I'm not sure the week before Christmas is the best time for a serious biopic release either. I think people might be looking for something festive, funny, or exciting around this time of year but something like this doesn't have much holiday season appeal. I would like to check this out but it will most likely end up waiting until it's streaming.
shareyeah, no one was waiting for this movie. And the people who might like it are older, and mostly watch movies at home now.
Not that it's only a movie for older people, but they are the ones who remember the actual event.
I watched it and it is actually pretty well done.
The acting job by the lead was nothing short of amazing.
It is a good movie on the dangers and motivations of
the ambitous press to get someone to blame, and run a story.
Eastwood is the last of his kind in Hollywood. I don't know if movies like this, also 'American Sniper' and others would be made in recent years, he should be supported just for that reason alone.
The tribal 'left think' is so ingrained there, that other points of view are rare.
The ambitious press? I thought it was on the danger and motivations of the government to scapegoat somebody. The press was just riding on their coattails.
shareSure that is part of it also, but so is the Atlanta Chronical's painting of Jewell as the bad guy to sell papers.
There is a 60 min rewind on You tube that interviewed Jewell.
60 min rewind 2002 Richard Jewell. (The link does not work)
Jewell states that the whole thing started after the Atlanta Chronical ran the story naming him as the suspect, which the AP then picked up and became a national story.
You're right, there was more than one party with an unethical agenda willing to ride roughshod over Jewell.
share"And the people who might like it are older..."
Someone who was old enough to comprehend this event in 1996, say ten years old, is now thirty-three. Even a twenty year old in '96 is now only forty-three. "Older"people?
As a kid, and through my twenties, I often went to see movies about grownups in grownup situations, many of which took place before my time. Don't people do that anymore? Or do you only like movies about things from your lifetime that you remember? If so, you are really limiting your entertainment options.
I think it is some psychological reaction to the barrier of the millennium passing. To young audiences, anything prior to 2010 is 'old' and anything prior to 2000 might as well have occurred in the Stone Age. They think women were oppressed and crosses were being burnt on black people's lawns in all major American cities as a matter of course in the late 20th century.
To them, people of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s were more like medieval peasants than modern people, ignorant to anything beyond the confines of their own city because they didn't have smart phones to send pictures of their bare backsides to 'friends' across the world in a microsecond.
I read somewhere that the first two weeks of December is often where studios "dump" movies that they are sure folks won't see - -they are too busy Xmas shopping and writing cards, etc.
Star Wars and Pixar stuff does well and in the Christmas corridor, a lot of hits appear.
But early December is a dumping ground.
That's 1996 dude.
I am so old I must kill myself. 1996 people. Only old fucks can remember this travesty. Fucking young people are dumb fucking lumps of coal. Just completely brain dead, unless it's Fortnite... Yes I know of Fortnite you fuckers.
What do you think
shareI haven't seen it yet
shareThen why would you start a thread on it
shareIt was the opinion of the Hollywood Reporter. There was a link.
shareRight. We just post links
sharethe internet has a lot of links. who knew??
shareHonestly dude, I’d rather hear your thoughts on a movie you have seen, instead of you posting a link to a movie you have not seen . Fair enough ?
shareI do post my opinion on movie and TV shows I have seen.
I guess you don't read movie reviews.
Fair enough
shareI’ve never seen her live https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/08/barbra-streisand-hyde-park-london-review
But here’s what they say
are you a barbra fan?
shareNope not at all. But the writers who wrote the article sure are
shareIt is outdated info not like the one I posted on a current movie that people might want to see.
sharePeople wouldn’t want to see Barbara ?
shareI guess some people might want to read about a concert from 6 months ago. I posted it on the Streisand board for all her fans.
shareOh great . I’m going to post more links to thinks I have not seen.
shareI posted it 16 days ago when the movie came out because there was controversy surrounding the movie. Plenty of people responded. You don't seem to know the meaning of a movie chatroom.
shareProbably from people that have seen the movie
shareThere are pages and pages of people talking about the latest Star War movie long BEFORE it came out. That's what movie fans do.
shareDid they post links ?
sharefrom two years before Star Wars was released
https://moviechat.org/tt2527338/Star-Wars-Episode-IX-The-Rise-of-Skywalker/59beab9336c6c00012d86e9e/Director-JJ-News-Spawns-Bizarre-Fan-Petition