Whenever I think of this movie I think of Pauline Kael's review--a negative one, but she matched to movie by being jsut as funny. Paraphrasing one: "This movie is like an aggravated case of New York" and she said the whole movie was like a shouting contest "(Robert Duvall yells loudest)."
::Gulp:: You seem to be quite a movie buff. My average theater attendance is once a year. Eventually most movies show up on TV, but by the time they do movie reviewers have moved on to something else. LOL
The rant was not over the top, not in the least. Reading it took me back a few years. It made me want to throw off my sweater, turn my thermostat up higher than 68... I nearly discovered that I'd fallen into a malaise. ;o)
I wish I'd taken notes, but there was a reading about the fall of the Shah on C-Span several weeks ago. Brave voices called out in the middle of the night, speaking, yelling "forbidden" words. As I listened to the reading, I was reminded of the voices after "the rant" was aired. Single, lonely voices, multiplying until their sound created a chorus.
Iran, jumped out of the frying pan & threw itself into the fire... Lebanon is back in play. It's long past time for those lonely voices in the night to start calling out to each other again.