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http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
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> Any transcription of this to post ot the newsgroup?
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> I found problems with the "waiting to be dead" idea right off the bat.
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> Too subjective. Too poetical. Unreal. Bullshit. Childish. Came to the
> same conclusions as a teenager.
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> "A feature article in The Stranger has stated the film is based solely
> on anecdotal evidence, while others have criticized it for using
> unidentified, undated, and unsourced video news clips, voice-overs,
> quotes, and book citations without page numbers. In a piece entitled
> "Internet idiocy: the latest pandemic", an opinion piece in the
> Arizona Daily Wildcat refers to the film as "internet bullshit",
> saying that "witty sayings, fear tactics and a cool, assertive air all
> enable them to convince the unwitting public of their points" while
> another in the Irish Times called it "unhinged" and accused it of
> offering nothing but "surreal perversions of genuine issues and
> debates."
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> In the Gauntlet, Jordyn Marcellus wrote it was ironic that the film's
> viewers "have blindly followed the documentary without doing their own
> research." He states that, though the film is "well-edited and is
> truly compelling", it "glosses over inconvenient facts," uses
> "deceptive filmmaking" and that "for a film that rails against
> deception, there's a lot of deception implicit in its creation."
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> On March 10, 2008, director Peter Joseph removed the "Clarifications"
> section from the film's official site, a section which The Gauntlet
> believed "alluded to dishonest filmmaking tactics that would otherwise
> help to discredit the film." It was replaced by a Q&A Section that
> "attempts to smack down" the film's critics."
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