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I didn’t see the movie.
These days Hollywood disgusts me, so the only movie reviewers I really trust are freepers.
I’m trying to decide on whether to go or not.
Would you recommend the movie to other Freepers..? YESSSSSS!!!!!!!
Do you plan on seeing the movie..? Monday
No. And. No. Pervert, Traitor.
Well worth seeing as a dramatization, although the basic info is probably well known to most Freepers.
The movie doesn’t try to delve into any rival theories or info, but simply depicts how Teddy was lying through his teeth.
I will wait until I can see it for free on Cable TV. I don’t want to pay $18 and sit for two hours in a theater, but I definitely want to see it. The younger people in the audience will learn something new.
I’d watch a short documentary of Ted Kennedy being exhumed from Arlington and air-dropped in the mexican desert where he belongs.
Kate Mara as Mary Jo - I’d watch just for that......
Just as a side note,Howie's studied and followed the Kennedys for decades and has written a book about him.
Mary joe is still the most influential female in 20th century politics.
After seeing the movie, Rush recommended it a couple of days ago.
Mary joe is still the most influential female in 20th century politics.
I’ve always wondered - why was Kennedy able to get out of the car but not Mary Jo ?
It will probably get accused of being racist because there are no blacks in leading roles.
I’ll wait for the DVD as I do not like to movie theaters anymore. Besides that free popcorn and beverage of my choice. Also I can pause it, rewind it, etc. 8>)
I don’t want to see it other than to support a film crew that did a good job not injecting their own judgement on the event and producing a somewhat neutral 3rd party bullet list of how the event happened.
Ted was a creep and I swear Bill Clinton is his illegitimate son, and for Every Mary Jo’s type of death there’s 2 Sandra Levy type of death and a Marc Rich type of death.
I was shocked to learn that even many years after the incident, hearing JOKES about Chappaquiddick was one of Teddy’s guilty PLEASURES.
I was totally disgusted.
The movie is as objectively factual as I think any portrayal of this incident possibly could be. It was as if the writers and producers set out to adapt the Wikipedia article on Chappaquiddick to the big screen as faithfully as possible. It is like "The Passion of Christ" in its historical detail. Although the acting and production quality were all top notch, I found the portrayal to be too generous to Ted Kennedy. He was projected as an abused son with a well meaning but weak moral conscience.
There were several flashback sequences offering a variety of interpretations. Only at the end were there two, less than a second each, glimpses of anything remotely sexual. The first was of a sympathetic Mary Jo Kopechne reaching out to caress Ted Kennedy's face and then one of her clothed upper body laying on the hood of his car. No mention was ever made of the actual police report of her missing panties.
Ted Kennedy was a sociopath who most likely left his young mistress to die a miserable death in a misguided attempt to save his own political career. He waited ten hours to report the incident while the diver who found her body still grasping the back seat in the remaining pocket of air estimated she could have been saved had Ted Kennedy reported the incident in the first three to four hours. The movie didn't explain this fact either. Despite the wailing of this New York Slimes writer, this movie goes easy on the memory of this monster.
I know the left is going nuts over the move! So it must be worth watching!
Do not expect it to do well. Box office mojo has it less than $3 million. Not top 10.