What Can Michael Moore’s ‘Fahrenheit’ Follow-up Actually Deliver?
This seems unnecessary, but I could be wrong
Today it was announced via a press release that Overture Films and Paramount Vantage will co-finance and distribute Michael Moore’s follow-up to his 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 for a mid-2009 release. The film does not have a title, but Fahrenheit 9/11 ½ has been mentioned.
Outside of that bit of information the press release offers nothing else.
The Hollywood Reporter tells us Moore “will explore the role of the U.S. in the world, in areas ranging from foreign policy to industry, during the nearly eight years since President Bush took office.”
The “Los Angeles Times” tells us “that Moore plans to pick up where he left off four years ago, to examine the fallout from eight years of the Bush administration’s policies.”
You tell me, what good can really come of this? Is this going to be Moore basically listing what our next President should pay attention to or is it just a worthless rehash of all the bad shit that has gone down over the past eight years? Either way it seems like nothing will come as a surprise to the audience that will ultimately see this.
As with so many documentaries that are political or based on societal issues the only people that end up seeing them are the people that agree with what is being said. Morgan Spurlock’s Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? came across as a something of a “Duh” movie to me, but I am not the audience that needed to see it, and the audience that would actually have an eye-opening experience won’t be watching it.
As for this Fahrenheit 9/11 ½ I don’t know who would benefit.
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