[mtnwmn]

The movie Argo was terrible. Cannot believe it won an Oscar for Best Picture!!

[binreadin]

Iranian ambassador was on CNN today and predictably slammed the film, which I was ready to simply chuckle over, but then he went into detail about how the producer didn’t even take the time to insure the Farsi language was used appropriately. He mentioned a few other, non-political mistakes that should have been caught. I’m not ordinarily inclined to give the Iranians a lot of credence when they put down Americans, but this fellow had a few good points in his Argo criticism. Sloppy and dishonest in a film that purports to be based on facts is, in my mind, unforgivable.

[CodeToad]

No kidding, it was terrible.

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The movie built up the whole idea that the hostages would be questioned later on their fake identities, yet, nothing later in the movie of them having been questioned at all.

Since when do vehicles travel at take off speed of a 747, which is around 170mph? That chase scene was just plain dumb.

The entire movie production studio had but one scene later of any significance when they simply answered the phone. All that work up in the movie for the movie production office just for that? Weak, just plain weak.

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Really, it was a terrible movie. No real character development or plot development to speak of.