Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you no sense of decency?

Feb 09, 2006 21:53

My mother and I went to see Good Night... and Good Luck" today. Let me tell you, that's one fantastic movie. The film is spare, but has brilliant acting and interesting cinematography ( Read more... )

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Because it's WRONG! darth_cabal February 10 2006, 04:33:40 UTC
I totally blanked on the movie title--thanks!

I NEED to see it. This movie has Rob Lowe acting like a complete twit and the lobbyist shutting down a schoolgirl whose mother is "not a credible expert" on the dangers of smoking! What's not to like? :D

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tesseract_5 February 10 2006, 08:10:10 UTC
sounds awesome, the tobacco business is sooo fucked up

I'm so proud of George Clooney for doing two films this year that he obviously put heart and soul into. (as far as his political and moral beliefs)

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darth_cabal February 10 2006, 09:09:29 UTC
Yeah, I need to go see Syriana.

I was a little nervous going to see this, as I'd heard that his last effort (Solaris?) was horrible, but the Golden Globe/Oscar buzz turned out to be enough reassurance (and glad I am). ^_^

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Wow, this is going to be a long reply. darth_cabal February 10 2006, 09:04:53 UTC
I actually liked that the film didn't have a great deal of triumph and dealt with the characters only enough to humanize them. For one thing, I love understated acting. The type of grandstanding, emotathug, clash-of-good-and-evil heroes that Hollywood likes to indulge in turn me off, both because I find them less admirable and because I find them less realistic ( ... )

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quintos February 10 2006, 13:22:11 UTC
w00t!! I win!!

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darth_cabal February 10 2006, 21:42:25 UTC
*patpat*
Of course you do.

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