You have a choice America: commit suicide or be racisss.
Agreed that Streep's acting has made the viewer conscious of her technique in the past. Whereas great acting should, in fact must hide technique in order to achieve suspension of disbelief in the audience. Which is what Streep manages in The Iron Lady. But don't take my word for it. Please go see the film. Not perfect but respectful of Thatcher's brand of conservatism and most important CONVINCING. Streep is Thatcher in this film.
It's a major achievement that the old broad didn't fall down?!
Eastwood, on the Republican side of the aisle? Don't make me laugh. Clint has been "evolving" for years.
Neeson's a total alpha male and that always translates to good box office. The film, by the way, gets bogged down more than once when the men have "soulful" conversations. But even that doesn't detract from the air of authenticity Neeson carries with him like a permanent mantle. Also there is a genuine grimness, as opposed to revved up grimness, in this film that makes it better than average.
Although there are a couple of crude jabs at evil Republicans the core weakness of Midnight in Paris is that the romance of Paris in the twenties, that the Owen Wilson character yearns for, was stale from overuse half a century ago in the 1960's. The last time Paris had a pulse was in the immediate post WW II period, think Sartre and Camus, and Allen doesn't even reference that. Maybe Allen actually feels something about Paris in the twenties, though I think it amounts to mental masturbation on his part. But even if he does yearn for that period it would take a commitment to...well, commitment, commitment to making a convincing film, to get audiences to give a damn. And Allen clearly won't or can't make that commitment at this stage in his career and life.
I was kind of shocked that such a formulaic movie had a doom filled ending. Frankly that was the only part of the film that ran true to what would have happened in real life -- either death by freezing or death by wolf.
The key to the bifurcation in Redford's brain is that in America one MUST celebrate "the people." Doesn't matter that everything about Redford screams extreme elite. Internally he really believes he is as one with the common man. It's not an act. It's not hypocrisy. It's living the myth.
I needed The Help to tell me that white people are evil and black folk are good? I thought that was in the Constitution.
Extremely Loud is pretentious PC crap.
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