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Frost/Nixon(Movie), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind(Movie), Syriana(Movie), Michael Clayton(Movie), The Ides of March(Movie), Capote(Movie), The Descendants(Movie), Up in the Air(Movie), Milk(Movie), Leatherheads(Movie), The Men Who Stare at Goats(Movie), Charlie Wilson's War(Movie)
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it is a very contained story that dives into the ethics of journalism and how that led to the fall of mccarthyism. david strathairn gives a great performance as edward r. murrow and does a lot to carry the film. the scope of the story is very narrow and it doesnt get sidetracked with sideplots or personal lives, it is essentially entirely told in the newsroom with the robert downey jr and patricia clarkson charaters providing the only personal moments in the film. the way that the actual footage of mccarthy and the senate hearings were incorporated was fantastic and it blended seamlessly into... read
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maybe it's the best political movie that relay heavily on the audience background to be cultured by the communist and mccarthy. and as one that is completely isolated from that subject i felt more like want to understand but don't know how if you have some kind of background or like me wants to know more about that subject you'll begin to appreciate that movie and its view. read
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I first saw this movie in a 10th grade Media Studies class, so I'd say it's been a while. I remember kind of liking it then.
It's good. The acting and the premise is solid.
HOWEVER. It is incredibly boring. Not every movie has to be the most exciting thing ever, but it felt like they couldn't even fill an hour and a half without copious amounts of actual McCarthy footage and the cutaways with the singer and the old commercials.
And the unnecessary Robert Downey, Jr. subplot. He and Patricia Clarkson play a married couple who can't say they're married because they work together. Maybe the... read
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