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As Good As It Gets

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Finally it's been made. Actually it was made several years ago, but thank God it was. For those who expect more from "news" stations, who believe that all of them, whether they be MSNBC or CNN or yes, Fox News, can and should do so much more to offer viewers unbiased news coverage and balanced commentary, this film is sure to incite some anger. The film makes one main point: it's not that Fox isn't good at being nonpartisan; it simply doesn't want to try. If it did its ratings would plummet and the film explains just why.The documentary is about as low budget as they come. No great special effects or artistic twists, but it succeeds at expressing its point in a concise manner and by using plenty of information from former Fox employees and excerpts of newscasts.If you believe Fox News is the only true fair and balanced news network, you'll probably turn the film off after a matter of minutes. That's what happened when I showed the film to my very conservative father. But otherwise, you'll probably find the film to be both bold and informative, one that confirms what many have long expected to be true.

For anyone who has cable, and is therefore exposed to the Fox network, there really is no need to view this movie. Anything that you may want to know about Fox can be learned by watching any of the shows on this channel for a week."Outfoxed" is a well made documentary that offers an alternative perspective to how Rupert Murdoch and the rest of "the boys" at Fox view the media and it's role. Journalists expect a news network to be objective, and report on what's happening without providing a slanted view of the news. Rupert Murdoch believes that the media should act as advocate for a cause, or idea, or a man (in this case George Bush).I'm willing to bet that anyone who sees this film will not "convert to the other side". I don't think that there are going to be too many people who see this film, who will not already have decided whether or not they agree that Fox is "Fair and Balanced"But despite the well intentions of the film makers, there is ultimately nothing new that is offered as fresh perspective, in this film. 6 out of 10

Fair minded Americans agree that Fox News is an embarrassment to journalism. It is a network with absolutely no journalistic integrity, and does little more than to promote the right wing agenda in the United States.Outfoxed does an excellent job of exposing Fox News (as if it wasn't blatantly obvious) for what it really is: a propaganda driven network designed to push not news, but Rupert Murdoch's opinions. Outfoxed gives countless examples of the tabloid journalism and opinion reported as fact that Fox News has been guilty of since their first broadcast.Fantastic documentary. I would recommend this to all Americans who seek truth from their news media, instead of what amounts to little more than a parody of real news, on par with The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live, only to the other extreme.

I had heard a lot about Fox News Channel but had never actually seen it. Outfoxed has given me the opportunity to see the "worst of" the channel with its investigation into what exactly is going on there. Everything about the existence of a Fox News Channel mystifies me (and the reported effects it has had on other U.S. news channels). Perhaps this goes back to my incomprehension of what forms the basis of the right-wing. It happens that Rupert Murdoch is an ardent fan of the Republican Party.The existence of this kind of abundant free airtime for the U.S. government doesn't appear caused any significant changes at first glance as there's always more than one choice for viewers, whereas the state-controlled USSR television stations Fox News Channel is sometimes compared to was the only thing available at the time for Russians. On closer inspection Fox News Channel has potentially determined the outcome of an election, "sold" a war and introduced a process of change in the American media. Rival news networks strangely view it in a favourable light and attempt to "outfox Fox" by giving preference to the right-wing viewpoint. "Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" is an appropriate subtitle as Murdoch is primarily a businessman and Republican Party "activist". Murdoch began his working life running an Adelaide newspaper at the age of 22; he has always been a manager of media so it's not surprising he has no allegiance to the profession of journalism.Fox News Channel, the Republican Party and the entire right wing of America are fascinating and presumably after their rise and rise, there will be a fall and people will rightly look upon the 00's as a strange time.