The Briefing Room
General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: Machiavelli on December 10, 2018, 04:49:43 pm
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Kyle Smith
National Review
December 10, 2018
The initial warning is given before Vice even starts, in an onscreen note: It’s a “true story,†we’re told. But it’s hard to be strictly factually accurate, the note adds, because Dick Cheney is such a secretive bastard. So it’s really Cheney’s fault if anything in the movie happens to be wrong.
Yet at the end a character will break the fourth wall to assert that the whole thing is factual and say, sarcastically, “Because I have the ability to understand facts, that makes me a liberal?†That sounds like an invitation to consider the facts and logic of Vice. I accept.
Near the start, writer-director Adam McKay, who somehow segued from Will Ferrell movies to this InfoWars-style garbage dump, implies that Cheney’s father-in-law murdered his mother-in-law by drowning her in a lake. Huh? What does this have to do with Cheney? Is there more evidence for this than is presented in the movie, which is none? The movie’s Lynne Cheney, played by Amy Adams, also seems to think her dad murdered her mom. Does Lynne Cheney actually think this?
More (https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/movie-review-vice-incompetent-attack-on-conservatives/)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_(2018_film))
IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6266538/)
Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO3GsRQO0dM)
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Sounds like just another All-Republicans-Are-Evil flick. They've been doing this at least since "Executive Action" in the early seventies. Then there was Oliver Stone's disaster "JFK."
I don't know how they get around the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist or a commie sympathizer (like most of Hollyweird), but they always manage.
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I could tell in a 30 second ad with no sound on that it was a leftist hack hit piece.
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I could tell in a 30 second ad with no sound on that it was a leftist hack hit piece.
I predict a major fail at the box office.
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I predict a major fail at the box office.
Totally agree. Hollywood is stupid. They still haven't figured out that more than half of the country hates it when they go anti-American socialist on us and won't go to see their propaganda.