Posted on 11/22/2019 9:53:39 AM PST by Rummyfan
After attending the PJ Media reunion in Orange County last week, Nina and I flew up to San Jose, both for Nina to visit her longtime legal clients, and for us to revisit our old Saturday night stomping grounds, the mixed-developed Santana Row. There, we saw Ford V. Ferrari, which as veteran film critic John Nolte of Breitbart.com wrote in his review last week, is a brilliant exercise in male bonding through massively souped-up American race cars:
Director James Mangold has delivered 152 minutes you never want to end. His screenwriters, Jason Keller and brothers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, crafted one scene after another that qualify as brilliant and brilliantly entertaining short films. FVF is beautifully structured. The story flows effortlessly. The dialogue is sharp and oftentimes hilarious (“They said I’d have carte blanche this time. I looked it up, it’s French for ‘bullshit.’”) The relationships between the characters are all believable. The cinematography is gorgeous. The production design is so flawless you forget it’s 1965. The characters are well defined. And the acting… Wow.
Bale is simply superb as an eccentric artist brimming with confidence, desperate to do what he was born to do, but only on his terms. He’s also a devoted family man with a bottomless love for his wife and son.
Damon is his equal, a proud and ambitious Texas man dealing with his own disappointments as he navigates Los Angeles and the buttoned-up corporate world of Ford in his cowboy boots and hat.
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I liked comrade Zhukov best. Although almost everybody except Molotov got their roles right. Stalin speaking cockney is brilliant by itself.
Haven’t gone to the movies since I saw Gran Torino. Just not a fan of Hollywood and its minions. Loved this movie, although I was ticked off at the manipulation of certain events to create movie drama.
Bale and Damon were fantastic in their respective parts. The SCCA scenes in the early part of the movie really conveyed the atmosphere I remember from my dad’s participation in that series in the early 80s. There were laughs, tension and some sadness...all components of a great story.
I could have done without the twisting of the facts of the Leo Beebe character, or how the purchase of the Ferrari brand fell through, but I guess they need to create tension and drama where there was none for a movie plot.
I’m not big on hats and almost never wear them.
One hat I actually like to have even if it sat was one I saw on an episode of Law & Order.
Harv Beigel’s in the Torrentsame Of Greed.
I really loved those P4’s that RCR built.
Probably had Chevy engines in them to keep the cost down.
I seldom wear hats but I have a real Stetson that is showing age and wear and is thus authentic
I often wear it to Walmart and old ladies scurry out of my way
BTW..... I have no cattle
Wasn't disappointed - a great movie. An old school good story-line flick with amazing cars. Based on real life too.
Some guy was razzing my husband because he had his Shelby sweatshirt on when we were in the lobby. Hubby smiled and asked him if he had one in his garage too.
I was lucky enough to grow up with a gearhead father who first worked for Ford Motor Company, then had his own dealership. We had some great cars at home, including a 69 GT 350. Shame he sold that car. A wife got it in an ugly divorce and promptly went out and totaled it.
Carroll Shelby was a visionary the likes of which will never be seen again.
I can wait for the disc.
I visited the Shelby garage and museum in Las Vegas a few years ago. An old friend of Shelby’s conducted the tour and was a gold mine of anecdotes. When Ford told Shelby that he would provide the money to develop a car to beat Ferrari, Shelby exulted, “Ferrari’s ass is mine! I bought a Tshirt there with that quote. Think I’ll wear it to the movie.
In fact that and Midway were both great. A little bit too much cheap CG with poor model physics in the latter but overall both great films.
Matt Damon has no resemblance whatsoever to Carroll Shelby.
Great flick.
I saw the movie and Damon wasn’t the best part. Quite the drama queen at times. Overall, I liked the movie but it is a bit too long. At least 3 times I thought “ah ha, this is the end” but nope the movie kept carrying on.
Matt Damon wore sunglasses during half his scenes. You do not have to be a good actor when you are wearing sunglasses.
Shelby must have wore sunglasses a lot.
And Bale may be an obnoxious jerk in real life, but he is a really god actor.
Check out “The Fighter”. Bale was awesome in that one too.
Shelby assembled the first Cobra at Dean Moon’s shop in Santa Fe Springs, California, a stone’s throw from my home town of La Mirada.
Loved that California car culture.
I know someone whose first name is Shelby and her middle name is Cobra.....she’s a millenial and her dad was a big fan.
Most definitely wear that!
Movie is kind of the auto racing version of The Right Stuff - a fictionalized Hollywood version of a real story. 25% cartoon, 25% manufactured Hollywood dramatic license and 50% reality so its better than most
Rush is a much more realistic racing account
Both are great.
To the power of infinity. Not “anybody” of course, but any actor with weight, with danger, with that look and demeanor that says, “My way or take an ass kicking until you agree its my way.”
Damon is the ultimate lightweight. He is fabulous playing an ordinary Joe. He is terrible playing an action hero or any heavy role. He looked like anything BUT a combat soldier in Private Ryan. Don’t even get me started on Bourne. I am furious he is playing Shelby the Legend. What a detestable choice. Even if this turns out to be my favorite movie of all time, I will still be holding my nose every time Damon is on the screen.
I have no idea who killed him. But I know *why* they might have had him killed: to prevent nuclear war.
Among his other medical problems, JFK had Addison’s disease. At the time the only effective medicine for it was cortisone, taken from cadavers. As expensive as the medicine was, his family could afford it. Addison’s disease causes a darkening and coarsening of the skin of the upper body and face, that can still be seen in black and white film recordings of him, and would have been recognized by any doctor familiar with it at a distance.
There was a breakthrough in cortisone production, so it could be taken by pills instead of by injection, at a far lower cost. It was used for many diseases and was seen as a miracle drug. Very popular.
However, a rumor both in and outside of the medical community was that cortisone was both addictive and could cause psychotic paranoia and rages. This was untrue, but was believed enough so that it was used as part of the plot line of a major movie, called “Bigger Than Life” (1956).
At the peak of his celebrity, it starred James Mason, who gave a riveting, even terrifying ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ performance after consuming cortisone.
The final element to the situation was the Cuban Missile Crisis, which caused tremendous fear of nuclear war and spread the knowledge of “the red button” by which one of just two people in the world could have started such a war.
Add this up.
1) President has an obvious disease the addictive medicine for which might make him violently insane.
2) He can launch a nuclear war any time he wants to.
Conclusion:
The president is too dangerous, and though he has been repeatedly asked to resign for health reasons, he refuses.
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