Posted on 02/08/2018 10:03:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
Clint Eastwood is at the top of his game for about 10 action-packed minutes in which he directs a recreation of the events of Aug. 21, 2015, when three young American men thwarted a terrorist attack on a European train.
Airman Spencer Stone, Spc. Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler play themselves taking down an attacker (Ray Corasani), who’s armed with a knife, pistol, assault rifle and almost 300 rounds of ammunition. This unusual casting move boosts the action’s emotional heft, and those scenes are a tense, taut piece of filmmaking.
But in the remaining 83 minutes of this movie’s brief running time, Eastwood is at the very bottom of his game, interspersing quick cuts to the train ride with a thuddingly boring back story of average, slightly hyperactive kids who maintained a lifelong friendship.
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I don’t think I EVER agree with the critics, so I will see it for myself. It talked about 10 minutes of action. Clint Eastwood also directed Sully. There was only a couple minutes of action there too, but I rather liked it. With many critics, I think they just don’t much like patriotic Americans, being portrayed as heroes. They probably prefer BLM thugs, to good Americans. I got no time for them.
I don't know how long in real time the actual attack and takedown took, but it couldn't have been long enough to fill an entire movie. How else was he supposed to fill out the film? I'm more interested in the good guy's back story than the raggedy man's.
I bet this movie is awesome and patriotic and this person of ambiguous sexual orientation has a problem with that, hence the bad review and those of other Hollywood douchebags.
I will defend the Clint until the day I die.
There is iron in his words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in his words of life.
Sorta cute, in a dumb sort of way.
If the three friends had bee three homosexuals, the critics would probably been more enthusiastic.
Critics hated the spaghetti westerns at first too except the Ennio Morricone scores
Josef Wales was so good nothing else matters
CLint is going to be 88 in May. I doubt that he can afford to slow down much. It is amazing how much work he has put out in the last several years.
For decades my rule of thumb on films has been;
If the critics don’t like it then it’s pretty good,
And if they love it then it’s a stinker.
Not a real smile.
An I-know-better smirk.
Maybe what seems boring in America is because we aren’t the intended audience. Europe may be where his focus is.
Many Americans find European movies to be “boring” and they always have.
How much of Titanic about a boat sinking was backstory on passengers who didn’t cause the boat to sink?
SARA STEWART
January 19, 2018
Veterans deserve better than Army biopic ‘12 Strong’
https://nypost.com/2018/01/19/veterans-deserve-better-than-army-biopic-12-strong/
“12 Strong” should find an audience in anyone who wants to cheer on the life-and-death stakes of military revenge missions, but it’s pretty narrow-minded about which lives matter.
‘The Post’ is the new great American movie
By Sara Stewart December 20, 2017
https://nypost.com/2017/12/20/the-post-is-the-new-great-american-movie/
...Streep submerges herself in fabulous wrap dresses and owlish glasses to play Katharine “Kay” Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, faced with the question of whether to run classified, government-damning Vietnam War documents. As usual — especially in biopic territory — she knocks it out of the freaking park. Hanks, as Post editor Ben Bradlee, is more or less playing Tom Hanks, newspaperman. And that’s just fine.
In a 1970s-set plot that will have younger viewers thinking of Edward Snowden, a military analyst named Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys) goes rogue, stealing top secret documents — a Defense Department study on US involvement in Vietnam — and passing their content, initially, to the New York Times...
...(Yes, I’m aware that there is a teensy possibility that, as a journalist, I am predisposed to eat all this stuff up. And “The Post” is, admittedly, journalism porn of the highest order.) Meanwhile, occasional distant shots of Nixon, through the Oval Office windows, show a besieged and angry president desperately trying to shut down the news.
Graham’s feminist evolution is always at the fore, and there is a slight excess of Hollywood gloss on her self-actualization — but you know you want to see Streep smack down detractors in a couple of splashy speeches. And it’s worth noting that the screenplay for “The Post” was purchased in 2016, when it seemed there would be a different occupant in the White House.
But this film would have worked either way: It’s a celebration of a tough woman’s rise from her role as a powerful man’s spouse, and it’s a case for why reporting should never be beholden to the whims of the White House (as the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Times put it, the role of the press is to serve “the governed, not the governors”). “The Post” may have the burnished look of a ’70s thriller, but it’s right at home in the present day.
“Meanwhile, occasional distant shots of Nixon, through the Oval Office windows, show a besieged and angry president desperately trying to shut down the news.”
Just to be clear, the leaked “Pentagon Papers” was a report given to President Johnson on the Vietnam War under Johnson’s administration. And it pointed out a lot of flaws. Nixon, being a true Patriot, wanted to keep those top secret papers secret. A traitor Dem would have used a bad report on a Republican as more political fuel.
The media today (and probably back then as well) constantly try to link The Pentagon Papers as a reflection on Nixon’s running of the war. (And one can argue he made mistakes too.)
Who today is trying to shut down the news of collusion between the MSM, Hillary Clinton 2016 primary campaign, foreign donors, and Justice Department wiretapping her rival(s)?
Movie critics think that growing up in a moral manner is boring.
Pathetic
I will probably go see it. While the incident was truly heroic, I am not sure you can stretch it to an hour and a half.
Sometimes stuff just happens and people step up. It’s not always a movie.
I’m going to see it.
Josey Wales is one of the best movies ever made, IMHO.
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