Michael & Me
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Movie Reviews of Michael & Me
Movie Review: Can't wait to see this!
Summary: 5 Stars
I will definitely come back to add to my review once I get a chance to watch the film. But, as a long-time Elderado (regular listener of Larry's show), I feel qualified to recomend this to potential buyers that haven't "heard the word" on Larry's radio show (which is also highly recomended). Larry is by far the most consistently entertaining, informative and admirable talk show host I've heard. I expect this film will be great.
Brandon Harlow (negative review): Let's assume that the film doesn't address the issue and only attacks Moore's credibility, I wouldn't know yet. If Moore's work is regularly accepted as a credible "documentary", would it not be a service to viewers to expose that his main points are fabricated?
Maybe if you would have paid attention to Bowling, you would have noticed that the points about numbers of guns alluded to "data" and the points about fear from governments and corporations were expressed mostly through cartoons. Moore himself enjoys using fear to lobby his causes by superimposing horrific incidents like Columbine over the much broader issue of gun control. But, I suppose we are all entitled to decide what convincing evidence is.
Anyway, one doesn't have to do much research to discover what your motivations are. Just click on your "See all my reviews" and the pattern is obvious. Have a chip on your shoulder or what?
Movie Review: Give Him What He Deserves Larry.
Summary: 5 Stars
And give it to him some more! Michael & Me is not so much a critique of Moore's oeuvre as it is an analysis and repudiation of the prevarications he publicized in Bowling for Columbine. Further, it attacks the prohibition of firearms more than it does the director himself. Such an approach is badly needed and, despite's its low budget feel, these frames tell us far more about guns and the human psyche than anything Michael Moore has ever produced. Some of the interviews (of people on the street in particular) were absolutely hysterical. The girl who believed that she did not need a gun to defend herself against home intruders because she felt her confident demeanor would frighten them off was tragic but one you'll not soon forget. Volokh's mentioning of the way some people want to do policy by wishful thinking was right on the money. Overall, the experts here are outstanding. The Joyce Malcolm segment was brief but a highlight I'd say. She shared the story of Tony Martin who got life imprisonment in England for shooting two burglars who broke into his home. The words of the two retired Los Angeles police offices were impeccable as well. This is a must see.Movie Review: A "Must-Buy" for anyone interested in the topic of gun violence
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the kind of movie you will want to watch more then once, and will want all of your friends and family to see. It's great, very well done and all about gun violence and American's 2nd amendment rights.
Larry attempts to get down to the root causes of violence and talks about the vast number of lives that are saved every year thru the law-abiding ownership of guns, and how we never hear about it in the main stream press.
He interviews many different people: victims of violent crime, police officers, gun shop owners/instructors, anti-gun activists, lawyers, ex-gang bangers, historians, professors, and yes Michael Moore briefly.
Larry actually picked a bad name for this movie because it's misleading. They actually spend very little time talking to Moore or attacking Bowling for Columbine. Maybe 10 minutes of the film is spent on directly attacking Moore. The rest of it has nothing to do with Michael Moore, which I thought was a very good thing.
This is an important film, and one that should been seen no matter what your opinion on gun control is.
Movie Review: Yes, I have a copy of the DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Funny, many "left wing" types took Michaels spliced up fantasy as truth, yet when a film comes out using fact to poke holes in Michaels trumped up film they will not bother ordering it but will give only a star or two just to protest...
Michael is an NRA member just to help fool a few more of you idiots out there, kinda like John Kerry sporting a shotgun in a photo op carrying the same shotgun he previously tried to ban!
The network news only provides coverage of gun crime, you moron. The left leaning, socialist, anti-Constitutional mainstream media does not report any self defense uses. You have to go to [...]under "operation self defense" to see a huge and daily fed inventory of gun uses for self defense, reports right from local papers mostly. "...only seen two times a gun was used in self defense..." cited one underinformed anti-gun gullable idiot above in a review!!
The film is great if you wondered just how Michael was able to splice and lie so convicingly.
Movie Review: Comprehensive and compelling look at the gun control issue.
Summary: 5 Stars
The one criticism of this documentary I have is that I had no idea what it was going to be about with the exception that I figured Michael Moore was going to be in there somewhere.
What Larry Elder has done is create a comprehensive and compelling look at how our fantasies of how life should be collide head on with reality. Sure, it would be great just to make gun violence illegal by passing laws, but reality just seem to work differently. This documenary convincingly shows how. It short, it illustrates how gun control laws can kill more people than guns do.
It get's a little bit dry about an hour into it with one interview after another, but the sheer credibility of the interview subjects kept my attention, and thankfully there's a funny if not too subtle cartoon parody of Michael Moore thrown in there too.
So, bravo for Larry Elder to make a documentary about reality. We could use more like this.