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has anyone actually seen this movie?


I see this movie has a 5.6 rating from 22 votes. Is this just Clinton lovers and haters duking it out or have people seen it and it is bad?? It would be cool if people bothered to see a movie before rating it.

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It's only played at Sundance.
It goes into limited release on June 11th.

It looks very interesting.

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Check out the trailer at

http://www.thehuntingofthepresident.com/

It looks really good.

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It would seem that NickyCee has seen this film. I take the review at face value and I suggest that anyone else do the same. This is probably a hugely-onesided monstrosity of pro-Clinton rhetoric dwarved only by the horribly one-sided anti-Clinton rhetoric that started the investigation in the first place. Millions of taxpayer dollars were spent to investigate Clinton, and the best they could do was a stain on a dress.

Documentaries are supposed to engage the subject and not interfere, but they aren't inherently objective endeavours. There are always many sides to a story and some documentaries portray that, but you can't make everyone happy and some people will never be happy with what you do. The first amendment protects anyone pro/con/crazy to assemble the documents and portray the side of the story as they see fit. Look at the facts in the actual documentary and the overall message then decide what they mean to you.

Feel free to disagree and make your argument known if you don't agree with the facts or the message. It is a fools errand to criticize a documentary merely for being one-sided as objectivity isn't part of the dicipline. Documentaries are just that; documents of assembled documents to illustrate an idea.

Personally, I am still pondering what the meaning of the word "is" is...

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While as good as Fahrenheit 9/11, fewer people will see it due to limited advertising and distribution.

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More people should use alt.binaries.multimedia.documentaries

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Yes, I saw the movie. And it passed one of my acid tests for movies of this category: I did not fall asleep! I was especially moved by Ken Starr's abuse of his powers in persecuting Susan MacDougal. I have taken careful note of those reviews written here defending the incredible abuse of laws in pursuit of political goals. Those of you who excuse these abuses in the name of your own agenda(s) deserve whatever you end up with. Other countries sacrificed constituional safeguards to their dismay. May it never happen in the USA.

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I was shocked by the way Susan MacDougal was treated. How is her treatment considered justice. Anyone who approves of the vicious way Starr and his pals treated the Clintons and their friends, should take a step back and watch this film, quite and eye opener.

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Amen!

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Watched a premiere in Austin and bought several dvd copies as gifts. It's an excellent film.

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It's a weak, but not horrible, documentary. It shows an obvious slant towards "victimized Clinton apologists," but the one point it makes should make an impact on everyone (blue state or red state) who watches it, and that's this:

If the Republican majority hadn't hounded Clinton about his personal life or "moral character," Clinton would've gotten a lot more done. He would've been able to establish a program, for example, where many college-age students could get a nearly free ride to an in-state university in exchange for two years of non-military service (working for the government doing paper-pushing or some *beep* to the government, relocating to either in D.C. or the state capital of their resident state. Sounds incredible, right? I mean, it kind of verges on socalist -- but as a college student with limited finances, I would be more than happy to do something like that.

Also, it could be argued that because of Clinton's Lewinsky trouble in the latter half of the '90s, that his attention was taken off of the Taliban's rise in Afghanistan, Islamic extremism in the Middle East, and worsening tensions and terrorism between Israel and the P.L.O.

You should be able to rent it at your local library. I know I did.

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