The film was slammed in many circles.
However...
1.) There's been much worse in the film industry. Hollywood's films in these topic areas are becoming more or less like profanity from a guy with Touret's Syndrome. You expect it so you ignore it. Though every now and then a film does manage to draw lots of flak, like Fahreinheit 9/11. Contrast this with the film that appeared a few years ago about a historical raid on a PoW camp in the Phillipines. I didn't see the film myself, so I don't know how good the acting and script was, but I remember reading at least one review whose main complaint about the film had to do with the fact that it had a positive view of a US combat operation (unfortunately, I don't remember the exact complaint, but that was the gist of it).
2.) Part of the reason that Mr. Moore's film drew flak was because it claimed to be the complete truth, and lots of people disagreed with that. Films that never pretend to be more than fiction can get away with a lot more than films that claim to be truth. Similarly, the Dixie Chicks' pronouncements were what they regarded as fact - and a lot of people disagreed with them.
3.) If you don't want to see V for Vendetta, there's no one forcing you to go see it. But if you've listened to the Dixie Chicks for the last five years, and suddenly find out that they've decided to go preaching against something that you believe in, then it's harder to avoid that. Best case in point that I can think of for the film industry recently would probably be Million Dollar Baby, which was marketed as a film about a female boxer's struggle against the odds. Sounds heartwarming and possibly even family friendly. What people didn't know beforehand, though, was that midway through the film it suddenly turned into a 'right to die' story.
junior
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