I still wear a fedora. I’m captivated by the Mad Men era. Sue me.
LOL!
[Matt Damon had been cast]
Ugh. He’s the Marky Mark of the Hollywood Funky Bunch.
Airheads cop: You guys are the hottest thing since Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch!
Steve Buscemi: Marky Mark? That guy sucks!
I saw the documentary a year or so ago and loved it. I’m looking forward to this coming out on Netflix.
Ping.
I can’t afford a Ferrari so I drive a Ford.
Superformance, who made some (if not most) of the cars in the movie, now has special movie versions of their models.
https://superformance.com/factory-models-cinema
I thought it a damn tight movie with great acting, writing, and filming. It is one of the best stories I’ve seen on the screen in quite a long time.
Ping.
Nice movie. I liked it very much.
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.
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.
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.
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.