Anyone here actually *like* Bowling for Columbine?

Yeah the Michael Moore documentary.

I don't see it as an anti-gun polemic as much as a free form video essay. Yes it doesn't teach people much about Columbine either, but that wasn't the intent.

I just view it as something that's continuously relevant. Even for something released in 2002.

Just re-watched "Bowling For Columbine" and still haven't changed my view, that I hate it! 19-years later.

I've seen it a few times in the past few years, and I do agree with you about it feeling like an essay. It explores several topics, but never answers anything—something it never set out to do. I can appreciate its good techniques and strong appeal to emotion (even if it relies on the latter a bit too much).

However, it lacks a central theme (not even "what societal issues could have caused the Columbine shooting"). Because its lack of a central theme, it often feels as if it's bouncing between topics at times and hoping one resonates with the viewer. I know that the only topic that stuck with me to this day is regarding the 24-hour news cycle and the motto of "blood sells" leading to fear. Perhaps this is because, with the other topics, I either disagreed with what was trying to be presented, or I thought they were too tangential to really matter. Could probably do a long in-depth analysis on this film if I really wanted to.

Overall, it's not completely terrible, but it should absolutely not be treated as a Columbine documentary.

Bowling for Columbine is an insipid propaganda flick rife with disinformation and Moore's insufferable attitude.

He had the best of intentions, and I think he was less about calling for gun control than for asking why we're all into guns so much, and I think most individuals in America really do have a hero complex--or at least, I wouldn't be *surprised* if that really were the case--"temporarily embarrassed millionaires" and all--you can see for yourself in all the stupid anti-vaccine, let's-try-invermectin, QAnon-is-the-truth, stop-the-steal redneck heroism crap we've experienced in the last couple of years--and that inspires lots more people to buy guns than in some calmer-minded European country--but...it's not really a great film. I'm no conservative but it often seemed to me as though Moore was playing off of a lot of easy cynicism and easy emotions than coming up with a really smart bulletproof argument or anything like that. A "romp," in other words--something that would have appealed to me when I was 19 but not when I'm 38. Which I am.