Maybe my expectations were set too high. But it seemed like an exercise of dubious historic accuracy, decent if unexceptional acting, an intro that revolved around an explanation of the Iranian revolution that can at best be characterized as "half truths" and a total lack of character development. Was I supposed to feel something at the end when the stone-faced Ben Affleck came home?
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Topic - Finally got around to seeing Argo...was not impressed - Jazz Inmate 15:30:16 01/06/13 (26)
- Just watched Ambassador Ken Taylor on Charlie Rose - Jazz Inmate 12:53:11 01/10/13 (4)
- Coulda shoulda woulda. That's not what happened. - sjb 23:23:06 01/10/13 (3)
- It is what happened. Canada bore more responsibility for the survival of those Americans than the film showed - Jazz Inmate 09:13:16 01/14/13 (1)
- You're the one who made a point of highlighting the quote - sjb 11:48:43 01/17/13 (0)
- "I coulda been a contendah." Jazz's eternal lament. nt - tinear 10:18:16 01/12/13 (0)
- I lived through the Carter era - mbnx01 07:50:25 01/07/13 (7)
- It's not pro-Carter anything.... * - mr grits 12:06:43 01/07/13 (0)
- I take it you are not much in the mood for Zero Dark Thirty... :( nt - Victor Khomenko 08:02:05 01/07/13 (5)
- Pelosi isn't too excited about seeing it . . . - mr grits 12:20:28 01/07/13 (4)
- I will ask her to be my movie date - Victor Khomenko 12:34:17 01/07/13 (3)
- She has huge knockers. nt - tinear 08:11:35 01/09/13 (1)
- RE: She has huge knockers. nt - geoff 14:27:42 01/18/13 (0)
- Ahh, the old... - mkuller 20:39:25 01/07/13 (0)
- I thought it was very well done... - mkuller 20:54:13 01/06/13 (1)
- so did the entire presscorps. I spent most of the movie wishing I was watching Lincoln or even the Hobbit NT - Jazz Inmate 21:28:20 01/06/13 (0)
- The final airport scene was just totally over it . . . . - mr grits 15:40:06 01/06/13 (10)
- My exact feelings. Over the f'n top Hollywood BS.^ - Road Warrior 20:21:43 01/06/13 (9)
- it's even worse than that because the underlying message was that Hollywood saved the hostages - Jazz Inmate 23:47:55 01/06/13 (8)
- It was the CIA guys idea. And that was the real idea. nt - sjb 12:13:09 01/07/13 (7)
- It wasn't the officers' ideas, which were cast as idiotic - Jazz Inmate 12:40:12 01/07/13 (6)
- It showed State Department guys having those ideas - sjb 20:33:06 01/07/13 (5)
- It was the low-level CIA agent who came up with the idea - Jazz Inmate 20:29:21 01/08/13 (4)
- No. The film was made because it was a film about a fictitious film. A very interesting idea, given all the - tinear 08:13:38 01/09/13 (1)
- Not a fictitious film; real hollywood types, production company, storyboards... - Jazz Inmate 09:59:13 01/09/13 (0)
- We must have seen different movies then - sjb 22:37:58 01/08/13 (1)
- we saw the same movie; you're just not acknowledging its pure celebration of hollywood's godlike power - Jazz Inmate 09:57:47 01/09/13 (0)