[Fiji Hill]

Gary Oldman portrayed Churchill as a weak vacillating cuck who couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag. For an actor I usually admire that was an inexcusable low blow to a truly great man of history.

Indeed, that didn't quite seem to be the real Churchill. I haven't seen the latest Napoleon movie, but I read that he is portrayed similarly, as weak-willed and hen-pecked.

[MikelTackNailer]

Perhaps Hollywood’s vile culture, with the revelations from Epstein and such coming out, feels it needs to tear down REAL men who stood up to REAL dangers in perilous times with that quaint concept of PATRIOTISM.

[MikelTackNailer]

I can’t stand up for Bonaparte but I’ve read that director/producer Ridley Scott cherry-picked and altered Napoleon’s story too far as to render the movie a wasted three hours - except for the battle scenes so great as to rescue the whole project.

Another shame of great talents and a fortune mishandled on a grand scale. Like Gary Oldman in "Darkest Hour" we have a great actor in Joaquin Phoenix suspending disbelief as a failure at home while conquering the known world around him.

If I were paranoid and prone to wear aluminum foil hats I'd think Hollywood is purposely trying to tear down all the greatness of anyone who happened to be born white and male.

Nah...it's fine. Go away now.

(Thumbs up for Critical Drinker)

[rxh4n1]

“Indeed, that didn’t quite seem to be the real Churchill. I haven’t seen the latest Napoleon movie, but I read that he is portrayed similarly, as weak-willed and hen-pecked.”

Turned the movie off when Churchill saw the picture of his secretary’s dead fiancé or whatever and that decided him to fight on. The whole reason that Parliament made Churchill PM was to fight harder.