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Capone loves the verbal battlground of FROST/NIXON!!!

I'm/first by BeeDub	Dec 5th, 2008 07:04:43 AM
Ha, see what I did there?
I'm totally in for this one by IAmMrMonkey!	Dec 5th, 2008 07:21:15 AM
Everything I've read makes this sound like a great movie and this review reinforces it. Peter Morgan is slowly becoming one of my favourite writers.
Damn You Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	Dec 5th, 2008 07:21:18 AM
Damn You Michael Bay
Damn You MCMLXXVI by IAmMrMonkey!	Dec 5th, 2008 07:21:40 AM
Damn You MCMLXXVI
Battleground by Grammaton Cleric Binks	Dec 5th, 2008 07:34:09 AM
That is all.
Paul Benedict just died by Grammaton Cleric Binks	Dec 5th, 2008 07:35:19 AM
He was the Jeffersons' neighbor, and was on Sesame Street.
ol Slick Willy paid his dues when he was impeached... by PotSmokinAlien	Dec 5th, 2008 07:40:10 AM
I don't expect to see GWB being tried for war crimes any time soon, though, and that's what it'd take for that guy to 'answer for' some of the shit that went down in the last 8 years.
btw, about the Nixon tapes: by PotSmokinAlien	Dec 5th, 2008 07:40:46 AM

oops by PotSmokinAlien	Dec 5th, 2008 07:42:27 AM
when nixon talks about "that whole bay of pigs thing?" He's talking about the Kennedy assassination. The whole history of Nixon trying to become President is fucking fascinating. George W Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush (who loaned the Nazi party millions of dollars in the 1930s) was trying to make it happen even before JFK was on the scene.
Sometimes with a Great Script/Source Material and Actors... by Aquatarkusman	Dec 5th, 2008 07:49:16 AM
... all the director has to do is point and shoot, which is good, because Howard definitely hasn't shown the innovation to do much more.
Bay of Pigs by harmil	Dec 5th, 2008 08:11:05 AM
PotSmokinAlien, the Bay of Pigs was the attempted overthrow of the Cuban government by Cuban rebels supported by the U.S. CIA during the Kennedy administration. It occurred before and had nothing to do with Kennedy's assassination.
This and Benjamin Button... by Gabba-UK	Dec 5th, 2008 08:20:29 AM
are my two must see movies this Christmas. 2008 has been a pretty good year for film and these two should end it on a high.
I can't imagine it deletes monstrosities... by TroutMaskReplicant	Dec 5th, 2008 08:53:29 AM
...like A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code from people's minds. But it is nice to see a much maligned director do something good for a change. A pleasant surprise.
Fuck this movie. GIVE US PUNISHER!! by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD	Dec 5th, 2008 09:26:57 AM

Just compare where the country was at after their terms... by blackmantis	Dec 5th, 2008 10:49:23 AM
...and I think you can see who has more to answer to.
Amen, TroutMaskReplicant by pilotgrl	Dec 5th, 2008 12:17:26 PM
I did enjoy Apollo 13 (and Splash) and maybe a few others but Beautiful Mind, in particular, was truly awful. Ron Howard has an insulting habit of "spelling" things out to viewers that would be just as easily and more subtlely done (was it really necessary for Nash to outline the umbrella in the starts in A Beautiful Mind?). Jennifer Connelly's performance was overrated as well. One of the few films that actually made me actively angry was Far and Away. What a waste of studio and consumer money... Frost/Nixon, however, does look appealing.
Thanks for the review, Capone by bravogolfhotel	Dec 5th, 2008 02:50:51 PM
I run hot and cold on Howard's films, but you make it sound like an exciting two hours in the dark.
AROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! by Nasty In The Pasty	Dec 5th, 2008 03:15:06 PM
I didn't survive the centuries just to look at a man's gizmo!
Nixon > Bush by Luscious.868	Dec 5th, 2008 05:12:32 PM
They are both criminals but at least Nixon had the good sense to resign.
Nixon by Shan	Dec 6th, 2008 05:57:49 AM
I don't think Nixon had a choice about resigning as they would definitely have impeached him if he didn't. Furthermore, it does show how difficult it is to remove or impeach a sitting President because I doubt they could have done it without Nixon's help. If he either a) hadn't taped all of that material or b) just destroyed it all before they had a chance to legally seize it, I doubt they could have done anything to him.

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