'J. Edgar' Film 'Disappointment of the Year'
Kyle Smith of the New York Post and I may share a similar political philosophy but we rarely agree on films. I sense we might agree on this one:
…but as “J.Edgar” sits at an astonishing 39 percent [at Rotten Tomatoes] it would be disingenuous not to notice that this film is getting hammered by critics. Despite its Oscar-winning director, writer (Dustin Lance Black) and Oscar-nominated star Leo DiCaprio, it is at the same approval level as “Immortals.” This is a disaster for a serious, highbrow, historical drama. The thought of critical reception didn’t occur to anyone on the set of “Immortals” but “J.Edgar” was made to win critical hosannas and Oscars....Oh, and “J.Edgar” is terrible and I predict pitiful box office and zero Oscar nominations.
Ouch.
Kyle’s a superb writer. His blog is here.
(Cross-posted at Big Hollywood)
Editor's note: Smith also wrote:
Among the Eastwood pictures that have higher RT scores are the notorious flops "Hereafter" (46 percent), "Changeling" (62 percent), "Blood Work" (53 percent), "True Crime" (54 percent), "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" (47 percent), "Absolute Power" (45 percent), "A Perfect World" (79 percent, and may I say, "Huh?") and even "The Rookie" (50 percent)...Clint Eastwood has an excellent claim on being the most overrated director of the era.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is horribly miscast
Submitted by Texndoc on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 8:27am.
He doesn't have the chops to carry a big dramatic role and at age 50 or 60 will still look like an aged baby-faced teen heartthrob.
Imagine "The Kings Speech" from a Hollywood studio instead of Britain. They would have put Leo as King George.
And I read they're planning him as Frank Sinatra. From one disaster to another.
Waste of time
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:12am.
He's proven to be a waste of time ever since he got on the Global Warming bandwagon and made that movie that was supposedly some kind of sequel to Algore's slideshow.
-Jon
Why I don't go to movies anymore
Submitted by cocodrie on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 8:53am.
Hollywood has taken the definition of masculinity from the likes of Gregory Peck down to the likes of Tiny Tim. Feminity has gone from Deborah Kerr to Rachel Maddow.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Why we call it Hollyweird
Submitted by rickster0130 on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:37am.
Isn't it wonderful that Planet Hollyweird keeps churning out pseudohistorical nonsense masquerading as fact. A few examples: JFK, Milk, Fair Game, An Inconvenient Truth (how ironic). Now this. Oh well, at least they give us an excuse to play our little game "Spot the Flaw". Better entertainment than the movies, eh what?
Wonder?
Submitted by mikebromo on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:53am.
Will Leonardo DeCrapio play Joe Paterno when Hollywood makes a movie about him?
Leo DeCoprophagia as J Edgar Hoover?
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:50am.
Talk about a talent-free hack...I guess we'll next see Denzel Washington cast in the role of Abraham Lincoln just to be politically correct. Paris Hilton as Greta Garbo?
Leo DeCoprophagia
Submitted by stratman on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 6:38pm.
"Leo DeCoprophagia"
Now that was funny. :-D
"J.Edgar" is being bashed because it is too kind to the
Submitted by lrgon on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 3:27pm.
man that the Hollywood leftwingers love to hate.
J.Edgar Hoover actually went after subversives of the red stripe and infiltrated left wing groups from the KKK to the SDS. Yes, the Klan is a leftwing group despite the rhetoric. http://www.amazon.com/Klandestine-untold-Delmar-Dennis-against/dp/087000...
Samuel Holloway Bowers was the imperial wizard of the Klan's Mississippi branch but had been a lifelong communist before leading the White Knights in the south. His objective was to stir up the ignorant and prejudicial people in that part of the country to violence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Holloway_Bowers
On the otherside of the coin the left worked the so-called "civil rights" groups to a frenzy to riot with "non violence" violence. In the aftermath came more government laws for everyone after the smoke had cleared, the blood was washed off the streets and the federal troops went home and the TV cameras were focused on another "Establishment" project.
Eastwood's movie dissapoints both the right and the left with "J. Edgar." But,obviously by the bad "reviews," the leftists are more bothered than is the right.
One conservative reviewer gave it a fairly good review despite the fact that Eastwood was way too kind to the feelings of the liberal left. Google >>> J.Edgar takes a close look at J.Edgar
Sun's up. Bacon is on the skillet. Smell of coffee is in the air
Submitted by The Vet on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 10:53pm.
lrgon is posting. Must be morning at camp loon.
private vet is posting late. That's way past your bed time
Submitted by lrgon on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 12:57am.
at Club Straight Jacket. Nurse Ratched will be lecturing you about not taking your meds.
Did the attendants take down your photos of Obama that you plastered all over your dorm room wall?
Look who's talking?!
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:02am.
After the incongruent series of posts you have made in the past few months, your credibility concerning the sanity or lack thereof in any poster is non-existent.
Care to lock horns on mental health? I enjoy nothing more than discussing neuroscience and psychiatry with the untrained.
are you private vet's alter ego?
Submitted by lrgon on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:20am.
Save us your pseudo-science blatherings doctor Feelgood-latte.
Must be getting cold on Loon Lake. Past time to migrate.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:30am.
Izza mad cuz izza no getz respect Loon?
The Japanese plot was well known by FDR. FDR allowed the Japanese Navy to steam to Pearl Harbor without giving warning to the fleet commanders at PH....
...Bush sent our army and airforce to blow up thousands of innocent women...
The secret of Pearl Harbor was that a US president knowingly allowed that to happen.
Poor loon. Loon sez loony things and that dang Veet and his buddies say mean things.
ellergon is---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:01am.
a wannabe historian who appears to be pathologically frustrated because history is not as he wants it to be.
That doesn't bode too well for his future.
MD
There you go again playing Surgeon General
Submitted by lrgon on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:30pm.
Nurse Ratched: "now little mattiedean, the y-shaped toy in your little doctor case is not to test your kitty's anal gland. You shouldn't be sucking on the tip it's nasty and could make you sickie pooh, ok? Now put up your little play pretend toys and take your meds, there, there."
lrgon, Time for you to get the Access Denied tag.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:38pm.
Filthy Troll.
You Didn't Build That.
OWS bus didn't pick you up at the home?
Submitted by lrgon on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:37pm.
Yes I can see by your incoherent and disjointed posts how upset you get when you can't cozy up inside those OWS tents with your buddies. Take your meds and say your prayers at night and things will get better, ok?
You're the one in the OWS
Submitted by bretzysdude on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 3:43pm.
You're the one in the OWS tent raping anyone that has taken penicillin. Why don't you get off YOUR meds, loser?
Hitting a little close to home, am I?
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:53pm.
Feelgood-latte? Sounds like something you have labeled your own overworked psychiatrist. Can't imagine what that poor doc has to endure treating you.
Based on the depraved post below and your other attacks on members of this board, a nice Axis II picture is emerging. Now for the primary, that is coming in bits and pieces. A nice hint of impulse control disorder is emerging on your part.
Good evening Doc Sam
Submitted by cocodrie on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:06pm.
Looks like you've been told. Just pretend you just told a three year old "You can't have a cookie".
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Good evening, Cocodrie!
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:10pm.
Yes, it appears that the three year old is having his tantrum.
My wife always found the best way to handle a hissy fit was the use of her wooden hairbrush on the offending child's bottom. Methinks gonzo would probably enjoy that just a bit too much.
Leo peaked
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:15am.
in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. He's been a total dud ever since.
The FBI's and American law enforcement icon: J. Edgar Hoover
Submitted by lrgon on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:19pm.
Clint is known for his famous movie one liners like "make my day,punk." I haven't seen the movie but it would be a shame if Eastwood left out of his movie a famous quote of J. Edgar in which the iconic FBI director called MLK the "most notorious liar in America."
It would be a shame if anyone took the loon seriously.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 1:57pm.
No worries about that though. Ain't happening anytime soon.
Tell us about the drones Loon.
Tell us about the drones that are illegal.
Do the illegal drones disturb the tranquility of loon lake?
Paraphrasing Clint: "Vet is a "legend in his own mind"
Submitted by lrgon on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:17pm.
Does the home allow you to march around in your little uniform and toot your bugle at all hours of the day?
"Charge! man the bed pans boys we have a gusher coming."
Paraphrasing Clint: "Vet is a "legend in his own mind"
Submitted by lrgon on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:17pm.
Does the home allow you to march around in your little uniform and toot your bugle at all hours of the day?
"Charge! man the bed pans boys we have a gusher coming."
Paraphrasing Clint: "Vet is a "legend in his own mind"
Submitted by lrgon on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:17pm.
Does the home allow you to march around in your little uniform and toot your bugle at all hours of the day?
"Charge! man the bed pans boys we have a gusher coming."
Paraphrasing Clint: "Vet is a legend in his own mind"
Submitted by lrgon on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:20pm.
Does the home allow you to march around in your little uniform and toot your bugle at all hours of the day?
"Charge! man the bed pans boys we have a gusher coming."
Stop
Submitted by CherDash on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 2:36pm.
Irgon, please stop spamming.
Poor, misunderstood ellergon,---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:35pm.
indeed.
Spamming is a most perfect description of his typed forays that show up on these threads.
MD
Too long ignored
Submitted by kata on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:42pm.
seems the poor boy has snapped.
Personal attacks
Submitted by lrgon on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 2:00pm.
aren't substitutes for offering reasoned rebuttals to facts being presented or opinions offered based on historically accurate data.
I posted an opinion on "J.Edgar" and Vet jumped in with his personal attacks on me. He can't seem to get over it and drop the vendetta.
This irrationally intolerant behavior is no different that that displayed by a howler monkey that joins in the chorus of the other howlers offering nothing but noise. The human howler may be colorful in their condemnation of anyone who dares to disagree with them or they sense has "invaded" their "territory." But screaming and howling like monkeys is no excuse to a claim that only politically correct "conservative" opinion is allowed.
Poor baby. The Veet is so mean and you are so nice.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 3:01pm.
You is not a Loon. No. It's that dang Veet. He is just mean. He points out your idiocy when you try so hard to run from it.
More lunacy from the loon lrgon ---
Dick Cheney hates the Constitution.
President Bush tried to approve a North American Union.
The Fed is a private banking cartel.
Brent Bozell on J. Edgar Hoover
Submitted by lrgon on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 1:37pm.
".... Hollywood is really going back in time to smear J. Edgar Hoover. They've never forgiven him for being a staunch anti-communist or for mucking around in the personal lives of their heroes, from the Kennedy's to Martin Luther King. When Time asked actor Leonardo DiCaprio how true the movie was to life he replied, 'Historically, it's incredibly accurate.'" http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2011/11/19/bozell-column-almos...
Phweet. Thanks for that Loon.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 3:07pm.
We would have never found something Mr. Bozell posted on a website he founded. Not without the loons bringing it here.
Power on smartly loon. Power on in the face of your massive stupidity. And don't forget to get angry at that dang Veet and show off your looniness.
"J.Edgar"
Submitted by lrgon on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 3:31pm.
".... Hollywood is really going back in time to smear J. Edgar Hoover. They've never forgiven him for being a staunch anti-communist or for mucking around in the personal lives of their heroes, from the Kennedy's to Martin Luther King. When Time asked actor Leonardo DiCaprio how true the movie was to life he replied, 'Historically, it's incredibly accurate." ---Brent Bozell
"J.Edgar" is being bashed because it is too kind to the man [J.Edgar Hoover] that the Hollywood leftwingers love to hate." ---- Lrgon
Phweet. Thanks for that Loon.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 3:36pm.
More piffle no one cares about. Don't let the fact no one cares stop you from your loon screed, mmmkay?
Say, when did you move Loon? We thought you were staying on Loon Lake.