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Sun Nov-27-05 09:15 PM
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Is Good Night & Good Luck Showing In Your Area Yet? |
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Just got back from Good Night & Good Luck, beautiful movie. Unbelievable parallels with today.
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:16 PM
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1. Yes, I saw it four weeks ago tomorrow.... |
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:17 PM
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2. No, and I e-mailed the president of |
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Amstar Cinemas and told him I was disappointed to learn from the manager of the local theatre that he thought it was not enough of a "money maker" to bring to town. I guess I'll have to wait for it to come out on DVD. Pisses me off.
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:18 PM
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3. It was here weeks ago. |
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We went, and took the kids. Terrific movie.
What was especially cool to me was that the audience (this was a matinee) was full of older people -- people who remembered even the radio days... anyway, it was quite obvious that they totally got it. Got the parallels, saw the whole thing clearly. No fools, this bunch.
But I guess attendees at this movie are a bit of a self-selected group anyway, right?
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:22 PM
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6. Same Kind of Crowd Tonite |
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Some real oldies, some patchouli oil wearers. I am kind of surprised (but glad) we have it showing here - south of Cleveland.
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:18 PM
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4. Our small theater had it in "coming attractions" yesterday |
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I'm sure it will play there sometime next month, but I don't know when. I saw it several weeks ago in Kansas City area.
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:19 PM
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5. Saw it last Saturday ... |
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really fine. My only complaint was that it was too short; in my opinion it missed an opportunity to educate viewers who may not know about the McCarthy era and the extent of the damage to so many lives.
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:23 PM
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7. yes, in the Dallas Metropliex |
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I saw it and was awed - David Strathairn deserves an Oscar - he nailed that part (that's the second time I've thought that in a month; first was for Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Capote).
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:24 PM
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Edited on Sun Nov-27-05 09:25 PM by Greybnk48
in NE Wisconsin. It arrived here 2 weeks after the initial release and only played in one of our multiplexes.
On edit: I live in Joe McCarthy's home town and thought maybe that had something to do with it. Some of the old timers here still love him--Archie Bunker types.
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:30 PM
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9. It's here in Boise. A must see IMHO. |
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We have a really cool alternative theater complex in Boise that I support at all costs. I thought David Strathairn was a great Murrow. My respect for George Clooney is growing. I would recommend this film to anyone, especially a freeper.
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:30 PM
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but I have not had time to go see it yet. Hopefully this week I can.
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:34 PM
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11. NO and it's pissin' me off. |
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:grr: I think Syriana is playing here, but Good Night and Good Luck has never made it here. I'll see it when I can get it on OnDemand TV, I guess.:(
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:37 PM
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12. Plan on seeing the five o'clock matinee tomorrow |
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And, since I've got the time and a few extra bucks, maybe "Capote" on Tuesday.
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:47 PM
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13. This is funny. When the movie was pre-screened |
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for test audiences, there were complaints that the "actor playing Joe McCarthy was over-acting". This is reported in this week's Entertainment Weekly. I saw the movie last week and couldn't believe how vile McCarthy was. I mean, I knew he was bad. But the old film of him really shocked me. And to think...Ann Coulter was trying to "rewrite history" by repackaging McCarthy as a great American hero. Do the wingnuts have no concept of our Constitution? Of our history? Of what America means? By the way, Entertainment Weekly is reporting on the emergence of political movies. The studios have finally found their conscious...and their guts. About time.
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Sun Nov-27-05 10:15 PM
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17. Really smart to use genuine McCarthy footage... |
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He really was that evil and it showed clear as could be...even in grainy old kinescopes. If they'd cast an actor, all the wingnuts would have accused him of overacting too. Priceless! Clooney has said in interviews that when Oscar nomination time comes around, he's gonna put ads in the Hollywood trade papers nominating McCarthy for best supporting actor. I saw it over a month ago (Philly) and thought it was brilliant..We saw the beginning of the end of McCarthy and the beginning of the end of real television journalism simultaneously. Sad. And it made me homesick for the '50's of all things!
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Sun Nov-27-05 10:31 PM
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19. FYI___I actually watched most of the McCarthy hearings live----it was |
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quite a thing for TV in those days.
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:48 PM
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14. Finally in Fort Worth. Saw it |
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last weekend. There were only older folks in the theatre - those who remember,
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Sun Nov-27-05 09:53 PM
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How ironic, I just came back m the movie (playing in downtown Tacoma) and was going to post on this blog. Yes, my biggest observation was how many similarities there are to today. Once again we have a Republican office holder trying to smear people and ruin lives because they don't agree with him.
As a side note, it was interesting to see how much everybody smoked. Sure glad the workplace has cleaned itself up in that respect.
Hope everybody had a good Thanksgiving.-Peace TacomaMikeC
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Sun Nov-27-05 10:03 PM
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16. I thought the same thing about all the smoking. |
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And the unsubstantiated LIES, too.
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Sun Nov-27-05 10:29 PM
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18. Babysitting as we speak so my daughter and sil can go to it. |
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Sun Nov-27-05 10:31 PM
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20. There are two big multiplexes with comfortable seats |
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and good sound systems close to me. They play all the mass market crap. The only place a quality film like Good Night and Good Luck is playing around here is a small, old "independent" theatre with springs sticking out of the seats and tinny sound. It's pathetic that the multiplex can't devote even one screen to a thought-provoking film - this just 30 minutes from Hollywood in a community where lots of the people are in the "industry."
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Sun Nov-27-05 10:45 PM
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I live in the DC area and saw it at the American Film Institute in Silver Spring. Wonderful, comfortable theatre...if any of you live in the area, please support AFI. They do good things.
I was struck by the real parallels to today. The CBS honchos were having the same issues broadcast companies have now; yes, even making advertisers happy. (Murrow and Friendly personally paid for the ads on the groundbreaking broadcast on CBS)
It was wonderful seeing what a real journalist looks like. We tend to forget. Speaking truth to power isn't something that's done very often by the American MSM.
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Sun Nov-27-05 10:53 PM
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Started out in the art or independent theatres and now has made its way to the mega movie houses. Very important film all Americans should see. There are no more Murrows and the fourth estate is dead. I enjoyed the movie.
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