Tell me if this isn't the most interesting F911review out there.

[Hoping4Change]

"MICHAEL Moore is a genius, a liar, a truth-teller, a propagandist, a bully, a democracy-loving hero. He’s a money-worshipping scumbag who distorts the facts to suit his twisted political agenda, he’s a cinematic genius with the populist touch.

Michael Moore is all of these things; he is none of them. Take your pick.

But there is one thing no-one can deny: with Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore has a made a landmark film. It is funny, provocative and touching. It is political dynamite....

It was as close to a religious experience as the cinema gets, and as the crowds spilled out into the Californian sunshine it was easy to get swept along with the view that the release of Fahrenheit 9/11 marks the beginning of the end for the presidency of George W Bush. How could any politician withstand such a damning indictment of his record in office just months before an election, people asked themselves.

The view from California is one thing. The view from middle America is another....."

http://www.sundayherald.com/42891

[teryang]

1. Actually, middle America is the audience

The polite and friendly audience was distinctly middle America. Joe sixpack was conspicuously absent and there was a dirth of pick ups in the jam packed parking lot.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Ever so slowly, they will come. Fear of being wrong, fear of having to

eat "Crow", fear of having to admit the Dems were right and the Pubs are wrong....will slowly subside allowing the viewing of the movie. Most likely when it comes out in DVDs as the staunch Pubs will not be seen close to the theaters.

They will be curious to the point of peeking

[Hoping4Change]

4. Perhaps you skipped parts of the review. The review discusses

why this film reaches beyond "liberals in Marin County" and how this appeal is creating panic in Repug circles who didn't think Moore could reach a wider audience.


"In recent weeks though, as the full extent of the interest generated by Moore’s film has become apparent, there has been a shift in opinion.

“Ordinarily, I’d say would have no effect on the election,’’ the estimable New York Times columnist Frank Rich said recently. “There are two factors that could change that. First, the film itself – its second half has an emotional punch that may bring in less ideological audiences, should word of mouth take off. Secondly, the amount of publicity attending the movie … that may turn it into a commercial phenomenon that reaches right across party lines to a larger audience.”

If Rich is right – and he often is – and Fahrenheit 9/11 has the potential to reach a mainstream...."

[teryang]

5. I did read the whole thing

I hope the latter part that you have cited is true, perhaps it is.

Locally the latest drift I get from someone who watched the crowd at all the showings over the weekend was that the number of true believers was dying down and that a smaller number of more "disinterested" viewers was coming out to see the film.

I just resent the notion that middle America isn't the audience. It's the riff raff and cranks that never know what they are talking about politically that aren't going to see the movie and condemn it out of hand. I saw the remark about the success of the movie in NASCAR land and this is a complete misperception of the demographics of the audience.

[AwareOne]

3. I saw the movie last night

in Daytona Beach FL in the one theater that is showing it in the entire county. They are selling lots of tickets to the movie, 4,500 last weekend alone. I went to the 6:45pm show, there were about 200 people in the theater. When it let out we passed the large crowd waiting for the 9:00 PM show. I was so happy to see the enthusiasm for this right here in NASCAR country.