and Spielberg gets nervous when an emphatic score and quick editing are at his command.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 03:48 (six years ago) link
this will get some ilxors to queue up
I likely won't review The Post so I'll just say its Nixon scenes reminded me a lot of Seinfeld's George Steinbrenner scenes.— BANDZ STACKHAGE (@NickPinkerton) December 6, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
half-expecting ready player one to be major spielberg; this one on the other hand is obviously garbage.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
Pinkerton is absolutely not wrong. In fact, most of the swipes that'll be taken against the movie aren't wrong if you choose only to assess the movie in its own little vacuum.
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
i don't think he means it as a swipe.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.),
I wouldn't even try to humanize that vacuum.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
xp not so sure
Also marks the chilling return of Boston Accent Tom Hanks, previously seen in Catch Me If You Can (2002) ("Knawk knawk")— BANDZ STACKHAGE (@NickPinkerton) December 6, 2017
― Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
i'd forgotten Bradlee was from Boston (hence buddybuddy with JFK). Jason Robards' BB definitely wasn't.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
wait till you get the Oscar-ready scene where Hanks is confronted about his JFK friendship.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
i am fully warned about The West Wing roots of the writing
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
Post-Pentagon Papers and post-Watergate it also became clear Graham and Bradlee were not white knights of journalism. In a 1988 speech at the CIA, Graham portrayed herself as a responsible member of the U.S. establishment who could be trusted to dole out just the right amount of information to unwashed Americans. “We live in a dirty and dangerous world,” Graham said. “There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.”
And while “The Post” portrays Graham and Bradlee as agreeing that the days have to end when they both censored the news to protect their powerful friends, they didn’t. Robert Parry, a reporter who worked at Newsweek in the 1980s (then owned by the Washington Post Company) has written that he was “told that my story about the CIA funneling anti-Sandinista money through Nicaragua’s Catholic Church had been watered down because the story needed to be run past Mrs. Graham, and Henry Kissinger was her house guest that weekend.”
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/22/the-real-drama-in-the-post-isnt-about-journalism-vs-the-government-its-about-journalism-vs-capitalism/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 23 December 2017 03:56 (six years ago) link
the movie's quite clear about Graham's friendship -- not acquaintance, friendship -- with McNamara.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 December 2017 03:59 (six years ago) link
I approach this warily (because of ATPM--maybe the overlap's minimal), but I was hoping to see it next week. No opening here, though.
― clemenza, Sunday, 24 December 2017 13:44 (six years ago) link
my college boyfriend was close friends with her granddaughter, she didn't view Kay as a white knight, closer to a Hillary Clinton type, that has some admirable principles but was ultimately part of the system.
― sarahell, Sunday, 24 December 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
This detail, from THR's story about the White House asking to see THE POST, is blowing my mind a little bit. pic.twitter.com/o1kqZlOguF— Stephanie Zacharek (@szacharek) January 5, 2018
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 January 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
I have a ticket for a MoMA screening tonight, followed by a Q&A with the two writers which I may blow off depending on my reaction/fatigue.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
idg why Zacharek is so mind-blown by that quote
― Simon H., Monday, 8 January 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
This was fine, and nowhere in the league of Bridge of Spies.
Nice to see the WaPo newsroom partly in the hands of Mr. Show.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 13:23 (six years ago) link
Oh, and the first (spec) screenwriter, Liz Hannah, said her next script is about George W Bush on Air Force One on 9/11. *gulp*
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
a comedy then
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
she mentioned "empathy"
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
Mrs. Graham was born with a silver spoon but she also worked for everything she had. Which means you can't play her as a woman who "finds herself," as Streep does. Her authority was much colder than that.— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) January 8, 2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
Generally solid, and I'll probably see it a second time. I thought Hanks was the better of the two leads (credit to him for even taking on Jason Robards); I don't like fussy Meryl Streep, although I'd say she gets the film's best moment, when she walks down the steps of the Supreme Court and all those young women look up at her. (Some may find that corny.) Noticing more and more people at the movies who I identify with TV : Caroline Coon, Alison Brie, Jesse Plemons, and--great choice for Ellsberg--Matthew Rhys. The subtext is not a subtext: it clubs you over the head (which doesn't make it invalid). My earlier post wondering how much overlap there'd be with All the President's Men not applicable--so much so that the next-episode flourish at the end seemed kind of superfluous. I liked the use of real White-House recordings.
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 January 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
The subtext is not a subtext: it clubs you over the head
Let me take that back--it doesn't. More accurate to say that you can't miss it, but it's only actually articulated towards the end, and only a couple of times at that.
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 January 2018 02:59 (six years ago) link
what I liked about the movie "The Post" is that it basically ends with "Next time on...The Post"— slackbot (@pareene) January 13, 2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 January 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
I don't think Spielberg's been out driving for a while; he forgot that Creedence Clearwater was not meant to be played at medium-low volume.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 January 2018 23:13 (six years ago) link
Man, I thought this was pretty corny. While I mostly blame the pat script, there was also a really weird (to me) dynamic with the acting. On one hand, you've got the closest thing to two beloved legacy actors in the lead. But then they're surrounded by like a dozen high profile mostly TV actors, few of whom have much to do and therefore feel sort of wasted (thinking of Paulson, Rhys, Brie, Coon, dude from Veep, etc.). And *then*, to top it all off, most scenes are played with this heightened theatricality, in the stage-sense, which only accentuated the corniness.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
Ha, in other words, very similar take to clemenza's, except I didn't think it was that successful. Would have preferred something less ... old fashioned (?) and more sober, like Spotlight or something like that. But that would have required a better script with a fewer broad strokes and more space.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
I got caught up in the corn and I loved every bit of it.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link
A few nice moments in the second half, but mostly a snooze. Unusually for Spielberg, it even looks boring.
― incel elgort (cryptosicko), Thursday, 10 May 2018 04:06 (five years ago) link
open yr eyes
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 May 2018 04:56 (five years ago) link
and close yr ears
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 10 May 2018 07:52 (five years ago) link
SPIELBERG DEFENCE FORCE ASSEMBLE
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 08:45 (five years ago) link
what movie did Ellsberg get baked to as the PP was prepared for publishing?
https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/the-pentagon-papers-secrets-lies-and-leaks-rebroadcast/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 01:52 (five years ago) link