Who's watching Spike Lee's film on HBO??

[berner59]

It's really compelling... Haven't seen many/any posts on it...

[rusty charly]

1. me

it's brilliant

[im10ashus]

2. Saw it last week.

If these freaking blind supporters of the shrub don't see his ineffectiveness by now...

[Sydnie]

3. I am watching for the second time

and it is still hard to watch. I don't think it will EVER be easy to watch, but we have to. We have to promise that we will never let it happen again.

[bamademo]

4. This is the second time I 've watched it'...

and I still cuss GW fromm hell.

[Sydnie]

7. I can't stop myself from calling him a liar everytime they show him

Everything he says is a lie. He promised that "we" would be there until the rebuilding was done. Hell, he didn't last through the clesn up much less the rebuilding. He is a liar!

[SaneInSC]

22. Excellent work

Everytime mr. dictator comes on the tv in my house I flip him the bird. EVERY.single.time, for years now. That and the mute button.

Just makes me feel a little better..not much, but a little.

[bdamomma]

26. I was watching it also

for the second time, and I yelled more this time when they showed Bush, stupid a hole he is. Like Kanye West said"

"GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE"

[RockaFowler]

10. It is very heartbreaking

How could this happen?? I say this to every Bush supporter I meet. How could your president allow this to happen?? They are so quiet. Don't blame New Orleans because Biloxi looked just as bad. I can't handle this man anymore.

[malaise]

5. Watching the second time

because I'm recording. There were loads of posts last week.

[berner59]

8. Sorry I missed it last week...

Spike did a great job...the people interviewed are great...

Does a great job of just showing Bush & Co for what they didn't do and how out of touch they are... Love the video of the guys readying to tell cheney to F - off.

[MoseyWalker]

6. I'm watching it again also, though told myself I wouldn't

It mingles with memories too much. I have it on mute right now.

[DURHAM D]

9. I am watching but keep leaving the room - too upsetting.

[tnlefty]

11. I don't receive HBO, but I really want to see this!

I hope that it is released on DVD like SOON!

I think that most of the posts were last week when it was shown over 2 nights with tonight's airing being all of the documentary being shown the same night.

[ropi]

12. when is it on hbo again?

i keep missing it!

[DURHAM D]

16. Tonight they are showing all four segments.

Over the next several evenings they are showing two parts at a time.

[ropi]

21. thanks

i am going to look for it tomorrow then. seems i missed the majority of it tonight and i want to catch the entire thing.

:-)

[zulchzulu]

13. Hopefully it will be available soon for HBO-less citizens

I refuse to pay for cable....had it before and it generally sucks...will get again as 2008 gets near...

[nickyt]

17. Yes, I NEED to see this, but can find no info on a DVD release date.

HBO marketing people need to get on the stick here, there's a big market for this film, hurry UP.

[driver8]

14. Tivo'ing as we speak!!

I can't wait to see it.

[rocktivity]

15. Traded my premium cable for a high-speed internet connection

I'll have to wait for the Youtube version, LOL

:headbang:
rocknation

[EFerrari]

18. Thanks, I forgot it was on!

:kick:

[Avalux]

19. I'm watching it; difficult, but I am watching.

Feeling all kinds of emotions - mostly anger, that it happened and still hasn't been dealt with appropriately by our worthless government. Heartbreaking. :cry:

[Mira]

20. Crying all over again in impotent rage and sadness

Riveted by this comprehensive account Spike Lee assembled.

Very engaging the way he lets us meet people we will know and identify with as if they were neighbors. I like the repeat and repeat cuts of their interviews until we have a grip about who they are. I'm happy that they get their "famous actor status" with identification and a frame around their face in the end.
Though not movie making in Spike Lee fashion, it's a comprehensive chronicle done for the American people.
(see: "Do the right thing", as a first or again. I think it's a masterpiece)

His criticism of the powers who let down the people of NO - and therefore us as well - is actually subdued on the surface. It permeates the entire work by the sheer honesty of the chronicling without having to be brought up too much.
Therefore, I believe, it cannot justifiably enrage those who would be likely to turn it off and consider it biased.
======================================

There is someone I would like to put on top of the White House with a white Tshirt he can use as a banner or a hanky,
after telling the sharpshooters up there to take a hike,
and leave him devoid of his pillow, his bike, water and food for 5 days,
in 100 degree heat,
with some chalk and a piece of masonite,
while I fly over in a plane and then a copter.
At the start I'd wet him down with unspeakably filthy water by waterboarding first,
and then I would let him go so he could swim through it
and escape to the safety of that roof.

I'm so getting carried away !

[Sapphocrat]

23. Yep. But I'm not exactly reliving Katrina.

I'm learning many things for the first time. See, exactly one year ago, I was just about to board a flight to Australia. I was in a complete news blackout for nearly 24 hours... and after I got to my destination, settled in, ate, crashed out, etc., another half-day had passed before I had any idea what was going on.

It's a very strange feeling to wake up to a two-day-old catastrophe "back home."

It was also very enlightening to see it all through Australian eyes. I saved every copy of The Age covering the disaster... in which there were stories (and commentary on * more brutal than you can imagine) that I have never seen in the American MSM even once in the past year.

So now I get to see what you guys saw.

P.S. If you ever want a disaster to happen, just send me to Australia. I was there when Paul Wellstone died, during the flash floods in Topanga Canyon, during the Boxing Day tsunami, and during Katrina, among other things. (In 2005, I chose January 20th as my return date, so I wouldn't have to see or hear a thing about *'s second inauguration... which was a far greater disaster than all the previous events combined.)

[Imagevision]

24. and their claiming Bush's numbers are back in the low 40's?!!

[Sapphocrat]

25. I'm done now. Wow. Just wow.

That was bloody brilliant.

It was like a four-hour How-Much-Truth-Can-You-Handle? marathon.

Yes, indeed, I was in tears. So was my mom, who stayed up way past her bedtime to watch it with me.

I think I'm glad I didn't see everything until now. I've had a year to process much of it in a more abstract way -- not that that means the human toll, the outrage, the horror, has been lost on me -- but I think having not seen/heard a lot of this from an American perspective, while it was happening, has made me even more outraged and horrified. I can see it almost from the POV of an outsider -- which I was, and wasn't, at the time.

Does that make any sense to anyone?

It's like this: I don't think I'll ever be able to process 9/11 properly, because I (and fc) watched it all on the tube as it unfolded (with my sister in Manhattan on the phone), from about 10, 15 minutes after the second plane hit, through the incomprehensible revelations that two more planes were down, through the live, unedited shots of the jumpers, through both collapses.

Whereas, if I had been in a coma throughout the last three months of 2001, maybe I would now be able to just... deal with it.

Maybe I shouldn't post when I'm this tired. But I hope this makes some sense to someone here.


P.S. Kudos to Spike for keeping himself outside of the film. (Werner Herzog, are you listening, you ham?!)

P.P.S. I just adore that one woman -- what was her name, "Mrs. Phyllis" Something? -- the totally feisty one who kept repeating her phone number. If I ever grow up, I'd love to to be half as tough and in-your-face as she is. Out of everyone, she totally blew me away.

P.P.P.S. I also love the young doctor who told Cheney to go fuck himself. Twice. :thumbsup:

[bdamomma]

28. Her name was Phyllis Montana La Blanc

she was great, and I wish I took down her phone number, I would like to contact her.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

27. Is it Confederate States of America y'all talkin' 'bout? -nt