Spielberg's best movie in decades

Started by kroz, October 16, 2015, 02:42:02 PM

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quiller

Quote from: Solar on November 26, 2015, 12:11:39 PM
It's about cold war Russia and spies.
There used to be a time when Hollywood told pretty good stories, embellished, but good and mostly factual, none the less, now it's all pretty much garbage, you never know where the lie begins or ends.

I'd say it began when a French cameraman photographed an oncoming locomotive, the first moving picture distributed globally. Numerous press reports said later that movie patrons were so terrified by the relentless train about to kill them that they literally ran from the room.

Or it coulda been about December 8, 1941. Not a whole lot of accuracy until much later and larger budgets allowed a grander scope---but still containing necessary fiction to condense hordes of people into single characters viewers could relate to.

In my lifetime it came when the first version was released of the film The Manchurian Candidate. It does remind me so much of the Obama era, the moment he said ISIS was contained.