Watched three HW movies over the last two weeks.
Darkest Hour - Winston Churchill, the man, warts and all, his leadership during the IInd World War and the story of how he sent a civilian fleet to pick up the British army boys marooned on Dunkirk ... among other events :) Also shows how unpopular he was among his own cabinet members. Interesting movie, as I am very hazy about these events in modern history.
The Post - the story of the scandal before Watergate ... the Pentagon Papers, and the Vietnam War ... the American presence and how military experts predicted America's failure in Vietnam, which was kept hidden from the American people for over many years and three Presidents. Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep ... just these two names are enough to guarantee a certain quality ... and they don't disappoint.
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri - a slice of rural/small town America ... and you begin to see why Trump won the Presidency, if the majority of the American population is anything like the one shown. Uncouth, ignorant, unintelligent, foul-mouthed, frankly racist ... the closest comparison is Haryanvi Jats. A movie where it's hard to like any single character ... they are all so UNlikeable. A woman who gets annoyed with her daughter and tells her she hopes the daughter will get raped ... a daughter and son who call their mother bitch to her face, and worse ... a husband who leaves the mother of his teenage kids for a dumb blonde 19 year old ... a racist, unintelligent cop, who follows his equally racist mother's advice to mess up the people prodding him to work on a case by jailing their friend, or beating up an innocent young boy ... a police chief who decides to kill himself because he can't bear a slow long drawn out death by cancer .. leaving his wife (who looks like his daughter!) and two young kids orphaned and alone ... and a movie where every second word is a cuss word. Reminded me why I dislike most HW movies ... since both The Post and Darkest Hour were set in an earlier time, the language was so much better!
I believe the movie is up for the Oscars ... I hope it doesn't get too many. Don't know what the message was ... except for a very weak attempt at showing a slight reformation of the corrupt racist cop ... didn't come through very well if so.
Darkest Hour - Winston Churchill, the man, warts and all, his leadership during the IInd World War and the story of how he sent a civilian fleet to pick up the British army boys marooned on Dunkirk ... among other events :) Also shows how unpopular he was among his own cabinet members. Interesting movie, as I am very hazy about these events in modern history.
The Post - the story of the scandal before Watergate ... the Pentagon Papers, and the Vietnam War ... the American presence and how military experts predicted America's failure in Vietnam, which was kept hidden from the American people for over many years and three Presidents. Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep ... just these two names are enough to guarantee a certain quality ... and they don't disappoint.
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri - a slice of rural/small town America ... and you begin to see why Trump won the Presidency, if the majority of the American population is anything like the one shown. Uncouth, ignorant, unintelligent, foul-mouthed, frankly racist ... the closest comparison is Haryanvi Jats. A movie where it's hard to like any single character ... they are all so UNlikeable. A woman who gets annoyed with her daughter and tells her she hopes the daughter will get raped ... a daughter and son who call their mother bitch to her face, and worse ... a husband who leaves the mother of his teenage kids for a dumb blonde 19 year old ... a racist, unintelligent cop, who follows his equally racist mother's advice to mess up the people prodding him to work on a case by jailing their friend, or beating up an innocent young boy ... a police chief who decides to kill himself because he can't bear a slow long drawn out death by cancer .. leaving his wife (who looks like his daughter!) and two young kids orphaned and alone ... and a movie where every second word is a cuss word. Reminded me why I dislike most HW movies ... since both The Post and Darkest Hour were set in an earlier time, the language was so much better!
I believe the movie is up for the Oscars ... I hope it doesn't get too many. Don't know what the message was ... except for a very weak attempt at showing a slight reformation of the corrupt racist cop ... didn't come through very well if so.
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