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Will "scifantasy" Frank said on July 3rd, 2012 at 9:37 am

There was an article recently that argued that Star Wars wasn’t just written “with Nixon metaphors firmly in mind,” but that the whole “Nixon’s Imperial Presidency” was explicitly the inspiration for the Empire, that the United States was the Galactic Republic-cum-Empire.

(Now, of course, Lucas has updated his target: “The Emperor works behind Darth Vader, he doesn’t actually stand in front…I say that in fear of getting hit with a lot of buckshot.”)

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I have yet to hear a convincing explanation for why Joan Allen isn’t in every movie ever.

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malakim2099 said on July 3rd, 2012 at 12:05 pm

I don’t think you’ve mentioned it before, but what exactly DID you think of W? I thought it was an interesting film, and made me feel sympathetic for Dubs (which I was NOT expecting).

Haven’t seen Nixon in a long time, I’ll have to give it a rent this week.

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Michael P said on July 3rd, 2012 at 5:10 pm

I agree with your assessment of Hopkins’ performance, but now I’m curious what you think of Frank Langella’s performance in Frost/Nixon.

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The Crazed Spruce said on July 3rd, 2012 at 8:26 pm

I’ve heard nothing but good things about Hopkins’ performance in this movie, but I wasn’t much into renting movies when it came out. And our only video store in town doesn’t have any movies that are more than a year old, so I’ll have to keep an eye on our local Bargain Shop’s 2-for-$10 DVD bin, to see if it turns up.

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I got an Oliver Stone DVD box set with twelve films in it for something like ten bucks when the local Sam Goody closed down a couple years back and had to get rid of all their inventory. Nixon is one of the few films in the set that I hadn’t seen, and I still haven’t gotten around to watching it. Might have to remedy that this weekend.

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How many times have you gone to a movie rental store, but couldn’t find the movie you wanted? Too many times, most likely.

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Watching Nixon you really for sorry for the guy, then you have to remember what he did.
A really great and powerful movie. JFK is a great movie move as well but seriously bad history. Sometimes you forget what a filmmaker Oliver Stone is

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