Reply #2: I note you don't actually endorse this movie. It's pretty dumb. [View All]

[petgoat]

Full of straw man arguments and Fox News tricks.

It chooses geeky spokesmen for one side, and solid citizens for the other.
It uses camera distortion and probably selected footage to ridicule the geeks.

It asserts that anyone who reads one spokesman's book should be thrown down a
flight of stairs.

When Huffschmid asserts a plausible (if imaginative) theory it asks "“Did you do that
hard-hitting data research in your ass?”

It doesn't ask that question when Dan Daley of FDNY or Dr. Jodi Foster present
similarly unsupported opinions. And it doesn't challenge Glen Corbett's completely
untrue assertion that “There's no evidence that there was any type of explosive device.”
I would expect a professor from John Jay College of Criminal Justice to recognize that
eyewitness testimony about explosions and flashes of light from lower floors is evidence.

Then Dan Daley weighs in and tells us 10,000 gallons of jet fuel brought the buildings
down, but everybody knows that at least half of the jet fuel (and IMHO probably more)
burned up OUTSIDE the building. He then tells us "everything was vaporized" but fails to
explain how a simple collapse caused by localized fires could vaporize "everything".
Which it did.

The movie then makes an emotional argument, equating theorizing with masturbation and
insulting the dead.

It's silly. Maybe Penn and Teller should stick to lampooning stuff with comic potential
like fractals and string theory. Political propaganda makes for lousy art.