I dont know how many of you have already seen this film, but if you havent I highly reccomend going out to your local theater and watching it. It is probably the best movie I have seen all year. Its contravertial in alot of ways but trys to explaine why Firearm Murder in the US is so much more of any other developed nation.
http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/about/theaters.php for a theater near you.
You NRA members might want to see it for a camio of Mosis himself Charelton Heston.
Michael Moore is a genius. That was an awesome movie. I also highly reccomend it.
Dylan
If you see one movie in the next month or two, make sure you pick Bowling for Columbine (my gawd, I sound like a two-bit media reporter from some unknown newspaper in Illinois)… that and The Matrix: Reloaded.
But seriously, B.F.C. is an incredible documentry built from viewpoints you won’t see on CNN or your local Channel 2 News. Built from exactly the opposite of those perspectives, to be exact.
That, and it makes you feel good to be a Canadian (at least it did for me :)).
Later,
Eli.
I’ve mentioned in another post his work was censored, and so not played on Mtv.
Michael Moore is a piece of horse bleep!
Your going to have to explane more than that…
Number of Firearm Homicides
381 Germany
165 Canada
68 UK
65 Australia
39 Japan
11,127 United States.
I think he meant horse crap
I really enjoyed the movie as well. The only part I didn’t like (my fault) I thought the movie was more of a spoof, than an actual documentary at the beginning, so seeing the interview with McVeih’s brother, I thouhg t was the ‘acting’ like a crazy guy.
I didn’t know till afterwards that was an actual interview, had I known, I would have been more into it.
Great movie though,
(although, I didn’t care for the whole You’re the head of the NRA thing at the end…that was pretty stupid…and horse bleep-worthy)
I found this web page enlightening about the movie.
I really haven’t paid any attention to Michael Moore before but there are a couple others that have a problem with calling this movie a documentary. Here and here. I’m probably curious enough to see it but I’ll wait until its on video.
even in Europe (where I don’t expect the movie to be released)
we can only watch the trailer
http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/media/trailer/index.php
But even these page got attention 3 weeks ago:
(dutch): http://www.telegraaf.nl/crazylife/teksten/crazylife.film.moore.laden.bush.html
guess there will be much moore publishity comming up?
BFC
Is Michael Moore deceptive and manipulative? No Doubt
Does He have a point? Yes.
You have to get as much data as you can and form your own opinion.
TTFN
JR
so, yes it’s gonna be baised, but it’s in a funny and different way. nothing these days isnt biased. this film is hilarious and offensive to some people im sure. it’s still a great and worth while watching movie, I went to watch it for my journalism class.
Have you read these things?
They dispute the facts that Michael Moore uses because he does not state some things word for word. They are all petty arguments and so far I havent seen anything on any of the sites that has a solid argument for a fact that was stated incorecctlly.
You’ll see more inaccurate and biased reporting on CNN and Fox
I finally got around to renting Bowling for Columbine.
As with all of Michael Moore’s work I found it to be heavy handed, obnoxious, and completely in your face. On the one hand with the fact that the so-called, supposedly liberal media largely feeds off gun violence Moore’s style is effective and necessary. On the other hand, it’s just not my thing and rubs me the wrong way.
Nevertheless I agree with Moore’s points and am very amused whenever he discomfits corporate PR types.
That being said it was interesting to me that along with the statistics of deaths from gun violence in the major western nations was the fact that Canada, with 7 million guns for 10 million families, still has many, many fewer gun deaths each year than the US. Perhaps the number of guns isn’t the only problem.
I think there may be something to the main point that America is a frightened nation and Americans trigger happy as a result.
For me this movie, unlike his previous ones, Roger & Me and The Big One, leaves lots more questions than it provides answers.
I recommend it, however. It is certainly provocative.
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
If you didn’t read the one Unibabyguy suggested, you need to. This one
I haven’t seen the film, and so I can’t give you my take on the film itself. However, I would like to point out that every documentary is a work of fiction. By choosing what to include and what to leave out, the creator of a documentary is able to show his or her perspective of the situation. You could make a documentary which portrays Christopher Columbus as a man inspired by God to find this new world, or as a manipulative, evil man who wanted to get into the slave trading business. Both could be true, basing your research on fact, but the question arises as to what you decide to put on film. That’s why they give out academy awards to documentary makers. They are just as responsible for leading the audience to certain conclusions as someone making a work of fiction.
fair enough
why bother calling it a ‘documentary’ then?
shouldn’t we find a ‘better’ word that doesn’t conjure up images of factual objectivity?
people, you start looking like politicians; arguing wether this is a documentairy or not, in stead of facing the real problem.
Or is there anyone to deny America does have a problem?
(or actualy; a bit more than only one problem).
well we can’t all live in a perfect places like Holland 
btw Micheal Moore is liberal trash, then again I’m a conservative gun toating, pro-life redneck…but atleast I can ride a unicycle Mr. Moore 
that are your words, not mine.
But there are over 17 million people in a country smaller than an average state of the USA. In that scale, have a second look on the amount of suicide, homicide, homeless, drugs, terrorism, crime, etc there is (thus while they live concentrated like ants on a square post-stamp), and compare this to the amounts of the USA.
Tell me why, but do know the death penalty is gone since the middle ages, because it better fits to those days.