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Thread #63137   Message #1025921
Posted By: GUEST,heric
28-Sep-03 - 04:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: RE-visiting 'Bowling for Columbine'
Subject: RE: BS: RE-visiting 'Bowling for Columbine'
Okay - I saw it last night. I hope I won't get lambasted by this overboiled intellectual Guest running on overtime here, for having seen it too late - I apologize in advance for my tardiness, all right?

My impressions, for what they're worth: Pretty good humor, pretty honest in stating his biases and in revealing that the answers were not to be had. Rather luke warm in the been-there, seen-that, department as a re-hash of the Roger & Me style. The former should have been the Oscar winner.

I personally still could not have edited the Heston material as he did, although I don't think it was too over-the-top (Heston did have a silly smirk on his face as he said "Don't come here? We're already here,"- but that could be a function of his poor public presentation, which is his true debilitating handicap over the decades.) But, then, I'm not an intellectual egghead, or an artist, so my opinion isn't worth much. If Moore wants to perform a cost:benefit analysis on credibility versus notoriety, he's the creator and Oscar-winner, so that's okay with me.

I otherwise adopt the comments of Fred Miller above, adding that I think Lockheed and Dick Clark were both largely part of the notoriety calculation, and with one more point: I don't watch television. I don't grasp this whole culture and climate of perpetual fear thing. But my conclusion and recommendation to the rest of you is pretty simple, then, too: Trash your TV sets, and thereby, necessarily, lighten up. (Was that Moore's unstated conclusion: Addicted to television/addicted to fear?)