I'm conservative, in case you don't keep up with the political threads here at GA (can't blame ya).
I just watched Bowling, and thought at it's core it raised one crucial issue. Let's throw out the last interview with Heston, which was just kind of sad. Let's throw out the cartoon (which I can only assume was done by Trey Parker and Matt Stone) although it had some historical truths.
The main issue I took from the movie was the amount of murders by guns in the US compared to other countries in the world. Assuming he didn't fudge his numbers here, the order on which the murders ocurred was staggering. And who was primarily to blame? The media, in my eyes. I took to heart the media rushing to the next casualty, the media covering the murder, the fear-mongering in the US. What did the conservatives find so damning about this flick?
Was it the ties back to Lockheed Martin? The bullets sold at KMart? I understand there are websites out there dedicated to the inaccuracies of the film (the only one I was aware of was the "Cold Dead Hands" speech that was in Charlotte while the film purported it happened in Denver). I'm asking people to look at the whole point of the movie, which was to me that the media has made us scared to sleep in our own homes at night. Is that somehow a "conservative agenda?"
I know personally that I'll never watch the nightly news the same after watching this movie, and that's probably a good thing. Maybe I'm the rare conservative that doesn't own a weapon. I have to say this movie raised a damn good point, that we shouldn't fear our neighbor. We have to have more faith in each other than that. Hell he even slammed Clinton and Kosovo the first half of the movie. Before the montage leading from Contras to Osama (which Clinton had a hand in), it seemed to be a non-partisan flick.
What were the problems conservatives had with this movie? Do liberals think that people like me want them to be scared 24/7?
I just watched Bowling, and thought at it's core it raised one crucial issue. Let's throw out the last interview with Heston, which was just kind of sad. Let's throw out the cartoon (which I can only assume was done by Trey Parker and Matt Stone) although it had some historical truths.
The main issue I took from the movie was the amount of murders by guns in the US compared to other countries in the world. Assuming he didn't fudge his numbers here, the order on which the murders ocurred was staggering. And who was primarily to blame? The media, in my eyes. I took to heart the media rushing to the next casualty, the media covering the murder, the fear-mongering in the US. What did the conservatives find so damning about this flick?
Was it the ties back to Lockheed Martin? The bullets sold at KMart? I understand there are websites out there dedicated to the inaccuracies of the film (the only one I was aware of was the "Cold Dead Hands" speech that was in Charlotte while the film purported it happened in Denver). I'm asking people to look at the whole point of the movie, which was to me that the media has made us scared to sleep in our own homes at night. Is that somehow a "conservative agenda?"
I know personally that I'll never watch the nightly news the same after watching this movie, and that's probably a good thing. Maybe I'm the rare conservative that doesn't own a weapon. I have to say this movie raised a damn good point, that we shouldn't fear our neighbor. We have to have more faith in each other than that. Hell he even slammed Clinton and Kosovo the first half of the movie. Before the montage leading from Contras to Osama (which Clinton had a hand in), it seemed to be a non-partisan flick.
What were the problems conservatives had with this movie? Do liberals think that people like me want them to be scared 24/7?