well, as anyone seen this yet. I watched this the other night with Garcia and his missus, and it was quite entertaining.
Just a couple of problems with it. The guy playing nixon played him as the father/grandfather in chinatown, rather than as nixon. He was playing a man 10 years older than nixon, and if nixon had his relatively easy way of talking then he wouldn't have had half the troubles he wound up having. The character he was playing was a lot better at faking humanity and geniality than Nixon. This character wasn't the humourless, borderline autistic snarling monster that nixon was, and he only swore when drunk. As far as I know that just wasn't Nixon's way.
I thought that michael sheen played david frost as though he was tony blair. David frost wasn't as much bambi in the headlights as sheen portrayed him, nor was he as much of a lightweight as he appears in the movie.
I know that at the time he wasn't taken particularly seriously, but Frost had been an officer in the cambridge union along with lamont, kenneth clarke and michael howard secretary of the Footlights and edited varsity and Granta. I suspect that he wasn't exactly a quivering mass of intellectual self doubt (whatever self doubt he may have had). There is one scene before the final interview where he is channelling Tony Blair.
I suppose that's what you get when you put something like this in the hands of a lightweight Ron Howard. It's a good movie, but given the subject matter it should be a lot better. 3/5
Just a couple of problems with it. The guy playing nixon played him as the father/grandfather in chinatown, rather than as nixon. He was playing a man 10 years older than nixon, and if nixon had his relatively easy way of talking then he wouldn't have had half the troubles he wound up having. The character he was playing was a lot better at faking humanity and geniality than Nixon. This character wasn't the humourless, borderline autistic snarling monster that nixon was, and he only swore when drunk. As far as I know that just wasn't Nixon's way.
I thought that michael sheen played david frost as though he was tony blair. David frost wasn't as much bambi in the headlights as sheen portrayed him, nor was he as much of a lightweight as he appears in the movie.
I know that at the time he wasn't taken particularly seriously, but Frost had been an officer in the cambridge union along with lamont, kenneth clarke and michael howard secretary of the Footlights and edited varsity and Granta. I suspect that he wasn't exactly a quivering mass of intellectual self doubt (whatever self doubt he may have had). There is one scene before the final interview where he is channelling Tony Blair.
I suppose that's what you get when you put something like this in the hands of a lightweight Ron Howard. It's a good movie, but given the subject matter it should be a lot better. 3/5
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