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I will see it for sure, I'm not bothered that it's polemical and a propoganda piece (the word has acquired negative conotation that it doesn't necessarily deserve) since Moore makes no claims it isn't. hating it for being polemic is like hating a western becuase it isn't science fiction.
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I probably wouldn't resent it for being a polemic so much if it was arguing against Bush from a more defined moral center. Instead, you get the idea that Moore is just ripping Bush for any old reason -- even if the reason comes from a POV that Moore would normally resent. Sometimes the objections he raises in the movie even contradict themselves, such as in dealing with the troop number issue in the Afghanistan war.
Moore just gets too carried away to be truly taken seriously, which is a problem
Bowling for Columbine suffered in its closing moments. For example, he, at one point, introduces us to the "sovereign nation of Iraq" in his faux-naive narrator voice. To illustrate Saddam's Iraq, he shows a wedding, children in a playground, and people just hangin' out and shootin' the breeze.
Never mind that this sovereign nation had a shitload of U.N. sanctions placed on it. Never mind that Saddam had a.. well, less than admirable human rights record. It's like he's so determined to portray the Bushies as black-hearted scoundrels in
every single way that he was willing to portray Iraq under Saddam as a benign, innocent victim. Even your average shmuck knows that isn't true. There's a way of criticizing the war that doesn't make Hussein into a martyr.