Introduction

1001 movies you must see before you die. Must I? Let's see.

My name is Dagmar and I am from Czech Republic. I have a bachelor's degree in screenwriting. I study movies. I watch movies. I write about movies. I kind of mention movies a lot. I even cross stitch things I like in movies. My views on cinema could be described as peculiar. My views on the "1001 movies" list as complicated. It happens a lot that I get the feeling it wasn't that necessary to see some particular movies. Sometimes I'm really grateful I saw them. And there are also times when I don't watch any new movies for six months straight. And they keep adding new movies every damn year so I might have to never die to watch them all.

What's the score right now?
606/1245 - That's 639 left to see.
I started this experiment on July 3rd 2009 and the latest update was made on April 19th 2023.

You can find the full list here.

Friday, 10 October 2008

Bowling For Columbine (2002)

USA/Canada/Germany
written and directed by: Michael Moore
starring: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson
seen: 10th October, 2008 - comment: 21st October, 2015

Seven years ago I wrote about this documentary that I found it entertaining. Now as the only truly entertaining thing remains the statement that bowling might be as much a plausible influence on the shooters as anything else.

Moore probably has good intentions, but I'm not sure about the direction of the road he's paving with them. A lot of the situations look like they could have been handled differently... and mostly more smartly. The thing that hasn't changed during the years I had to think about this film is that I still consider the couple of sentences Marilyn says to be the intellectual (and most likely argumentational) peak of the film, and since he didn't even got to say that much, that paints a pretty accurate picture of the film's depth.


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