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Summary: A Hilarious Adventure with Roger and me
Review: If you are looking for a good movie that keeps you laughing from start to finish, but still includes historical significance, Roger and me, starring Micheal Moore is the movie for you. When GMC in Flint, Michigan lays off thousands of workers, the city faces tragety. The majority of city's residents are out of work; except of course the wealthly golfer ladies who can't be bothered with what is going on. People are leaving their homes everyday because either they can not afford the rent and are being kicked out or they are moving to other cities to find work. The condition of the city worsens; soon rats invade and one bizarre woman goes insane enough to raise rabbits and sell them for "pets or meat" in order to make money and survive. Micheal Moore yearns to show Roger, the chairman of GMC, the devestation he put upon the city of Flint. So join Roger and me through an exciting "home video" adventure in Flint, Michigan where although perhaps not intended, a sad time can be striklingly hilarious.
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Review: I think that the movie was pretty good because it tells the truth abuot Roger, He is really greedy. He shut the warehouse down so he did not have to pay 30,000 people. And I think that it did a lot to the comminity they lost money the crime rate went up and tons of people got evicted because of this. I think it was the worst thing that Roger could do to that comminity.
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Summary: Roger and me: Insightful and though provoking
Review: This documantary was an insightful and thought provoking look into the lives of a town whose economy was destroyed by a careless company. Michael Moore was able to portray this tragedy with a depth that could not have been achieved by anyone else. His slightly biased view into the lives of the laid off workers was done in such a way that the viewer could only be dragged along into sympathy for the ruined lives. The images of the ruined town were strong enough that even if you had never heard of the Flint tragedy, you felt it just the same.
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Summary: Roger & Me
Review: As a high scholl student I found this movie very interesting, but yet it was very boring. I feel bad for the people that were laid off by the GM corparation, I don't believe that ws the right thing to do. Some of the people that worked for them, that was the only way that they supported thier families. GM should have had a plan for those people that would be without pay. Instead of just putting them out on the streets, and telling them that there are other jobs out there. The reason that I rated this movie as a 3 is because it was so boring they probably could have changed the context to make it alittle more interesting to the viewer.
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Summary: An Insightful Look at the Loss in Flint, Michigan
Review: Michael Moore adds an insightful point of view in this documentry about the tragic loss of thousands of jobs in Flint, Michigan, where GM closed several plants in the 80's. Moore's humor was entertaining and it added a nice contrast to the bleak nature of the film. Roger & Me was powerful and it really made me think about the bigger picture: the American economy and the idea of cheap labor. Is the fate of the GM employees in Flint going to be suffered by even more and more Americans in the years to come? This documentry will get you thinking- so don't watch it if you are merely looking to be entertained.
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Summary: Hut ahhh.. fun knee move me
Review: A dark look at the modern world of capitalism and those that fall beneath its weighty stride. For any of you who have ever seen "American Movie," the feeling you are left is very similar. The quest posed by the movie, in search of General Motors chairman Roger Smith, seems to represent a quest for answers, as to why people are put through these trials of poverty and hardships, when it seems god's power has been put down by large corporation. All in all, the movie is very funny, and if you forget that this is actually a horribly real situation, you'll be on the floor.
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Summary: A disturbing, insightful must-see film
Review: Leftward-leaning independent filmmaker and social critic Michael Moore, author of Downsize This! and former host of TV Nation, spends two years dubbing around his hometown of Flint, Michigan (USA) in this disturbing, insightful pro-'little guy' portrayal of General Motor Coporation's decision in the late 1980's to close 11 auto plants in the Flint area and depicts Moore's subsequent quest to meet the man he deemed responsible, GM Chairman Roger Smith.Pulling the economic rug out from under the feet of the town and surrounding areas, the series of plant closings (or, more correctly as Moore observes, "plant relocations" as most of the production capacity was simply shifted south of the US border to lower-paid positions in Mexico), is so well-known that it is even a play scenario in the best-selling SimCity computer game series. The devastating impact of GM's decision and subsequent collapse of Flint's secondary economy, the shops and stores where GM workers spent their money, prompted Money magazine to name 'the town that [GM founder] Bill Durant built' the single worst city in which to live in the entire US. Though singleminded (and simpleminded) in his analysis (Moore, the son of a union man, attributes GM's decision to plain corporate greed and 'fat catting'), Moore pulls off his 'hapless yokel' ploy in blue jeans, acrylic cap and untucked button-down shirt, wandering onto factory assembly lines and into the front lobbies - but no further than that - of the exclusive clubs that Smith frequents, coming face-to-face with both the bitter blue-collar folk who, some would argue, overpriced themselves out of their jobs by flexing labor union muscle at the bargaining table, and the priveliged, hopelessly out-of-touch family members of GM executives at ritzy parties and on the golf course. Though it has been overlooked in the product description and in reviews sent in by other Amazon customers, Roger & Me presents a fascinating study of the dynamics of the collapse of a one-product economy worthy of being conversation fodder for any course in economics, urban dynamics, or the psychology of change. As city and state managers focus their attention on progressively peripheral problems, preferring to attack the readily visible symptoms of Flint's employment problem (such as crime, poverty and desperation), rather than the core employment problem itself, the city residents find themselves trapped in a downward spiral which they individually feel neither responsible for nor capable of correcting. The city managers fund inspirational seminars and visits by second-tier celebrities to combat growing frustration as the people of Flint fight each other for the few available 'McJobs' offered by Amway, Taco Bell, the local Helmac lint roller factory, or even the business end of the hypodermic needle at the local blood plasma center. As the poverty-induced crime rate grows, the economy of Flint sees a 'dead cat' boom in gun sales, evictions and foreclosures, correctional officers, and U-HAUL rentals. But the reason the city planners attribute to the increased crime rate? Not enough jail cells. The sad story of Flint takes a turn toward the absurd as seen in laughably hokey tourism promotional videos and as Moore recounts the airheaded city planners half-baked schemes to turn Flint into a tourist Mecca by subsidizing to the tune of $13 million city dollars the construction of a luxury Hyatt Regency hotel and convention center (which quickly went belly up), a modern "festival marketplace" mall (which also quickly failed) and the crowning jewel, Autoworld, a $100 million dollar theme park whose bitingly ironic centerpiece was a walk-through scale model of downtown Flint in its economic heyday. Autoworld too closed its doors, less than 6 months after opening, and is now the site of the University of Michigan's Flint campus. Moore's suggested reason why Flint's tourist dreams turned sour? "...some people just don't like to celebrate human tragedy while on vacation." It should be noted that the movie contains episodes of adult language and a particularly disturbing scene when Moore visits a local woman selling rabbits for "Pets or Meat" (also the name of a short follow-up to Roger & Me), but these scenes are buried far enough into the film that any children present or anyone lacking a grim enough sense of satire will have long since lost interest and wandered away. Anyone with even a passing interest in 'urban tragedies' such as this is highly encouraged to see this film and would also do well to look into books like Jay Forrester's classic but academic _Urban Dynamics_, or the more popularly oriented _The Old Neighborhood_, by Ray Suarez, _Changing Places_ by Richard Moe, or similar titles.
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Summary: It will blow you away.
Review: This movie is amazing. What a labor of love! For those who like the books I've reviewed already, you'll love this video. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I was already a fan of Michael's show TV Nation, and had bookmarked his website long ago. He has quite a following, but I don't know why we don't all ride his coat tails and help him make the points he makes so well. The man knows what's happening, and he knows what needs to be done. This movie tells the outrageous story of how corporate America is raping the American people and leaving us half dead by the side of the road. He tells the story of his hometown, Flint, Michigan. Watching it now, you can see that Flint was only the beginning. If you don't get it now, you'll get it by the time you read the very last line of the credits. It will blow you away.
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Summary: Moore is awesome!
Review: I just watched it (rental) and came down to look & buy it. As a fan of TV Nation back when I was 13-14, I caught a bit of the movie on Bravo and finally decided to rent it. The satire is excellent, making the movie not for everyone. However I found it VERY entertaining and well worth seeing (... more than once :) )
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Summary: Mike & Me
Review: Don't expect this movie to be a comedy. It has its funny moments, but it is about a tragedy. You will see the dismantling of the middle class, blue collar community of Flint MI. Destroyed by GM for the opportunity of higher profits by moving to Mexico. It is interesting to see how the rich and the GM executives had no idea what was going on in the community of Flint at the time. I wonder what they would think if they were to watch their interviews now. Now that Flint is consistantly voted the worst place to live in America...
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