Bobby [Movie Review]

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[Fiji Hill]

BOBBY

Bobby uses an all-star cast to follow more than twenty characters through one of the most fateful days in American history.

CLIP: “Senator Kennedy, welcome to the Ambassador Hotel.” “Thank you very much.”

That’s Anthony Hopkins as a hotel doorman who joins Sharon Stone, Demi Moore, Lawrence Fishburne, Christian Slater, and many others to dramatize the night of Robert Kennedy’s assassination at his LA victory celebration in 1968.

CLIP: “What if Kennedy loses?” “We can all forget it now. I’m 19, Jimmy, I don’t want to go to Vietnam.” “Do you?” “Now that Dr. King is gone, I don’t have nobody.”

This is a particularly moving film for me because I was there as a young Kennedy volunteer on that June night when Bobby was shot. I can confirm that director/writer Emilio Estevez gets most of the feelings of the occasion right. But, the melodramatic, multi-character format proves somewhat uneven and distracting. Rated R for language, violence, and drug content…

THREE STARS for the intriguing but imperfect Bobby.

That’s a wrap. I’m Michael Medved for Eye on Entertainment.

[Rakkasan1]

what was his stance on the Patriot Act and wiretapping?

[TeenagedConservative]

Yeah, and it doesn't even make sense. Just what libs love.

[L98Fiero]

I don't know but I hear he favored internet poker.

[L98Fiero]

I heard every actor in Hollywood was in this. You have a SAG card, you get a part. ;)

[Polybius]

Another Kennedy movie. Yawn.

When is "Chappaquiddick" coming out?

[DoughtyOne]

When you look at the Kennedy family, it's amazing what they represent and how much they are revered by the left in the United States.

It's a shame Robert Kennedy was shot. It was a despicable act. I hardly think of it as 'one of the most fateful days in American history.'

[DoughtyOne]

I'm sure Martin had no influence on this idea cominig to fruition...

[duckman]

I don't see Roosevelt Brown in the cast list. Also is Sirhan played by a Russian?

[Brad from Tennessee]

A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy told me that when the LAPD contacted Kennedy's campaign about providing security for Senator Kennedy a campaign staffer said, "We don't want any pigs over here."

[TightyRighty]

My favorite line from Bobby?
"We didn't cross over the border - the border crossed over us."

[fatnotlazy]

I heard that story, or something similar, years ago, and had forgotten about it. I don't remember the "pigs" remark, but I did remember that the extra security had been declined. Wonder how the person who made the decision felt about it afterwards.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

 

Frodo, or Fredo?

 

[fatnotlazy]

And one of my favorite actors, Anthony Hopkins, is in it too. Too bad. I like the guy.

[Ghengis]

The Kennedy Myth still has magic for shallow thinkers. Oh well.

[snarks_when_bored]

Who played the role of Marilyn Monroe's corpse?

[Zionist Conspirator]

However, a lot of leftists proejct their own views on the Kennedys to create this idea of a sexy exuberant form of leftism. It's rather annoying, and I'd hate to sit through a whole movie that makes Bobby Kennedy out to be some fallen perfect leader.

Contemporary leftists have a bad habit of treating people like FDR and JFK as if they were gay liberationists. However, according to leftist Hegelian thought, the TVA and Peace Corps were the "gay liberation" of their day, and if FDR or JFK were around today they'd be in the forefront of the perversion lobby. And considering the number of fossilized leftists who promote this stuff (or are silent about it), I can't say that they're wrong.

Bobby Kennedy was part of an anti-Communist Democrat administration, but as soon as Nixon took the White House the Democrats who put us in Vietnam immediately morphed into hippies opposed to the "Republican" war.

This movie also recalls the old days when (in America at least) support for Israel was the "liberal" position. RFK was a pro-Israel liberal assassinated by an Arab terrorist for that very reason. This movie is just what Jewish liberal Democrats need to keep living in the past.

[Waco]

One of our luckier nights IMHO.

[Let's Roll]

Does the movie make the point that Bobby's murderer was a muslim?

[Brad from Tennessee]

Extra security might have made a difference and perhaps not. Kennedy had the image of a populist and insisted on pressing flesh.

I think had he been elected he would not have begun an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam as was advocated by McCarthy and later by McGovern. I think Kennedy would have gone for a phased withdrawl like Nixon accomplished.

Despite all the historical revision, Bobby had a hand in the plots against Castro:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n12_v27/ai_17828366