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Politics aside, a piece of crap is a piece of crap. This was a BAD movie, poorly conceived, poorly directed and edited, and topped off by less than stellar performances. Streep actually reeked. Redford so-so. Cruise was the shining star as a new age Dick Cheney.This "message" movie gave the audience plenty of lefty and righty rhetoric wrapped around an abbreviated story about two of Redford's promising students who wanted to "make a difference".
The rhetoric seemed fairly equal until the end when Redford (who directed) showed his hand as an antiwar advocate.
Irregardless of politics, nothing could polish this cinematic turd.
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
Edits: 11/09/07Follow Ups:
The reviewer was talking with Redford about the movie and its casting.
He settled on Tom Cruise as the warhawk senator because he has a single-minded intensity of focus that reminded him of somebody like Rick Santorum, the pushy, powerful, conservative Pennsylvanian Republican senator. Cheney wasn't mentioned.
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
since it's always been my impression she's a better actor than he even when she's asleep!
Cruise seems only truly effective when he's playing a form of psychologically damaged/demented individual, and effective because he doesn't seem to be acting, simply channelling. So, him playing a "new age" Cheney, yeah, I can picture him pulling that off.
Redford has been a yawn on screen for a long time now,whether actor, director or producer, so I'm not surprised to hear that hasn't changed.
I'll probably wait beyond the DVD for a cable veiwing on this one.
"...You're all welcome to stay for the next set...we're going to play all the same tunes, but in different keys..." -Count Basie
...so did it agree with your politics?
Perhaps that's why you didn't like it.
If it did, I suspect you would have liked it much more.
Since I suspect it didn't, you don't really know and can't say.
"The Valley of Elah" was political (at the end) but was far superior in script and acting.
Go see it and you will agree.
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
...what did you think of "No End in Sight'?
Best documentary Academy Award?
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
(nt)
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...useful and meaningful reviews.
as a turd, would do the word an injustice.
Even mega-turd doesn't apply to that gross error of film making!
"...You're all welcome to stay for the next set...we're going to play all the same tunes, but in different keys..." -Count Basie
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