Watching the movie Absolute Power

[Lisa D]

I love the dance scene with his chief of staff.

[Bucky]

1. Gene Hackman seems to be having fun in all of his movies.

He's the thinking man's Bruce Willis

[truebrit71]

2. The actress that played his COS was awful imho...

...ruined what was otherwise a perfectly enjoyable popcorn chewing movie..

[Mist]

5. Judy Davis awful?!! I thought she was her usual talented self. nt

[truebrit71]

6. She just didn't have the gravitas to pull off the role of a CoS imo...

..she played the character as being too weak, and I just don't think that's possible in a presidential CoS...

[Mist]

7. You've got a point--after her matter-of-fact acceptance of things going wrong

in the early part of the movie, her performance became weaker.

[bigwillq]

3. Good movie. Better book (nt)

[Mist]

4. I thought the story-line about his daughter (the thief's daughter) was pointless and

brought the movie down. Otherwise, good flick!

[TorchTheWitch]

8. the book was much better

Although that seems to be the case with most movies based on books.

[Lisa D]

9. I agree.

The one movie adaptation I really liked was A&E's Pride and Prejudice. Of course, they had six hours to tell the story.