AM

Floor Man

*That was meant as "train OF comments...".

May 15 - 11:53 AM

John Webb

Oh yeah slick willy was innocent when he sent troops into TWO civil wars, one of which was an even bigger failure than the current war. Or when he let the internet bubble grow unregulated, or when he took credit for the surplus when it was the republican controlled senate that did it. Or when instead of leading the country he was cheating on his wife and having sex when he was supposed to be working, or when he allowed Dafur to happen because of his weak foreign agenda, or when he allowed osama to live when the saudis offered his head on 5 different occasions, or when he bombed a camp that he thought osama was in when all of his generals told him that he was not there, or the fact that he allowed over 5 domestic terrorist attacks, etc.

Hey dahluzz i understand that you cannot think for yourself thus the reason why you have to listen to critics but atleast do not be a blind liberal sheep, even the very few smart liberals know that Moore is nothing but a nazi propagandist.

May 15 - 12:42 PM

Lyle Pollard

"Michael Moore is a very talented filmmaker, and this is a branded property."

That's news to me. I thought he just took whatever the hot-button issue of the year was, and decided to make an hour and a half b****-fest to cash in on it.

I still say, if he were so self-righteous, he would have given the proceeds from F911 to the families of soldiers killed in Iraq or something. As it is, the fat bastard just rolls in more doughnut glaze, laughing at how many lemmings have went to see a movie about something they could have seen on the news.

May 15 - 12:42 PM

John Webb

Pollution? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, continue to listen to gore and his tales of global warming while i will continue to listen to REAL scientists.

May 15 - 12:43 PM

Aaron Wilkins

I finally saw "Roger and Me" a couple of months ago on cable. Brilliant in a sense that not only was Detroit in bad shape then and even worse now, but you sense the seeds taking place with MM as he tries to get questions answered the fairest way possible about the downturn of the Detroit area, specifically his hometown of Flint. While he had a right to be angry at GM, the anger only snowballed into extreme left propaganda making it hard for me and others to distinguish facts or near-communist personal feelings. "Roger and Me" was a documentary more so than anything else he has touched. The others were films. I think we know the differences....

May 15 - 01:10 PM

Jason Schiely

Bottom line: the fact that MM'd movie is called a documentary is a travesty for all other documentary makers that actually have to back up their movie with facts... I don't have a problem with the movie I have a problem with it being called a documentary!

The reason he is doing a 9/11 sequel is because SICKO his latest brand of grossly tilted propaganda did horrid at the box office and he got used to living the high life off of his Bush Bucks... Now he has to stir up a pot that no one will care about once we get a new prez so he can make some money.

Where was MM during all the crap that the first Clinton was involved with... It's all biased propaganda people - open your eyes.

Note: I am not defending W or his politics. Just trashing MM and his barbarian tactics to promote lies for what he thinks is going to please the gods of MOVEON.ORG.

May 15 - 01:31 PM

Floor Man

dahluzz, I do honestly apologize if my comment was meant to sound as if I wanted to "bash the people who are actually talking about politics": that wasn't my intention. I could, if you so desire, talk about politics, or even movies, but I'd prefer to talk about both in regards to this article.

(My caps-lock button is fine; my shift button is better. If RT allowed the basic HTML commands in these posts, I'd feel much better equipped to emphasize with them instead of amusedly "yell" with caps.)

Further, I had no intention of "regulating how people are responding". I was simply referring to the tired multitude of posts I've seen in the past that end up straying *completely* from the topic: in this case, the *movie politics*. On that note, I wholeheartedly agree with you; you're absolutely right about the combination of the two being naturally compatible parts of discussion. Assuredly, I'm not surprised that these discussion subjects arose; in fact, that's why I posted what I did. Some (many) of these tangent posts become quite irrelevant.... Given this is, indeed, more about both topics than one, I simply think it'd be more relevant to coherent discussion if both topics were discussed. It's purely my own preference...and just some thoughts, but certainly not intended as an imposition.
:)

Now, to prevent myself from being too much of a hypocrite, I will "contribute" to this discussion. ;)

That being said, I'm very interested to see where Moore takes this.... It seems evident in the highly superior quality of Sicko that he's learned his "don't be overly incendiary" lesson with the "first"(?) Fahrenheit 9/11; I truly wonder if he'll stick to the tone of the first one or refine it a little more intelligently, like he did with his latest. I suppose we'll see if the controversy here is still as "heated" as before....

May 15 - 01:43 PM

Anthony Lewis

Moore is a film maker. I think people call his films "docs" because they aren't sure what else to call them. They don't really fit into the same category as Lord Of The Rings, or Citizen Kane. Apparently people think that calling it propaganda is bad. Probably because it's been given that stigma by the government.

To me it seems the definition of propaganda film is "it's a film that contains a lot of things that are wrong, and therefore bad". I tend to look at it like "it's a film about one persons opinion about the way something is and/or should be, when you finish watching it you can decide for yourself what your truth is".

I've watched almost every film he's made. I don't own any of them. I think they are by and large entertaining. He makes a lot of good points, he also sensationalizes things, and makes bad points.

I'm pretty sure this will be the same.

May 15 - 02:26 PM

John Webb

Sorry but real scientist know that temperature is on a natural cycle, so while the climate is changing it is NATURAL, no global warming bs, sorry but a vice president that is delussional is not the best source of info. I love how he glosses over the facts in his propaganda movie. Oh yes pollution is bad but to make it out as the cause of all destruction like what gore thinks that is the problem. blind sheep, i laugh every day at you guys.

May 15 - 02:26 PM

John Webb

Sorry but after he lied to talk to Sparticus that proves that he is no different then the nazi propagandists.

P.S. Dahluz i was talking about Somalia, a bigger cluster**** than Iraq, atleast Saddam is dead.

May 15 - 02:28 PM