Posted on 02/24/2013 12:58:25 PM PST by Rennes Templar
Ben Affleck is not up for the acting award... i think he should have been nominated for best director--but was not nominated... i don't care if Lincoln or Argo wins best picture... (i do want Lincoln to win, but if Argo wins, i'm okay with that)... however, Daniel Day Lewis had BETTER win the best actor award... he deserves it... while i liked Bradley Cooper's performance in Silver Linings Playbook, i don't think his role was as complicated as the Lincoln role... i would be sad if Day Lewis does not win... love that guy...
You know and I know who is going to win it, and why.
I just didn't think Argo was that great a movie. For me it was like watching a TV movie...somewhat entertaining but forgettable. And, like I said, his agenda was clear.
So, I see that Douglas Brinkley is just another revisionist.
I’ll never pay any attention to anything he says or writes in the future.
I cast him into the dustbin of American historians, alongside Doris Kearns Goodwin.
I don’t see how it helps Carter’s reputation. In the movie he’s ineffectual and almost kills the mission that works so they can get them in the big rescue mission (which we all know failed).
That was my reaction.
It must get to him that conservatives can ignore propaganda and enjoy a good story through it while the libs in Hwood probably hate this film.
They cannot destroy our memory of history. Carter was inept.
Any smart director or producer will grab this and get moving on a film about the 444 days with as much sincerity as was done with this story but they’re not smart, not about this wonderful country of theirs.
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Of course to diffuse Reagan's reputation for succeeding in the bolder rescue was the real agenda IMO.
do tell! you're scaring me!
btw—my second fave to win is Hugh Jackman... i wish he and Day Lewis could both win... :)
IT’s portrayed as his only having been there a day and a half.
The Canadians were great.
So were the embassy staff, probably true.
Few of them will want to help bolster Reagan's reputation but I agree it would be nice to see.
Imagine a University such as Rice University supposedly known for academic excellence would have a professor such as this teaching our children. Carter should have never been President. He was also being controlled by the Middle East.
Carter was such a damn disgrace that we had Ross Perot and Bull Simons rescue the EDS workers of Perot. “Bull” Simons led the Son Tay Raid as a full colonel in late 1970. Carter was/is a damn joke. Carter served in the navy, but; he never saw any action. Carter disgraced this nation for months.
In real life he OKed it. In the movie he OKed it then rescinded at the last minute and then got “overridden” by Tony and others at the CIA. Not very good for his reputation.
The “bolder rescue” failed. Reagan got a negotiated release. I think the real agenda was to put a good story on the screen. I’ve seen the movie twice, once just last night, and there’s none of your”agenda” in it, it’s not just in your opinion, it’s from your head. Carter looks like an idiot in the movie for putting the state department in charge of the rescue in the first place then canceling the mission in the second.
A lot a liberals hate Carter too. Remember that “The Swimmer” hated his guts.
“Carter in the left’s view (he caused us to have 8 years of (Reagan))? Yes!!!!”
Begs the next question, Obama will have caused us to have 8 years of______?
And Bush gave us 8 years of Obama.
Haha! Good one!
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