MovieDudes review : Nixon (may contain spoilers!)

Movie Dude

Anthony Hopkins (1 of my favorite actors) plays the fictional politchan Richard Nixon who thru the course of this movie rises to the rank of President of the good old USA in the late 1960s. During his term of office Nixon brings an end to the vietnam war, quells sivil unrest and returns faith in US politics to the peeple of America.

From his early childhud to his death Nixon is portrayed as a family man who loved his mother (Mary Stenburgen), his employees, and the American peeple in generel yet is set-upon by the newspress because they think he had someting to do with the assasinatshon of JFK back in November 1953.

Nixon encounters a lot of problems during the movie. Beside the difficult job of being president he has to deal with the unfaverable media coverege and (for comic releef) a disobeadient cocker-spaniel dog that won't pose for pictures. But much wurse than thoss is that Richard also develops a chronic disease that coudn't be cured by the medisine of the day.

You see, we soon lern that Nixon is slowly going insane after picking up cuberculosis from his older brother back in the 1920's. This leads to some fritening scenes of madness that may not be suitable for yunger childern.

But despite all these setbacks Richard Nixon (or 'tricky dicky' as his friends liked to call him) battles on and serves his full 6 year term at the white house. Richard then retires in 1974 to spend more time with his family and to listen to his extensive tape collection.

All in all Nixon is an exsellent, uplifting movie and I would encorage anyone who hasn't seen it yet to do so. Hopkin gives his best performence since Silance of the Lambs and the support cast is espeshially strong.

I also found the C.G.I. in this movie to be exseptional! The scenes where Richard is debating with JFK are almost as good as those in Forest Gump and the funeral seen at the end is just amazing. I won't spoil it for you but in this seen the director takes footage of Bill Clinton doing a speech and changes the mans words and lip movements to make it look like he's doing a ulagee for Richard! I must rent out the DVD sometime to find out how they did that one.

Movie Dudes rating : **** (out of 4!)

Note: If you like movies about fictional politicans then I would also rekomend The Candidate (starring Robert Redford) and Bob Roberts (starring Timoty Robins)

LoGiE

Originally posted by Movie Dude

Note: If you like movies about fictional politicans then I would also rekomend The Candidate (starring Robert Redford) and Bob Roberts (starring Timoty Robins)

Wow now thats one hell of a quote .....eh did you read any of the replies to your last post Movie Dude? LOL:)....no wait seriously......LOL:D

Lafortezza

I love the way Movie Dude adds in the spelling mistakes for the extra troll authenticity...

Any guesses to the age of our movie reviewer?

Shinji

Er, well, to be fair, it's an improvement on the last journalistic effort from this poster... In some ways. I'm less sure about his/her decision to include SMS abbreviations in the copy of the article...

sceptre

Originally posted by Movie Dude
the fictional politchan Richard Nixon

During his term of office Nixon brings an end to the vietnam war, quells sivil unrest and returns faith in US politics to the peeple of America.


battles on and serves his full 6 year term at the white house.

Obviously a troller but I got a few genuine laughs out of it. Still a terrible review - but that's the point isn't it? Must ask my dad where he was in November 1953

(can all these be thrown into one thread? More please)

WhiteWashMan

richard nixon was ficshonal?

i thought he was real.

after all, he wasnt a crook was he?

hussey

Originally posted by WhiteWashMan
richard nixon was ficshonal?

i thought he was real.

after all, he wasnt a crook was he?

Ficshon sound like a place down the country

maybe this nixon guy was irish

TwoShedsJackson

Looks like someone's been reading the TruthMedia review section on SA and decided to try it all on their very own.

koneko

His trolling attempts weren't funny the first time round, and guess what... they still aren't.

jonno

First of all WOW, what a return to form from the obvious movie movie buff. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Movie Dude

I also found the C.G.I. in this movie to be exseptional! The scenes where Richard is debating with JFK are almost as good as those in Forest Gump and the funeral seen at the end is just amazing. I won't spoil it for you but in this seen the director takes footage of Bill Clinton doing a speech and changes the mans words and lip movements to make it look like he's doing a ulagee for Richard! I must rent out the DVD sometime to find out how they did that one.

Ill tell you for free how they did it. They used CGI

Anyway are you serious when posting these reviews or what?

Thorbar

I wonder if this fiendish trolling plot was brewed up in the Dudes! forum? :E

sceptre

Originally posted by jonno
Anyway are you serious when posting these reviews or what?

I'm going to go with "what"

Pepe LeFrits

Originally posted by Thorbar
I wonder if this fiendish trolling plot was brewed up in the Dudes! forum? :E

Excuse me ?

Thorbar

Originally posted by kaids
Excuse me ?

Wasn't ment seriously just thought I'd point out that dudes got a private board and then we had an obvious troll called MovieDude. Anyway sorry if I caused any offence.

Pepe LeFrits

Well yeah, i mean obviously dude is such a unique word

Johnny Gomez

What the hell is this fool doing? Someone please ban him/her!:mad:

Boston

This is called a piss take, not a troll.