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This movie has a decent message, if you strip it of its self-righteous I'm-in-the-News-Division-Tell-The-Entertainment-Guys-To-Go-To-The-Back-Of-The-Bus angle.
But it's not a great movie, and, in fact, it's really more of a sermon than a real movie.
I thought this movie was great when I first saw it, but thankfully that little piece of my own personal history has been usefully and helpfully compartamentalized.
P.S. I hate to be snide, but it is funny how the actor who plays Murrow (excuse me--The Great: Edward. R. Murrow., le haut signore) also played the crooked pitcher in "Eight Men Out"...as well as a wife-killer on a random episode of "Monk". A wife-killer who played chess, actually--***way too much***.
{cue for Billy Joel, "Shades of Grey"}
"These days it's harder to say, 'I know what I'm fightin' for', my faith is falling away, I'm not that sure anymore..."
"Shades of Grey, wherever I go, the more that I find out, the less that I know--Black And White is how it should be--but Shades of Grey are the colors I see."
"At one point in every review--Fight Till The Other Man Falls, Kill Him Before He Kills You. These days the edges are blurred, I'm old and tired of war--I hear the other man's words, I'm not that sure anymore."
'You know I've never said no to you, not once.'
'Well, stfu, I'm the News Division, and never saying no isn't the same as never censoring.'
(And it's not--it's considerably more generous.)
"Shades of Grey wherever I go, The more I find out, the less that I know, There ain't no rainbow shinin' on me, Shades of grey are the colors I see."
"Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes before. I won't be righteous again! I'm not that sure anymore..."
"And the only people I fear, are those who never have doubts."
After all--I used to be a Christian like you.
Then I took a hammer to the head.
........
*shrugs* It's true though.
And: the more time that goes by, the more that I come to despise George Wi--! George Clooney. The more that I come to see him as a despicable phony, and as a really selfish bastard, *who would stop at nothing*, to make himself look good at everybody else's expense! And that's all that he ever does-- the bastard!
And, you know, if I can look at a movie that *Natalie Portman* was in-- "V for Vendetta"-- and say that it's basically just propaganda and not art-- then you can be pretty damn sure that that's also *exactly* what I think of "Good Night, And Good Luck", and "Syriana", and all that drivel and dross like that that he does....
Because fuck knows that George Clooney can't dance, and, to be honest, I've given up waiting for him to try....
(6/10)
