good night, and good luck (1 Viewer)

[rampz]

damn good movie. really well made and well acted. david strathairn is my new favourite actor.

 

[Yurn!]

Agreed and then some. Did anyone else think that Ray Wise as Dan Hollenback was fucking brilliant? Like seriously fucking brilliant.

 

[rampz]

Agreed and then some. Did anyone else think that Ray Wise as Dan Hollenback was fucking brilliant? Like seriously fucking brilliant.

he was good alright. but strathairn and clooney did it for me.

 

[Yurn!]

Clooney is fast becoming my dream guy. And i'm a man. Its a very frightening time.

 

[rampz]

Clooney is fast becoming my dream guy. And i'm a man. Its a very frightening time.

he's a talented boy. confessions of a dangerous mind was also very good. can he do no wrong?

 

[Yurn!]

Apparently not. Spontaneous round of applause in a restaurant in LA last month as he was leaving.

New God?

 

[pete]

check out syriana

clooney as basil fawlty, cia agent

 

[oh shit]

good night and good luck didn't really do it for me. perhaps i was sitting too close to the screen but it lacked tension and depth, and no matter how hard i tried, i couldn't help feel i was watching george clooney being george clooney and david strathairn smoking cigarettes.
and can anyone explain to me why we had an annoying side-story with [edit] and [edit] [edit] their [edit]?

tell ya what, it was no capote.

edit: SPOILERS, DUDE

 

[rampz]

good night and good luck didn't really do it for me. perhaps i was sitting too close to the screen but it lacked tension and depth, and no matter how hard i tried, i couldn't help feel i was watching george clooney being george clooney and david strathairn smoking cigarettes.
and can anyone explain to me why we had an annoying side-story with [edit] and [edit] [edit] their [edit]?

tell ya what, it was no capote.

edit: SPOILERS, DUDE

i enjoyed the snappy dialogue and i thought the characters were really likeable and it looked really stylish.

 

[pete]

and can anyone explain to me why we had an annoying side-story with [edit] and [edit] [edit] their [edit]?

edited out your SPOILERS there, dude...


Anyway I think it was there for a few reasons. It adds some 1950's America context, and seeing as how the movie is based on actual events, it's in the film as an interesting story on its own merits (much like Don Hollenback). But I think the main reason it's there is because it parallels one of the themes of the film - how many compromises will you make in order to achieve your goals? It's like how Murrow had to agree to keep doing those inane Person to Person interviews so he could keep doing See It Now... It's also quite hard to discuss without directly referring to it.

 

[oh shit]

i see your point,
sorry about the spoilers, it didn't occur to me that it would spoil anything though.

 

[pete]

i see your point,
sorry about the spoilers, it didn't occur to me that it would spoil anything though.

in fairness it probably wouldn't, but i'm very fussy about that shit

 

[Yurn!]

Ironically i found the most 'gripping' part of the movie to be the real 4min excerpt from the interrogation of the black woman, when McCarthy hit the bricks after 7 questions, and the subsequent arguments.

But then Clooney can't really take the credit for that now can he?

 

[snakybus]

I thought this was pretty good but a little on the dry side. yer man who did Murrow was fantastic

 

[Wilbert]

The whole "have you no shame, Sir?" speech was a real hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck moment.
Great movie.

 

[Wilbert]

Ironically i found the most 'gripping' part of the movie to be the real 4min excerpt from the interrogation of the black woman, when McCarthy hit the bricks after 7 questions, and the subsequent arguments.

But then Clooney can't really take the credit for that now can he?

He could have simply recreated the McCarthy hearings with Bob Hoskins playing McCarthy and been really OTT.

He can be given credit for using real footage from the time and not over-dramatising what actually happened, no?

 

[#10-7]

great flick.

great fucking flick.

the guy who played dan hollenbeck and the guy who played murrow were both absolutely stuning.

lots of good films in the cinema, i had a choice of four i wanted to see, which is rare enough.

 

[Yurn!]

the guy who played dan hollenbeck and the guy who played murrow were both absolutely stunning.

What he said.

 

[muffin]

i love love loved it..as i said in the 'what movie did you...' thread i am fast falling in love with george clooney..and i dont even think hes hot..hes just so so bloody talented...apparently on the test screenings the only problem they audience complained of was that mc carthy was over acted..the peeps then had to explain that it was actual footage

 

[Cormcolash]

Yeah this film is amazing. Who would have thought that someone starting out playing the supposed heart-throb doctor on ER would go on and play fucking great parts and make such fucking great films!