Bowling for Columbine on C4 at 11:05 tonight. (five star rating)

[beet1e]

For anyone who hasn't seen it, check Channel4 tonight. I was surprised to see they gave it a rating of FIVE STARS!! I would have expected three or four, but five seems high - for a documentary.

Details: http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=10&channelId=132&programmeId=25503010&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details.jsp

[Steve]

It's not a documentary.

[-tronski-]

Originally posted by beet1e
For anyone who hasn't seen it, check Channel4 tonight. I was surprised to see they gave it a rating of FIVE STARS!! I would have expected three or four, but five seems high - for a documentary.

Details: http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=10&channelId=132&programmeId=25503010&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details.jsp

There are five star doco's....Some Kind of Monster, Supersize Me, One Day in September, Fog of War are some off the top of my head..A mate reccomended Touching the Void, which I have yet to see


Zero Hour's  Columbine High school Shooting episode was extremely worth watching

 Tronsky

[Engine]

Was my first experience with Michael Moore, and it made me despise him and pity the people he suckers in.  Certainly not a documentary.

[OneWordAnswer]

Originally posted by beet1e
For anyone who hasn't seen it, check Channel4 tonight. I was surprised to see they gave it a rating of FIVE STARS!! I would have expected three or four, but five seems high - for a documentary.

Details: http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=10&channelId=132&programmeId=25503010&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details.jsp

Bait.

[Goth]

Just not interested even if Keira Knightley delivered buttered popcorn naked and told me I couldn't touch her until the end of the movie.



Ok...after finding this pic...maybe for strawberries....

[Nash]

It's not a bad documentary, but 5 stars? Maybe 3 or 4.

[Sandman]

I'm with Nash... it's not a bad documentary, maybe 3 or 4 out of 5, but not 5/5.

[Thrawn]

Bowling for Columbine is the best documentary I have ever seen.  Thank God for great Americans like Michael Moore.

[beet1e]

Originally posted by Steve
It's not a documentary.

Are you sure about that? I heard there was some fuss when it got an Oscar for best documentary, but I've just checked IMDB and see that at least a dozen film critic organisations gave it an award for best documentary. Here is the list: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310793/awards

One of the American user critics enthused thus:

One can hardly quarrel with most of Moore's basic facts or the urgency of his subject or his commitment to it. Because of its significance to Americans on both personal and national levels, "Bowling for Columbine" has to be considered the most important (and it's becoming the most watched) US documentary film in many a year. This is being recognized in all sorts of ways, first of all with the special jury prize at Cannes.

This acclaim has since been surpassed by an even more enthusiastic reception to another documentary, Fahrenheit 911.

tronski! - I saw Supersize me - once. I don't think I could watch it again.

[Sandman]

Irrelevant Beet1e. It can't be a documentary because Steve doesn't like it.

[Manedew]

Most people who I hear bad mouth this movie consider it an anti-gun movie

Do you consider it an anti-gun movie.....?

I think you missed the point if you do.......

[beet1e]

Originally posted by Sandman
Irrelevant Beet1e. It can't be a documentary because Steve doesn't like it.

;)

[Creamo]

Originally posted by OneWordAnswer
Bait.

Yup, and here he goes...

[Martlet]

Originally posted by Sandman
Irrelevant Beet1e. It can't be a documentary because Steve doesn't like it.

That's not true.

I don't know what the guidelines for documentary are, but dictionary.com defines it as:


 

  1. Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents.

2.  Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film.

A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration.

Most of the criticism as to whether or not it's a documentary revolve around the evidence that it is not presented objectively and is edited to be misleading.