Well I for one very much enjoyed the movie. Of course most movies are designed to help you escape from reality, it's a refreshing break to see a movie that brings reality (or one person's version of it) to you. I originally went to see it at the Santa Monica Promenad. Every show at every theatre for that day was sold out. Of course one should suspect that from a "new age, liberal, hippie" town. Outside their were lines of people to get in and twice I witnessed literal physical fights between supports of the movie and protesters of it. I finally made a showing at 11:10pm in my city. The place was completly packed. In the opening scenes the audience booed all of the major political players in this mess.
I did find parts of it a bit nick picky. Like when he kept goin on and on about the Patroit act and homeland security. The State Trooper and and the irony of lighters but not breast milk being aloud on planes, was just a bit over the top. I enjoyed many of the quotes that he included, sometimes you forget things that were said months before. It was great to be reminded of contradictions. Some of the pictures of the casualties of war were too much for me to see. I didnt get a chance to turn my head in time during some of the pictures. I am very sensitive to that sort of thing. Certain visuals get stuck in my head and I dont like them there.
I cried when the mother lost her soldier son. I cried when she read his letter, and I cried whe she visited DC. There is a maternal emotion that I think only the women in the audience could appreciate. I liked how Moore did not take his crusade personally against the soldiers and in stead made them out to be heros. Moore got a standing ovation from the audience when he tried to get members of Congress to inlist their sons. All in all I think he made it clear that his crusade was very much aimed at Bush, his administration and business friends who stand to gain financially from the war.
