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Summary: great
Review: thank you michael moore. your oppinion is much needed and people get it with this wonderfully funny and real movie. i'm eightteen years old and i've waited my lifetime to see a movie like this. a movie that will change you forever. i also listened to the commentary on his acceptance speech and it wasn't that bad. see this movie and remember that you have a right and that right is freedom of speech.
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Summary: A Very Good Movie
Review: I'll start off saying that we need to look at this movie for what it is. It's a documentary of Michael Moore's search to understand why America has thousands more deaths caused by guns that any other industrialized nation. Moore cleverly debunks the myths one at a time... it isn't because the family is deteriorating, or because of Marilyn Manson, or even because of violent videogames and movies. And it isn't because of poverty and unemployment, or even our high levels ofgun ownership. Moore never really finds any answers, but the questions he raises about guns and violence in America are far more intriguing than any answer ever could be.Some people may not want to buy this movie because of what Mike said at the Oscars. Some people may not like him because he is a rabble-rouser, or maybe his "leftist agenda" makes you uneasy. But to them I say, rent this movie at least, and watch it with an open mind. And if you do and can answer every question Moore raises with this film, what you need to do is run for President, because we need someone to take care of the mess America is in. That goes for all you that bash Moore but haven't seen his films, too. Hey, if you've got a real solution, we'd all love to see the plan.
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Summary: amazing
Review: i really think everyone in America should be required to view this movie. it really makes you think.
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Summary: A brilliant, eye-opening documentary
Review: Michael Moore's second film is as enlightening and as bitterly funny as his original movie "Roger and Me". He is a wonderful social commentator and a extremely funny filmmaker. "Bowling for Columbine" is an indictment of several topics, such as anti-gun control organizations and the belief that violent entertainment causes tragedies such as the Columbine massacre. This is the one and only film I have ever sobbed in the middle of. See This Film!
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Summary: Outstanding !!!!!!
Review: One of the best movies I've ever seen... Can't wait till my DVD arrives in the mail. Don't miss this movie, a must see.
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Summary: Powerful if Flawed
Review: Let me begin by stating that I am critiquing Bowling for Columbine as a film, not as a documentary, because if even half the accusations leveled against this film (that the beginning bank scene was staged, for example, that the factory Moore mentions as building nuclear weapons actually built sattelite-launching rockets, that Charleton Heston's quotes were taken entirely out of context) it doesn't deserve the title. However, this doesn't mean that it isn't worth watching or even buying. In fact, I highly recommend it. But I also recommend that the viewer approach it as he would a book by Ann Coulter. In other words, prepare to be entertained, but be aware that this is a person with an agenda who is not above distorting the truth. My main problem with Bowling for Columbine (the film) is that Moore's own ego obscures his better judgement as a director and causes him to insert himself needlessly into scenes that, upon close examination, have no place in the movie. For example, Moore concludes early on in his investigation that the high rates of gun violence in the United States cannot be directly attributed to the availability of guns in the United States, as guns and ammunition are as easily available in Canada where incidents of gun violence are far, far less frequent. However, he then enlists several of the injured survivors of the Columbine shooting for his crusade to get K-Mart to stop selling ammunition! He is successful, but given that he has already concluded that restricting the availability of ammunition won't affect the rates of gun violence, what was the point? Unless he was doing it to stroke his own ego, to hold himself up as a crusader for the little guy against a big, faceless corporation, in which case he shamelessly used the victims of a national tragedy for his own selfish motivations- an unforgiveable act. Still, Michael Moore's personal failings aside, he has produced an exceptionally clever and thought-provoking film. The question as to why gun violence is so epidemic in this country is not one that is ever definitively answered. Moore raises an interesting theory in regards to the effects our sensationalist media has on creating a paranoid culture. The role that racial conflict plays in American society, unfortunately, is not much discussed (though it is insensitively touched on by Charlton Heston, of all people). All in all, a powerful if flawed work of art.
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Summary: Here is the really awful truth!
Review: Moore people should know the truth about Michael Moore. None of his Documentaries contain any real research. they should be considered fiction. On July 28, 2003 on The Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal web site KAY S. HYMOWITZ wrote. "Bowling for Columbine" opens in a branch of the North Country Bank, with Mr. Moore supposedly receiving a free gun in exchange for opening an account. At the end of the scene, he asks a bank employee, "Do you think it's a little dangerous handing out guns in a bank?" before he runs out with the gun in his hand to the beat of a punk rock tune. It is a dazzling opening, full of energy and Strangelovian absurdity. The only problem: It was staged. Commentators have been on Mr. Moore's case about this, some even campaigning to revoke his Oscar, awarded for a genre supposed to be nonfiction. Anthony Zoubeck, a self-described "former Moore fan" who writes for the Illinois State University paper, the Daily Vidette, contacted Helen Steinman, the customer-service representative seen greeting Mr. Moore in the bank. "You can't just come in here and get a gun," Ms. Steinman explained. Mr. Moore "was only supposed to be coming in and pretending to open up a CD. What the girl who opened up the account really told him was that there would be a background check and that he wouldn't get the gun for six weeks." There are slanted, insinuating lies. In another example from "Bowling," Mr. Moore places a Lockheed Martin executive from Littleton, Colo., right in front of a mammoth, menacing-looking rocket and asks: "So you don't think our kids say to themselves, 'Gee, you know, Dad goes off to the factory every day and, you know, he builds missiles. These are weapons of mass destruction.' " He also observes darkly that the company moves its products through the community late at night, when "the children of Columbine are asleep." But Lockheed Martin does not make weapons in Littleton; it makes weather and communications satellites there. The missile in the film is a refurbished Titan 2 rocket used to launch one such satellite. Moreover, as Mr. Zoubeck learned from a Lockheed spokesman, the company moves the rockets at night because they are so large they need a convoy--not, as Mr. Moore insinuates, because anyone is trying to hide the awful truth about weather satellites. So does that mean that Mr. Moore's career as the pied piper of union workers is also a lie? The best that can be said is . . . not entirely. Mr. Moore appears to give a good deal of money to unions and charities. But on the road he often stays at the Ritz or Four Seasons, like other movie millionaires. (And he is always on the road: though he loves to describe himself as a slacker, he endured a 47-city book tour for "Downsize This," a tour he made the subject of his disastrously narcissistic movie, "The Big One," and he hit scores of cities for "Stupid White Men.") Former employees have accused him of trying to stop them from joining the Writers Guild and, according to interviews conducted by The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash, of creating working conditions that resemble a "sweatshop" and "indentured servitude." In fact, there are plenty of indications that Michael Moore is not a compassionate, big-hearted man dedicated to social justice; he just plays one on TV.
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Summary: Should be required viewing...
Review: ...For every voter in this country! Michael Moore holds up a mirror to the face of America, and it ain't pretty. However, there are reasons to hope...one of them is that this movie was made and has proven to be so popular. People are starved for the truth, and they know it when they see it. As MM once said, "United we stand...up against the bulls**t." Thanks, Michael.
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Summary: One of the most important films ever made.
Review: Rarely do you see a film that speaks so true about our condition without trying to sugar coat it. It's a shame half of the country is delusional right now, so gripped with fear. But Moore makes his point elegantly with humor. Finally - a real populist!
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE!!!!
Review: EVERYONE needs to see this movie.
Unless you like living in fantasy land.
It looks like some people who reviewed this movie, prefer to remain ignorant :)
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