(SPOILERS, obviously)
Sunday, July 21, 2019
FIRST MAN review
If I wanted to watch Claire Foy nag her aviator husband, I'd watch The Crown.
(SPOILERS, obviously)
(SPOILERS, obviously)
Film review: CHAPPAQUIDDICK
"I could have had her out of that car in 25 minutes--if I got the call--but no one called."
While JFK's vision of landing a man on the moon was being fulfilled, his surviving family members were thrilled to have something to distract the public from their latest scandal.
At least, that's the justification Chappaquiddick presents for spending the first thirty minutes badly wishing it could be a film about Apollo 11 instead. It gets really distracting when you realize that Jason Clarke (Ted Kennedy) played Ed White* in First Man the following year (and, if you criticized his appearance in First Man, you find yourself wondering if he put on weight to play Kennedy and then had trouble shaking it off).
*So, yes, the first two things I saw Clarke in, he was playing historical Americans named Edward who were involved in fatal late-60s vehicle accidents. Talk about typecasting.
While JFK's vision of landing a man on the moon was being fulfilled, his surviving family members were thrilled to have something to distract the public from their latest scandal.
At least, that's the justification Chappaquiddick presents for spending the first thirty minutes badly wishing it could be a film about Apollo 11 instead. It gets really distracting when you realize that Jason Clarke (Ted Kennedy) played Ed White* in First Man the following year (and, if you criticized his appearance in First Man, you find yourself wondering if he put on weight to play Kennedy and then had trouble shaking it off).
*So, yes, the first two things I saw Clarke in, he was playing historical Americans named Edward who were involved in fatal late-60s vehicle accidents. Talk about typecasting.
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