Sandro wrote:
> I found it enjoyable and fascinating, from beginning to end.
it was like cardboard to me. Why anyone thought you could/should
dramatise such obvious rich but dry doco matter is beyond me. As such,
they puffed up Hank with some rudimentary slap on thick veneer of
unsubtle womanising/big tittied employment/drinking practices and think
that fleshes out a character? feh.
The way
> the flick was marketed as a comedy defies any definition of the word
> 'comedy' that I care to comprehend.
I never saw that, but neither did I know Hanks was in it. I thought it
was a Hoffman vehicle, which is why I went. He was good as usual.
> Why Julia Roberts is in this is a mystery. About the only reason I can
> think of is that she wanted a chance to show the world how well she's
> slimmed back down after squeezing out the twins a couple of years ago.
> And sure, she's slimmed down. She doesn't do too badly, but it
> certainly not Pretty Woman quality.
more like Mr Ed quality. What anyone sees in her is beyond me.
> It's a fascinating story with an insight into just how complicated
> such international events are. I don't look at it at all as some kind
> of definite history, because the last time I checked I wasn't
> retarded. And if I am retarded, possibly through years of binge-
> drinking and fighting, I'm not quite retarded enough to confuse the
> manner in which someone can craft a historical narrative so that it is
> entertaining and easily digestible, with actual history. Actual
> history is always far uglier, messier, and far more complicated. Too
> complicated for a pleasing 100 minute which breezily recounts the
> adventures of American politicians and covert ops agents.
that's exactly right, and we wouldn't want something actually
interesting in a film. That might ruin it.
> I enjoyed it, but I can imagine many people could be bored out of
> their ****ing skulls by it. I'm a bit of a history and espionage nerd,
> so I'm the natural audience for this kind of story. Others will have
> to judge for themselves whether they can tolerate the subject matter,
> the bad hairstyles, or Tom Hanks in concentrated form.
>
> 7 stinger missiles downing Hind helicopters out of 10
>
> --
> "These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the
> world... and then we ****ed up the endgame." - Charlie Wilson's War
"and then we ****ed up the movie about it too".
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