Spoiler I'm not sure if that happened in real life, I'm guessing it didn't. In the movie, the idea was to have the group do everything a real movie crew might do in order to appear legit.
I just thought I'd pass this along since it's kind of interesting. Former President Jimmy Carter talking about the accuracies/inaccuracies of the movie: http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/bestoftv/2013/02/22/pmt-jc-on-argo.cnn
I liked it, but the fact it'll probably win Best Film? Mmh, I'll take it over "Zero Dark Highly Overrated", but giving the movie top prize is an injustice that won't take away Ben Affleck getting the f***-over for Best Director.
Hmm...I thought Argo was very overrated and then I loved Zero Dark 30. To each his own I suppose! I agree with you that Affleck should have at least gotten a nomination. Really surprised he didn't. Personally....I'm hoping for Les Miserables/Zero Dark 30/Django Unchained to win Best picture, but I'm thinking the Academy will do the predictable thing and give it to Lincoln.
I had higher hopes for Les Mis and Zero Dark. Loved Django. DiCaprio was screwed out of a nomination. I'd take Samuel Jackson, too, over Arkin (Argo), and I'm an Arkin fan.
Yeah. I understand the criticisms that went along with Les Mis and ZD30 so you'll hear no argument from me. I just found them really enjoyable myself. And yeah DiCaprio was probably the biggest snub for this years Oscars in my opinion. The fact that he's never won an Oscar is mind boggling. I'm just really hoping the Academy doesn't hop all on Lincoln for every award. I thought it was good, but grossly overrated apart from the acting. Daniel Day Lewis is a lock for best actor in my opinion and I think Tommy Lee Jones has a pretty solid shot for Supporting Actor.
F-ck O'bannon! Man, I hate that jerk! Not watching this ever b the way. And if anyone got screwed out of an acting Academy award it was John Goodman in Flight. Best part of an otherwise drunk cliche movie.
Just got done watching it....9.25 out of 10. Very good movie. Im only 25 so I did not know the details of this whole operation. I knew about the hostages in Iran part but not this.
Saw it last night. Really good movie. It's odd that this is the favorite for best picture though. It didn't rise to that level in my opinion. I thought it was better than Zero Dark Thirty, which was just a "good" movie. Zero Dark Thirty made it to the level that any movie which is called good should make it to. It wasn't at the level of one of the best pictures of the year. But the Academy has a really poor track record and almost always omits some really great movies, and movies that aren't as great win. It happens.
Spoiler because the Iranians told them to. The idea in the movie was that the Iranians were calling their bluff. If the group had refused to meet them there to scout the bazaar then the Iranians would have known that something was wrong, and the group would have been taken in.
I hate movies like that, like "Miracle". I kept watching hoping the Russians would defeat the american college kids! pure hollywood propaganda to have a bunch of kids defeat the glorious red steel on ice! So predictable. it would never happen in real life!! (add a truck load of salt^^)
Eggs-ACKT-ly. I don't get all the love for "Zero Dark Thirty." I liked it okay, but didn't love it. When I saw it, I thought: Okay, even the Tea Partiest Tea Partier can't claim that torture led to information that nabbed bin Laden. But Bigelow puts torture foremost in the film while going on talk shows to decry its use. Fine; but if its efficacy is "meh", and doesn't serve the reality of this tale, well..... When watching the movie I thought it had too much b.s. dialogue: "I'm the m*****f***** who found bin Laden" or whatever (and this to Leon Panetta's face? please). Like Tom Cruise's "and you're under arrest you s.o.b." isn't something that happens in real life to a superior. Except Leon Panetta exists and I just don't see the dialogue as real. Just trying to put in rah-rah dialogue, you know? I read this article and it kind of underlined a problem with the movie: http://www.salon.com/2013/02/01/zero_dark_thirty_goes_feminist/ Just tell the story, don't try to make it about a strong female. If you just tell the story, the protagonist will come across as strong, period. Also, from the movie you'd think the Seals were sitting around watching p*rn while waiting for the green light. In real life, they built a mockup of the Abbatabod compound and trained, trained, trained. Why not: Start with 10 minutes of the Seals training for the mission; flashback to Maya's story (but a little less of it, maybe); 10 more minutes in the middle of the Seal training; Maya's story again in flashback, leading up to the raid at the end? (sigh) Oh, well.
I haven't seen this the only Oscar worthy movire, I've see!n is flight. Given the clips I've seen of Lincoln its hard to imagine better acting. I need to see all of them
I wonder if the two brief after-thought shout-outs to Canada is enough to appease the Canadians? They said the whole operation was 90% Canada and 10% CIA. But, the movie gave the impression it was 90% CIA and 10% Canada? Is that true? I didn't see the film but I sure saw the b****ing about this aspect of it. Typical Hollywood production I guess. If the Canadians want credit, then make your own damn film. lol
