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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MOORE,MICHAEL
EAN: 0027616882264
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 19, 2003
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 5236
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Product Description:
Explores people's facination with the handgun and the possible reasons for the increase in gun violence in the United States.
Genre: Documentary
Rating: R
Release Date: 13-FEB-2007
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Michael Moore's superb documentary (following in the footsteps of Roger & Me and The Big One) tackles a meaty subject: gun control. Moore skillfully lays out arguments surrounding the issue and short-circuits them all, leaving one impossible question: why do Americans kill each other more often than people in any other democratic nation? Moore focuses his quest around the shootings at Columbine High School and the shooting of one 6-year-old by another near his own hometown of Flint, Michigan. By approaching the headquarters of K-Mart (where the Columbine shooters bought their ammo) and going to Charlton Heston's own home, Moore demands accountability from the forces that support unrestricted gun sales in the U.S. His arguments are conducted with the humor and empathy that have made Moore more than just a gadfly; he's become a genuine voice of reason in a world driven by fear and greed. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating:  - SOMETIMES THE TRUTH HURTS
Any film that can garner 299 ONE STAR REVIEWS from gun enthusiats be all bad. Why is it any time someone points out some of the flaws in American society and some of its attitudes they are vilified? Surely we are strong enough to take the criticism.
Rating: - The public criticism of a frightful America
Michael Moore films an America that is frightful. The topic is "limited" to the lifestyle of Northern American People imbued with a rare violence on the scale of humanity.
Is this normal in a country not at war, that its citizens have at home several lethal firearms? Michael Moore thinks that it is not ; so do I.
Michael Moore hurts. He exhibited this specific cultural violence in the USA which is absolutely not the case in English Canada (Toronto) where weapons are those of game hunters and not those for men hunting.
Columbine was one of many theatres of a "folly" (is this the case when there is repetition ? As Michael Moore, I do not think so) a deadly mass murder perpetrated by a student on pain of living.
The investigation is without appeal. "Bowling for Columbine" did surprise the naive and idolaters of a mythical America that does not exist. Michael Moore is peacefully fighting for a better America, the land of the Freedom.
Rating:  - Less Moore
BFC's very success as a piece of art is its undoing as a piece of social commentary. Before I go on let me briefly sum up the film: MM attempts to discover what is wrong with America- specifically violence in America. The Columbine shootings in spring of 1999 are MM's starting point. MM tries to point out the dubious links posited by the media monster- brilliantly portrayed in a montage of `scares' thrown out by the media- things from Halloween candy to weight loss products. This is an avenue worth pursuing, & the `scaring' of Americans into becoming consumers of anything that will substitute as a nipple is a great point. But it's made by shock rocker Marilyn Manson (a Columbine scapegoat), not MM, & then immediately dropped. MM also is at his best when he details corporate America's need to portray black men as `the problem' despite far more crime being perpetuated by white & white-collared sorts. Instead, we get a whole bunch of amusing, but pointless red herrings- the Michigan Militia, the Nirvana of Canadian existence (aptly showing how good the Canadian health care system is, but woefully neglecting the severe curtailing of Canadian civil liberties- most notably free speech- in pursuit of this goal), workfare programs- which I agree are terrible because they perpetuate an underclass, yet do not let a bad single mother whose 6 year old son killed another 6 year old girl off the hook (as MM tries to imply), a nasty Dick Clark- who employed said bad single mother for slave wages in ... Read More
Rating:  - Just what you would expect from Michael Moore
Michael Moore tells a good story, if you don't mind a liberal fairy tale. Anything Moore puts out needs to be taken with the understanding that he aims his stories for the uninformed masses. The thing that scares him the most is someone who thinks for themselves.
Rating:  - Very good at times, but also aggravating and annoying....
I recently tackled this movie again, and it's still good and worth watching, there were aspects of it that I disliked more this time around.
The film isn't strictly about gun control. While Moore does mention that they are tons of guns in this country, he also mentions that Canada has tons of guns as well (more per capita than the US), yet Canada doesn't have the amount of violence that we do here. Moore also points out rather telling of our culture of fear, where the news media constantly tells us we're about to die tomorrow from everything to blue jeans to bottled water. Everything is going to kill us. He also has a great interview with Marilyn Manson, the rock star who was "responsible" for the Columbine killings, despite the fact he wasn't at the actual shooting and two teenagers actually shot all the students. Moore hilariously points out that the US was bombing the bejeesus out of Yugoslavia during this time (a pre-emptive war on a country that did nothing to us, sound familiar?), and Clinton himself said "we need to teach our young people to solve their problems with words, not weapons. Now y'all excuse me, I have to authorise more missiles and kill more civilians". Clinton didn't actually say the 2nd line, but he might as well have, as that's exactly what he did. In other words, Moore makes some good points, and the film is not really about the gun issue but is about the violence issue.
Moore's tactics, on the other hand, are questionable. He brings some ... Read More
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