Author Topic: US groups want Moore film banned (Read 1088 times)

Torque · « **Reply #45 on:** June 19, 2004, 10:01:50 PM »

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Originally posted by xrtoronto

SirLoin · « **Reply #46 on:** June 19, 2004, 10:06:23 PM »

Hey,if they don't like Mike Moore..Why don't THEY make a movie about him?

Nash · « **Reply #47 on:** June 19, 2004, 10:16:59 PM »

Damn straight.

The NRA could make its own movie about guns and people would eat it up. And the republicans could make their own movie about dumbarse and even dangerous democrats and people would flock to it, right?

Hah.

There's a reason that wouldn't happen, I don't know exactly what it is, but yeah... put up and/or shut up.

It's hilarious watching the party of personal freedom constantly trying to deny it to others as well as to themselves.

majic · « **Reply #48 on:** June 19, 2004, 10:17:37 PM »

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Originally posted by rpm371
From MoveAmericaForward.com:

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

...It apparently is an opinion. See, people in the US are allowed to voice said opinion even if it is contrary to yours. Just like Moore is allowed to show his film, others are allowed to voice their displeasure. On of the ways they can do that is to write letters and/or to boycott said film and those that show/support the film. See how it works? There is nobody seeking to have Congress ban this film. No executive order is coming down the pipe decreeing copies of the film be destroyed, just citizens voicing their opinion.

Nash · « **Reply #49 on:** June 19, 2004, 10:21:45 PM »

Wha?

"...It apparently is an opinion. See, people in the US are allowed to voice said opinion even if it is contrary to yours. Just like Moore is allowed to show his film, others are allowed to voice their displeasure. On of the ways they can do that is to write letters and/or to boycott said film and those that show/support the film. See how it works?"

"Just like Moore is allowed to show his film"....

Wait a sec, I thought they were trying to bully the theaters into NOT showing this film.

"One of the ways they can do that is to write letters and/or to boycott said film and those that show/support the film."

Both of those things would be pretty hard to do when, as is the goal of this group, the film DOESN'T EVEN GET SHOWN IN THE FIRST PLACE.

"See how it works?"

Nope.

hawker238 · « **Reply #50 on:** June 19, 2004, 10:39:43 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
I truely belive that all of moores films are unfair to the people he dislikes... he is a master of editing so that what you see is allmost the oppossite of whart really happened

Come on now.... That's so widespread, left and right, conservative and liberal, that you can't apply it just to Moore.

And if someone feels like googling it (I don't), I know for a fact there is a movie about Michael Moore, where someone does the same thing to him what he does to others.

majic · « **Reply #51 on:** June 19, 2004, 10:40:49 PM »

Come on Nash, you are smarter than that. Their goal is to get their opinion heard. They know theaters will still show the movie, hell, they are calling attention to it. But with a highly public campaign like this, they get their opinion out there too.

Now, if you asked me if I thought what they were doing was smart, well, that's a different story. They will come out looking like tulips most likely.

It just annoys me to no end when hypocrites come out and say they have no right to voice their opinion against someone elses opinion. Remember the Dixie Chicks on the cover of Rolling Stone with the Constutional catchphrases written all over them? Oh, woe is them. There was no censorship there, and none here.

hawker238 · « **Reply #52 on:** June 19, 2004, 10:41:43 PM »

http://www.michaelmoorehatesamerica.com/trailer_sm.html

I spoil you guys.

Sandman · « **Reply #53 on:** June 19, 2004, 11:19:41 PM »

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Originally posted by majic
Come on Nash, you are smarter than that. Their goal is to get their opinion heard. They know theaters will still show the movie, hell, they are calling attention to it. But with a highly public campaign like this, they get their opinion out there too.

That's reading more into it then they are stating in their own posters. The goal is to keep the movie from being seen.

Now... if they came out with a boycott, I'd be completely in thier support to do so.

The difference is subtle, but there is a difference.

Nash · « **Reply #54 on:** June 19, 2004, 11:29:34 PM »

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Originally posted by majic
It just annoys me to no end when hypocrites come out and say they have no right to voice their opinion against someone elses opinion.

Majic - I would agree with you, but in this case the one group's opinion is to not allow the other group's opinion to even get voiced in first place.

It's like saying "my constitutionally protected right of opinion is that I don't want anybody to hear yours".

They should go see the movie.... or not... then say "This was a bad movie because...."

They should not say "We don't want anyone to see this movie", then follow it up with taking action to ensure that they get their way.

You are right. They do like like arses.