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The FROST/NIXON Trailer That Snuck Onto The Internets Last Week Is Now Here In (Officially Sanctioned) Glorious QuickTime!!

I have no interest in seeing this by toadkillerdog	Aug 25th, 2008 09:51:45 AM
Why?
frost? by illegal alien vs sexual predator	Aug 25th, 2008 09:52:06 AM

Don't know the story by Ko-Dan_Mothership	Aug 25th, 2008 09:58:38 AM
But it looks neat. Isn't it also a play?
When is the John Quincy Adams movie coming out? by Rupee88	Aug 25th, 2008 09:59:36 AM
because I care just about as much at this point.
Looks Good by King Sweyn Forkbeard	Aug 25th, 2008 10:00:13 AM
Strong cast and a decent premise. Could be well worth a rental.
I have all interest in seeing this by dr sauch	Aug 25th, 2008 10:03:36 AM
Holy shit, looks amazing
Looks Good by Alen Smithee	Aug 25th, 2008 10:09:26 AM
Sadly, I remember the original broadcast. Yes, I'm old.
Looks good by optimus122	Aug 25th, 2008 10:09:45 AM
I will catch this sooner or later
Still not sold on Langella by zacdilone	Aug 25th, 2008 10:15:05 AM
He seems to be trying too hard.
Also, Rupee88 by dr sauch	Aug 25th, 2008 10:31:36 AM
it did. it was on HBO, it was seven hours long, it it was fantastic.
Total interest in seeing this by mefrog	Aug 25th, 2008 10:52:29 AM

Langella by Neosamurai85	Aug 25th, 2008 10:58:59 AM
Love the guy, but the problem with his performance from what I just saw was his eyes and his breathing. He's still running on Starting Out in the Evening mode. Nixon was very much in his head. His words were sharper, even when he muttered. And his eyes were defensive more then naked, when they were naked it was more of a wincing kind of woundedness than the open puppy thing Langella is doing here. Still want to like this, otherwise it looks really interesting, but unless it's poor editing choices for the trailer, I think Langella is a little off. Hope I'm wrong.
Very meh by The Ringwraith	Aug 25th, 2008 11:02:50 AM
Honestly nothing about this project looks interesting to me. Langella sounds like he's voicing Nixon on "The Simpsons". Maybe the trailer doesn't do a good of getting the story across. As an Australian I know a little about Watergate but I've never heard of this Nixon/Frost thing. I don't know if this is supposed to be some "lost interview" or if the interview was broadcast or what. A whole movie about deliberations over an interview sounds boring as hell to me, even with what seems like a pretty great cast. And the trailer doesn't do anything more to excite me. Ron Howard has really slipped for me in the last few years. I really enjoyed Cinderella Man...not as Oscar bait but just as a good entertaining movie with great performances and solid boxing scenes (more than I can say for Rocky Balboa). But he couldn't crack The Da Vinci code, The Missing really was all in the title, and I still can't quite get on board with A Beautiful Mind. Still...all of those movies looked interesting. This one doesn't...not yet.
The play was AMAZING by Mockingbird Girl	Aug 25th, 2008 11:29:53 AM
Looking forward to this enormously, and thrilled that Langella is reprising his stage tour de force.
The Play by The Alienist	Aug 25th, 2008 11:30:55 AM
I saw the play in London a couple years ago and wasn't impressed. Though I liked the two actors (actually LOVED Langella, he went on to win the Tony when the play arrived on Broadway)but there was something pedestrian about the writing. Though I remember thinking, if they beef up the roles of Frost's American cohorts, turn these disparate men into a suprisingly crack investigating team then it might make a good film. The "voila" moments are already there, its just that the tension getting there was somewhat slack (though the "reveal" in the final interview was terrific, as was this amazingly written drunken phone call Nixon makes to Frost the night before). So I guess I'm looking forward to the movie. Good casting, and I'm really jazzed to see Langella again in the role.
Where's the Jesse Jackson bio by thegreatwhatzit	Aug 25th, 2008 11:37:51 AM
JESSE'S BIG RIP-OFF(S)
I remember the original.... by Half-Baked-Goggle-Box-Do-Gooder	Aug 25th, 2008 11:51:15 AM
It was an early lesson in how politica and spin works - Nixon was a paranoid, arrogant, lying old sack of shit, but there were still people that admired him for it, and were scared of him, and even though Nixon slouched into that interview of his own accord, in one of his deluded attempts to "vindicate"" himself, and instead proceeded to publicly hang himself... His Loyal Troops STILL tried to blame it on Frost, for asking questions that Nixon was stupid enough to answer.... Mind you, I'm not trying to defend Frost here - the guy WAS a specious boob - but he was in the Right Place at the Right Time.
Langella sounds like Sean Connery by Samuel Fulmer	Aug 25th, 2008 02:02:18 PM
trying to do a Nixon impersonation. I like president movies though, so I'll probably check it out.
I had a dream that Kevin Smith saw this movie by Samuel Fulmer	Aug 25th, 2008 02:19:17 PM
He said that at the end Nixon has a spectacular fight with the Watchmen that sets up a Nixon/Watchmen spin-off film.
octagonproplex - You need to go visit that Proctologist again by toadkillerdog	Aug 25th, 2008 02:51:50 PM
Or maybe you need a plastic surgeon to help you stop looking and acting like a Horses Ass.
Kevin Smith Did See This Movie by kevinwillis.net	Aug 25th, 2008 02:53:13 PM
He said it was "phenomenal". Possibly the best movie he's seen since Live Free or Die Hard. His small cameo as a camera man had no bearing whatsoever on his praises.
Toadkillerdog in very interested by Ko-Dan_Mothership	Aug 25th, 2008 03:44:44 PM
in defending himself in a talkback for a movie he has no interest in seeing. He needs to, uh, visit the Podiatrist again, because. . . uh, I dunno, something about a foot up his ass, or some retarded setup/punchline joke like that.
Ko-Dan_Mothership by toadkillerdog	Aug 25th, 2008 04:13:08 PM
Who the fuck are you? And why the fuck do you think you can stick your Ron Howard shit covered nose in someones elses business? Did I address my comments to you? Are you offended because I do not want to see the movie, or because I responded to Octa - after his unprovoked response to me? Fuck you. Sincerely, Toadkillerdog
Clint Howard as Video Production Director by hoorayforeric	Aug 25th, 2008 04:46:06 PM
That'll be the closest Clint gets into a Director chair by the sakes of Opie Cunningham!!
hey, I just got here by samsquanch	Aug 25th, 2008 05:34:14 PM
I have no idea what's going on, but I've got your back Toad.
Holy hell, that's funny! by Ko-Dan_Mothership	Aug 25th, 2008 06:00:46 PM
The funniest part was the phrase "private business". . . this in a public talkback forum about movies written by and to an anonymous handle, and without a hint of irony. I can't wait until one of three things happen: 1. I get another 100 words of impotent, anonymous spew. 2. I get a "I'm too good to talk to you so fuck off" line. 3. Petulant silence, as the offender holds his breath for someone else to come in and save him from himself. Who knows. . . the chubby fourteen year old/ egoistic twentysomething/ militant thirty-five year old/who the hell cares behind the compuer . . . well, he might surpirse me with an "Oh a got carried away, my bad. Let's be friends line." But I doubt it. :)
Hey by Ko-Dan_Mothership	Aug 25th, 2008 06:01:36 PM
Let's be friends!
"Someone Else's Business" by Ko-Dan_Mothership	Aug 25th, 2008 06:02:55 PM
Would have been the correct phrase. Let's see if that makes it into the response . . . :)
Ko-Dan_Mothership -get fucked by a weasel - sideways by toadkillerdog	Aug 25th, 2008 07:11:58 PM
Octa - we're cool. We have disagreed in the past - and likely will again in the future.
Music In Trailer? by Crow3711	Aug 25th, 2008 07:22:38 PM
I'm pretty sure the last half of the trailer was a version of the music from The Fountain. I thought this was original music from The Fountain, but perhaps I was mistaken. Anyone know?
Thanks by Crow3711	Aug 25th, 2008 07:41:31 PM
Just sort of wondering why it's being used in a trailer. Hopefully Clint got a payday for that.
Crow3711 by Rollo Tomasi666	Aug 25th, 2008 08:30:41 PM
Music from other movies is used all the time. Standard.
by Rollo Tomasi666	Aug 25th, 2008 08:31:16 PM
...in trailers.
looks great!! by Smithys.Bark	Aug 25th, 2008 10:44:14 PM
I wanna see Bush interviewed in the same way as Frost interviewed Nixon....would be hilarious!! Not that Bush isnt gonna nuke us all before he finishes his term.
Is this slash erotica? by Dingbatty	Aug 26th, 2008 03:38:49 AM

Never heard of this Nixon/Frost thing? by Kaitain	Aug 26th, 2008 02:20:04 PM
"As an Australian I know a little about Watergate but I've never heard of this Nixon/Frost thing." Yes, it's one of those genuinely amazing stories that few people these days know about. That's why it will potentially make for a great movie.
Frost - often misunderestimated by Kaitain	Aug 26th, 2008 02:26:36 PM
"Mind you, I'm not trying to defend Frost here - the guy WAS a specious boob" Frost is frequently, frequently underestimated. That's part of his trick. He was part of the Cambridge-educated media elite of the 60s, and had a very sharp mind, but his laconic style and attraction to lightweight projects made him a bit like a drunken master in certain interviews: people let their guards down, and then he pounced with a killer question, and before they knew what had happened they'd said too much. Frost did the same thing with Blair a few years ago: http://tinyurl.com/5zgge9
Hey alright by Series7	Aug 26th, 2008 04:25:43 PM
More The Fountain music in trailers. Like always. Good job Clint on making the two most known scores in movies due to their over use after the movie.

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