Fahrenheit 9/11

Just watched Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, and I'm deeply disturbed. Not disturbed because of the imagery, but disturbed by the connotations and conjectures the movie implied. To be honest, I don't believe everything that was said in the movie, since it was only Moore's views. But, there has to be some truth to what he said. Some facts don't lie. Like the point about the Bin Laden family getting out of the US days after 9/11. Why is that? Or the president's shady business past. Or the fact that there are no WMDs to be found in Iraq.
If we can only replay what the media and the administration were hyping prior to the liberation of Iraq, we would find that they had a really strong case for invasion, because of the WMDs. Now that there are no WMDs, the administration has changed their rhetoric to be the removal of Saddam. But that's not the foundation the war was built on. They're trying to change the people's memory by constantly stating the same misleading statements everyday, just like how they mislead the public back in 2003.
I remember back in early 2003, I was watching television and I honestly believed Iraq had WMDs. I mean, even Colin Powell, a man I respect very much, said so. But I guess I was wrong. What I want to know is, was President Bush mislead too? Or did he plan this from the start? If he was mislead, I wish he would just come out and apologize. People should take the responsibility for things they have done, even if it was wrong. Not just when it is right.
I think I'll need a few more days to sort out my thoughts, since I am pretty anti-Bush right now. But man, was that movie an eye-opener.
J

V2.2 is done!

Hi everyone,

Just want to tell you guys the good news that v2.2 of jasonstudios.com is completed. Added the photo album section, which took me several weeks to sort through the pictures and edit them. Hope you guys like the new interface. Let me know if there is anything wrong with it or if you have any comments. Thanks.

J

Vanity Fair

Watched Vanity Fair today partly because it's a new movie and partly because there's nothing else to watch. All in all, the movie expected my modest expectations. I liked Reese Witherspoon's character, but sometimes she's pretty scheming. The first romance with Fat Joseph was very fake...she was totally in it for the money. Some interesting things I noted from the movie.

Not all the actors spoke with an English accent? I thought the movie was set in England, but somehow, we get quite a bit of Americanized English accents...but I guess that's acceptable. If Emilia's father had gone broke, how come his brother was still living like a king in India with all the elephants? Couldn't he spare some money for his old man? The actor that played George Osbourne...took me up till just now to remember him as the coach in Bend It Like Beckham. This is definitely not his best movie, I gather, since he gave a rather lame performance. If I was Rodin, I would have seen the cuckolding coming a mile away...but I also don't quite understand why Rebecca would stash away a thousand pounds in the table. That's just wrong...And finally...the last 2 scenes were not that believable...like Emilia would just discover she loved Dobin all along? Does that happen in real life? And How on earth can Joseph be passing through Germany enroute to India???

Guess that's enough spoilers for today...


J