Roger & Me
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Movie Reviews of Roger & Me
Movie Review: Roger is worse than Evel
Summary: 5 Stars
"Roger and Me' is a riveting, fast-paced, fascinating and scitillating tale of Michael Moore's efforts to get the evil Roger to face him in front of his noble movie crew. I was at the edge my seat from the first to last second of this truly superb, academy award quality, film. We learn about how the hard working proletariat of the quaint village of Flint, Michigan have been foully betrayed by that behemoth of Capitalism--dare I say it--General Motors.
General Motors is outsourcing jobs to Mexico [?] and millions of people are being laid off. Most of the unemployed people turn to lives of crime, basketball, alcoholism and rabbit killing. It's absolutely disgusting--delicate women skinning rabbits to make fur coats for fat cat Capitalist women who never did a lick of real work.
Well, the General Motor Capitalists are doing right well for themselves in the midst of poverty and starvation. They are eating carved food, drinking martinis, playing old ladies golf and forcing pitiful jackasses to jump into pools of water. Did I say it was disgusting? Fortunately, a film which had the potential to be truly crummy, is saved by Michael Moore's monotone.
Thank God for Michael Morre. Thank God for the masses. Thank God for the noble workers who make the United Auto Workers great. And let General Motors, its fat cat executives and all Capitalists and Capitalism in general...eat strawberry cake...Nah!! It's the guillotine, instead.
Of course, now in the day of antigas and anti-big car sentiment, this movie looks kinda stupid.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
Movie Review: Whoa! Talk About Jaw Dropping
Summary: 5 Stars
Micheal Moore. Conservatives hate him. Moderates respect him and liberals think he is the American hero! That being said I admire much of Moore's work. The Awful Truth, Stupid White Men, and most of all Bowling For Columbine. But no matter how far left or right or in the middle you stand on the political spectrum, you have to at least respect Micheal's first film Roger and Me. Armed with only a camera and a mike, he sets off to a working class American town by the name of Flint Michagan, where GM while making record profits has just laid off thousands and thousands of workers. The reason? To ship the jobs to Mexico where the workers there are only paid pennies an hour. He shows how one act of corperate greed can lead to the entire destruction of a town and of it's people. This is the story of the lost American dream. It is incredible what people are going through, such as the woman and her rabbits, which I won't say what she does, but it is brutal. Or his attempts to interview Roger Smith, the man responsible for the layoffs. But the most damning scene is the final one where goes back and forth between Roger Smith giving a speech to his co-workers about having a great year, to a poor woman being evicted from her home ON XMAS EVE! Michael Moore is an American hero to, he is always ready to stand up for the little guy, and this video is just one of his many great works. I recomend getting the Awful Truth season 1 or 2 and I also recomend watching The Big One and Bowling For Columbine. In truth Michael Moore has no answers, he only poses tough questions that in truth have no easy answer, these films will leave you stunned and thinking hours on end.Movie Review: Job Outsourcing
Summary: 5 Stars
This documentary was made in 1988-1989 by Michael Moore with the ending approximately three years after 1988. It was the documentary that made him somewhat famous you can say. Anyway, this film details the closing of a General Motors factory and 30,000 people being laid off. With this many people being out of a job, Flint becomes a city with a high crime rate, high numbers of eviction notices, people moving out of Flint, and a lot of people getting on welfare. Moore has many interviews with people who discuss the positive side of outsourcing such as Bob Eubanks, some other famous Flint personalities, Miss Michigan, a GM lobbyist and many other people.
Whether you agree that a corporation should or should not outsource, both sides are shown. In news media though, the devastating eviction notices and other things are never shown with such clarity and emotion. When a chairman of a huge company such as GM does donate money or do anything philanthropic, they make sure there are plenty of press and PR people around.
Moore tries throughout this whole movie - over a course of three years to speak with Roger Smith, the chairman of GM. One time he comes close during a shareholder's meeting but I don't want to ruin that part for you.
There is so much that happens in this documentary. Flint tries to survive by becoming a tourist place, a new prison is open where rich people have a sleep over?!? Even though it is 2004, I believe that this movie was very well made for its time and even currently, has wonderful emotion and is a great documentary.
Movie Review: Moore's best film, before he became a political celebrity...
Summary: 5 Stars
I really liked this film. Before Michael Moore became a liberal celebrity, he was a completely obscure magazine writer and filmmaker. This film was a major underground hit at the time, and it still is excellent today. You really feel for the people who lose their jobs, and you're infuriated by the callous indifference of Roger Smith and the management of General Motors. I really liked the segment where Flint tries to reinvent itself as tourist mecca of the Midwest. It consisted of a horribly misguided attempt at opening up a Hilton in downtown Flint, and opening up a theme park called Auto World. It justs smacks of desperation and stupidity; it has make you laugh and grimace at the same time. Instead of giving these people really good jobs again, they come up with this idiotic scheme, which ended up in disaster (both the Hilton and Auto World closed within a year). Moore in recent years has become a "political celebrity", in that politics has become quite the cottage industry in America. It's not just Moore doing it; right wingers like Hannity and Coulter have been doing it too. They all got books; some of them got films; some of them have radio shows. A lot of them aren't really interested in changing anything, as it might interfere with their livelihoods. I don't know if Moore is like that or not. But this is still a potent, darkly funny film about real class warfare, and the dismantling of the working class in America.
Movie Review: Let us listen to the downtrodden for once!
Summary: 5 Stars
Flint was a paradise: their GM factory was the most modern and efficient of them all, its workforce the best trained and motivated. Then, out of the blue - GM announces that they are closing the factory and moving to Mexico. Flint is destroyed. It now looks more like an Eastern European ghost city, its factory closed, houses borded up, empty dirty streets. One of those who lost their jobs was Michael Moore's father. Michael sets out to tell his father's story to the head of GM, Roger. The film is partly a bout Flint. All the failed attempts to bring new business to the town, and the various ways the inhabitants try to cope. The stupidity of the Town Council is amazing. Moore does not give them their jobs back, but he rescues them from anonymity; he gives them a voice, and a face. He tells that behind the profit margins, behind the business strategies, we have human beings. Humans with dreams and emotions, just like Roger. They do not have a Board, or millions of dollars backing them though. We also follow Michael Moore's hilarious attempts at meeting with Roger, just to ask him to go to Flint.This is Moore's first film. In many ways it is is best, because it is so close to his heart. Hilariously funny, and hearbreaking at the same time. The episode of the rabbit lady, and the rather dim Miss Michigan, are minor classics.