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December 6, 2007
Did Second-Rate Moviemaker Find bin Laden?
Morgan Spurlock, the obscure filmmaker who tried to become Michael Moore by eating too much junk food in front of a camera while denouncing American dietary habits, may have scored a remarkable journalistic coup: an interview with Osama bin Laden. If MSNBC is to believed:
The speculation first began at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, where Spurlock showed a select group of potential buyers 15 minutes of footage from his new documentary, "Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?" The film follows Spurlock through the Middle East in his search for the elusive leader of al-Qaida. According to Slashfilm.com, The Weinstein Co. quickly snapped up the picture after seeing the clips.
Adding to the belief, Daniel Marracino, the film's director of photography, is quoted in Variety, saying of the movie, "We've definitely got the Holy Grail."
According to the moonbats at Ain't It Cool News, Spurlock was offered $25 million for the movie based on those 15 minutes.
If a goofball like Spurlock could find bin Laden after all forty-eleven of our intelligence bureaucracies failed, it would be the best argument yet for abolishing every bloated department that contributes to the National Intelligence Estimate and starting over from scratch.
However, this is most likely an irresponsible publicity stunt that with any luck will end Spurlock's uninspired attempt at a career.
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Maybe Spurlock should be running the CIA instead of making stupid movies. |
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Posted by Van Helsing at December 6, 2007 8:19 AM
Comments
Hard to imagine some white guy could wander around the tribal areas of Pakistan and stumble onto Bin Laden without ending up being beheaded as a CIA spy. Odds are its just some guy dressed up like Bin Laden.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 6, 2007 8:36 AM
Ugh. Spurlock is far from an impressive filmmaker, or one who contributes anything really meaningful or original in his films.
In 'Supersize Me,' he put forth the radical, unheard- of notion that eating nothing but McDonald's food for a month is bad for your health. Wow, what an original concept! I never would have thought of that before! Though, there was one original aspect of that stupid, preachy film: Spurlock was the only person I've seen who actually sided with the money- grubbing teenagers who sued MacDonald's for making them fat, and portrayed them as the victims. No one else has done that (Most likely because they were too smart to side with the plaintiffs of such a ridiculous case).
I think he's now about to release a film called "What Would Jesus Buy?",which is all about how overcommercialized Christmas has become, with some gratuitous bashing of evangelical Christians thrown in to further attract the pretentious ultra- liberals who make up 99% of Spurlock's audience.
For this movie in the article, he'll probably just have a guy in a false beard appear at the end of the movie and claim it's bin Laden, then walk away with all the money he made from the movie.
Think I'll pass on both films.
Posted by: Adam at December 6, 2007 12:55 PM
Didn't America offer a FIFTY million dollar reward for finding Bin Laden? So why isn't he trying to collect that? He could then sell his movie for MORE than 25 mill, not to mention personal appierances, book deals, interviews, partys, gifts, fame, mention in history books, ect.
My guess is that he is:
a: a short-sighted idiot
b: a Muslim-loving traitor
c: a lier.
You make the call.
Posted by: KHarn at December 6, 2007 6:22 PM
