The Big One
|
List Price: Our Price: $4.73 You Save: $15.26 (76%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $2.72 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of The Big One
Movie Review: Cheap Trick Fans will like the Interview with our favorite 'Trickster, Richard V. Nielsen, at his home in Rockford, Ill.!
Summary: 4 Stars
Michael Moore strikes at the Establishmewnt again!
Moore's best is still his first, 'Roger And Me,,
but this is the next best. Imagine my surprise as
few yrs., agao when a friend, who also votes Third
Party, lent me the VHS of this and found out that
Moore is also a Cheap Trick fan. Nielsen's picture
with Moore is even on the back of the DVD sleeve!
A good effort, though Moore's somewhat leftist oc-
cational leaniings may put some Third Party types
off...The far Middle strikes back, again! And Rock
on Rick Nielsen!
Movie Review: Vintage Michael Moore
Summary: 4 Stars
No one goes after the "bad guys" like Michael Moore. He is relentless asking big business why not take care of the working man who put you where you are today? He asks the simple question, why not share the wealth? He pursues the answers to these questions in a humorous and compassionate manner. Being a working woman myself, and working in the auto industry, I appreciate where this documentary comes from.Movie Review: Doesn't compare to his other films, but still interesting.
Summary: 4 Stars
There wasn't much point to this film, but Moore's antics and opinions are entertaining as usual. The subject of this documentary is basically the downsizing of multi-million dollar corporations and shipping work overseas.Movie Review: Another great Moore movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Moore shows us that outsourcing was big when Clinton was president. He makes you ashamed of big corporations that value money over employees. Big One will open your eyes.Movie Review: An Entrance, An Exit
Summary: 3 Stars
Moore cannot do a whole movie - he does not have it in him. Even his best movie, "Bowling for Columbine," is, at essence, a collection of vignettes but informed by an overall questing sensibility. Why do we like our guns? With that being understood, why are we so violent with them?
Well, Charlie Chaplin described the essence of acting as having a good entrance and a good exit.
In this film, the entrance is a national tour, meant to discover the real America via interview and question-and-answer sessions in meeting halls.
Moore is using, roughly, a technique the unions used to favor for organizing. Even the unions, though, from hard experience, came to learn that this method was not producing results.
It's a quaint technique, filled with sentimental attraction, but it does not work any more. We've been purged of that kind of attention span by entertainment and information access.
The exit? Moore claims credit for successfully organizing union bargaining units at two Borders locations. He does a standup talking about how hypocritical big business is by insisting on free enterprise, when they do not themselves believe in it. He is drinking a bottle of Evian water. Evian is bottled in France. Moore will not drink anything but Evian and if a different (American-bottled) brand is furnished, he will refuse to speak.
His sad exit. I like the fact that he expresses a point of view not heard enough in our country, but he abuses the privilege his success has conferred on him. Like the corrupt union bosses in the 1950s, he, too, has fallen prey to the temptations of success.
Yesterday (7/9/2005), I visited the Borders store in West Des Moines that Moore takes credit for organizing. The movie depicts this as a triumph. The checkout lady confirmed that this was the Borders store in the movie, but that it is now non-union. She asked around, and only one out of the entire store staff on hand even remembered that a union represented these employees at one time. She said that the union was decertified over a year ago because they never bargained a first contract, and was doing nothing at all for the employees.
Does this sound like Michael Moore himself?