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CHAT: Has any Freeper watched the Ron Howard film Hillbilly Elegy?

Posted on 07/17/2024 2:34:07 PM PDT by mowowie

My GF and myself are planning on watching thos movie tonight on netflix to get a better grasp on J.D.

Is it worth the 2 hours?


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KEYWORDS: appalachia; appalachians; bluecollar; bookdeals; hillbillyelegy; jdvance; moviedeals; ronhoward; vanity; westvirginny
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Any Freeper movie reviewers here?
1 posted on 07/17/2024 2:34:07 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie

The book is pretty roundly derided as being a bunch of BS. Presumably the movie is also.


2 posted on 07/17/2024 2:34:58 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: mowowie

I’ve heard of it. Now I’m planning on it.


3 posted on 07/17/2024 2:35:07 PM PDT by fwdude ( Never trust a movement whose symbol is a raised fist.)
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To: mowowie

Yes. It’s good. Book is better. Glenn Close as the grandmother.


4 posted on 07/17/2024 2:36:28 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: mowowie

Just watch it last night. I honestly didnt know much of anything about Vance. I like him more after seeing the story.


5 posted on 07/17/2024 2:36:50 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: discostu

Roundly derided by who? Liberals? You?
Did you read, watch or analyze any of it?


6 posted on 07/17/2024 2:37:26 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: mowowie

Now that Trump has chosen Vance, I’m planning on it probably next week (after the RNC). Never read the book.


7 posted on 07/17/2024 2:37:39 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: mowowie

I saw it, it was okay. Just okay. We saw it for free.


8 posted on 07/17/2024 2:38:32 PM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: discostu
The book is pretty roundly derided as being a bunch of BS.

What are you talking about? It was a very good book. With 96K reviews on amazon giving it a 4.3/5 rating.

9 posted on 07/17/2024 2:38:50 PM PDT by norcal joe
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To: Williams

By people who lived there. And knew the family. And lived the events.


10 posted on 07/17/2024 2:39:05 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: mowowie
Rotten Tomatoes:

Critics 25% | Viewers 82%

So it's one of those.

11 posted on 07/17/2024 2:41:16 PM PDT by montag813
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So you’ve never read it or seen it. Why don’t you check it out.

All I know is I’m for Trump/ Vance 100%.


12 posted on 07/17/2024 2:41:21 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: mowowie

My wife and I watched it on Netflix last night. We both enjoyed it. It’s very intense. His mother was a very complicated character. Drug addict, anger management problems, etc. She raised him as a single mother with support from her parents. It’s worth watching in my opinion.


13 posted on 07/17/2024 2:42:04 PM PDT by Tall Wall Texan (You accepted a loan? Pay it back!)
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I’ve got much much better things to read than a fake memoir.


14 posted on 07/17/2024 2:42:49 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu

I’m told the movie is not good.


15 posted on 07/17/2024 2:42:54 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: mowowie
He speaks tonight, and sales of his book are insane. #1 AND #2. Wow.


16 posted on 07/17/2024 2:43:23 PM PDT by montag813
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To: mowowie

Absolutely.

Do your own research and watch it, don’t believe the BS you see on here.


17 posted on 07/17/2024 2:43:33 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: mowowie

I’ve watched it twice and never had any idea Ron Howard was associated in anyway with the film.

It’s a good portrait of rural life in the Appalachian Mountains.


18 posted on 07/17/2024 2:44:42 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: discostu

Like hanging out with other mental pygmies?


19 posted on 07/17/2024 2:48:13 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: mowowie

Watched it last night! I watched part of it about 3 years ago and for whatever reason just couldn’t finish it. But in light of the fact that I now know it’s about the life story of our new VP I watched it again. The actors and actresses in that movie are superb. Amy Adams and Glenn Close are off the charts with Talent. The story is very sad in a lot of ways especially knowing that it is really true based on what’s happening in Rural America but I liked it a lot


20 posted on 07/17/2024 2:49:13 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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