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By: beefrank

beefrank — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:05:48 +0000

Your description about Hollywood is right on. As most baby boomers, I grew up influenced by the ‘magic’ of Hollywood and awed by the its glitter and larger-than-life personalities. However, a childhood visit to Universal Studios revealed how manufactured and fake the ‘magic’ was. You mean sets were built to emphasize or diminish actors’ heights? Everything was a ‘prop’? I grew up favoring ‘period’ films for the simple storytelling rather than some of the celebrated ‘message’ films during the 70s. After reading ‘An Empire of Their Own’ and discovering the Oscar event simply started as a dinner event where a handful of power brokers feigned praise for one another, my interest in the award event waned. The idolatrous attention to ‘celebrities’ is obscene and contaminates our political process. My favorite film is still one my parents took me to view when I was twelve in a San Francisco neighborhood theater, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, the original 3+ hour version.

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:07:57 +0000

I had a choice; watch the Oscars or go watch my 49 year old daughter play with her “over 30″ soccer team. I loved to watch her play when she 16, and I still do. They enjoyed a rare win last night.

We seldom go to the movies because I am such a Curmudgeon about them; but my wife enjoys them and I have a standing commitment to take her if she really wants to go. She wanted to see ARGO for some time, so given the results last night, I felt really obligated to make it happen today.
Damn. Parts of the movie were very good. But, they had to get the Leftist licks in at the beginning, and that turned me off a bit from the start. Then there was the language. I have a dirty mouth in certain situations, but I control itl in polite company. It is what I used to call “ready room language”, or maybe “drunk as a skunk” language. Still, nothing turns me off faster than gratuitous F bombs in so-called entertainment (or in teens Facebook posts, etc.). What is the point? Is this supposed to tell us that the speaker so important and powerful she/he can talk garbage anywhere and anytime , regardless of the audience? Is it meant to show that they are really serious? There are times when some artful profanity would demonstrate how extreme the situation is, and modern sensibilities are prepared to accept that. The verbiage in this movie had no artistic context or justification.
Oh, the scenes of the airliner flying into Tehran, and then the take off and departure scene were about as phony as they could be.
The Afleck character was likable, and I thought he did a credible job of portraying him. Too bad they finished offf with a self serving cameo statement by Jimmah Carter, rather than an appearance by the real John Mendes.
End of review.