I saw the most anti gun movie ever yesterday

[Nate C.]

"I have never, and will never, watch a Michael Moore product."

I was going to say 'ditto' but then I read that Moore did Canadian Bacon. If that is correct, I hate to admit it, but I actually enjoyed that one.

 

[Golden Hound]

My biggest complaint with Bowling for Columbine is that at the beginning of the movie when he gets the free Weatherby rifle for opening the bank account, he picks one with a synthetic stock?!?! I know some people like them but I mean, jeez, there were these Weatherbys with beautiful wood stocks just hanging right there when he's filling out the form! Come on, go for the classy one.

 

[JKimball]

The closest Moore gets to a thesis is actually the question in the full title of the movie:
Bowling for Columbine: Are We a Nation of Gun Nuts or Are We Just Nuts?

I was actually surprised when he snapped that rifle to his shoulder at the bank. I thought, man, he looks like he actually knows how to shoot a rifle. Then he went on to say that he was on a rifle shooting team in High School.

For me, the best evidence of how big a jerk he is was how he tried to villify Heston, both in the interview at Heston's home, and the way he edited Heston's speeches.

 

[chaim]

It was used as an example of misinformation forced on the American public, scholarly sources made up the bulk of the essay, of course.

Ahh, sounds good. But did you really have to subject yourself to that movie to use it as an example? I'd rather have my fingernails torn out with rusty tweezers very, very slowly.

 

[Armueller2001]

I'll have to make sure when I'm stabbed I'll find the manufacturer of the kitchen knife and take it back to them, while it's still hanging out of my side.

Yeah, it's K-Mart's fault the kids got shot. ****in idiot.

 

[Deanimator]

At the risk of Godwinning the thread, one could say the same of Leni Riefenstahl, and she was a lot easier on the eyes than Michael Moore.

1. Godwin's puerile "law" is simply a rhetorical crutch for the uneducated and willfully ignorant. And I've told Godwin so.

2. You took the words right out of my mouth. Exactly like Riefenstahl, Moore dodges the moral quality of his "work" like somebody trying to cross the Dan Ryan Expressway on foot at rush hour. This is of course the pure height of hypocrisy, given his insistence that somebody [legally] selling tens of thousands of boxes of ammunition a day be held morally culpable for the MISUSE of ONE round of ammunition by someone probably not legally entitled to have it in the first place.

If it were me however, I wouldn't compare Moore to Riefenstahl. Riefenstahl had actual ARTISTIC talent, which she w****d out to a pack of gangsters for a quick Reichsmark. Moore's films are more in the realm of a crude campaign commercial stretched to feature length. The Riefenstahl comparison is close, but not quite on the mark. He's a lot closer to Josef Goebbels, a pathetic hack with a pernicious agenda pursued with the utmost in dishonesty. Somebody ought to put on a hazmat suit and pull off his shoes to see if he's got a club foot...

 

[geekWithA.45]

The full story: Michael Moore uses deceit to create propaganda, and is quite good at it.

All of his works, messages, and positions are therefore suspect, at best, if not outright dismissible with no further consideration.

 

[subierex]

Emotional gobbledygook aimed squarely at its intended audience: The emotional braindead of this country. No logic whatsoever utilized in the making of this movie.

Well, other than him knowing that he'd make a pretty penny off of it. Now that's logical.

 

[Seotaji]

the point of the movie was "don't beat up nerds and they won't get angry and get revenge".

it wasn't as anti-gun as i had suspected.

 

[FieroCDSP]

I personally don't disrespect him so much for his lies, but for his hypocracy. I caught an interview of him once, live of course, in which he explained why he doesn't allow himself to be taped for non-live interviews.
He said something to the effect of "I only do live interviews because I know what you can do in an editing booth to skew what someone says."

Yes, he does, as he does it all the time to everyone else. I found it interesting that he was implying a Fox News broadcast team would do something that he himself has done to actually harm people intentionally.
I lose respect for people when they become whiney babies if someone applies their own standards to them.

 

[Rachen]

I have seen the movie.

And if I were actually in the dialog too, I could debate that silly guy for hours upon hours, and turn a two hour movie into a two month long miniseries.

 

[Jiggle]

Like somebody else, I was forced to watch this in my American Government class my freshman year of college. There was no reason for it. No assignments had to be done on it. Nothing. The teacher was just a biased scumbag trying to push his feelings on all his students. And they say colleges are liberal breeding grounds

If I had been into firearms then as much as I am now, I would have walked out of his class and never come back.

 

[Judicator]

I think the part about that film that aggravated me the most was when they went into the K-mart headquarters and squeezed the executives into phasing out the sale of handgun ammo in their stores. I mean, ***??!! What exactly will that accomplish? Drag two disabled kids into K-mart HQ to pull a product off the shelves? Michael Moore is a disgusting waster of oxygen.

 

[Cosmoline]

Godwin's puerile "law" is simply a rhetorical crutch for the uneducated and willfully ignorant. And I've told Godwin so.

Did you call him a Nazi? I have always wanted to do that.