Michael Moore: Difference between revisions

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* ''Roger & Me'': His breakthrough film, it documents the mass unemployment and other negative economic effects caused by General Motors closing its factories in Flint, Michigan (Moore's birthplace, though he was raised in Davison).

* ''[[Canadian Bacon]]'': Moore's only non-documentary film, this is a comedy about America starting a new [[Cold War]] with [[Canada, Eh?]] in order to revitalize the defense industry. Notable for being John Candy's last film, and for [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|a crack about the lunacy of declaring a war on terrorism despite being made in the 90s]].

* ''[[Bowling for Columbine]]'': The documentary that made the most money of any at the time, it looks into the causes of the 1999 [[~~Useful Notes/Columbine|~~Columbine]] High School Massacre and, by extension, [[~~Useful Notes/~~American Gun Politics|gun culture in the United States in general]]. It won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

* ''[[Bowling for Columbine]]'': The documentary that made the most money of any at the time, it looks into the causes of the 1999 [[Columbine]] High School Massacre and, by extension, [[American Gun Politics|gun culture in the United States in general]]. It won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

* ''Fahrenheit 9/11'': Still the highest-grossing documentary of all time, it looks into the administration of [[George W. Bush]] after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center as well as [[The War on Terror]]. It was made with the obvious intent of preventing Bush from getting re-elected in 2004. It received the Palme D'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and amusingly ([[Your Mileage May Vary|or not]]), it is the movie for which George W. Bush won two Razzies, one for "Worst Actor" and another for "Worst Screen Couple" with ''either'' Condoleeza Rice ''or'' His Pet Goat.

* ''Sicko'': An attack on the US healthcare system, it details the effects that private health insurance has had on various citizens and contrasts the system with the universal healthcare systems of Canada, Great Britain, France, and even Cuba. Nominated for the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Feature, but lost.

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** Another, more light-hearted example was in ''[[Team America: World Police]]'', which portrayed Michael Moore as a suicide bomber blowing up Mount Rushmore.

* [[Twisting the Words]] / [[Manipulative Editing]]: One of his signature tactics.

** In Bowling for Columbine, he spliced [[Quote Mine|select portions]] of various speeches Heston made as president of the NRA to appear like one speech that he gave during the Denver convention which makes Heston look like an insensitive prick to the [[~~Useful Notes/Columbine|~~Columbine]] Massacre. The fact that Heston's suit and background wasn't matching up between cuts is either really funny or really sad.

** In Bowling for Columbine, he spliced [[Quote Mine|select portions]] of various speeches Heston made as president of the NRA to appear like one speech that he gave during the Denver convention which makes Heston look like an insensitive prick to the [[Columbine]] Massacre. The fact that Heston's suit and background wasn't matching up between cuts is either really funny or really sad.

** Also in Columbine, the "Calling up the stairs" sequence which occurs after the heavily edited interview with Heston near the end of the film - if the shots are mapped out in the sequence presented, it is quickly revealed that it is ''literally impossible'' for the sequence to have occurred as presented.

** Or the stunt with the "gun in the bank" which he set up 30 days ahead of time, and yet again spliced the footage together so it appears ridiculous.