who has seen it?
I saw it and liked it. I was pissed at the person I was with at the time, so I refused to laugh at all, but the dialog was good and while it is not a comedy (obviously) it was amusing. Interesting to see what goes on that the public is completely unaware of.
it WAS amusing, that is a great word for it. i really enjoyed it film, and thought it was a good movie to get pumped up as there is some good old fashion ass kickin’ that happens. one leaves the theater with a sense of victory, which was a good thing.
julia roberts, who i generally don’t like, was super suave Charlie. perhaps this is the first film where i actually looked forward to her being in the scenes. phillip seymour hoffman was his usual genuis, god i love him, he can do anything!!!
one leaves the theater with a sense of victory
Wha? Did we watch the same movie?
I saw it, liked it as a very entertaining historical narrative of a certain period of world history. My grandfather in law was very active in politics those days and was well acquainted with charlie wilson and he said the movie was pretty accurate of the portrait of the man and some of the events and that going to his office was like attending Miss Peach whatever or any other southern beauty contest, the man liked them pretty.
Peace
i’m referring to the sense of victory in essentially ending the war between the soviets and afghanistans. this war (and US aid in it) was no doubt a key consequence in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
the movie was about a few people who set out to end the war, did so, and along the way there were countless victories revealed in the film within that specific time period.
the film showed politicians taking interest in the war (the plans involved, the money, the behind scenes dealings), going to afghanistan to see the turmoil, ato the first soviet airbomber getting torched out of the sky, all the way to afghanistans win in the end of the war. (so this is what i was referring to when i mentioned “ass kicking” and victory)
with that said, as you know it’s also the case that after the war there were no efforts to rehabilitate afghanistan. fields were blown apart, as were the irrigation systems, land mines were left scattered to which people continued to be killed and maimed, and children of war continued to have war. all of this essentially left ripe condidtions for revultion and civil war.
i felt the film did a great job of dialing in to the victory of the circumstances (becoming involved in the war, mobilizing people, giving aid, etc etc).
while Charlie did elude to the post war problems, they weren’t drawn out and displayed visually. Rather, it was the end of the film, so one was left to consider the situation from a historical context from their own perspective, instead of watching it get played out on screen.