BlackBalloon

This is one of the most frightening films I have ever seen. It stirs up real emotion, particularly the scene of a woman visiting the Capitol to release her anger over her dead son. What she is met with from a fellow pedestrian made me physically shake. Just as moving was footage of injured soldiers who could be heard gurgling through blood on the soundtrack. The audience I saw it with, in a college town, clapped at just the "right" moments. I didn't join in. I was shocked and torn as to how to respond to the one or two claps I heard at images of US military amputees. It's not an easy movie to watch at times and, yet, we are never shown the images that made 9/11 what it was. But we hear the sounds while we are shown a black screen. Artful but not underhanded, Fahrenheit 9/11 will open your eyes to, if not the truth, some very real and frightening possibilities.

Well, after being an mst3k viewer for roughly 7years and about 75 episodes (a little under half the total amount, if this site is to be believed), I figure I'll say something. This is definitely a love-it-or-leave-it-show, and I love(ed)(?) it. After a relative glut of episode-viewing in these seven years (as opposed to being a fan from the beginning, watching episodes as they're first released), I think the weaker points of the show are plainer to me than to most. The show is getting a little old to me and having been weaned on the latter episodes, I'm afraid the older ones are going to hold litle enjoyment for me. But all in all, this is a great show, one of the greatest, especially if you love old/terrible/weird genre movies and have a sense of humor. The sheer range of material referenced in the writing is enough to canonize this show- if not because it's admirable, as an example of the glut of popular information at the turn of the last century, and maybe as an example of what pop culture is capable of.

Very well-acted movie, arty and everything, but do we really need another movie with a "concept" to support an otherwise inexplicable "cool" title. For instance, what the hell was so "gothika" about "Gothika" ?? Sean Penn bores the hell out of me, but Naomi Watts' performance (and sheer appearance) is worth the ticket price alone.