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750 |
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2.80/4 |
# of Ratings: |
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Documentary |
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English |
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Director: |
Michael Moore |
Actors: |
George W. Bush
Charlton Heston
Dick Clark
Michael Moore
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Gun Violence in America is shown as Michael Moore looks for causes and answers from some of America's top opponents of gun control.
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Alex 03/30/2007 (1 of 1 found this helpful) |
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3.5/4 |
Very entertaining, eye opening, and well done. It has comical relief, supposed facts, and asks a lot of the right questions. I struggle with the resale value of a documentary. See it to learn (even if it is inaccurate). |
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10/04/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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"Bowling for Columbine" reaffirmed what I already felt. Far too long of a documentary, it was still very entertaining...well, not like, Hey, lots of fun, alright! But more like, hey, these are the issues, let's deal with them instead of talk around them. Michael Moore (though not my favorite human being alive) has issued a great deal of time and effort in getting his message across to the world about the nature of gun control and violence. |
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3/4 |
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07/21/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Moore's inexperience shows |
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I had never seen Michael Moore's documentary until recently, and I have to say I'm a little baffled at the heaping praise it got when it came out. Maybe it's because, two documentaries later, we've seen Moore grow as a filmmaker. I suppose this had a lot of impact at the time because he was being critical of our country when we were going off to war.
The main problem is that Moore loses focus halfway through. This happened in his follow-up, Farhenheit 9/11, when he lost the film toward the end and just started complaining about the Iraq war. Here, he starts out examining gun culture, but then decides he wants to try and examine what brought us here, so he goes off on tangents about the media, race relations, killer bees...eventually he brings it back with a story of a child shootin... |
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2.5/4 |
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12/24/2007 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Bowling for Columbine |
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I have forgotten how much this film impacted me emotionally the first time I saw it. Watching the actual footages from Columbine was as disturbing the second time around. It still brings tears to my eyes whenever I hear those phone calls from students and teachers as they asked for help. Some people say that Michael Moore is all about theatrics. Well, I think his approach is valid because, to be honest, I don't think a lot of people are moved enough by just mere tried and true facts. Sometimes, you have to push it a bit more, go well beyond the boundaries to get your message across. In this violence-ridden America we live in, a simple presentation is not enough to get people to pay attention. I admire Moore's strategies because a lot of documentaries are afraid to be bold, afraid to be ha... |
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4/4 |
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