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Saw bowling for Columbine Last Night...it is a MUST SEE

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Goosemaster

Lifer
To keep it short and simple, I feel the film did make a very impactful yet well-rounded point: that our country has a history of fear and that many feed off of that fear for monetary gain.

The first thing that came out of me and 2 friends' mouths after it finished was "we want to move to Canada"


Great film.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
that our country has a history of fear and that many feed off of that fear for monetary gain.
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like the Democrats.


and the Republicans.
 
I loved the film too, and live in Canada. And i don't lock my doors either (when i'm at home)... do you Americans?
 
Originally posted by: Moralpanic
I loved the film too, and live in Canada. And i don't lock my doors either (when i'm at home)... do you Americans?
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In a city? Hell yes I do.

In a more civilised setting like my hometown, hell no.

People aren't meant to live as closely together as they do in a city, it causes all sorts of problems IMO.

About the director of that movie, however, I will not even give his name the respect of being typed.

ZV
 
People aren't meant to live as closely together as they do in a city, it causes all sorts of problems IMO.
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Typical American paranoia... exactly what the film was trying to get across. People live in cities like Toronto, Tokyo, London, etc, and i'm sure they feel quite safe.
 
Originally posted by: Moralpanic
I loved the film too, and live in Canada. And i don't lock my doors either (when i'm at home)... do you Americans?
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Well, when I go to bed every night I lock the doors, other than that they are unlocked. I still found it amazing that someone left their door unlocked and a stranger came in, yet they still don't ever lock their doors.
 
I was amazed people don't lock there doors!!!

Then again i live in Brooklyn, NY but... still. Those canadians were pretty mellow heh.
 
To keep it short and simple, I feel the film did make a very impactful yet well-rounded point: that our country has a history of fear and that many feed off of that fear for monetary gain.

The first thing that came out of me and 2 friends' mouths after it finished was "we want to move to Canada"
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Facts, logic, and reason be damned...


 
Originally posted by: tcsenter
To keep it short and simple, I feel the film did make a very impactful yet well-rounded point: that our country has a history of fear and that many feed off of that fear for monetary gain.

The first thing that came out of me and 2 friends' mouths after it finished was "we want to move to Canada"
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Facts, logic, and reason be damned...
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Exactly, and everyone needs to read this:

http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel040403.asp

n the field of mockumentary filmmaking, there are two giants. Rob Reiner created the genre with his film This is Spinal Tap. Michael Moore has taken the genre to an entirely different level, with Bowling for Columbine.

In 1984, This is Spinal Tap premiered as the world's first self-described "mockumentary." The film purported to be a documentary of a heavy-metal band called "Spinal Tap." In fact, there was no such band. No group had ever hit the charts in the 1960s with a song called "Listen to the Flower People." No rock drummer named John "Stumpy" Pepys had ever died in an inexplicable gardening accident. No arena rock performance had ever featured a pair of midgets dancing around an 18-inch replica of Stonehenge.

Over the course of the movie, most viewers figured out that "Spinal Tap" was not a real band. The realization often came somewhere between the band's rocker "Big Bottom" ("I met her on Monday; it was my lucky bun day") and the sensitive ballad "Lick My Love Pump."

Still, a substantial portion of the audience sat through the entire film without ever realizing that the whole thing was a joke. They left the theatre believing that there really was a band called Spinal Tap. In response, the creators ended up producing a Spinal Tap MTV video, and even a 1992 Spinal Tap "Reunion" tour. The stupidity of a fraction of the audience had brought its own "reality" to life.

This is Spinal Tap is an excellent movie which was, unfortunately, neglected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. No such fate befell Bowling for Columbine. While only an unusually dim minority believe that Tap is truth, Bowling for Columbine has seduced almost all of its audiences with its brazen mockumentary.

You can't really understand the artistic accomplishment of This is Spinal Tap if you naively expect to find the album Smell the Glove in your local music store. Likewise, you cannot understand the brilliance of Bowling for Columbine if you actually believe the purported facts in this mockumentary. For the benefit of the overly credulous, let me summarize some of the "facts" in Bowling for Columbine. Then, I will explain how Michael Moore demolishes the pretensions of the audience and of elite cinematic opinion in a way that has never before been accomplished.


It's too bad most people are too ignorant to understand that with this movie the joke is on them.

 
Originally posted by: PG
Originally posted by: tcsenter
To keep it short and simple, I feel the film did make a very impactful yet well-rounded point: that our country has a history of fear and that many feed off of that fear for monetary gain.

The first thing that came out of me and 2 friends' mouths after it finished was "we want to move to Canada"
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Facts, logic, and reason be damned...
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Exactly, and everyone needs to read this:

http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel040403.asp

n the field of mockumentary filmmaking, there are two giants. Rob Reiner created the genre with his film This is Spinal Tap. Michael Moore has taken the genre to an entirely different level, with Bowling for Columbine.

In 1984, This is Spinal Tap premiered as the world's first self-described "mockumentary." The film purported to be a documentary of a heavy-metal band called "Spinal Tap." In fact, there was no such band. No group had ever hit the charts in the 1960s with a song called "Listen to the Flower People." No rock drummer named John "Stumpy" Pepys had ever died in an inexplicable gardening accident. No arena rock performance had ever featured a pair of midgets dancing around an 18-inch replica of Stonehenge.

Over the course of the movie, most viewers figured out that "Spinal Tap" was not a real band. The realization often came somewhere between the band's rocker "Big Bottom" ("I met her on Monday; it was my lucky bun day") and the sensitive ballad "Lick My Love Pump."

Still, a substantial portion of the audience sat through the entire film without ever realizing that the whole thing was a joke. They left the theatre believing that there really was a band called Spinal Tap. In response, the creators ended up producing a Spinal Tap MTV video, and even a 1992 Spinal Tap "Reunion" tour. The stupidity of a fraction of the audience had brought its own "reality" to life.

This is Spinal Tap is an excellent movie which was, unfortunately, neglected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. No such fate befell Bowling for Columbine. While only an unusually dim minority believe that Tap is truth, Bowling for Columbine has seduced almost all of its audiences with its brazen mockumentary.

You can't really understand the artistic accomplishment of This is Spinal Tap if you naively expect to find the album Smell the Glove in your local music store. Likewise, you cannot understand the brilliance of Bowling for Columbine if you actually believe the purported facts in this mockumentary. For the benefit of the overly credulous, let me summarize some of the "facts" in Bowling for Columbine. Then, I will explain how Michael Moore demolishes the pretensions of the audience and of elite cinematic opinion in a way that has never before been accomplished.


It's too bad most people are too ignorant to understand that with this movie the joke is on them.
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I recommend people to take the time to read what's after this section... very informative about the "mockumentary".
 
Certainly NOT a truthful movie. It's very manipulative and carefully created to make specific political points.
 
Originally posted by: rockyct
Originally posted by: Moralpanic
I loved the film too, and live in Canada. And i don't lock my doors either (when i'm at home)... do you Americans?
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Well, when I go to bed every night I lock the doors, other than that they are unlocked. I still found it amazing that someone left their door unlocked and a stranger came in, yet they still don't ever lock their doors.
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I dunno, that kinda screams stupidity at me. That one lady's house was broken into multiple times and she still didn't lock it. That's almost bordering on idiocy there.

We never lock the doors to our house unless no one's home. And even then, I sometimes leave them unlocked. Every house around ours has been broken into, but ours hasn't ever. Course, we had a dog at the time of all the break-ins, which were years ago. Dogs rock.
 
This movie is stupid. Michael Moore is an idiot.

If you need a hand moving yer stuff to Canada, let me know. I will be gald to help.

<EOM>
 
Originally posted by: redheadednurse
Where can I see it? I've been wanting to see it since it came out (I know, it was forever ago) but have never had the chance!
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They have these things called "video stores". You can rent or buy movies at them. Some examples would be Blockbuster or Hollywood Video.



 
Originally posted by: Toasthead
This movie is stupid. Michael Moore is an idiot.

If you need a hand moving yer stuff to Canada, let me know. I will be gald to help.

<EOM>
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and you're the smartest one of em all
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