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adman
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posted August 01, 2007 07:11 PM
Ha last night I was revealed some startling allegations that Trav doesn't even really like the simpsons! (not the movie, the TV show)And thus, how can this kind of person give ANY insight into the movie? he can't. simple. shut your trap 0428travvy! -------------------- NuckleHead McSpazatron
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Billiam
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posted August 02, 2007 09:32 PM
OK, so I saw the movie last nite...Although distracted by things on my mind, I was able to watch and annalyse .. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think they did everything they could hav done with it. IT was different, they made it look amazing and I was kept interested for the entire duration. I laughed out loud a lot, and many times when no one else did so I looked like a dick. haha. The doodle joke was funny, and I didn't think the bong thing was stupid at all. Clearly Spider Pig was the best bit of the movie. haha. Spider Pig. Overall, very enjoyable. The timing could have been better but the delivery was about as good as we were ever gonna get. 4.35/5 Beans
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KingBean
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posted August 04, 2007 09:16 PM
Alright so I watched it last night, and it certainly had some good points but maaaaan Michael Moore is just such a fuckhead. I don't know how he can be so highly acclaimed, he's just a typical journalist; deliberately slanting things in his favour. Disc two had special features which were mostly interviews, and they just pissed me off as well. Just because he's prepared to speak out against his country's leader/s doesn't make him a great filmmaker.You know in the Simmos, in Homer Badman, where he goes on Rock Bottom and the host cuts up his interview and when Homer is off camera says "No, Mr. Simpson, no!"...? Well basically a lot of Bowling For Columbine was on par with that. Like I said, he had some good points but the way he tries to push his views is no different to how the people he speaks against push theirs. I think the worst part for me was when he was talking to the cops who were attending a shooting. They obviously have to pay attention to what is going on, and Moore is going on about the pollution levels and asking if the officer can arrest someone for it. OBVIOUSLY he can't, it's a ludicrus concept, to expect one single cop that he has randomly picked off the street to go make world changing actions at the drop of a hat. So to his credit, the cop starts ignoring Moore and then walks off to go do his real job, leaving Moore off camera and asking "Officer?". Up your arse, Michael Moore. ![[grrr]](graemlins/grrr.gif) 0.000000 beans for Michael Moore, but 2.139451 beans for Bowling For Columbine.
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Jordox
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posted August 06, 2007 08:24 AM
i havent seen it for a while, but everytime i have, ive liked it and never come to the extreme conclusions/accusations you guys have. quote:
Originally posted by KingBean:
Just because he's prepared to speak out against his country's leader/s doesn't make him a great filmmaker.
I don't think anyone says that man, in my opinion he's a good filmmaker because his film is well made, thought provoking and entertaining too.
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Like I said, he had some good points but the way he tries to push his views is no different to how the people he speaks against push theirs.
He had a LOT of good points and assuming his facts and stats were true, it is a big eye-opener. Especially if you live in the states. What does it matter how he puts across his views?
Or the fact that he only puts across information to back up his point?
The movie isnt meant to be a great debate where both sides get a fair go at explaining themselves.
And also from memory he gave the old NRA leader guy a chance to explain himself and he couldnt.
Although there were bits of those scenes where i thought it was a bit contrived.
But the movie as a whole was good and i just dont see what you guys have against him.
And bean, you hated him before you even saw the movie so im getting the feeling you never really gave him a chance.AND whilst i saw the amusement in your comparison to the Simmo's gag, somehow i dont think they are quite the same. I don't think he wouldve edited things together, if he did anything, it wouldve been omitting certain bits. But i dont see that as a huge crime.
How funny was the cartoon bit? lol
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KingBean
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posted August 06, 2007 07:19 PM
Haha.. okay, here we go...The great filmmaker part... he won a goddamn Oscar for it! And not just this though, his other films get heaps of attention because of the subject matter and the fact he's exposing things and being controversial. When he was talking to Charlton Heston, that was good because he was putting across a good argument and Heston couldn't address those points and it came to the point where he got up and left. That was all great. Moore as the interview making valid and pressing points and the interviewee failing to handle it. BUT, like you said to me, he pulls out the photo of the girl and holds it up while Heston is walking away, and just repeats, "What about her? What about her?". Which in my eyes totally takes away from the interview because it goes from being a good, 'hard hitting' piece to pathetic, A Current Affair-esque tripe. With the Simpsons comparison, I didn't mean to imply that I was suggesting he edited things to the same extent as Rock Bottom. But things like the end of the Heston segment, when that guy went to show him the gun under his pillow... it was just the way it was done was reminiscant of a dodgily edited and intentionally swayed interview. There's no problem with him only showing thigns that help his argument, but the way he does it is where I have a problem. And yeah, I hate the guy, and even though I spent my time wishing death upon him, I am able to put that aside in order to watch the film as a film. Or a doco, whatever. But yeah, I gave two separate bean ratings to accomodate. ![[Thumbs up]](graemlins/thumbs_up.gif)
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