Go see this movie.
(its website not the movie)
Excellent recommendation, UTD.
i saw it. i was going to recommend it, but then thought i would get crucified. It's an extremely informative movie (in my opinion).
great work by Michael Moore.. It doesn’t let you down.. a Must See! :k:
Definitely worth the money and time. Interesting his contrasting of USA and Canada - the Canadians' comments on how the solution in the US is shoot first ...
Also the reaction of the Detroiters visiting Windsor - something to the effect of feeling like equals.
Is it true that K-Mart now does not sell bullets, following the protest by 2 of the students shot at Columbine?
Is it true that K-Mart now does not sell bullets, following the protest by 2 of the students shot at Columbine?
i am not certain whether that is specific to just that one particular K-Mart, or whether it would apply to all K-Mart stores across the US?
Anti-gun film wins top award, BBC, 9 March 2003
**Bowling for Columbine, the anti-gun documentary by satirist Michael Moore, has won best original screenplay in the Writers Guild of America’s awards.
This marks the first time a documentary has won the prize. No other documentary had ever been nominated in the 55 years the Guild has been giving awards**.
David Hare’s screenplay for The Hours won best adapted screenplay at the ceremony widely seen as a good indicator for the Oscars. Screenplays honoured by the Writers Guild often go on to win at the Oscars as well, not least because many of the same people vote for both sets of awards.
Guild officials praised Moore’s film as “highly innovative”. “Our members’ appreciation of Michael Moore’s clever, humorous and personal storytelling is a tribute to his vision and the power of his subject matter,” WGA West president Victoria Riskin said. The film, an essay on America’s obsession with firearms, has taken $18m (£11.2m), more money than any other documentary in US history.
It nudged out My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Antwone Fisher, Far From Heaven, and Gangs of New York. Moore said he was “shocked and honoured” to be nominated for the prize.
“Documentary writing is probably the hardest form of screenwriting because you can’t really write until you shoot the film,” he said.
The Hours, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about author Virginia Woolf, beat out Chicago, Adaptation, About Schmidt and About A Boy. The Writers Guild of America represents writers in the movie, TV and new media worlds.
MAN!!! i just saw this documentary. sorry if this sounds crude but i was literally “shocked and awed”. this is by far the best piece of 2 hours i have ever spent infront of a tv.
for months i was shooing this documentary away thinking it would be just another cheap shot spinioff love comedy (sorry the name made me think like that) until i saw the oscars last weekend and realized that its by the same guy who dissed bush infront of the whole watching america. he is the same guy who wrote produced and directed ‘Roger and Me’ (1989) another great documentary. Michael Moore has a knack for cracking down on the major problems, in today’s american society, at the root.
people i HIGHLY recommend you watch this documentary. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE if you havent watched it already go NOW and rent it or download if off kazaa. its still playing in some AMC theatres in the GTA.
whats even more scary is that this documentary was made before the current war on iraq. and it makes even more sense now!
:k::k::k::k::k:/5 on the cheegometer
I cant wait to see this documentary casue of all the rave reviews its got.
Ive read some of his book 'Stupid White Men' which i thought was quite good and funny. Its a must read especially if you live in the USA.
I saw the documentary a few hours ago; and I am in shock. It is amazing, one of the best things I've seen in the past years, yet one true documentary that suggest the way the American Government acts. Michael Moore is a true genius and it is a person that I now look up at. If you haven't watch it and you think you can handle it, and you are smart and think you can get the point, homies, don't think it over and go watch it NOW.
What I found pretty amazing (and scary) is that scene with the typical high school punk, looking harmless and innocent and then he pulls a gun out of his pocket and puts it on the table. So I was like, well, in the States, everyone has a gun so nothing weird there. Then he pulled another one, then another, and another, and bigger ones too and then a Uzzi (Or something like that, I'm no firearm expert) and then a big rifle was down his pants and in his back! That guy was more armed than guys in The Matrix.
And also that scene where they showed that people in Canada didn't lock their doors (Which is true in many places across Canada BTW)
seen it 6 months ago....... awesome movie!! :)
Michael Moore has done an excellent job with this one. It’s right in your face! :k:
liked the way he got into Charlton Heston’s too 
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