Posted on 04/06/2018 4:23:20 PM PDT by gaijin
What did people think..?
Would you recommend the movie to other Freepers..?
Do you plan on seeing the movie..?
After seeing the movie, Rush recommended it a couple of days ago.
Yeah but this movie exposes him for what he was. This man who made the movie claimed to have had heavy duty pressure exerted on him to not make it.
Mary joe is still the most influential female in 20th century politics.
I’ve always wondered - why was Kennedy able to get out of the car but not Mary Jo ?
It will probably get accused of being racist because there are no blacks in leading roles.
I’ll wait for the DVD as I do not like to movie theaters anymore. Besides that free popcorn and beverage of my choice. Also I can pause it, rewind it, etc. 8>)
I don’t want to see it other than to support a film crew that did a good job not injecting their own judgement on the event and producing a somewhat neutral 3rd party bullet list of how the event happened.
Ted was a creep and I swear Bill Clinton is his illegitimate son, and for Every Mary Jo’s type of death there’s 2 Sandra Levy type of death and a Marc Rich type of death.
It was created for National Lampoon. VW disavows it completely because if they had actually created it the fallout would have made the Diesel engine scandal seem like a picnic in comparison.
As a smoker that fact doesn’t bother me in the least, but I’ll wait for the DVD. 8>)
I was shocked to learn that even many years after the incident, hearing JOKES about Chappaquiddick was one of Teddy’s guilty PLEASURES.
I was totally disgusted.
The movie is as objectively factual as I think any portrayal of this incident possibly could be. It was as if the writers and producers set out to adapt the Wikipedia article on Chappaquiddick to the big screen as faithfully as possible. It is like "The Passion of Christ" in its historical detail. Although the acting and production quality were all top notch, I found the portrayal to be too generous to Ted Kennedy. He was projected as an abused son with a well meaning but weak moral conscience.
There were several flashback sequences offering a variety of interpretations. Only at the end were there two, less than a second each, glimpses of anything remotely sexual. The first was of a sympathetic Mary Jo Kopechne reaching out to caress Ted Kennedy's face and then one of her clothed upper body laying on the hood of his car. No mention was ever made of the actual police report of her missing panties.
Ted Kennedy was a sociopath who most likely left his young mistress to die a miserable death in a misguided attempt to save his own political career. He waited ten hours to report the incident while the diver who found her body still grasping the back seat in the remaining pocket of air estimated she could have been saved had Ted Kennedy reported the incident in the first three to four hours. The movie didn't explain this fact either. Despite the wailing of this New York Slimes writer, this movie goes easy on the memory of this monster.
I noticed something off about this ad. There is a typo. No space after the comma (Volkswagen,he’d). Does anyone know why?
I remember when I heard Mary Jo was found in the car’s air pockets and Kennedy just spent the night with his lawyers.
After Kennedy and Clinton, we are suppose to tear our hair out over a slutty porn queen? Fat chance.
Wow. Ted also bragged about sex with more than a thousand women. I read the book senatorial privilege a week before going to Edgar town, 30 years ago. Great book. Can’t wait to see this movie. I was a kid when Ted killed mary joe, and it was bizzar, all the news was sympathy for poor Ted.
There is an alternate theory that he wasn’t in the car. The crash was staged and she was the only one in the car. Already dead? Or maybe she wasn’t and they thought she was.
I know the left is going nuts over the move! So it must be worth watching!
In his book, Leo Damore mentions that the State Police placed a valid drivers license in his file. This was to cover up the fact that his was expired.
Did the movie show that? Also the diver flat out said that he could have saved her if he had been called immediately. Was that shown?
The answer to those questions will tell me whether or not to watch it.
Do not expect it to do well. Box office mojo has it less than $3 million. Not top 10.
You would do better to see ...I Can Only Imagine
What is the possible reason to revisit Chappaquiddick now?
Or as Hillary Clinton says.....What difference does it make?
Ted got away with it and lived to stink up the senate and our Republic for way too many years.
Click bait.....Just to entice moviegoers
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