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Summary: Everyone NEEDS to watch this film
Review: Whether you agree or disagree with Michael Moore's view on the film's subject matter, you will find this to be a very thought provoking film. The fact that this movie challenges the viewer to question and ponder subjects that they may not have otherwise considered is worthy of 5 stars. I did not feel that this film tried to convince me of anything; I felt that it forced me to think about and refine my own standing beliefs. Any person who wants to have an intelligent opinion about issues in the United States would not feel threatened by this film but would appreciate its content whether they agree or disagree with Michael Moore's message.
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Summary: Worst Kind of Propaganda
Review: It would be giving Michael Moore too much credit to say that this is a dangerous film. But in fact it is, but not for the reasons M.M. would like it to be. Weaving a thread of personal bias through the documentary format is more corrupt than any elected politician could ever get away with. I was also upset by the fact that he used a bate and switch tactic in that he used the publicity of the Columbine tradgedy as a spring board for his real agenda, gun control. Removing the pumphandle from the well will not stop the spread cholera nor will gun control remove the spread the violent use of guns. The problem is still in the ground.The fact that M.M. received an academy award for this effort is even more distressing in that people are more impressed by entertainment than the honest and credible evaluation of social issues challenging American culture. For a more credible evaluation of the Columbine tradgedy see psychologist Elliot Aronsen's book "Nobody Left to Hate."
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Summary: Good, bad and pretty damn ugly
Review: Moore makes some very valid points about American gun culture and presents his case very forcefully. I defy anyone with a heart not to cheer at the concession won from K Mart. Some of the other political comment however, comes over as far less wholesome. In particular, the "what a wonderful world" montage cumulating with the 9/11 atrocity seemed calculated to suggest to the viewer that the US only had itself to blame for the attacks. Furthermore, Moore finishing the movie by running intellectual rings around an octagenarian with dementia was cringingly awful.
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Summary: Brilliant, Thought Provoking, Touching and a Political Bomb.
Review: This is not just the best documentary movie i have ever seen, but it is invaluable for anyone who has yet to come to their own opinion on the situation America and the west have found themselves in entering the 21st Century. This shows why those stereotypes exist, this shows why people hate America, this shows the extent of media and big business's affect on the general public, this shows backroom dealing and cover ups in the US government...but more importantly it shows that the US Constitutional right to own a gun, is not just hypocritical, but causing the deaths of thousands of people a year through neglect of an ancient privaledge that is out of date in this modern society. It shows Michael Moore expanding on his book "Stupid White Men" (a MUST read), showing in a brief summary of American history how the White mans quest for superiority caused a disgraceful aspect of the US constitution to be formed, an the very aspect that causes approximately 11,500 deaths, every year. It shows the differences between the US and other democratic western countries and it enters into the disgraceful exploitation that is being used by big business's such as Lockheed Martin who are benefiting off the media putting fear into the publics heads. It raises the issues of 9/11, the Bush and Clinton offices. But most importantly, it shows how ineffective government policies can affect a family so much, that a young boy of 6 yrs old ends up murdering a school mate. It enters into gun crime in school, and gun culture in teens. It enters into the Columbine tragedy and the dispicable rallies of the NRA after major gun crime incidents. And shows Charlton Heston...a front runner of the NRA, being questioned ruthlessly by Moore on his actions after Flint and Columbine. This documentary is a masterpiece. It is moving, thought provoking, funny in many parts, digestable and gives a true representation, of the corruption that is 21st century America.
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Summary: Will it take your own kid to suffer for you to understand
Review: I have come across a lot of political as well as statistical concerns over the movie. The only question I propose is that:
Will it take your (personally you-yourself) son, daughter, wife, husband, cousin, best friend, to die because of a piece of legitimate or illegitimate use of a gun to get the real idea behind the movie? Did you take a sociology class? Doesn't aggression bread aggression? What happened to the other cheek? Do you really have to provoke the "right to blah blah blah"? Would you do that if your significant other is destroyed without employing your 'bad' side? Not to mention, the poor little other countries that we as 'fascists' simply do not care about. Is it not the idea that 'we do not care about the other' which causes violence domestically and internationally?
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Summary: Was this review REALLY unhelpful to you?
Review: As a fairly liberal person, but also a reasoning one, I have to say that I agree with some previous reviewers who state that this movie is high on style and light on facts. Moore makes a number of great points in this movie, and then fails to exploit them, opting instead for sure-fire propaganda such as the climactic and uncomfortable interview of Charlton Heston. The most glaring example of this happens a good way into the movie, when Moore is focusing on Canada, and their higher per-capita gun ownership, in comparison to the US. There is a moment where we see a shot of a Canadian news anchor on a television in a bar, dryly reporting dry news. Moore mentions something about the very civilized Canadian news coverage, a stark contrast to US-style, "If it bleeds it leads" reporting. Once he's done pointing out this contrast, Moore spends the rest of the picture ignoring the media's role in the subject he's purportedly trying to get to the bottom of. Is there NO ONE who sees the importance of the media to the public attitude? It's almost as if Moore longs to be a "credible journalist" himself, and doesn't want to upset anyone in a position to hand it to him. If this movie really wanted to create some answers instead of more questions, it should have been pointed squarely at the mainstream media. Could the influence of 24-hour-a-day war, crime, sex scandal and the resulting drone of pundit "analysis" have ANYTHING to do with the darkening of the US "Group Mind"? Only a tiny little bit in Moore's world, it seems. I think this movie is best viewed not as a documentary OR a propaganda piece, but instead as sort of left-slanted comedy. I don't for one moment want to give the impression that I hated this movie...as I said, I'm pretty liberal, and it produced plenty of belly laughs, while making some great points about the state of our society. But to be so, so close to seeing the keelhauling of the national media, and then to have it slip away, is frankly painful. Blind, following, unbending liberals, click away at that little "no" button below. Being the polar opposite of Bill O'Reilly doesn't make you any better than him.
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Summary: Realistic documentary with minimal integrity
Review: This movie leaves you a bit unsettled as it presents (very well) the problem of guns in America compared to other countries, but it also disproves leading theories and opinions. Michael Moore takes his camera everywhere appropriate and not and gets opinions and stories of many, but ultimately, its just a movie about questioning the validity of all the excuses made for a disfunctional society. It definately gives you something to chew on, but dont expect a blockbuster hit out of it or top notch entertainment.
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Summary: Conservatives BEWARE!
Review: All I have to add to my orginal review is that if you are a conservative or anti-gun control then simply don't watch or buy the movie...because Moore is bound to make you mad!
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Summary: the Most Honest Film that I've watched in recent memory
Review: Michael Moore is a Genius&on Point on so many levels with this Classic Must see that opens the Can&Shows what is in the mix uncut.He pulls no Punches&this Film Moved again&again.I feel it's a Must see&the way it traces the History of how things have gone down are powerful.Charlton Heston&Moore had a classic Showdown.truly Powerful&Leaves you in Awe.
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Summary: Opinions- yes, but still quite factual
Review: There are plenty of opinions in this documentary about what causes these outbursts of violence so frequently seen in the United States. I think most intelligent people can agree that the Columbine tapes can make a grown man cry and Heston is made out to be the complete idiot he truly is.
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