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Moore is a fraud. Plain and simple.

posted 15 years ago by mean_drunk
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The Bank scene in Bowling for Columbine? Manipulated and fake.

The Charlton Heston scene? A brutal deception of an old man who invited him into his house. Shame on Moore.

The Roger and me transcript? Then asking his friend to deny the interviews they got with Smith?

What has Moore done that is legit?

I'm sorry that the filmmakers were given the runaround and that Moore has become wealthy by deception. I rented and saw several of his movies...so he got wealthy off chumps like me.

An excellent piece of investigative reporting.

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[–] Karl Self 15 years ago

Michael Moore has made one of the greatest common-day documentaries, Roger & Me. In which he documents the drastic decline of Flint/MI as the result of GM's corporate policy. The furtive quest to talk to Roger Smith provided a frame to that story, nothing more. The actual conversation between Smith and Moore was irrelevant. That he actually faked that scene during the shareholder's meeting by restaging it in a cinema -- pretty harsh. But it's still a great, engaging movie -- because those scenes with that rabbit lady and the sheriff's deputy weren't staged. Check out the scene where the laid-off worker talks about how he lost it when he listened to "Wouldn't It Be Nice" on the radio -- that song hasn't been the same to me since.

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