Roger & Me

Pros: effective at putting numbers into human terms, good commentary to update the situation
Cons: plods at times, goes off on unnecessary tangents

I've seen too often in recent years that people don't care about stories on the evening news unless it affects them personally. A bridge collapse? It's entertainment unless your cousin went over it 45 minutes before it happened and then you proudly send ...

Pros: The scenes of despair get to you
Cons: Confrontation with Roger Smith is dissatisfying; Spotty camera work in some areas

What happens when a major corporation decides to close down a large manufacturing plant that is the lifeblood of a city? How do people cope under such conditions? Is there a chance the plant will reopen? Will things ever be the same again? Downsizing ...

Pros: Faintly amusing cat and mouse play with Mr. Smith
Cons: Stylistically challenged, Mr. Moore predictably gets on his soapbox

The Doc must have been thinking of me when she rented Michael Moore's documentary film Roger & Me. She knows I'm no great fan of the automobile, nor of the automobile industry. This is the only film of Mr. Moore's that I've seen thus far. ...

Pros: Michael Moore's first film; entertaining, provocative, moving
Cons: very pointed, with Moore taking liberties with the facts

Roger & Me is the first film by Michael Moore. It chronicles GM's decision to close its original plant in Flint, Michigan to open a sister plant in Mexico - at the cost of some 40,000 jobs. Moore, who grew up in Davison, a suburb of Flint, wanted to ...

Pros: Two fairly good points, narration and soundtrack.
Cons: The one weak point (and lack of credit) subtracts from the goodness.

Anybody's who's been reading my epinions website for long enough is aware of my depreciation for Michael Moore. Sufficient insight into most of his cinematic and literary ("non-fiction") works easily exhibits his lies and chicanery (though the common man ...

Pros: Brilliant, funny, and bittersweet. A work of art that never grows old.
Cons: Moore's current work (i.e. Bowling for Columbine" sucks.

I first saw "Roger & Me" as an assignment for a college class, and it was love at first sight. I had never heard of Michael Moore, nor did I have any idea of the economic woes of Flint, Michigan. I watched it simply because my ultra-liberal teacher ...

Pros: Poignant, Funny, Well-Conceived, Well-Executed
Cons: Not enough DVD features, Ultimately pointless

Before Michael Moore cheesed off a bunch of red states by speaking truth to power and creating an argument linking the Neocon agenda, election fraud, influence peddling, outright lies and abuses of power with the Bush Administration and the Iraq War ...

Pros: May change your opinion of Michael Moore.
Cons: Looks bad for General Motors.

Flint, Michigan In the years leading up to and including the 1980s Flint, Michigan was a place where people lived the American Dream. General Motors (GM) was part of that dream and the people who worked hard were rewarded as the company ...

Pros: Moore is an amazing story teller
Cons: Videography is not the best

Moore for president...that might scare a few people, but at least we could all be confident that this country would be governed by fairness, not the size of your pocketbook, as it is now. Michael Moore is my hero, and has been since I first saw this...

Pros: Very ironic, very moving, and very sad
Cons: Also very biased!

I watched this movie tonight in my art appreciation class, and I thought it would be okay. Boy was I wrong! This is one of the greatest works of art ever put to film. On the surface it seems like a regular documentary, but if you look deeper, there is a...

Pros: An at-once hilarious and painful look inside the death of a working-class town.
Cons: This stuff actually happened.

Is there, or will there ever be, a movie that so eloquently and so perfectly captures the frustration, pain and suffering brought about by Reaganomics as "Roger and Me" does? I doubt it. "Roger and Me" is pitch-perfect. All hail...

Pros: see review
Cons: see review

America is a country of opportunity because of its capitalist system where anyone can make something for his/her self if they aim high and work hard. The downside to so much freedom is the fact many may have to suffer in order for others to succeed....

Pros: This movie got the CEO of GM fired. And rightfully so.
Cons: R rating - due to one scene of continual profanity.

There are movies that are serious; there are those that are funny. There are those that try to be serious, but are funny because they fail. And then there are those, like Roger & Me (and I have yet to see another movie that falls into this...

Pros: Hilarious documentary style, mixed with scathing social commentary
Cons: Presumes to be correct in its premise

Let there be no doubt: Michael Moore is brilliant. Genius, even! I laughed myself silly while watching it. Moore is hilarious in his methods of trying to get an interview with Roger Smith, the CEO of General Motors.

But I have big, big...

Pros: originality, editing, humor, writing
Cons: conservatives beware!

Flint, Michigan is the birthplace of General Motors, and was at one time the site of eleven of their factories. During the 1980s, GM Chairman Roger Smith began shutting these factories down. He replaced them with new plants in Mexico, where the workers...