Not too bad. My only complaint is this: Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts both play Texans. For some reason, they decide to adopt the typical "Hollywood Southern"accent, which consist mainly of not pronouncing the letter "r." Now, there may actually be some Southerners who talk like that, but exactly ZERO of them are native Texans.
What's even worse is that the DVD has a "making of" feature, with interviews with the real people they're playing, and they CLEARLY do not talk like that. Charlie Wilson actually sounds like a character from King of the Hill. Further, it's quite clear that Hanks and Roberts have met these people. So I don't know if Hanks and Roberts just are unable to do the accent, or some Hollywood suit made them butcher it.
I suspect it's the former, since Julia Roberts couldn't even keep dropping the r all the way through one line of dialog.
Charlie Wilson's War
I don't think this movie is getting much attention from the movie renting public. (It certainly didn't at the box office.)
I went to Family Video last weekend and during check out I discovered that they were specifically trying to push this movie on people by making it a $1 rental.
That can't be good for a "new release".
I went to Family Video last weekend and during check out I discovered that they were specifically trying to push this movie on people by making it a $1 rental.
That can't be good for a "new release".
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
I saw the Oscar clip of Brokeback Mountain. These people are supposed to be in what... Montana? Wyoming? I couldn't understand why they had the deep fake southern accents. I've been to Wyoming several times, and didn't hear any southern accents. Montana is farther north. So whatever. No wonder it didn't win best picture and one of the two leads died. Because they thought people in Montana had southern accents.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
As far as Hollywood is concerned, there's California and New York and everyone else in between is either from Detroit or The South. Not that it really matters because if they aren't in Cali or NY then they don't really count anyway.
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Clicky. This documentary has Robert MacNeill (of the MacNeill-Lehrer News Hour) traveling 'round the U.S., talking to folk w\ interesting accents & exploring the umpteen zillion differences.
Some teacher once made us watch it in theatre class. After that, I started noticing most actors can wrap their heads around only one or two ways to say something before their brain implodes.
Some teacher once made us watch it in theatre class. After that, I started noticing most actors can wrap their heads around only one or two ways to say something before their brain implodes.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
This is a very appropriate observation for this movie.Alhazad wrote:Every Julia Roberts movie comes down to Julia Roberts trying to pretend she can act and the male lead trying to pretend she's more attractive than the extras behind her.
I don't think there was a single female with a speaking role in this flick, aside from the Afghani war victims, that wasn't WAY more attractive than Julia Roberts.
But it was a pretty good flick. I'm guessing it didn't get a lot of attention for its "you can't see the shitty reality of the situation and choose to not fight" message. Because, you know, war never solves anything.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."