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Michael Moore was right.
shmokes:
Dartful, whether he was mistaken or made it up, I would imagine that the point he was making with the title is not lost on you and you likely agree with it. The title is ironic. He absurdly makes the case that since both boys had bowling class that morning, that bowling must be the cause of their rampage. He is pointing out the irony and simple-mindedness of blaming the tragedy on some single factor like videogames, or rock & roll, or even guns. Don't get me wrong, the movie had a decidedly anti-gun message and the dirty trick he pulled on that moron idle of your, Charlton Heston, was dispicable, but he also spends a significant amount of time in Canada, a country similarly gun-crazed as America and questions why, if Canadians can get guns just as easily as America, and have historically demonstrated a similar love affair with them as Americans, why aren't Canadians killing other people at a clip anywhere close to Americans. In other words if the problem is only a matter of gun-control, why is America so much more violent than its next-door neighbor with similar levels of gun accessibility?
For the most part Bowling for Columbine was a pretty good documentary and was reasonably fair, asking far more question than it tried to answer. If you want to paint Michael Moore as a politcal hack without any journalistic integrity at least do yourself a favor and stick to Farenheight 9/11 where you can make a clear case of it.
DrewKaree:
He's a journalistic hack with no integrity. All you have to do is watch F911. Even shmokes can see that. ;D
AND I agree with MrC. Michael Moore IS fat.
Alright, which of you is willing to step up and take my agreement like a woman?
ChadTower:
Will some mod do the right thing and combine this with the thread about those bigass fast food sammiches?
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on March 29, 2005, 01:07:50 pm ---He's a journalistic hack with no integrity.
Alright, which of you is willing to step up and take my agreement like a woman?
--- End quote ---
He is not journalistic at all. He's a director that makes low budget movies. After his movie his fans sit around and repeat quotes from the movie and they tell each other, "That was a pretty good documentary". The same way my friends and I talk about Napoleon Dynamite. The only difference is they need to call his movie a documentary, because they are too educated to waste time on a movie.
ChadTower:
They so edumacated.