Posted on 11/10/2019 4:57:39 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Christopher Nolan the writer/director was what made the Batman series so great. Sad to see Bale being such a braindead idiot.
He looks sixty-four.
At any rate I'd rather spit on him than watch him "act".
Secondhand info? Maybe we should assign him the tagline ‘Whistleblower Bale’?
I’m still a fan of Donald Rumsfeld.
I didn’t want to see the movie, but my husband did. I went along out of curiosity and afterwards, all I could say was ‘wow, I didn’t realize that Dick Cheney was the source of everything bad and negative that has ever happened in the USA’. Yes, that is how he was portrayed. I really couldn’t stand Bale or Sam Rockwell (one of my fave actors these days) as GWB. If anyone thinks this movie is even remotely akin to what happened during GWB’s tenure in the WH, I feel sorry for them as they are delusional.
“I didn’t realize that Dick Cheney was the source of everything bad and negative that has ever happened in the USA.”
And we care what he thinks because?
Those two c***suckers deserve each other.
It’s a British term for what we would call a minivan. It can also be applied to a high capacity SUV with a third row of seats.
I agree it was a hit job. I did not take it literally.
Ha ha! Isn’t that from American Psycho?
ROFL!!
I wanted to contact an old boss from back in the day and I was sent his email address...AOL...
I haven’t used aol since the early 2000s :)
You had to put Cheney and Rumsfeld together. In the movie, Rumsfeld was Cheney's Cheney, the kind of bad influence on Cheney that Cheney was on Bush. Then the filmmakers could show less unattractive aspects of Cheney - the befuddled young man, for example, or the supportive father of his gay daughter - and still paint a very negative picture of him.
The film showed Cheney to be less ideological than many critics thought he was. Did that make him more sympathetic or less sympathetic? Maybe a mixture of both. In the film he wasn't trying to do evil, but not trying to do good either. He was in it for himself. But was he really trying to get power or just trying to survive in a highly competitive environment?
I wasn't a great fan of any of those guys, but the bias was obvious. You're right in thinking that it wasn't entirely negative. Certainly not positive either. I think the style of the movie - in your face and stupid - cut against any nuance in the script or performances, though. Same thing with The Big Short and everything else the director has done. "Subtle" doesn't really work with him.
Who’s even less likely to make a funny than Batman? Dick Cheney. I
I thought what he said is clever and funny.
He’s lying... straight up lying.
It showed Cheney as somewhat ethical because he would not criticize his lesbian daughter. However, later in the movie, it torpedoed that when it showed he gave his other daughter (Liz) the go-ahead to oppose gay marriage when she was running for Congress.
In my last post, I should have said “sympathetic” instead of “ethical”.
I found a CD in my kids room when were cleaning their stuff out to make it “ours” again. I would have tried to sign up again...but I have neither a modem or a DVD player on MacBook.
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