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benj clews 
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Posted - 01/06/2005 :  10:24:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Sludge

Bullets returned to Wal-Mart.
Bowling for Columbine.

Based on memory and a couple of other reviews, it should be K-Mart, unless DavidMcO is weighing in super-subtly with an opinion on the film's accuracy.


Seems to be general confusion over whether it's Wal-Mart of K-Mart on the interweb. About the only one I'm willing to trust is Michael Moore's own site, (http://www.michaelmoore.com/books-films/bowlingforcolumbine/involved/walmart/index.php) which seems to say it's... Wal-Mart.
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benj clews 
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Posted - 01/06/2005 :  10:24:32  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Evil Giraffe

AC's review for Fools Rush In is a vowel out. It's Salma not Selma. Although I'd by happy with either Salma or Selma, to be honest!


Fixed.
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Josh the cat 
"ice wouldn't melt, you'd think ....."
Posted - 01/06/2005 :  11:36:56  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This is one that made me think in the movie the statue of liberty of iced up to the wrist but the audience is given the impression that is how deep the ice is not that it has been destroyed

http://www.fwfr.com/display.asp?start=101&id=7933&Mode=&Sort=1&Rows=100&Dir=1&do=

the user is anonymous and it is last but one review what do ya all think - wrong? I belive so!

josh the cat
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benj clews 
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Posted - 01/06/2005 :  11:54:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Josh the cat

This is one that made me think in the movie the statue of liberty of iced up to the wrist but the audience is given the impression that is how deep the ice is not that it has been destroyed

http://www.fwfr.com/display.asp?start=101&id=7933&Mode=&Sort=1&Rows=100&Dir=1&do=

the user is anonymous and it is last but one review what do ya all think - wrong? I believe so!

josh the cat


Could potentially be slightly generic too- removed it now.
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Downtown 
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
Posted - 01/06/2005 :  16:19:16  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Incorrect use of hyphen:

http://www.fwfr.com/display.asp?id=2491

Sorry kolo, but con men is two words.
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Stalean 
"Back...OMG"
Posted - 01/07/2005 :  01:13:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Downtown

Incorrect use of hyphen:

http://www.fwfr.com/display.asp?id=2491

Sorry kolo, but con men is two words.

It could be changed to 'cons' easily enough without losing any meaning instead of simply deleting the review.

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Downtown 
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
Posted - 01/07/2005 :  01:16:05  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Excellent idea.
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bife 
"Winners never quit ... fwfr ... "
Posted - 01/07/2005 :  21:45:58  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Pretty sure that puck_the-bard's "From bad to (under) verse" is 5 words. Or is '(under)verse' somehow one word, and I just don't get it?

http://www.fwfr.com/display.asp?sort=5&dir=2&id=8201&Mode=&Rows=100&Start=10&do=
Edited by - bife on 01/07/2005 21:46:13
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Sludge 
"Charlie Don't Serf!"
Posted - 01/07/2005 :  23:35:22  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by benj clews

quote:
Originally posted by Sludge

Bullets returned to Wal-Mart.
Bowling for Columbine.

Based on memory and a couple of other reviews, it should be K-Mart, unless DavidMcO is weighing in super-subtly with an opinion on the film's accuracy.


Seems to be general confusion over whether it's Wal-Mart of K-Mart on the interweb. About the only one I'm willing to trust is Michael Moore's own site, (http://www.michaelmoore.com/books-films/bowlingforcolumbine/involved/walmart/index.php) which seems to say it's... Wal-Mart.




Benj, after reading the linked page and poking around a bit, I'm certain it really is K-Mart for these reasons:
1) The bullets returned in the film were pulled out still in the body of a Columbine student from the most high profile school shootings in recent memory.
2) By film's end, K-Mart would no longer have been a Michael Moore target since they did change their policy.
3) Wal-Mart would be the next logical campaign "target" if they are still selling guns and ammo and K-Mart is not.
4) Most significantly, the linked page advocating for a policy change at Wal-Mart makes no mention of Columbine.

Here are reviews exceeding four words mentioning K-Mart:
http://www.haro-online.com/movies/bowling_for_columbine.html
http://homevideo.about.com/cs/independentfilm/fr/DVDPickBowlingC.htm
http://www.reelingreviews.com/bowlingforcolumbine.htm

Also on Moore's site:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/articles/index.php?article=trans-donahue-20021028
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2003-01-07

...which is probably a good thing FWFR-wise, 'cause I think there's only one "wal-mart" review and several with "K-mart".

Sludge
Edited by - Sludge on 01/07/2005 23:37:36
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Tori 
"I don't get it...."
Posted - 01/08/2005 :  03:23:36  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
"Snobby Stiles's Shakespeare send-up." For "10 things I hate about you". Doesn't Julia Stiles have quite a few Shakespeare movies? Or am I missing something?
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AC 
"Returning FWFR Old-Timer"
Posted - 01/08/2005 :  03:30:59  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
She's in '10 Things', 'O', 'Hamlet', to name three. However, '10 Things' is the only one where she's snobby, and is one of two 'send-ups', or adaptations, of Shakespeare's works that she has done. She's a lot more likeable in 'O'. I think the review is apt.
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Tori 
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Posted - 01/08/2005 :  03:43:54  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by AC

She's in '10 Things', 'O', 'Hamlet', to name three. However, '10 Things' is the only one where she's snobby, and is one of two 'send-ups', or adaptations, of Shakespeare's works that she has done. She's a lot more likeable in 'O'. I think the review is apt.




Oh, thanks! It was the send up part that I didn't get. Thanks!
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
Posted - 01/08/2005 :  08:21:39  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Sludge, I also remember it as being K-mart.

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Kruegerbait 
"Not known as Joss"
Posted - 01/08/2005 :  15:30:19  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Sean

Sludge, I also remember it as being K-mart.



I've just watched the film again to help sort out any confusion. Wal-mart is mentioned a lot in the film, he even buys bullets from there, however he takes the two wounded people to K-mart headquarters. He also meets the vice president of K-mart and hands over the same bullets that are in the two students, k-mart then annonuce that they will phase out the sale of handgun ammunition within the next 90 days. I hope that helps clear things up a little.

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Koli 
"Striving lackadaisically for perfection."
Posted - 01/08/2005 :  15:47:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Call me picky, but isn't the following review for Shaun of the Dead (2004)five words?

"Shaun shoots his zombie mommy."
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