Bang, Bang, You're Dead

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Summary: brought back things I'd hoped would stay forgotten
Review: great movie, real scenarios. In responce to the yawning critic, I also saw this film under no prior expectations. It came on Showtime right after another movie that I was watching, I'd never hear of it before. As I write this now I have just watched "Elephant." Also a great movie, but at times painfully slow in the name of art. These movies are made for totally different audiences, totally different intentions. As a film, Elephant was better, as an instrument to stimulate discussion, BBYD was better.

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Summary: -- an inside look at the true effects of bullying.
Review: I am in eighth grade and recently viewed this movie in health class at school. Our teacher showed us his private copy of the movie not as part of the curriculum, but just out of his own will thinking it was a movie we needed to watch. And he was right. This movie has not only changed the way I feel about simple teasing and bullying, but has the changed the feelings of all that have seen this movie. You really cannot understand what it is like to be teased and bullied until you have seen this movie. The most moving part is when Trevor's homevideo is shown before his parents, teachers, friends, and enemies. The audience of this film are sure to love it and to be greatly moved by the powerful message it sends.

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Summary: YAWN. . .Oh Wait. . .Nope. . .Nevermind. . .YAWN
Review: I came to view this film without any prior knowledge that "Bang Bang You're Dread" was a well known play. The fact that it's based on school violence drove my curiosity to see it. Unfortunatly, I was left with the same kind of feeling I'm left when watching an afternoon talk show. To be quite frank with you, I thought the play being acted out in the film was pretty corny. I kept thinking to myself that they should have cut it out but the film wouldn't have be able to survive without it. With that said, the film only raised my eyebrows once and that's at it's big anti climax ending. I also thought that the explainations given to me in the film were unnessary. Anyone whose been to high school doesn't need anyone to tell them that those particular years sucked. I also thought they should have done away with the main charcter's tendency to film everything he sees with a video camera. I've seen it before. It's done. Next. Although I've pretty much ripped this film, I'm not putting the film entirely down, I must say there were some scenes that were actually pretty compelling but that's nothing compared the rest of it that should have been re-writen/thrown onto the cutting floor. Instead of this little truffle, I suggest each and eveyone one of you who probably wants to cut my head off to watch Gus Van Sant's "Elephant". Then, maybe you'll see where I'm coming from.

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Summary: YAWN. . .Oh Wait. . .Nope. . .Nevermind. . .YAWN
Review: I came to view this film without any prior knowledge that "Bang Bang You're Dread" was a well known play. The fact that it's based on school violence drove my curiosity to see it. Unfortunatly, I was left with the same kind of feeling I'm left when watching an afternoon talk show. To be quite frank with you, I thought the play being acted out in the film was pretty corny. I kept thinking to myself that they should have cut it out but the film wouldn't have be able to survive without it. With that said, the film only raised my eyebrows once and that's at it's big anti climax ending. I also thought that the explainations given to me in the film were unnessary. Anyone whose been to high school doesn't need anyone to tell them that those particular years sucked. I also thought they should have done away with the main charcter's tendency to film everything he sees with a video camera. I've seen it before. It's done. Next. Although I've pretty much ripped this film, I'm not putting the film entirely down, I must say there were some scenes that were actually pretty compelling but that's nothing compared the rest of it that should have been re-writen/thrown onto the cutting floor. Instead of this little truffle, I suggest each and eveyone one of you who probably wants to cut my head off to watch Gus Van Sant's "Elephant". Then, maybe you'll see where I'm coming from.

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Summary: A must see...one of the best movie's I've seen
Review: I caught this movie flipping through channels, I stopped because it had an interesting title...all I can say is WOW. This movie is something that I think every high school student should see and just about everyone else can gain something from this. It is a heartbreaking story of something all to many teens go through. I really feel this movie says a lot, and it makes you see things through the characters eyes, makes you look at things slightly different. It is one of the best movies I've seen and I would recommend it to everyone but most especially those in school.

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Summary: A wake-up call for schools all over the nation
Review: I first saw "Bang Bang You're Dead" in one of my elective classes last year. I saw it again when the administrators of my school decided to show it to all the juniors at the end of the school year. This was an excellent move, and other high schools should follow suit.
The film is based on the play of the same name, which debuted at Thurston High School in 1999 and has become a hit since.
Ben Foster is absolutely chilling as Trevor Adams, a high school student who is despised by most of his peers due to a previous incident involving a home-made bomb. Things start going right for him when he lands the leading role in the school play and becomes part of an exclusive gang. However, Trevor's high spirits are shattered when his gang decides to ambush the school, Columbine style.
This film is nothing short of brilliant. It conveys an urgent message that cannot be ignored. I only hope people will take note and start trying to improve our educational system.

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Summary: This movie speaks to anyone of any age...
Review: I first saw this movie in Oct. 2002 when it premiered on Showtime with my neices. I want to start by stating that I am 47 years old and couldn't believe how much impact this movie had on all of us! I think it hit so hard (yes, I know it's been a million years since I was in high school) because so little has changed; just the outcome of school shootings has been added--unfortunately, in real life. It was like re-living my own high school days again. The characters are so real there is someone that any viewer can identify with which pulls you in to the story.

It is sort of a play within a movie as the movie tells the story of a student playing the lead character in his school's making of a (real) play called "Bang, Bang, You're Dead" (which can be legally downloaded for free at www.bangbangyouredead.com as the author makes it available to anyone who would like it). He, the student, himself is a student on the edge and the movie shows how he got there.

The incidents are all things that really happen now (and even happened when I was in high school which is why it was so interesting to watch). As of the date of this review (1-12-05) Showtime is playing a shortened version of the movie. The original had a panel discussion and PSA after, which is also worth seeing.

Just for the few things they cut out of the original broadcast now that they are showing it as just another "Showtime Original Movie", that alone makes the DVD worth purchasing from Amazon.

So buy it from Amazon and be prepared to think after you watch it. Finally, I recommend that you watch it a couple times as there are things you will pick up after watching it again. Then, invite others to watch it. I recieved it as a gift from an old friend and have shown it to 4 other people. All have come back here to Amazon and purchased copies of their own. 4 out of 4 are pretty unusual odds but it's just that good.

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Summary: Words cannot describe or explain how this movie made me feel
Review: I had never heard of this movie, or the play, until yesterday when I happened to be channel surfing. I stopped, and I watched it. I am so glad I did. I'm going to be a junior in high school next year, and about five or six years back my school had an anthrax threat. Which was scary... we also had a lot of people with "hit lists" that were caught after that. Sometimes I can feel the tension within my school... there are people when I see the way they act that I just think they would be the ones to fly off the handle one day. Columbine made me sad beyond words; I was younger when that happened, and as I get older it just pains me more and more to think of the violence going on in schools. When I was in elementary school I was picked on and teased, although not to the extent that Trevor (Ben Foster's character) was picked on. My school isn't that big and they always had a strict non-violence code. It would be so easy for someone to plan a shooting at my school, and that is why next year I am going to not only show this DVD to the board of education and tell them to show the students, but also talk to the drama club president and see if we could put on the play "Bang Bang You're Dead." This movie moved myself and all of my friends to tears - being in high school, we can directly relate and feel empathy toward the characters in this movie. This movie shocked my parents and opened their eyes to what really goes on in high school - now, instead of saying, "Ignore them," when I tell them about somebody bothering me, they actually care and talk about it. There is some real violence and pain in schools today, and I think that if this was a required viewing, many of those students would feel different about what they fantasize about doing.

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Summary: I can't say enough about this Movie! Excellent! Bravo Zulu!
Review: I highly recommend this movie to all parents, high school freshman, and teachers. It really shows in detail the truth about clicks and pecking orders that all the above should be either aware of - or reminded of - with the hope of eliminating these across the board. If high schoolers could learn to put less emphasis on acceptance via competition, and more emphasis on fellowship, then this world will ultimately be a better place. This movie was awesome because it takes the viewer through the not so easy everyday life of young "outsiders" being shunned and humiliated, and explores the horrors that can very easily be a byproduct of this. I think all the actors in this movie did an excellent job all around.

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Summary: Hits the spot
Review: I recently just saw this film and at the end I sat and wondered how could this ever happen. As i sat though the film (with floods of tears running down my face, in some parts)..I thought about all the pain and truth in it and started to question injustice issues and bully issues that occur everywhere. Wouldn't it be great if we could let every teacher, every bully, everyone who is anyone see the pain and tortue some people go through just to get an education. Whats the point. To me this film helped me realise that there is help out there, one way or another, justice will be given. I strongly recommend this film to anyone who has ever felt like this and not just to those people, but to anyone who hasn't, but wants to know what is going on in that troubled mind. The answer is in front of u, just watch this film.