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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 07:19 AM
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Press dogging "DC 9/11" movie...
... at least the reviews I've seen are...

NY Times:

"DC 9/11" was written by Lionel Chetwynd, a filmmaker who is one of Hollywood's more outspoken conservatives, and it reflects his unstinting admiration for the president. (In his eyes, the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is not particularly eloquent, and Vice President Dick Cheney is a kowtowing yes-man.)

All docudramas round out the facts to fit a story line. Few would dispute the basic accuracy of the film: even his most virulent opponents give the president credit for adapting to the unimaginable attack with speed and resolve.

But a movie about George W. Bush's first serious challenge — broadcast at the beginning of his re-election campaign and in the middle of a murky, costly war with no marked ending — inevitably lends it a sour, partisan undertone.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/05/arts/television/05STAN.html?ex=1063339200&en=06f2fbf3c31ed359&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

Orange County Weekly:

In the end 9-11 turned out to be a made-for-TV movie, or rather, the basis for one—a shameless propaganda vehicle for our superstar president George W. Bush.

The feature DC 9/11: Time of Crisis is a signal advance in the instant, ongoing fictionalization of American history, complete with the president fulminating most presidentially against "tinhorn terrorists," decisively employing the word problematic in a complete sentence, selling a rationale for preemptive war, and presciently laying out American foreign policy for the next 18 months.

http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/04/01/film-hoberman.php

Guerrilla News Network:

To say "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis," the Sept. 11 docudrama that airs on Showtime this Sunday, is a piece of Leni Riefenstahl-esque propaganda would be a cliché, and it would be wrong. The Nazi propagandist's films were much too crude to compete with this level of celluloid revisionism. This is 21st Century propaganda, with all the bells and emotional whistles of Hollywood's most sophisticated productions. Imagine the "West Wing" without the liberal whining, a Bruckheimer blockbuster without the bimbos, "24" without the complicated plotlines, and you have "DC 9/11," a two-hour feel-good saga that blends news footage, fictionalized scenes and fictionalized scenes made to look like news footage into a highly-effective pseudo-historical soap opera, not unlike USA Network's recent Giuliani puff-pic "Rudy." The only difference is this film (which GNN secretly obtained an advance copy of) immortalizes an embattled politician seeking re-election. It is an altogether new genre, the made-for-TV campaign adver-movie.

http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_on_terrorism/doc2839.html
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 07:24 AM
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1. I saw a promo for this piece of crap
I just wanted to scream. It's not like we don't KNOW how that dipshit reacted to 9/11 - IT'S ON F***ING CAMERA. He did NOTHING and waited to be TOLD WHAT TO DO; then RAN AROUND THE COUNTRY LIKE A SCARED RABBIT WHILE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WONDERED WHERE THE F*** HE WAS.

Oh, and CHENEY as a "YESMAN"????? HA HA, HA HA HA HA? Even the most brainwashed party faithful won't buy that.

:puke:
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 07:33 AM
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2. There is no limit to horror
That's what makes fascism horrible.
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-05-03 07:19 PM
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3. looks like they've done a better job on "Bush's" makeup ...
... than Comedy Central did. But that's about it.
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