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Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.........
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Jan 22, 2018 - 8:56 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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I thought this is one of Spielberg's weakest films.
It looks fine and makes all the right noises, but it's just missing some spark that similar films in its wheelhouse have.
It's like SPOTLIGHT without the 'give a sh!t'.
Even Streep and Hanks seemed to be going through the motions to me. Two of their dullest performances.
The first hour especially was slow and dreary, with generally ill-mannered, unlikeable rich people sitting around chatting. The script isn't 'zingy' enough to account for this.
The second hour rallies somewhat (maybe cos John Williams starts singing a lot more) and things move a bit faster and become slightly more interesting.
But overall, while not as bad as THE TERMINAL, it's a film I could never sit through again.
On a more positive note. As I sat in the cinema, a feeling of profound joy overcame me as I realised I was hearing new film music by John Williams for the fifth decade in my life.
A journey that began in the 70's, with my 10+ year old self hearing scores like JAWS, EARTHQUAKE, POSEIDON ADVENTURE & TOWERING INFERNO in those darkened cinemas, was still going strong into my 50's, as the maestro continues to bewitch me with his genius.
I Salute You Sir!
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Hmm. I loved THE TERMINAL.
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Jan 22, 2018 - 2:06 PM
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basmith
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You can say All the President's Men is a different film about different things. However, both films are based on true stories set during the Nixon presidency, with the press as protagonist, dealing with lies and corruption by the establishment, and specifically the executive branch (although the Pentagon Papers were dealing with lies of the Johnson & Kennedy administrations about the Vietnam war, and were leaked during the Nixon administration). I not only think it's an unavoidable comparison, I think it's a fair comparison.
It may be unavoidable, but I don't think it's fair. "All the President's Men" is about grunt reporters uncovering a mystery. "The Post" has no mystery – we know from the first five minutes who has done what and why. And the heroes are not grunts – one of the key points in the movie is that they are in the upper echelons of Washington elites. They are mostly wealthy, they were chummy with JFK and McNamara. This is not incidental, it is frequently the point.
The film is not a reboot of or prequel to "All the President's Men," and since "All the President's Men" exists, I don't know why anybody would want it to be. That said, I have a pretty good sense that you will not like the movie, CCW1970.
There are plenty of differences in the two films, and in their respective historical scenarios. However the similarities are impossible to ignore, particularly when the final scene in effect sets up Watergate as a sequel. In addition to soliciting comparisons to a clearly superior film in All the President’s Men, this last scene diminishes and distracts from the dramatic effect of the story we have just been told. I enjoyed a lot about The Post but given the potential from such a dream team, it was still somewhat of a disappointment. I was pleased with John Williams’s score and I have a feeling I will love it once I have a chance to listen to it on its own.
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You can say All the President's Men is a different film about different things. However, both films are based on true stories set during the Nixon presidency, with the press as protagonist, dealing with lies and corruption by the establishment, and specifically the executive branch (although the Pentagon Papers were dealing with lies of the Johnson & Kennedy administrations about the Vietnam war, and were leaked during the Nixon administration). I not only think it's an unavoidable comparison, I think it's a fair comparison.
It may be unavoidable, but I don't think it's fair. "All the President's Men" is about grunt reporters uncovering a mystery. "The Post" has no mystery – we know from the first five minutes who has done what and why. And the heroes are not grunts – one of the key points in the movie is that they are in the upper echelons of Washington elites. They are mostly wealthy, they were chummy with JFK and McNamara. This is not incidental, it is frequently the point.
The film is not a reboot of or prequel to "All the President's Men," and since "All the President's Men" exists, I don't know why anybody would want it to be. That said, I have a pretty good sense that you will not like the movie, CCW1970.
There are plenty of differences in the two films, and in their respective historical scenarios. However the similarities are impossible to ignore, particularly when the final scene in effect sets up Watergate as a sequel. In addition to soliciting comparisons to a clearly superior film in All the President’s Men, this last scene diminishes and distracts from the dramatic effect of the story we have just been told. I enjoyed a lot about The Post but given the potential from such a dream team, it was still somewhat of a disappointment. I was pleased with John Williams’s score and I have a feeling I will love it once I have a chance to listen to it on its own.
I love not only All the Presidents Men but the Post AND Mark Felt the Man who brought down the President. All three are great!!!
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I was also waiting for the scene on the CD cover (Hanks & Streep on the steps) to appear in the film.
Did I blink and miss it, or was it never there?
It´s a symbolic key visual created for marketing.
I hope you weren't waiting for E.T.´s and Eliot´s hands to appear in space over the Earth when watching "E.T." :-)
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I liked the movie (key word: liked), but The Post was at times amateurish. That scene towards the end when Graham is entering the courthouse and meets a young woman carrying a box. We learn, in a two-shot, that the young woman works for the other side, but (cut to close-up) she admires Mrs. Graham and what she is doing. Then, as if that wasn't enough, the young woman gets yelled at by her boss for following somebody else's orders. Lesson: Good guys good to the little people; bad guys mean to the little people.
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