"The Last Movie You Saw" thread

[Scorcho]

We saw “Darkest Hour” tonight. It’s excellent. Don’t go expecting any car chases - 😉 - but you’ll see Gary Oldman in an Oscar-worthy performance, as well as a ton of history about the political story behind the Dunkirk boatlift. I loved it.

they mentioned on a local movie radio show that Oldman had to have voice lessons to regain his British accent after doing so many non-British parts

[concerned]

The other big problem with the post is that pentagon papers was a New York Times story. They took all the big risks and the Washington Post rode their coattails. Nyt prepared in advance the legal briefs and took the case to the supreme court; they gave the wapo all their legal work.


https://www.poynter.org/news/post-fi...e-accurate-one


Haven't seen the movie but I suspect the reason to tell it from the wapo perspective is the angle of Katherine Graham new woman in charge taking over for her husband who committed suicide and earning the respect of all the men in the newsroom. And a role for Meryl Streep.

We saw 3 billboards outside ebbing Missouri last night. It is a little dark, but terrific. Frances McDormand was wonderful, so was Woody Harrelson. Peter Dinklage copping a blue collar rural SW Missouri accent was a little out a character, though.

[concerned]

Also, Noonan's explanation of Nixon's motives is not accurate. He was not selflessly acting to uphold a principle that protected the reputation of his enemies. His administration was terrified that publication would intensify public opposition and undermine his strategy to overwhelmingly bomb Cambodia and Laos (among other things, including drawing down American troops and attempting to have the S. Vietnamese take over the ground war) and force to North into more favorable peace talks, because the PP showed the entire rationale for the war was not believed by those in charge. Nixon didn't end the Viet Nam war, as Noonan says, he expanded it and lengthened it amid rising public opposition. And to say he ended it is not quite right either, since we got out (i.e., accepted defeat) after Ford became president.