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Comment count is 11
Jefka - 2009-04-20

About as dishonest as a documentary can get while keeping some mainstream credibility.


Hodge - 2009-04-20

My feelings exactly.


Aelric - 2009-04-20

Despite being the the bleeding heart fagot I am, I've lost my respect for Moore. He should have stuck with labor and union issues, then he could have stayed one of the good guys. Now, he is just another demagogue.


IrishWhiskey - 2009-04-20

A well made film that raises some interesting issues, but suffers for a clear of focus.

Moore's partisanship and factual errors are justly criticized, but the film doesn't really suffer as a result of either.


mon666ster - 2009-04-20

Pretty much my feelings exactly. His heart was in the right place, it's a great film, but he missed the point completely. He kept making it sound like guns are easy to get in Canada. They're not. It's f'ing hard to get a gun here! Plus, we had a copycat crime in Taber Alta about 2 days after Columbine. The shooter used a legal Canadian gun, got two shots off and was tackled while reloading. There's your hypothesis right there.

But still, I love this film and everything he's done really.


Paracelsus - 2009-04-20

The film does not age well. Ruggedly tone-deaf in many places. Worst moment being the pillorying of an obviously confused Charlton Heston. The whole "I'm more honest, down-to-earth and forthright" shtick might have worked with some CEO bean-counter, but in this film it looked like him stalking one of America's most beloved film actors.

Sucks, because I've enjoyed some things Moore has done.


badideasinaction - 2009-04-20

Yeah, the nerve of expecting the official spokesman of the NRA to speak on behalf of the NRA.


Paracelsus - 2009-04-23

We differ, I guess. I just don't think blindsiding an old actor with Alzheimer's in an attempt to score a few points off him is really what investigative journalism is all about.

Silly me, though, because Moore is not and has never been about that. He's a bully, but that's supposed to be ok because of the politics he stands for. That's what has turned people off to Moore, I think: he's a dishonest bully. 'Bowling' was the shark-jumping moment.


Witty_Pop_Culture_Reference - 2009-04-27

In fairness, it's been covered several times in the media that Heston's illness was not public knowledge at the time, and Moore had no idea he was undergoing the onset when he approached him. It wasn't found out until after the film had actually been released, and Moore commented that he wished he could have removed the clip prior had he known.

Still a mediocre documentary, but effective emotional tugging.


KnowFuture - 2009-04-21

I like Michael Moore and I'm glad he's doing what he's doing but this movie pisses me off---it raises a bunch of questions and instead of even trying to summarize or deliver an answer, it goes into this completely different thing about K-Mart being bad for selling bullets.


caged ant - 2009-04-22

Great message; but watching him drag those poor teenagers into KMart was embarassing.


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