Saw an advance screening of this in Indy last night. This could go in the politics board cause Moore is a lightening rod for that stuff, but I'll put it here. I thought it was his best yet. He easily coulda just made this an anti-gun movie, but went a step further than that, and in a good way. He still is a bit behind Errol Morris though in terms of documentary making. Morris has his subject and lets him speak for himself, and Morris doesn't seem to have an agenda set beforehand. Moore always has an agenda for his movies and is good at making people look, for lack of a better word, dumb. See the Heston interview at the end of this for an example. But overall it is definately worth seeing, I been thinking about it most the morning (well when I haven't been thinking of tomorrow's crew match, or our nations sudden warlust).
Is this playing at Castleton Arts? If so, I'd like to go see it. Moore was on CNBC last night, and I've seen snippets of his interview with Marilyn Manson. Interesting stuff.
I just saw it tonight. I thought was great. I'm still working it all out in my head. I really appreciate the fact that Moore went beyond the old "lots of guns = lots of deaths" line. A thought provoking film that I recommend seeing.
The sneak preview was at castleton arts, so I'm sure the actual release will be there also. Frieslander hit the nail on the head with the strength of the movie. Moore definately went beyond the guns equals death "logic".
Bowling for Columbine I'm interested to see it and I know it's gotten international praise overseas and here in Canada (it opened today). Anyone seen it? Opinion? Is it coming out down South (ie you guys)?
Daniel, a few of us have seen it and i personally loved it... thread https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=18734
I merged the 2 threads about this film... Daniel, you'll be pleased to see that Canada is the only subject of this movie that gets praised. I liked this movie a lot, but I'm anti-gun, so there's not much not to like for me. Wasn't James Nicols extremely disturbing? At first I thought he was goofy-funny, but then he just scared me.
I'm anti gun as well, and this might be a good film, but Moore is a hypocritical and pathetic man, who often shows only one argument and then preaches it as gospel. Here in Detroit, he was on a news program and the anchor showed him footage of union member abuse and he refused to condemne them and claimed that the station doctored the tape and then went on about how big business is evil.
That look on Moore's face after Nicols said he scared even the police was classic! The film generally got me on an emotional roller-coaster of anger, sadness and even a little hope. It really pains me to be reminded the way the rest of America thinks (or fails to) and behaves. My lone criticism is how Moore failed to explore the psychological link to violence. He used the Kosovo pieces a little haphazardly.
I agree on both points. The "fear expert" made quite a few good observations, though. It never struck me how fearful a nation we are, though I think people outside the big cities, and particularly Middle Americans are the most fearful.