THE POST, a Steven Spielberg film about the Washington Post and the Pentagon Papers

she mentioned "empathy"

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

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.

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.

what I liked about the movie "The Post" is that it basically ends with "Next time on...The Post"

— slackbot (@pareene) January 13, 2018

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.

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.

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.

I got caught up in the corn and I loved every bit of it.

A few nice moments in the second half, but mostly a snooze. Unusually for Spielberg, it even looks boring.

open yr eyes

and close yr ears

SPIELBERG DEFENCE FORCE ASSEMBLE

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/