I went to see this movie tonight with my wife...who wanted to see it. I had expressed my desire NOT to see it, suspecting full well what it was all about after hearing Tom Hanks in an interview exclaiming “Charlie Wilson won the Cold War singlehandedly, it’s all true...”
In the interest in seeing a movie that she wanted to see, I went.
In the first ten minutes, my suspicions were confirmed, and in the last ten minutes, I felt like I wanted to walk out after viewing the portrayal of the evil, shallow, one-dimensional Republicans and the dunce Reagan. If only we had given a million dollars to a school, 9/11 would have never happened. It made me want to puke.
I hated it. They prefaced the movie with “BASED on a true story...” although I am sure that was lost on many who saw it.
There was some irony there, lost on many of the viewers who think the movie is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Several scenes of planes and helicopters being shot down were actually US hardware...I saw a Phantom, a Huey, a F16 and what appeared to be an A6 Intruder, though I couldn’t be sure. While it is true the majority of the people who will root for it to win an Oscar won’t be able to tell the difference, I thought it was ironic.
Tom Hanks character was likeable, the Philip Seymour Hoffman character was well played, the Julia Roberts annoyingly portrayed character was a stereotypical Southern Christian, and there were a few good one liners.
This is going to be the version of history that the libs will push.
This is going to be the version of history that the libs will push.
Exactly. They (late George Crile, Sorkin, Soros, Hanks et al) have been promoting the story and the movie as The Truth but used just enough and omitted just enough of the "true story" to assign most of credit where it does not belong and to deny or diminish it to those who deserved it - and then slight their actual achievement by a screwball comment - and thus rewrite "change the history of our times". If not for involvement of Joanne Herring and threat of lawsuit and final week's editing sessions, it would be even far less of a masquerade. It was disappointing that THC presentation was more of an infomercial by Sorkin and Charlie Wilson than an honest critique of the events described in the movie.
Not unlike Oliver Stone's JFK and Nixon and some other recent Hollywood's "based on true story" "historic" movies (Vietnam and Iraq-themed and others), as well as the "progressive" organizations like Soros-financed Americans United for Change that are now in business of spending over $8 million just to attack the "legacy" of George W. Bush presidency (as if al-media and we ourselves don't do a good enough job already).