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LeonidP
What about Richard Jewell?

I guess it didn't do well in the box office, but it is fantastic!

Clint Eastwood comes through again, I highly recommend this film!

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LeonidP
What about Richard Jewell?

I guess it didn't do well in the box office, but it is fantastic!

Clint Eastwood comes through again, I highly recommend this film!

Let's hope it's a bit better than "The Mule" which was painfully dreadful. Latter-day Eastwood by the number ("negro" dykes" hey Clint is a rebel you know...) and the ubplot with the wife is the worst thing he's done since the films with "Clyde" the ape.

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keefriff99
Clint is going to be 90 in a few months.

Yeah, he's very hit or miss these days, but to still be cranking out, on average, one film every 1-2 years at his age is remarkable.

I enjoyed Sully very much, even though it was a complete fiction...the NTSB didn't harass Sullenberger as portrayed in the film, and even Tom Hanks said that Sullenberger objected to the portrayal.

I think it came down to (a) the film needed an antagonist, so a fictitious one was invented, and (b) given Eastwood's libertarian politics, making the federal government the villain is second nature to him.

He did the same thing with Richard Jewell, smearing the character that Olivia Wilde portrayed. I don't think that's why the film failed, but it made me not want to see it after reading about the lies in the film.

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keefriff99
Clint is going to be 90 in a few months.

Yeah, he's very hit or miss these days, but to still be cranking out, on average, one film every 1-2 years at his age is remarkable.

I enjoyed Sully very much, even though it was a complete fiction...the NTSB didn't harass Sullenberger as portrayed in the film, and even Tom Hanks said that Sullenberger objected to the portrayal.

I think it came down to (a) the film needed an antagonist, so a fictitious one was invented, and (b) given Eastwood's libertarian politics, making the federal government the villain is second nature to him.

He did the same thing with Richard Jewell, smearing the character that Olivia Wilde portrayed. I don't think that's why the film failed, but it made me not want to see it after reading about the lies in the film.

Actually Richard Jewel is amazingly accurate. There were several things in the film I questioned (such as events of the bomb discovery, all the press, his lawyer's tactics, etc. which I thought were exaggerated) when I saw it, but looked them up afterwards and saw it pretty much happened exactly as portrayed.

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If you want to know what happened in the Richard Jewell saga, you could do worse than watch “Richard Jewell.” You could also do better, since the film tells two lies. One of them is factual: the suggestion that Kathy Scruggs, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter played by Olivia Wilde, slept with her source — in the film, an FBI agent named Tom Shaw (Jon Hamm), who is actually a composite character. The sexual liaison between them is treated as her half of a quid pro quo; in return, Shaw passes on the tip that Jewell is the suspect the FBI is investigating. Scruggs writes a story saying just that, which turns Jewell (and the implication of his guilt) into a global news event.

But according to various sources, including Kevin Riley, the current editor-in-chief of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, there’s no truth to the notion that Kathy Scruggs ever slept with a source. She was, as described in a report in Vanity Fair, a hard-nosed, flamboyant fixture of the AJC newsroom who had an edgy side to her (she died, in 2001, of an overdose). But her integrity as a reporter was highly respected.

Billy Ray, the screenwriter of “Richard Jewell,” and Warner Bros., the studio distributing it, have defended the movie by taking a page from the current political moment. They’ve doubled down on their misrepresentation, attacking their accusers without addressing, in any detail, the falsehood that they’re accused of telling. The Warner Bros. statement reads, in part: “It is unfortunate and the ultimate irony that the Atlanta Journal Constitution, having been a part of the rush to judgment of Richard Jewell, is now trying to malign our filmmakers and cast…The AJC’s claims are baseless and we will vigorously defend against them.” Billy Ray says, “The movie isn’t about Kathy Scruggs. It’s about the heroism and hounding of Richard Jewell, and what rushed reporting can do to an innocent man. And by the way, I will stand by every word and assertion in the script.”

The controversy over the movie’s depiction of Kathy Scruggs now extends to the issue of whether Olivia Wilde, who plays her, should have agreed to take on the role in the first place. Wilde has defended her decision, writing on Twitter, “I was asked to play the supporting role of Kathy Scruggs, who was, by all accounts, bold, smart, and fearlessly undeterred by the challenge of being a female reporter in the south in the 1990s…The perspective of the fictional dramatization of the story, as I understood it, was that Kathy, and the FBI agent who leaked false information to her, were in a pre-existing romantic relationship, not a transactional exchange of sex for information.”

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BluzDude
I know most of you will disagree, but whether he plays a gangster, a good guy, in a comedy or drama, De Niro is a one trick pony, he plays the same person in just about every movie, no wonder he comes across as dumb as a stump on talk shows.

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keefriff99
Clint is going to be 90 in a few months.

Yeah, he's very hit or miss these days, but to still be cranking out, on average, one film every 1-2 years at his age is remarkable.

I enjoyed Sully very much, even though it was a complete fiction...

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BluzDude
I know most of you will disagree, but whether he plays a gangster, a good guy, in a comedy or drama, De Niro is a one trick pony, he plays the same person in just about every movie, no wonder he comes across as dumb as a stump on talk shows.

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BluzDude
I know most of you will disagree, but whether he plays a gangster, a good guy, in a comedy or drama, De Niro is a one trick pony, he plays the same person in just about every movie, no wonder he comes across as dumb as a stump on talk shows.

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LeonidP
Di Niro is still amazing! You guys don't know what you're talking about!!

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crholmstrom
Just finished watching. What a fantastic film! 1 of the best I've seen this year. I'd still give the nod to "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" as best of the year but not by much. Highly recommended!

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keefriff99
Eh...aside from the casting and the mafia ties, The Irishman is really NOTHING like Goodfellas or Casino. Those films are bombastic and over-the-top...The Irishman is a very quiet, pensive film in comparison.

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Bungo
Man, I must have watched Once Upon A Time In Hollywood at least 10 times. So many details to catch. The acting, the soundtrack, the wardrobes, the sets, the action sequences ...... there's just so much to see in each scene that you have to watch it several times to soak it all in. This is Tarantino's masterpiece. Anything he does after this will just be a footnote.

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Palace Revolution 2000


I don't get it. It must be me.
and now "Once Upon a Time..". I am just left cold. What am I missing in OUTIH? Inside references? cinematic tributes?