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Fahrenheit 9/11

Wow!  What a movie!  I went at 2:00 this afternoon to the Flicks - it's Friday how many people will show up at 2 in the afternoon - everyone - i got one of the last seats and the 4:30 show was sold out as well as the 7 o'clock one. (It was showing at Edwards too, but I would rather give my money to some good Idaho democrats than a huge corporation).  Channel 12 (Fox) was interviewing people standing in line to buy tickets - I ducked when they came by, but later thought that I wished I had said what I had wanted to - I got another chance after the movie with Channel 6 (abc) and took it.  They fitted me with a mic asked my name and some questions - I don't remember exactly what the reporter asked but some of the questions were - what did you think of the movie - 'It was a great movie.' Why did you want to see it - “Because there would be lots of folks with opinions about the movie without seeing it - I wanted my opinion to be an informed one.' Was the movie patriotic - “It was the definition of patriotism - freedom to oppose the government.” Was it Bush bashing - I can't remember what I said.  Was it what you expected - (this is the only response that appeared on TV) “It was more intense than I expected. . . tears, lots of tears.”  I recorded my performance - I'll bring it with to CA.  There was a guy protesting with a sign - I don't remember what it said - he was dressed up as Osama bin Laden and holding what was supposed to be a severed head - as I went by him he asked me if there was enough hate in the movie - I told him, “No, just the truth.”

Rachel said you all (Jim too?) will be seeing it this weekend - I'm looking forward to your reaction.  It's a powerful movie - yeah propaganda, but somebody has to stand up to this war crap.  Oh, and our own Al Lance appears towards the end.

posted on Friday, June 25, 2004 10:36 PM

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# re: Fahrenheit 9/11 6/26/2004 10:36 AM steff

Did you notice the last 3 posts were "what a week" "what a month" and "what a movie"? dang, we're clever. :)

We bought our tickets last night for tonight's show, and they told us to show up an hour early to get seats! Wow! We probably won't get on the news, but we'll get to see Al Lance on the big screen... oooh, ahhhhh!

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