All the President's Men- 8..75
I don't have time for a proper right up, BUT, this has got to have two of the most wonderful leads in any film to date. Both of them feel so consistently real, so full of rich character, and the entire film rests on their shoulders, along with a near-perfect screenplay. Due to its dense nature, it's taken three viewings for me to follow it as well as I have, which is completely rad, and indicative of its quality.
One of my favorite aspects of film is just how you can look at how films reflect an era's general social attitudes and culture. This came off of Nixon obviously, and reflects the paranoia and anger of the people at the time.
Sidenote: The way the entire narrative rests completely on both the screenplay and how well the leads carry it reminded me a bit of watching The Social Network. That's going to go down as an undeniable classic, I think.
-Vader
I don't have time for a proper right up, BUT, this has got to have two of the most wonderful leads in any film to date. Both of them feel so consistently real, so full of rich character, and the entire film rests on their shoulders, along with a near-perfect screenplay. Due to its dense nature, it's taken three viewings for me to follow it as well as I have, which is completely rad, and indicative of its quality.
One of my favorite aspects of film is just how you can look at how films reflect an era's general social attitudes and culture. This came off of Nixon obviously, and reflects the paranoia and anger of the people at the time.
Sidenote: The way the entire narrative rests completely on both the screenplay and how well the leads carry it reminded me a bit of watching The Social Network. That's going to go down as an undeniable classic, I think.
-Vader
