Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
I remember going to see Stone's film about Nixon. As a friend remarked leaving the theater, "I don't know enough about that period of time, and having seen this film, I feel like I know less."

I giver very low odds to this being a good movie, much less a worthy evaluation of the last eight years. Art turns to junk when it's propaganda.
Lemur, you make it sound as though Hollywood is full of historically accurate, factual accounts of real world events and this will be the deviation. ;) I can't even go see movies about so called "history" because they are so full of made up things and forced-in love stories superimposed over the events that I become ill. (Pearl Harbor anyone?)

It bugs me even when it is distant history and/or has few "hard source" accounts to base it on. I always feel like, if you're just going to make up a story... get an original script, completely fiction, and produce that instead. I mean, I may have been in the 1% of the audience who saw "Troy" and had actually read the old Homeric epics, for example... but I was like what?! Agamemnon died when he returned home! And Achilles brought his beloved "cousin" to war with him? Oh my god, I know why they changed that, but that's ghetto! I was having a little paroxysm. Hahaha.