Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_President’s_Men_(film)

Despite 3 Days of the Condor being one of my favorite films, I never got around to watching All The President’s Men until a couple days ago.

My god, what I’ve been missing.

It’s truly a masterclass in film making. It’s a slow burn, but never feels it. There’s always something interesting happening, some new piece of information revealed, tension always building, and acting so damned good I didn’t move from the sofa until the end.

There’s some really impressive cinematography in this, but something that consistently impressed me was the level of acting of even minor or unnamed side characters, who do virtually as good of a job as the leads in feeling absolutely believable and natural.

If, like me, you just haven’t gotten around to this film, I really recommend making it your next watch.

  • falidornEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I recently watched the Paranoia Trilogy with this being the final one I watched. It’s a great movie. Unfortunately it made more sad than either of the other two. The movie presents the press as people that will doggedly pursue the truth and inevitably those truths will help bring justice. Honestly, the movie left me feeling depressed because that ideal feels like an impossibility now. The movie felt like a fairy tale. Parallax View felt much more in line with what America has become.

    I do highly recommend all three movies though. Klute especially doesn’t get enough love and was the most memorable for me.

    • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      What is the Paranoia Trilogy?

      All The Presidents Men has been my favourite movie for ages, and I have watched it countless times, although I am beginning to enjoy it less precisely because of the reasons you mention feeling as well: It is an ideal which once existed but is now completely gone, even though we need it more than ever. But I have not heard about a Paranoia Trilogy before.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      15 days ago

      On the bluray’s special features of All The President’s Men, some journalists they interview about the film mention that nowadays it would be insanely difficult if not impossible for a journalist to get a story like watergate published, since the thousands of independent news agencies have been drastically reduced and consolidated into the hands of a few corporations who would never dare publish such a hostile story that could hit shareholder profits and get them sued.

      However, I think a response to that is Citizen Controlled Media, of which the fediverse such as lemmy and piefed are now a part of, and they can bypass the control of the corporations.