Bowling For Columbine

TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Best. Documentary. Ever.</div> Has anyone else seen this? It has to be the funniest, truest documentary I've seen.
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  • OttoDestructOttoDestruct Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7790Members
    I liked The Big One better. Economic terrorism, and harassing the president of Nike. How cool is that.
  • MrMojoMrMojo Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9882Members, Constellation
    Funniest, mayby. Truest? Hardly. It's so incredibly spliced up and manipulated that it even ceases to be a documentary.
  • MelatoninMelatonin Babbler Join Date: 2003-03-15 Member: 14551Members, Constellation
    ive seen a clip where that bank gives a free gun with every new account <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> daftness...

    i dunno what to make of micheal moore tho... i guess hes fighting the good fight and all, even tho hes being hated by the right and the left... . . . hes kinda funny at least.
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    I found the Charleton Heston interview great.
  • eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
    <a href='http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html' target='_blank'>http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html</a>
  • SovietDictatorSovietDictator Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12461Members
    edited September 2003
    The Charleton Heston interview was a low blow. He suffers from Alzheimer's disease, but I do not recall for how many years. I've worked with people who have Alzheimer's and it's not a pretty disease. Their minds rot, and toward the middle to latter stages their speach is confused and makes no sense, except for some rare moments of clarity. When asked questions, IF they can process and understand the question, their answers are strange and confusing due to the deterioration of the brain.

    Also, Alzheimer's causes the victim to become very aggressive, irritated, and violent, and it destroys all distinction between right and wrong-they do as they please and do not know the consecuences.

    A very, very low blow. I'm surprised Heston's guardians allowed it.

    And I fail to see if Heston is a racist has anything to do with his disease.
  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    Maybe because Heston is racist.
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    OK. You have me there. Most of it was a fabrication...it was still a hilarious exaggeration of America, Canada, and gun owners.

    And yes, I'm pro-gun.
  • eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
    wow, its threads like these that let you really find out who are the idiots on forums.
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    Must you start a flame war over it?

    Bloody gun crazy Americans.

    /me runs away
  • eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
    im not american <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> im not a gun enthusiast

    and a flame war is inevitable with threads like these, i may as well get my opinion in <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    edited September 2003
    I guess I should expect it from the internet. Ignore the fact I've never been an **** on the forums, or been involved in any flame wars or fights...


    Edit: Also, don't go calling other people idiots when you can't spell "leprosy."
  • TenSixTenSix Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7932Members
    Inform thineself:

    <a href='http://www.dailyvidette.com/news/413482.html' target='_blank'>http://www.dailyvidette.com/news/413482.html</a>

    The bank scene explained:
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->North Country Bank & Trust appears in an introductory “Bowling for Columbine” sequence dubbed “Michael at the Bank.” The scene has Moore discovering an ad in a local Michigan paper touting that if you open an account at North Country Bank & Trust, the bank (“more bang for your buck!”) will give you a gun.

    Moore goes to the bank, is greeted by a customer service representative and moves on to an unnamed teller who goes through the necessary paperwork for Moore to open an account.

    Moments later, Moore is handed his new shotgun in the North Country Bank & Trust lobby, at which point he asks another unnamed bank employee, “Do you think it’s a little dangerous handing out guns in a bank?”

    Before the employee can respond, Moore turns his inquiry into a punchline by immediately cueing Teenage Fanclub’s rendition of the song “Take the Skinheads Bowling,” the tune to which he marches out of the bank.

    “That we would give out guns in the bank is very untrue,” Helen Steinman, the customer service representative seen greeting Moore in the bank, explained when I contacted her in February.

    “Under the account Moore opened, instead of getting interest on a CD, you get a gun,” Steinman continued. “But before you get the gun, there’s a ton of paperwork that has to be done. We have to do the background check. There has to be a designated place where you pick up the gun - at a gun shop.

    “You can’t just come in here and get a gun.”

    Nor does the bank “just hand you the gun,” Steinman added. “No way - no way. That was very misrepresentative on Moore’s part.”

    Steinman said the bank, “didn’t realize Moore would be insinuating what he insinuated. He was only supposed to be coming in and pretending to open up a CD. What the girl who opened up the account really told him was that there would be a background check and that he wouldn’t get the gun for six weeks.”

    Mary Ann Hult, executive director of national publicity for United Artists, said Moore assured “Bowling for Columbine’s” distributor that the bank sequence “happened exactly the way it was shown in the film. Moore did research, found out about this bank and actually did go in and open the account.

    “Very early on, I had a conversation with one of the kids who worked at the bank because they wanted to come to a screening of the movie,” Hult added. “It all seemed true to them then, so I do not know why they would change their position on that now. At the time, they were standing behind it. And United Artists stands behind the film ‘as is’ - as a documentary.”

    Regular customers familiar with the North Country Bank & Trust account-opening process have asked about the “confusing” sequence in the film, Steinman said.

    “We just have to tell them that what they saw is not what happened and that’s not the way we do business,” Steinman added.

    Moore did not respond to several phone and e-mail requests for an interview in which to comment on the portrayal of North Country Bank & Trust in his movie.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Just one of many of <a href='http://www.moorelies.com' target='_blank'>Michael Moore's Lies</a>.
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    I guess this shows how much faith you can put in every truth you're told. If something so heavily edited can seem so beleivable, what other crap could be fabricated? And before you say I'm implying something, or making a conspiracy theory...just shut up now before I rip your tongue out. It's just an observation.
  • eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
    testament - calm down. i didnt mean you.

    also, thanks for pointing out my sig. i also have dyslexia in my shoe.
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    Sorry. Bad experiences with arsehole who hold it against you for screwing up once. And coming off as a moron like this.
  • eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
    Hm? Not quite sure I get you there.

    Regardless, Michael Moore is one sleazy ****.
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    I still find the movie quite amusing. Canada really is a nice place to live, by the way.
  • eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
    Yeah

    It's interesting, and you think it's amazing, because you see 'documentary' and you just can't even imagine that such a movie could be so fake and truth-distorting. It's quite disturbing =/
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    Oh...the Two Towers DVD is great. Haven't checked the special features out yet...haven't really watched it all yet. I've seen it before, but I wanna watch it over again on sexy sexy DVD.
  • ubermenschubermensch Join Date: 2002-12-31 Member: 11692Banned
    <!--QuoteBegin--Testament+Sep 20 2003, 07:30 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Testament @ Sep 20 2003, 07:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I found the Charleton Heston interview great. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    i found it sickening, he gained the trust of an old man on false pretenses and then made a fool of a victim of altzheimers, it was a disgrace and he should be ashamed of himself for doing that
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    Old people should just be incinerated anyway.


    I'M JOKING.
  • SovietDictatorSovietDictator Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12461Members
    /me runs to the discussion forum and never looks back
  • NumbersNotFoundNumbersNotFound Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7556Members
    Michael Moore is a walking abomination to the genre of Documentary.


    I can't even watch Canadian Bacon anymore without seeing a stupid political agenda.
  • FlatlineUTDFlatlineUTD Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7695Members
    Canadian Bacon was more a documentary than BFC was.

    It takes a lot to **** me off, and Michael Moore has done so amazingly well. I hate him with the writhing fury of a thousand fiery suns.
  • Cr-ckCr-ck Join Date: 2003-09-14 Member: 20873Members
    I saw Bowling for Columbine a while back, i was hurt by it. Great Video
  • XzilenXzilen Join Date: 2002-12-30 Member: 11642Members, Constellation
    No. Michael Moore is a big fat piece of crap.

    P.S- The movie sucked.
  • XzilenXzilen Join Date: 2002-12-30 Member: 11642Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--MrMojo+Sep 20 2003, 07:29 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MrMojo @ Sep 20 2003, 07:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Funniest, mayby. Truest? Hardly. It's so incredibly spliced up and manipulated that it even ceases to be a documentary. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    EXACTLY! And for me, that makes it cease to be funny.
  • XzilenXzilen Join Date: 2002-12-30 Member: 11642Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Flatline[UTD]+Sep 20 2003, 09:31 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Flatline[UTD] @ Sep 20 2003, 09:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Canadian Bacon was more a documentary than BFC was.

    It takes a lot to **** me off, and Michael Moore has done so amazingly well. I hate him with the writhing fury of a thousand fiery suns. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Heh, our good old Moderator Nem finds nothing wrong with that pos of Michael Moore :-\

    (Not flaming you Nem, just pointing out that he does have ONE fan in the whole world)

    God I hate Moore.
  • XzilenXzilen Join Date: 2002-12-30 Member: 11642Members, Constellation
    Btw

    <a href='http://www.whatever-dude.com/posts/327.shtml' target='_blank'>http://www.whatever-dude.com/posts/327.shtml</a>
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