The trailer is out - you can see it at Michael Moore’s website.
Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451) is not a happy man.
“Michael Moore is a stupid son-of-a-bitch, that’s my opinion. He stole my title and changed the numbers without ever asking my permission.”
"[Moore] is a horrible human being
Shit, I knew this was going to turn into a “OMG MICHAEL MOORE’S A DICK” thread, I just didn’t expect it quite so quickly… :s
Did he or did he not steal the title? 
Yes he did. What’s your point? People rip off titles of well-known books and other works frequently. I don’t see what the fact he’s given his movie an unoriginal title has to do with the movie itself. Nor do I see what Ray Bradbury’s justifiable anger at the ripping off of his title has to do with anything either.
and now, for a laugh:
Did he or did he not steal the title? [/quote]
He didn’t steal it at all. A take off is not a theft. I think he was paying homage to Bradbury’s brilliant book and title and theme, and using the title’s “logo” so to speak, the Fahrenheit part, to pay home and reference it, was a nice artistic touch of poetic license. That’s not stealing."
I am suprised that RB is so mad. Are all those quotes from him for real?
I guess, in the end, it’s all politics.
BTW, look at the photos of both of them. They are the same person, separated by a few decades of time warp. Moore is Bradbury in the future past.
But it’s not stealing.
So I guess Ray Bradbury is pretty burned up about this?
Not to imply that the conversation on this post is pointless or anything but… does anyone know where to see the film in Taipei??
Wolf, I didn’t know you did puns.
Yeah, at a theater when/if it gets released here 
Yeah, I am really pissed off about the title - I thought it was going to be some mindless, escapist science fiction crap, and I was all ready to go see it, when I find out it’s got nothing to do with science fiction at all. What was Moore thinking? What does his theme have to do with the burning of books, anyway? Or the end of civilization? Or the destruction of culture? No wonder Bradbury is angry.
Not sure, but I think my sarcasm detector might be on the fritz… in case it is and there was no sarcasm intended, I think the title homage is tied with the tagline I seem to recall - something like “The temperature at which freedom burns.”
Is that what it’s supposed to mean? Thanks - I have been wondering. Um, he does realise that makes no sense whatsoever? I mean, I get it, but you kind of have to squint. I like the idea of a satirical title, but I’m not sure that’s a terribly impressive one. He could have just stolen Brave (Terrified?) New World (which of course was already borrowed from The Tempest) and have done with it 
What really irritates me is the bullshit marketing campaign that Moore staged. “Oh, Disney is censoring my film! They’re refusing to distribute it!” What crap – the deal they signed was to finance it, and Moore understood from the beginning that he would find his own distributors.
But he ranted a bunch of lies to the media about censorship (naturally, he claimed it was the Bush administration intimidating Disney) and the media of course went hog-wild about it, giving him a bunch of free advertising for his garbage.
Titles aren’t copyright protected so there is nothing to steal.
Bradbury should be flattered. After all, his book Fahrenheit 451, like Moore’s film, is a scathing indictment of right-wing policy.
Any word when this film is opening in Taiwan?
Martin.
[quote=“The New Yorker”]
GEORGE & Me
by DAVID DENBY
Michael Moore’s viciously funny attack on the Bush Administration.
In Michael Moore’s new documentary, “Fahrenheit 9/11,” George W. Bush sets his jaw, leans forward, and tells a group of reporters that terrorism must be destroyed. Then, turning away, he says, “Now watch this drive,” and tees off. A golfer, a bird hunter, a sportive wit at gatherings of the super-rich (“Some people call you the