My Favorite Movies Related to Mass Shootings

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Note: Some of these aren't for their accurate re-tellings of certain events.
(Not in order either)
1. Stalking Laura
2. Village of Doom
3. Bloody Wednesday
4. Rampage (shitty movie but carthartic)

I really disliked rampage, it had no value or quality story telling.

My favorite is The Dirties.

Polytechnique

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My personally favourites are Polytechnique and Zero day.

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Duck! The Carbine High School Massacre.

The Life Before Her Eyes.

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Stalking Laura, I've had the DVD for years but never bothered too watch it.
Might just watch it now.

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Killer klowns from outa space is a good film.
Awesome soundtrack aswell. Not really about shootings but it was AL's favourate film at one point.
Tate from American horror story is good tho, especially the fact his shooting happened in he's school library, reminds me off columbine.

Bloody wednesday is such a shit movie. Could never finish it.
"I can make you love me" is good tho.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night 2.
Garbage day!

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1. Zero Day
2. The Dirties
3. We Need To Talk About Kevin

Still need to watch Elephant. Only other relatively recent one that comes to mind is White Rabbit, which I personally found corny as hell.

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Skrik wrote:: Still need to watch Elephant.

Don't waste your time.

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Dark Matter is pretty good. Out Of The Blue is also decent.

Skrik wrote:: Still need to watch Elephant.

late update: it was boring as fuck and I had to finally give up and alt-f4 when they decided to have the characters randomly fucking jump in the shower together and start making out
the scene where one of them is on a gun website and there's a pump action shotgun listed as an "AK-47 rifle" and described as a fully automatic weapon was unintentionally hilarious, though
I'd give it one fully automatic pump action AK-47 out of ten
my list remains unchanged

Skrik wrote:

Skrik wrote:: Still need to watch Elephant.

late update: it was boring as fuck and I had to finally give up and alt-f4 when they decided to have the characters randomly fucking jump in the shower together and start making out
the scene where one of them is on a gun website and there's a pump action shotgun listed as an "AK-47 rifle" and described as a fully automatic weapon was unintentionally hilarious, though
I'd give it one fully automatic pump action AK-47 out of ten
my list remains unchanged

That movie is such garbage.
The cinematography is shit with everything out of focus, the scenes are overly long and tedious and serve no purpose. Come to think of it, the whole movie serves no purpose.
I see what they were going for, multiple scenes depicting the same event through different perspectives, but it fails at even that considering the massive continuity errors.

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Waiting for the sunset to come, people going home
Jump out from behind them and shoot them in the head
Now everybody dancing, the dance of the dead
The dance of the dead, the dance of the dead

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Yeah Elephant was poorly made.

TheSpiral wrote:: Silent Night, Deadly Night 2.
Garbage day!

I only enjoyed this film because it was 80% flashback of the first. Which was way better imo.

I think it depends on what you mean by "favorite."
We Need to Talk About Kevin is my favorite in terms of quality in general. The editing is fantastic. I really like the whole style of it.
Zero Day is my favorite in terms of execution. I think a movie about a school shooting was the perfect subject for a "found footage" film. I also found the acting pretty nice.

I've seen Stalking Laura mentioned a few times. Is it any good? What is it about?

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Massoccur wrote:: I think it depends on what you mean by "favorite."
We Need to Talk About Kevin is my favorite in terms of quality in general. The editing is fantastic. I really like the whole style of it.
Zero Day is my favorite in terms of execution. I think a movie about a school shooting was the perfect subject for a "found footage" film. I also found the acting pretty nice.

I've seen Stalking Laura mentioned a few times. Is it any good? What is it about?

I've only seen Stalking Laura once. It's a TV movie starring Brooke Sheilds based on Richard Farley. I thought I was done pretty well, like I was never bored watching it. I watched it on YouTube.

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Massoccur wrote:: I've seen Stalking Laura mentioned a few times. Is it any good? What is it about?

I think it's good. It's based on the ESL shooting, where Richard Farley shot several people at his old office due to coworker Laura Black getting a restraining order against him after he stalked her.

Basic plot (SPOILERS):

Massoccur wrote:: I think it depends on what you mean by "favorite."
We Need to Talk About Kevin is my favorite in terms of quality in general.

Here's a link to the book itself if you want to give it a look:
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A reason I prefer the book over the movie is that several of the 90's era shooters are brought up, which was pretty neat. Carneal, Ramsey, and Loukaitis are brought up on page 86 (Although details on Loukaitis's shooting are erroneously attributed to Ramsey), Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden are brought up on page 158, Kip Kinkel is brought up on pages 161/162 and is compared with the book's fictional shooter "Kevin Khatchadourian", and his dislike of Luke Woodham is brought up on pages 86/87. The book's attack begins on page 190.

Massoccur wrote:: I've seen Stalking Laura mentioned a few times. Is it any good? What is it about?

You can see it for yourself here:
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The password's columbinegame. As for the film's quality? I can't say, I just skip to the shooting scenes like I usually do with these sorts of movies.

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Oh, I've read the novel! It's one of my favorite books.

Thank you, STK and 04daviszoe, for your links. I will be sure to watch the movie soon.

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Mine are(not in order BTW):

Zero Day
The Dirties
Beautiful Boy
Polytechnique
The Klass
God Bless America

"The class'' and "Polytechnique"

Gay scene in elephant ruined all impression.

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InsaneIntruder wrote:

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Jea wrote:

InsaneIntruder wrote:

Jea wrote:: Gay scene in elephant ruined all impression.

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I'm gonna watch elephant again and again, until and I'm gonna like this scene.
I promises. Crying

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Jea wrote:

InsaneIntruder wrote:

Jea wrote:

InsaneIntruder wrote:

Jea wrote:: Gay scene in elephant ruined all impression.

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I'm gonna watch elephant again and again, until and I'm gonna like this scene.
I promises. Crying

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Mass shooting movies i have seen:
Zero Day
Elephant
Some parts of Rampage
Some parts of Stalking Laura
Ending of Im Not Ashamed(and some parts with Eric and Dylan) (what a shit movie lol)
The shooting scene of The Dirties
Shooting parts of Village Of Doom
The shooting part in that one Japanese movie were he kills people at his high school with a pistol or something
Ending of Rampage 3
Some shooting scenes in Rampage 2

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Oh and the ending scene in Bloody Wednesday

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And Duck! The Carbine High School Massacre

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goddamn me! I also seen Klass and its "Life After" series

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OMFG WHY DO I KEEP FORGETTING TO THINK! And the ending scene to Polytechnic

I really liked State's Evidence.

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states evidence yes ive also seen that

TheOne99 wrote:: OMFG WHY DO I KEEP FORGETTING TO THINK! And the ending scene to Polytechnic

You could just edit your 1st post.

Zero Day is not only my favorite 'shooting movie," but one of my favorite movies of any genre.

I liked the twist in White Rabbit and the shooting scene. Everything else just... Was awful.

Elephant was mostly awful.

We Need To Talk About Kevin and Beautiful Boy are I important because they show the point of view of the shooters' families.

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I'm excited to watch Beautiful Boy, I'm only nervous about it because I'm writing one of my own... and I don't want it to get in my head while I'm writing.

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Ooooh, you're writing a school shooting movie?!

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Anyone mention bullet time?
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Bullet Time is pretty good.

SouthCliffe is pretty good although it's a TV Series.

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Tommy QTR wrote:: SouthCliffe is pretty good although it's a TV Series.

Where'd you find it? I've looked for it but can't find it.

I think I found it on the all4 website, I'll send a link when I'm not on my phone.

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My favorite movies with mass killings:

-Lesson of the Evil (it is really for entertainment, not to learn about mass shooting but that movie is sooooo good)
-Polytechnique
-We Need to Talk About Kevin
-Bloody Wednesday (Thanks Adam for making me discover this film)

I also liked:

-71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (By the director of Funny Games ; I watched this movie at the theater and I was waiting for the shooting during all the film because it happens at the very end without a clue, and just when it happened a woman next to me said something to her husband so I watched at her angrily and annoyed and I heard the gunshots... and so I missed the scene I was waiting for 1h40. I quickly looked at the screen again but the shooting was already over and the shooter was leaving. At that moment I really wanted to be James Holmes! I had to watch the scene on Youtube.)
-Ms. 45
-If...

And I have also seen Elephant, but I also didn't really like it, mainly because of the kiss scene. But I still like the idea of filming the same scenes from a different point of view each time and seeing the shooters walking in the background, but I think it was badly made which made it too artsy and boring.

That's all I've seen for now, there are still so much movies I want to see.

TheOne99 wrote:: Mass shooting movies i have seen:
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Ending of Im Not Ashamed(and some parts with Eric and Dylan) (what a shit movie lol)
The shooting scene of The Dirties
Shooting parts of Village Of Doom
The shooting part in that one Japanese movie were he kills people at his high school with a pistol or something
Ending of Rampage 3
Some shooting scenes in Rampage 2

So you watch only the best scenes, that's cheating! ;)

TheOne99 wrote:: The shooting part in that one Japanese movie were he kills people at his high school with a pistol or something

What movie was it?

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Neah wrote:

My favorite movies with mass killings:

-Lesson of the Evil (it is really for entertainment, not to learn about mass shooting but that movie is sooooo good)
-Polytechnique
-We Need to Talk About Kevin
-Bloody Wednesday (Thanks Adam for making me discover this film)

I also liked:

-71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (By the director of Funny Games ; I watched this movie at the theater and I was waiting for the shooting during all the film because it happens at the very end without a clue, and just when it happened a woman next to me said something to her husband so I watched at her angrily and annoyed and I heard the gunshots... and so I missed the scene I was waiting for 1h40. I quickly looked at the screen again but the shooting was already over and the shooter was leaving. At that moment I really wanted to be James Holmes! I had to watch the scene on Youtube.)
-Ms. 45
-If...

And I have also seen Elephant, but I also didn't really like it, mainly because of the kiss scene. But I still like the idea of filming the same scenes from a different point of view each time and seeing the shooters walking in the background, but I think it was badly made which made it too artsy and boring.

That's all I've seen for now, there are still so much movies I want to see.

TheOne99 wrote:: Mass shooting movies i have seen:
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Ending of Im Not Ashamed(and some parts with Eric and Dylan) (what a shit movie lol)
The shooting scene of The Dirties
Shooting parts of Village Of Doom
The shooting part in that one Japanese movie were he kills people at his high school with a pistol or something
Ending of Rampage 3
Some shooting scenes in Rampage 2

So you watch only the best scenes, that's cheating! ;)

Well im not much of a big movie person, occasionally ill actually sit down and watch the entire film, like i did that with elephant last april i think

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