This was actually a pretty good movie even though I've grown to
despise that jerkoff DeNiro, but that's a story for another day. The reason I even mention this is because that movie was the very last movie I ever saw or probably ever will see in a movie theater.
Somewhere along the line I soured on the whole concept, but again that's another story for yet another day.
Anyway, If you missed out on the summer movies or want to rewatch your favorite one, you're in luck because today is National Cinema Day and most theaters across the country are offering tickets for only $4. Granted the popcorn and soda'll probably setcha back a half a hundred, but WTF - no guts no glory, right?
PS: That movie came out in 1999 - 24 years ago. THAT is the last time I was in a theater. 24 years ago.
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DeNiro was good in Taxi and the deer Hunter, but he's gone full Liberal psycho now. The last movie in a theater I attended was Saving Private Ryan back in the fall of 1998. It was in the Wexford Town cinema (now defunct) a few miles from Curracloe where the movie's landing scenes were filmed. During the filming there were guys in uniform zipping around in jeeps.
ReplyDeleteEddie Raffs
De Niro is a big libturd
ReplyDeleteI took advantage of that special - my husband and I saw Oppenheimer.
ReplyDeleteIf you could sort of ignore the ridiculous pleading that Oppenheimer was just a naive leaning leftist foo, it was pretty good. Matt Damon was good, the guys playing most of the known physicists were good, and Robert Downey Jr - playing the guy trying to get confirmed for Sec. of Commerce - was awesome. Just a masterpiece of acting. His character, in the script, was meant to be a villain. And, he has overtaken ANY prior actor in terms of playing both a credible and horrifying villain.
It was slanted - heavily in favor of the kindly motivations of Communists, but still worth watching. I liked some of the behind the scenes discussions of how to most profitably direct the physicists towards research that might have some practical effect. I would have liked to see a film that brought in more of the engineering viewpoint.
The film tries to push the idea that Oppie (as he was called by colleagues) was a 'useful idiot'. To some extent, he may have been. But, the reality is, he was a grown man with the capacity for making reasoned decisions, and he chose to go along with a pernicious crowd.
He was, in fact, a liar. He covered up his actions in protecting Communists. He both associated with Communists - openly declared Communists - AND covered for them, bringing them into a project where they could spy to their hearts content.
Was he a tool of the Soviets - probably. Too likely to leave him in charge of the AEC.
The film will likely be nominated for an Oscar - and, in fact, it's really a pretty good film. But, that's not why people will vote for it.
And, as an aside - for the first time, I wondered - were the Rosenbergs actually guilty of all that they were accused of?
Or were they used as scapegoats - with the WILLING COOPERATION of the leadership of the American Communist Party - to deflect suspicion from Oppenheimer and the Los Alamos Communists?