Illustrating once again that the cheese stands alone. For a reason.
Posted on 02/24/2013 12:58:25 PM PST by Rennes Templar
Scary to realize academicians think this way, but they do - almost all of them.
Pure, unadulterated tripe. Carter was a complete fraud and a world-class incompetent idiot.
Illustrating once again that the cheese stands alone. For a reason.
turns out there is a reason for ARGO being “’based on’ a true story”!.....Brinkley obviously didn’t do the research
"Unforgettable Gravitas" = forgettable stiffness
His post-presidential work with the Carter Center fighting guinea-worm disease, river blindness, and other plagues has likewise turned him into a global humanitarian folk hero.
"Global humanitarian folk hero" = someone much less well-known abroad than at home but more welcome overseas than in his own country
Carter – Mr. Clean Energy – had become the butt of innumerable jokes.
"Mr. Clean Energy" = Mr. Scared of Killer Rabbit or Mr. Obsessively Scrutinized White House Tennis Court Sign-Up Sheets
Carter also deserves credit for establishing Channel Islands National Park in Southern California, the favorite marine paradise of many in the movie industry, and for protecting the Dakota Badlands from ruin.
"Deserves credit" = signed bills upgrading already federally protected National Monuments to National Parks which increased tourist traffic to threatened ecosystems
In my estimation, the greatest environmental speech ever delivered to Congress was Carter’s stunningly prescient May 23, 1977 message.
"Stunningly prescient" = mindnumbingly mixing banal rhetoric with billion dollar spending proposals
And Carter was the avatar of mass-transit.
"Avatar" = manifestation of a deity in bodily form on earth.
Huh?
As far as the storytelling...it was OK. But really more like TV movie quality than A-list Hollywood.
And Affleck certainly doesn't deserve a best actor award. There was no range for acting...more a tepid role really which just about anyone could have done.
In the postscript of the movie carter seemed to be taking credit for not taking credit for something he didn’t do.
Interesting.
I found it so favorable to Carter that it was nauseating, but I remember the situation and what we thought. My take on it was that Affleck found a good story and his religious ties to the religion shared by libs and Hollywood, whatever they call it, prevented him form being honest about the politics and the story’s power came through despite this.
I thought the movie was humble, but not poorly done. And I thought Affleck’s character was so well done I couldn’t recognize Affleck, the character is a very strong but anti flamboyant.
Lincoln’s Daniel Day Lewis gets it, so it’s a moot point, but I saw Argo a bunch of times and hated Lincoln.
I’m biased, but I see your point.
I thought it was strange they didn't much mention the bigger hostage crisis; it was almost like they were trying to confuse the two events and convince the ignorant that the Canadian event was the main event...my suspicion is they wanted to steal Reagan's thunder and give it to Carter.
Astute observation.
My suspicion is that Affleck wasn't as innocent as all that. His collaboration with Clooney heightens my suspicion. Both are far, far left and like to use their craft to steering the movie-going public as far left as possible.
My suspicion is that Affleck wasn't as innocent as all that. His collaboration with Clooney heightens my suspicion. Both are far, far left and like to use their craft to steering the movie-going public as far left as possible.
My suspicion is that Affleck wasn't as innocent as all that. His collaboration with Clooney heightens my suspicion. Both are far, far left and like to use their craft to steering the movie-going public as far left as possible.
It was a try, but, as usual, to the honest, it was still Jimmah, being carried along by his silly lib suppoerters. I just imagine Affleck so surprised at the success of this wonderful film and it’s strong story line after unsucessfully trying to make Jimmah look good. He should’ve talked to us who really lived through it.
Anyway, we’ve learned to overlook all of it. We dusted off our Jimmeah adoration deflectors and sat through it anyway. We know he was inept and so hated by the Iranians they let the prisoners go the day after, not his electoral defeat, but after he was out of office, after the inaugural.
The story is still very well done, sorry Ben.
Sorry...didn’t mean to be repetitive.
If Hussein is your standard for greatness in a President (we are talking Hollywood and academia, after all), then Carter is already rehabilitated.
There is simply no way to ‘rehabilitate’ Carter in the left’s view (he caused us to have 8 years of (Reagan))? Yes!!!!
On our side, he was just incompetent, and we then looked into his sad past and realized what an empty cheap suit he had worn all his life. Hie Nuclear engineering degree he was supposed to have had was tossed around with so many reasons why it wasn’t granted, he should have hired Antonio Rossi to get a PhD from Billy Bobs graduate student class available in LANR or LENR and they give you extra points to debunk the science behind it.
It’s Fake, it’s dead, it’s pining for the fjords, it has ceased to be.
Look for Dennis Lee to have more than this guy has had,
It was like “Band of Brothers” all the goodnes of the characters came though. THeir religious worship, family loyalty and grace under pressure and patriotism came through. I think this was an unintended consequence of good storytelling. WE’ll see what he does with his next movie. He should try again, but he;ll make something liberal anti patriotic and hideous if he does what his predecessors have done.
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