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I've always highly rated Steven Spielberg as a director. From E.T. to Jurassic Park to Catch Me If You Can, his films have all been brilliant. When I saw the list of stars in this movie I thought this would be too.
You have Meryl Streep, who is so talented and has starred in so many top films such as Mamma Mia. You have Tom Hanks, who has worked with Spielberg before in Catch Me If You Can. What an actor. You have two Breaking Bad connections, in Bob Odenkirk who plays Saul in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and Jesse Plemons, who is in a few episodes of Breaking Bad as Walts new assistant meth cook and body disposer.
I thought with this incredibly talented cast I couldn't go wrong. Now, I know Spielberg rushed this film through in only eleven months because he said it was very relevant to modern day life, but I'm not sure really that it is.
Firstly, it's set in the 70's, in an era where men had all the key roles and women were treated like rubbish. For most of the movie Streeps character, even though she is the head of the paper is scared to speak up and stand up for herself in front of her male counterparts which makes her seem incredibly weak and I'm not convinced her character should have been portrayed in such a way. It's not representative of the way the world is now and I don't think women in this day and age will want to see a woman portrayed like that.
The other reason I'm not convinced it's relevant to today's world as Spielberg thinks it is is because it is set in the 70's. Who reads newspapers anymore? People these days get their journalism from apps such as the BBC News app and similar. I think in years to come we won't have newspapers. We will still have reporters yes, but via items such as the BBC and Sky News app.
That said, it's not an awful film. It shows how the president tries to stop the press publishing stories he doesn't like and that 100% is certainly like today's world, especially with the current occupant in the White House!
For that reason I score this movie an average 3 stars. Watchable and a reasonable story, but nowhere near the relevance it is supposed to be. It's not the 70's anymore it's 2018. A reasonable watch but sadly no more than that. 3 stars awarded.
*This review is all my own work, please don't reproduce without my permission thank you.
You have Meryl Streep, who is so talented and has starred in so many top films such as Mamma Mia. You have Tom Hanks, who has worked with Spielberg before in Catch Me If You Can. What an actor. You have two Breaking Bad connections, in Bob Odenkirk who plays Saul in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and Jesse Plemons, who is in a few episodes of Breaking Bad as Walts new assistant meth cook and body disposer.
I thought with this incredibly talented cast I couldn't go wrong. Now, I know Spielberg rushed this film through in only eleven months because he said it was very relevant to modern day life, but I'm not sure really that it is.
Firstly, it's set in the 70's, in an era where men had all the key roles and women were treated like rubbish. For most of the movie Streeps character, even though she is the head of the paper is scared to speak up and stand up for herself in front of her male counterparts which makes her seem incredibly weak and I'm not convinced her character should have been portrayed in such a way. It's not representative of the way the world is now and I don't think women in this day and age will want to see a woman portrayed like that.
The other reason I'm not convinced it's relevant to today's world as Spielberg thinks it is is because it is set in the 70's. Who reads newspapers anymore? People these days get their journalism from apps such as the BBC News app and similar. I think in years to come we won't have newspapers. We will still have reporters yes, but via items such as the BBC and Sky News app.
That said, it's not an awful film. It shows how the president tries to stop the press publishing stories he doesn't like and that 100% is certainly like today's world, especially with the current occupant in the White House!
For that reason I score this movie an average 3 stars. Watchable and a reasonable story, but nowhere near the relevance it is supposed to be. It's not the 70's anymore it's 2018. A reasonable watch but sadly no more than that. 3 stars awarded.
*This review is all my own work, please don't reproduce without my permission thank you.
Think you totally missed the point
ReplyDeleteHi. Sorry if this came through twice but my reply disappeared.
ReplyDeleteI get the point, it's to show how the US government keeps trying to gag the press. And I get the link to now as Trump is trying to do the same thing.
However Newspapers are a bit old fashioned, they are going the way of VHS and renting DVDs. People still do it, but in low numbers.
I completely agree with making a movie about press censorship, but set it in modern times about how Trump tries to gag tv networks and news websites and news apps etc.
For me, it just needed to be set in the here and now and not the 70s but of course others will disagree and that's what a good movie debate is all about.
Thankyou for reading my review :)