Posted on 10/15/2025 8:33:45 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
‘Baby Boom’ is the only movie on that list I have seen, and I must say it was a very good movie. Very touching. Hard to believe it’s been almost 40 years since that movie came out.
Me too. She was probably a really nice person, but that endless dithering was not endearing to me.
Never mistake a Woody Allen movie for entertainment.
That was a cool movie!
Reds was an interesting movie with great acting. But the most interesting part was the very beginning where there were interviews that Warren Beatty did with people who had actually known John Reed and Louise Bryant. They were all very old at the time but what struck me was the fact they all still believed the old Lenin BS to the very end.
I look at it was more of historical piece but one to watch to see just how taken in people were then and in many cases still now with the Total Marxist-Leninist propaganda even though it was a huge Failure. Reds is a pretty good companion piece to Dr. Zhivago in a way.
Never mistake a Woody Allen movie for entertainment.
The ones made after 1972. “Take The Money And Run”, “Bananas” and “Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex”, are still funny.
They were Trotsky-ites, more than anything, they probably despised Stalin because he wasn’t a real ‘Communist’.
Stalin actually hated Lenin and there is some rumor that Stalin had him killed as Lenin before he died wanted to oust Stalin. The person Lenin wanted to succeed him was Trotsky, who was hated by Stalin and you know the rest of the story.
So I agree with you those old people interviewed by Beatty were probably dyed in wool Lenin and Trotsky supporters to the bitter end. It’s fun to speculate what John Reed might have thought had he lived long enough to see Stalin in Power, he would probably have been executed for supporting Trotsky.
I read a pretty comprehensive Bio on Stalin about two years ago. Still reading one on Lenin.
It would have been interesting to see if Lenin would have evolved, if he had lived, and saw that his ideas weren’t exactly working out.
And speculation was that Beria poisoned Stalin, because he got wind he was about to be purged along with most of the rest of the Politburo.
Yes there is some truth to that. Stalin was indeed planning another purge and Beria had outlived his usefulness, he was a total psychopath and Pedophile who was as vile as anything whoever lived.
It most of her movies that I remember she always gave that East Coast liberal vibe. IMO the movies with her and Steve Martin were particularly brain dead and boring.
I saw seven of them, in the theater on first release, without even thinking about it. Just wanted to go to a really good movie. She was such a natural, it was easy to underestimate her impact in the industry. The best directors chose the best players.
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