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It seems the liberals are quite determined to convert us all before the election. Only from that position can one explain the influx of agenda-driven drivel.Nine years ago a somewhat lame director Richard Linklater gave us a totally lame film about two young people meeting somewhere in Europe... and - imagine that! - falling in love, having sex and then heading in different directions. If Julie Delpy made some limited sense in the role of a French seductress, Ethan Hawke made no sense at all... a lover? Cut me a break.
Anyway... nine years passed, and the director felt another itch... to make a follow up. You know, like "A Man and a Woman: 20 Years later".
Obviously the director simply couldn't wait the prerequisite 20 years, so in his wisdom he decided: since the heroine is getting older and less sexy, and the hero - looking dumber today than he did nine years ago, the time for action was like NOW. So nine years it is.
I tried to watch the original film several times when it was on cable channels... each time with no success... a boring kaka so corny and tedious it made my whole body want something fresh and true - like a dip in the pool in the middle of November.
So how come I allowed myself be lured into seeing the sequel?
Well, we have friends. Most of them are liberal. Most of them love France. Most of them went today... plus I always considered Julie full of raw sex appeal... and her role in The Passion of Beatrice is not something any hot blooded male is going to forget any time soon. That fact alone spelled hope.
So we went.
OK, they meet in Paris... semi-accidentally, and they start talking. For some interesting reason the heroine is now a flaming liberal determined to save the world - ALL of it... the water, the air, the sun. But at least she does something about it, doesn't just talk, she worked in India and other places, and today she is with Green Cross.... figures.
Get ready now. For the first forty five minutes of the film you will be listening to nothing besides one liberal chiche after another. You will be exposed to ALL vices of American society (Surrre.... the Freedom Fries will get covered...), its materialistic nature, its limited people, then you will be told that only in Poland of 1995 could a person of integrity find peace and refuge from the consumption society... and on, and on, and on. No cliche left behind.
The movie is fortunately rather short at 88 minutes. Why, I have no idea, as certianly they could have covered more, except they suddenly realized the hormons were still there, and it was time to screw. It took them about ten minutes to realize that, and then another thirty to figure out where and how.
I think if they screwed on the fifth minute of the film and talked AFTER that, smoking and sipping the obligatory red wine, and then jumped each other's bones once again, the movie would have a leg to stand on, but the way it was, all the political talk did not much to convince most viewers to run and vote for Kerry, except I have to admit on a couple of occasions wind lifted Julie's shirt enough to ALMOST see her bra... so everyone stayed glued to their seats (except for my wife, desperate to find a shelter from that monumental pile of kaka anywhere possible.. in the restroom, in the hall, sleeping in her chair... nothing worked) eager to finally to see what we all came for - an uninhibited sex that only the French can do... or so our childhood cliche tells us.
Empty hopes. Julie starts swinging her hips rather provocatively, and the guy starts licking his lips in animal anticipation, but this is all you are gonna see, pal. For the 88 minutes are up, all liberal agenda covered handsomely, and the next show is in ten minutes, so please pick up your empty popcorn container and head out, thank you very much for visiting, and come again, when hopefully Julie has more time.
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But I might have known, after reading an interview with Linklater in which he called Bush "a moron". OTOH, I greatly enjoyed his Waking Life.clark
So in this film, more than in most, their words reflect their viewes.Kinda like a communal apartment, Soviet style.
Little wonder he tries to turn the talk onto sex, and she keeps blabbering about clean air. It took an hour and a half to get her into right mood.
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Are you sure Richard Linklater directed this? Your description makes it sound like Jean-Luc Godard made it with the Dziga Vertov collective in 1969!
I figure that you'll get a kick out of watching dubya and his cronies deceiving the public in order to take vulnerable Americans down that dark alley toward war in the wake of 9/11 and then raping them repeatedly to satiate his own greedy cravings.AuPh
I finally saw Fahrenheit 911 and I must say I was a bit disapointed. I thought Bowling for Columbine was a much better crafted movie and more thought provoking. I thought Fahrenheit 911 was a bit uneven and poorly paced in comparison. I did like the part where Michael Moore tried to get congressmen to sign up their own children to serve in Iraq although even that was not nearly as good as the attempt to return the bullets in Bowling for Columbine. I thought the rarely seen images of casualties in Iraq were the most provocative and effective part of 911. I think Moore should have gone even further there. I don't think 5 minutes of politicians combing their hair really said much. Oh, I also liked the footage of Bush right after he was informed of the second plane hitting the towers and the time lapsed cuts of him sitting and doing nothing.
...and while I liked BFC, I felt Fahrenheit 9/11 was a better crafted documentary and of somewhat greater importance in terms of immediacy. Moore knew that pro-Bush critics would be all over him, so he was meticulous about editing his film so that the actual footage told the story rather than relying upon his own sardonic "alchemy" to manipulate events. Even then, Bush advocates have been all over the film trying to pull it apart with a fine tooth comb; for the most part, they fail miserably.As I've mentioned before, Fahrenheit 9/11 is flawed because it contains a few arguable inaccuracies and subtle misdirections, but generally it's quite accurate; the actual footage doesn't lie. The careful reconstruction of events using timelines and, where possible, the actual visual record helps to tell the Bush story in a clear and understandable manner; it provides a rather scary BIG picture overview of how we got to where we are today. This isn't to take anything away from Bowling For Columbine, which IS, also arguably, a very important contemporary film. In fact, BFC may have even greater sociological importance in the future, dependent upon how values within of our steadfast gun-culture change, but Fahrenheit 9/11 is certainly more relevent at this juncture (i.e., politically important, in an election year).
AuPh
nt
IIRC, there is no sex in the first film, just an all-night conversation between kindred spirits. Unless my laserdisc version is missing the "naughty bits".
But without sex how could I sit through it?In the sequel they insist they made love twice.
I was aware of this film, and the story as I read it was something that could have been inspired. To make it short, after five minutes I stop to look at because everything seems utterly wrong, and my time, if not precious, as I have plenty of it, was not to be waste on the famous Victor theorem " empty screen= kaka "
As for the sequel I was wondering if it will go beyond. You say no. I fully trust you.
Thanks for the warning.
NT.
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I despise liberals, however i absolutely despise our new American neo-nazism (rasists, nationalists, religious freaks) with the Bush-Chaney in the forefront. The movie is made for us that hate Bush, to hate him even more!
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nt
Comparing GW Bush to Hitlers nazi-party is just insane!
If such Jabberwocky had an ounce of truth...Micheal Moore would be arrested by now (or killed).
Also, J. Kerry would'nt have a hope at being president.(he does).
I was against the idea of going into Iraq. But the fact is, we did & that is that.
I still think Micheal Moore is a self-serving propagandist pig.
....claims sympathy for average working people yet snickers behind their backs.
Micheal Moore has "Moore" in common with Goebbels than anyone thinks. Hiltler was after all, a socialist.
Happy 4th everyone......Except you Micheal Moore. Red white & blue are'nt yur favorite colors.
nt
sounds like one of his broadsides(!)
Grins
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