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Charlie Wilson's War
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Why is there no thread for this movie yet?
It's a humorous, enlightening, and ultimately terrifying film about the ineptitude of Congress and foreign policy in the 1980s (emphasis: Afghanistan). Great performances all around and a shocking amount of nudity/sexuality for something involving Tom Hanks; there are also references abound to political figures still active today. Go see it.
It's a humorous, enlightening, and ultimately terrifying film about the ineptitude of Congress and foreign policy in the 1980s (emphasis: Afghanistan). Great performances all around and a shocking amount of nudity/sexuality for something involving Tom Hanks; there are also references abound to political figures still active today. Go see it.
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I really fucking loved Philip Seymour Hoffman in this. Glorious.
O RLY?
The only complaint about the movie is that it seemed a bit too cutesy at times. Like they really turned up the witty-hollywood-charm to 11. At times it added to the movie, at other times it really detracted.
There were boobs in the first five minutes of the movie. That was it. Nothing really shocking or obscene.
The review on movies.com pointed out that most of the characters in this movie are still alive. The reviewer thinks punches were pulled because of that and the movie ended up duller than it should have been.
I'm becoming a big fan of Hoffman, even though this is just the 2nd of his movies that I've seen (Capote was the first).
The theatre was sadly empty in the showing I went to. Kinda like this thread.
Aaron Sorkin wrote it, so that's not surprising. Dude tries way too hard.
Yeah, that's an afterthought that I had after writing my post. This movie smacks heavily of Aaron Sorkin's writing style, and I don't know that it really helps a whole lot.
It plays out a lot like a longer episode of the West Wing, except the actors actually speak at an acceptable pace, rather than at the pace of an auctioneer.
I’m with the two of you -- it came off almost precious at times.
The thing that makes Sorkin’s writing work is that it’s biting (when it’s good, anyway). That’s why I love the West Wing, and this movie really seemed to lack that ascerbic tone that carries a Sorkin script.
But overall enjoyable with a great performance from Hoffman, and a nice reprieve from movies like No Country, There Will Be Blood, Persepolis, and so forth.
O_o
Did we watch the same movie?
Not only is there a ton of rather ruthless satire of the US Government, but the entire point of the movie was how badly we fucked up that country by refusing to participate in domestic nation rebuilding (instead basically handing a nation of 14 year olds a massive arsenal without an economy or educational system to fall back on).
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Oh jesus christ, Sorkin had his grubby little fingers in this? Pass. As much as I love Hanks and Seymor-Hoffman, I fucking hate Sorkin and Julia Robert's one character that she always plays.
I hate that character too, but I was pleasantly surprised by how tolerable she was as a right wing Texas millionaire in this.
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I felt that same way, in that the movie was a nice change of tone from the others that I've seen lately. It wasn't a bad movie by any means, just not great.
As far as the acting goes, Tom Hanks does the same-old, same-old. He plays a tough, but charming alpha male that gets pulled into a rough situation. Jula Roberts wasn't bad. Her makeup was a bit scary though. But I suppose that was just her character.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman was definitely the best, in my opinion.
There was some criticism, but the overall message seemed to be "This AMAZING AMERICAN congressman did this AWESOME SECRET thing and SINGLEHANDEDLY ended the Cold War!"
Sure, if you leave out the Soviets building schools and hospitals in Afghanistan, the Mujahideen using their new weapons on their own people and blaming the Soviets to make the threat look worse than it was, and the fact that the collapse of the Soviet Union had fuck all to do with Charlie Wilson.
Dude, you probably seen him way more than 2 times. Guy's been in lots of great movies. Usually in the good parts.
Whatever your opinion of Magnolia may be, Hoffy did good. Same with Punch-Drunk Love.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
I looked through wikipedia to see what I've missed. The total is now 4 (adding the Big Lebowski, and MI3).
I enjoyed the movie.
That was quite possibly my favorite scene in the movie.
It was so enjoyable watching the afghans realise they could fight back.