Anyone seen Bobby yet?

[CalebHayes]

How was it?

[SeattleGirl]

1. Saw it a couple of weeks ago.

I thought it was a great movie, though it had me in tears at the end.

[CalebHayes]

2. Alright the GF and I are going then.

[Nicole]

3. Seattle Girl is being modest

She wrote a fantastic review of Bobby after seeing it. Her review of the movie put it at the top of my must see list.

[CalebHayes]

4. Where can I find it? Who do you write for, SeattleGirl?

[SeattleGirl]

5. I wrote it for the Lounge. I didn't bookmark it so I'll see if I can

find it in the archives.

[SeattleGirl]

6. Okay, found my review. Here you go:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5812151&mesg_id=5812151

[Nicole]

7. Here's a link to her GD thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2600170

[Nicole]

9. OOPS! Looks like she already posted one.

That's what I get for answering from my DU link, instead of the actual thread. I didn't see her post. :blush:

[SeattleGirl]

8. Thanks, Nicole.

I know that not everyone will share my opinion of it, but that's cool.

[Nicole]

10. You're welcome

I thought your review was great & deserved another look. :)

[BlueIris]

11. I plan to go soon, but the RFK story...

makes me burst into tears every goddamned time I watch it in any form. So, I'm nervous.

[SeattleGirl]

12. Well, Iris, bring your hanky.

It's a good movie, IMHO, and even though you KNOW what the ending will be, it will tear you up. But it's worth the watch. I brought my 26 year old daughter, and she was incredibly impressed by RFK.

[BlueIris]

13. Now you have to make her watch that History Channel doc,

"RFK: An Unfinished Life." Actually, it might just be, "RFK: A Life," I'd have to look. You want to be impressed, and I mean, like, floored? That is the documentary that will do it. It contains anecdotes about Bobby that you're unlikely to hear anywhere else, too.

[SharonRB]

15. My 29-year-old daughter went with us, SG

She didn't know anything about him before this, and felt she didn't learn too much from the movie, but she did learn some from the flashbacks and I tried to tell her more about him and just what we lost that day.

[SeattleGirl]

17. My daughter found the text of the speech that played at the

end of the movie and posted it on her blog. She was very impressed by him.

[SharonRB]

14. I saw it this afternoon and here are my thoughts

I haven't cried that much in a movie in ages. Make sure you bring lots of Kleenex with you if you see it -- and you all definitely should see it.

I cried so much not just because Bobby was murdered, but also because of what his murder took away from our country. I always thought that we lost so much when we lost JFK, but we maybe even lost more when we lost Bobby -- his idealism and desire to bring people together and end the war and so much more. Had he lived, he would have been elected and our country would be so different today. Nixon never would have been president. We would have started working on global warming during Bobby's presidency (there's a clip of him talking to school children in 1968 about global warming) and so many of today's problems would not exist. It's so good that RFK, Jr. is taking up some of the issues he stood for, but it's so much later that I hope it's not too late for the world.

I thought it was a wonderful movie, in spite of what the critics are saying.

[SeattleGirl]

16. They must have watched a different movie then we did.

I haven't read any of the reviews, actually. Don't really want to. Were they nasty? Some of those critics are, in my opinion, frustrated actor wanna-be's. Pauline Kael (sp?) who used to do the movie reviews for The New Yorker, was the bitchiest movie critic I ever read. I think there was ONE movie -- can't remember which one -- that she actually wrote a positive review about. The rest of them were nit-picking screeds that made me roll my eyes.

[Reverend_Smitty]

18. Maybe they were expecting a different movie

I don't really know what got all those reviewers panties in a bunch but I thought it was a great movie with fantastic acting and a powerful ending. Maybe they wanted to see a conspiracy theory movie like JFK or a biopic about RFK's life. I mentioned in another thread that I've never seen an actor or can think of an actor that would be able to portray RFK on the screen believably so personally I'd rather watch a documentary and let the real Bobby Kennedy speak for himself. One of the reasons why I enjoyed Bobby so much was that they added the snippets of speeches and newsreels.

As ashamed as I am to admit it (being such a big fan of RFK) I had no idea he ever spoke about the environment like he did with those kids in that newsreel. 1968 was quite a bit ahead of the curve for environmentalism so it's not hard to see where his son would pick up on a crusade like that years later.

[SharonRB]

20. I was as surprised as you were about that scene in the classroom

I had no idea he was so forward-thinking about the environment in 1968. Just think where we'd be today if he had lived and we had started doing something about global warming then. And, yes, now it makes even more sense that RFK Jr. has picked that issue up so strongly.

[SharonRB]

19. Of the ones I saw, it wasn't that they were nasty

They just thought there were too many subplots and too many big-name actors showing up at every turn. It's not really that they hated the movie.

[tinfoil tiaras]

21. So good!!

The ending was really sad. And really powerful. The movie was just so powerful all around.