Comments on: DHP Review: Frost/Nixon

By: Ed Driscoll » Nixon And Ebert At The Movies

Ed Driscoll » Nixon And Ebert At The Movies — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:01:58 +0000

[…] Ebert naturally gives the movie four stars, John Nolte provides a bit of much-needed perspective: Frost/Nixon is a full on respectable, accomplished and […]

By: robert

robert — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:36:55 +0000

there were less than 300 million in the country… over 6 billion in the world. i dont know what 400 referred to.

By: jp

jp — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:23:29 +0000

anyone think the Dems not cutting off funding in Iraq this time around, given they could, is an admission of guilt of the 2 Million slaughtered by Pol Pot is blood on their hands?

not to mention the consequences are far higher given the Jihadist threat

By: jp

jp — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:19:46 +0000

there is a sort of tie in to the Che movie here.

the reason JFK chose Vietnam to push back the Soviets expansion, was because he got played like a fiddle in the Cuban Missle crisis by the Soviets. He agreed that the US would never remove Castro from power, the only reason the turd is still in power. It came out when the Soviet Archives were released.

JFK then chose a jungle on the other side of the world to make a stand. The Soviets laughed at JFK and sinced his weakness. I fear something similar will be attempted against Obama. Putin definitely has some major plays in the works for next year

By: Bret

Bret — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:48:43 +0000

Ever since I first heard that this film was being made, I’ve struggled to figure out what the point of it is, but now I understand: liberal wish-fulfillment. Are the original interviews unavailable for viewing? Are they locked up in a vault somewhere? Why not just simply watch them? Are there no transcripts? This film had to be made because, from what I’ve heard, Nixon came across too well in the actual interview.

Someday, liberals will have to make a 200 episode “mini-series” about the OJ Simpson trial. Most of it will simply be a word-for-word/shot-for-shot recreation of the actual trial, except this version will be made to showcase the racist LAPD’s plot to frame OJ.

By: Bloody Sam

Bloody Sam — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:48:00 +0000

Seeing the ads for Frost/Nixon gave me an unpleasant flashback to my recent attempt to make it through Robert Altman’s adaptation of the one-man show Secret Honor. Tedious, uninteresting monologues strung together with a mumbling, idiosyncratic take on Nixon by Philip Baker Hall. Who at least looks a little like Nixon. Langella here looks like himself, not Nixon. Not quite as distractingly “unalike” as Anthony Hopkins’ Nixon for Oliver Stone.

Biopics just don’t work for me when the iconic main characters lack any resemblance with the actors portraying them: Nixon, The Doors, W., etc. Basically any Oliver Stone project about a well-known public figure, political in nature or not, but, now, with Frost/Nixon, it looks like Ron Howard’s joined the Critical-Adulation/Celebrity-Status-Over-Historical-Authenticity casting club.

By: EPorvaznik

EPorvaznik — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:54:17 +0000

>>Besides, nobody does a better Nixon than Dan Ackroyd. :O)>>>

Awwww, what about Dan Hedaya?

By: Tar Heel Mom

Tar Heel Mom — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:15:21 +0000

newguy40, you have to see Downfall!

Bruno Ganz was robbed, robbed, I tell ya - he should have gotten the Oscar for bringing Hitler back to life. To watch as he consigns the German people to their fate with not a hint of regret over the misery he’s brought them - blaming THEM for losing the war - is truly chilling.

By: Johnny Ed's Baby

Johnny Ed's Baby — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:06:13 +0000

The Ugly American:

From the commercials I thought Langella sounds like Rich Little imitating impersonating John Byner imitating Nixon. So theatrical.

newman:

I think the original Frost/Nixon interviews have been released on dvd,

And anyone that thinks Congress’s withdrawing support for the South Viet Nam army, after Nixon resigned and the elections of 1974, did not result in the death of millions did not live through those years and gets their history from Bill Ayers.

By: Kit

Kit — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:23:49 +0000

So better to watch on the small screen than the big?

Plot sounds like a tv movie.