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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: MOORE,MICHAEL EAN: 0027616882264 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Languages: Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) MPN: 027616882264 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 19, 2003 Running Time: 119 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: 2002 Editorial Review: Product Description: Explores people's facination with the handgun and the possible reasons for the increase in gun violence in the United States. Genre: Documentary Rating: R Release Date: 13-FEB-2007 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com: Michael Moore's superb documentary (following in the footsteps of Roger & Me and The Big One) tackles a meaty subject: gun control. Moore skillfully lays out arguments surrounding the issue and short-circuits them all, leaving one impossible question: why do Americans kill each other more often than people in any other democratic nation? Moore focuses his quest around the shootings at Columbine High School and the shooting of one 6-year-old by another near his own hometown of Flint, Michigan. By approaching the headquarters of K-Mart (where the Columbine shooters bought their ammo) and going to Charlton Heston's own home, Moore demands accountability from the forces that support unrestricted gun sales in the U.S. His arguments are conducted with the humor and empathy that have made Moore more than just a gadfly; he's become a genuine voice of reason in a world driven by fear and greed. --Bret Fetzer Average Rating:
 Rating:  - SOMETIMES THE TRUTH HURTSAny film that can garner 299 ONE STAR REVIEWS from gun enthusiats be all bad. Why is it any time someone points out some of the flaws in American society and some of its attitudes they are vilified? Surely we are strong enough to take the criticism. Rating: - The public criticism of a frightful AmericaMichael Moore films an America that is frightful. The topic is "limited" to the lifestyle of Northern American People imbued with a rare violence on the scale of humanity. Is this normal in a country not at war, that its citizens have at home several lethal firearms? Michael Moore thinks that it is not ; so do I. Michael Moore hurts. He exhibited this specific cultural violence in the USA which is absolutely not the case in English Canada (Toronto) where weapons are those ... Read More Rating:  - Less MooreBFC's very success as a piece of art is its undoing as a piece of social commentary. Before I go on let me briefly sum up the film: MM attempts to discover what is wrong with America- specifically violence in America. The Columbine shootings in spring of 1999 are MM's starting point. MM tries to point out the dubious links posited by the media monster- brilliantly portrayed in a montage of `scares' thrown out by the media- things from Halloween candy to weight loss products. This is an avenue worth pursuing, ... Read More Rating:  - Just what you would expect from Michael MooreMichael Moore tells a good story, if you don't mind a liberal fairy tale. Anything Moore puts out needs to be taken with the understanding that he aims his stories for the uninformed masses. The thing that scares him the most is someone who thinks for themselves. Rating:  - Very good at times, but also aggravating and annoying....I recently tackled this movie again, and it's still good and worth watching, there were aspects of it that I disliked more this time around. The film isn't strictly about gun control. While Moore does mention that they are tons of guns in this country, he also mentions that Canada has tons of guns as well (more per capita than the US), yet Canada doesn't have the amount of violence that we do here. Moore also points out rather telling of our culture of fear, where the news media constantly tells ... Read More |
