Argo (Dir: Ben Affleck)
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Re: Argo (Dir: Ben Affleck)
The part that bothered me is how all of the hostages were released after 440+ days of captivity. Granted, it's a tough thing to go through, but the 6 Americans would have most likely been held captive and released eventually. Some how this fact made me discredit the decision to extract the hostages in a such bold attempt.
If I was in that situation, and had the ability to hide out, I would have. Well, I guess if I was in that exact situation ... it would have never happened. I would have left a couple months prior. Okay, okay, given the chance to be in such a position would never happen. Because trips to, or jobs in Iran just don't appeal to me.
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Re: Argo (Dir: Ben Affleck)
In the same way you judge president's legacies, you don't judge it immediately after its made. But rather you wait until the decisions he's made played out years, decades or maybe centuries before you make a final judgement. In the same way why most felt Obama receiving Nobel peace prize as pathetic not so much because what he has or hasn't done, but that it was premature. You can't fully judge any decision until its full ramification has played out. Given what we now know today, the decision not to step down, disobey direct order and risk 7 American lives because he felt responsible were a chain of bad decision making. What decides he be the hero or a incompetent maverick hinged not on his actions but Iranian authorities. If anything, he should be reprimanded or fired, or worst prosecuted regardless of the outcome of his extraction. Thus the feeling I got when I walked out of the movie theater isn't so much a good heroic story, but a cowboy winging it as he sees fit story.
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Saw this finally. Not only was the car chase on the runway absurd, but those looked like Chevrolet black and white patrol cars, like they borrowed the cars from Adam-12 or something. I'm no expert but I'm fairly sure Iran didn't use cars like that. Has Affleck offered an explanation for this?
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Here's the chase http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm6GorgKzjU
They look like the standard LAPD black & white cruisers of the era.
They look like the standard LAPD black & white cruisers of the era.
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Google image search hasn't yielded any pictures of Iranian police cars from that era, however the pictures of more current police cars show that Iran uses a green and white color scheme.
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finally saw it. I liked it. Even though I knew before watching that the plan worked the movie still managed to have tense moments, like the parts at the airport when they got put in the side room at the last checkpoint.
they screwed up the star wars characters though
the sandperson and jawa are swapped
they screwed up the star wars characters though
the sandperson and jawa are swapped