A couple hours plus of "Smell the glove you eveeeel Republicans? I'll pass...
Frank Langella (another child of Bayonne, NJ, along with Sandra Dee, Ed McMahon, and Barney Frank) has long been one of my favorite actors. I will forgive him for sleeping with Whoopi Goldberg.
I was really impressed with the script by Peter Morgan. Good to see they apparently got the movie right. Langella’s one of the great underrated actors of the past few decades.
I still remember watching the original interview. It was all of that.
A couple hours plus of "Smell the glove you eveeeel Republicans? I'll pass...
if he can call Obama a great man without even knowing who he is how can he direct a movie about a late president?
Nope, won't even watch it.
What's the difference between one patsy and another?
I lived through that era and I only too well remember the mess that Nixon inherited from LBJ and Kennedy: a major war halfway around the world, a full-up multi-billion dollar space program, a huge home-grown enemy sympathizer network which included all of the media, the 1973 Arab-Iraeli War, the Arab Oil Embargo, massive inflation, and much more.
Out of all that, he stood by our allies, met with our enemies and started the downward turn of Communism.
I saw the David Frost interview and I didn't see arrogance at all; I saw a man who deeply loved and appreciated the presidency and this was his first time to speak publicly about what happened.
The same bozos that are in control of our politics now and who are controlling the media are the ones that "got" Nixon. He was an outstanding president and we will probably have to wait for decades before someone really gets the truth out on that period of our history.
Ron Howard should be ashamed - but the Academy will support him anytime they see something against Nixon (or the "witch hunt")
“Dopey Opie”
A saw the preview a week or so ago, it actually looks like a great movie.
They’re building Nixon up to be the Prince of Darkness so they can pat themselves on the back for being so intrepid, so brave, so bold as to step into the ring with him.
He was a human being, and one they’ll never understand.
His flaws as president are flaws they won’t recognize, and his strengths likewise they can’t see and won’t. He isn’t the man they’ve made him out to be, he’s much more interesting than that. And they aren’t the valiant dragon-fighters they think they are.
You won’t be able to be honest about Nixon unless you’re willing to be similarly honest about the presidents who preceded him. And the politicians he was up against. And that they can’t do.
I wonder if Nixon really made that “fornication” remark to Frost a second before the interview started? If so, that was brilliant.
I just watched the trailer. This movie is a leftist’s wet dream...big evil Republican being taken down by brave liberal journalists. No wonder the folks at AICN gushed over it so profusely. I bet the entire staff of the New York Times will get paid time off to go watch this.
I saw a preview for this in September and it looked painfully boring. Insomnia cure boring. And I find Nixon fascinating.