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TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7, let’s go you dumb bastard
Oh shit yeah gimme that montage baby I’m dumb as shit, tell me about Vietnam!
Oh shit Eddie’s here and he’s fucking bad!
Oh man Kendall Roy’s NOT good here.
MAN someone in the editing room was hard during this. What the fuck is UP with this fake Big Brother song on the soundtrack?
If Andy Samberg played a hippie as a joke it would be this a Jeremy Strong performance
Cohen’s good, he knows what a camera does, he isn’t afraid of it.
Man I love me a good credit card like “Federal prosecutors” because there’s almost no chance the scene that’s about to transpire is gonna give that top fuckin secret away
Fuck I wonder if Aaron’s been watching Succession. Anybody know?
Break for coffee but honestly who needs it when there’s a piping hot cup of FREEDOM like this movie
“I wanna bring back manners!” We love subtext don’t we folks!?
“Rebels without a job” hey movie? GO. FUCK. YOURSELF.
“Southern whites” lol gimme a break. No white DA in the 60a would say this shit
Jeremy Strong does at least rhyme with Tommy Chong
As with any good writer it’s important to know when they were sexually aroused by their own turns of phrase.
Lol this late 90s thriller music. Aaron Sorkin is never not redirecting his early writing gigs to get them RIGHT
it shouldn’t feel racist for a movie to cut to a shot of the members of the Black Panther party just sitting down, but uhh
I’m gonna be mad about the egg throwing joke all morning. Who brings ONE EGG to jeer a dissident?
Oh fuck yeah we gotta a judge who interjects, a Sorkin staple. Take a shot at 11 in the morning
Fuck Cohen can’t sell these old ass vaudeville lines. He’s sweating the delivery. I don’t like this at all. How you gonna make someone so smart seem so labored?
This name shit has To Stop. Mick Jagger voice “NOT FUNNY!”
With Frank Langella as Dan Aykroyd in NOTHING BUT TROUBLE.
I’m sure a lot of this dialogue was actually spoken and I guess Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman weren’t funny
Rylance does look faintly embarrassed by this Three Stooges routine he’s stuck in
I love Sorkin with an editor because he could do us the kindness of not telling us something twice but he INSISTS we hear every joke three four times
Also: there hasn’t been a single memorable composition yet. But you guessed that.
Thank god an actual movie about Fred Hampton is coming soon. This one makes him out to be a fucking lackey chump. I hate it
“Most people are smart, Bill.”
“I hope you’re joking you stupid dumb woman! This is an Aaron Sorkin movie. 12 people at most are smart! Everyone else has a fistful of chimp shit where their brain should be.”
“I hope you’re joking you stupid dumb woman! This is an Aaron Sorkin movie. 12 people at most are smart! Everyone else has a fistful of chimp shit where their brain should be.”
References to Jefferson Airplane and Clarence Darrow in one scene. Man it’s like Sorkin really GETS this era. Incidentally he said he wasn’t “familiar” with this incident when asked to make this movie. He should have died of embarrassment on the spot when given the project.
But if he feels embarrassment I’d like hard proof.
Lol now he discovers the fucking fade out
Edmayne is like a notch from Ray Romano.
Rubin knowing the history of the Tom Collins is peak Sorkin bullshit. Why in the fuck would he know or care about this?
Oh good we’re back to egg jokes
Sorkin loves writing duplicitous whores more than I love anything
Lol he even put Cohen in an American flag shirt as if we didn’t miss Borat already
Jeremy Strong walking into frame every ten seconds of this movie
Pemberton’s doing his best here with the score, it’s almost cinema
Should be noted of course that while Aaron Sorkin is very bad at his job, I’m an infinitely bigger dumbass for getting up and watching this movie
Hell yeah Jerry Rubin winning fistfights and saving damsels. THIS IS POLITICS!
Sorkin’s ideal man: knows arcane history, super fuckin cut, defends women from frat boys with his fists, can recite the constitution, has Red Button’s sense of humour.
You get the sense that he thinks the only real crime here is that Jerry Rubin didn’t get laid
Please do not, movie, pretend you are broken up over Fred Hampton, whom you have been using as a punchline since his first scene
How am I over an hour into this?
This is dreadful but it’s still better than the time they made us watch Green Book for jury duty.
Title card says “Day 89” Jesus Christ, that’s fucking cheating isn’t it?
The way this movie handles the Panthers as fucking props should be illegal
Sorkin has this tell when doing projects like this (it’s all over the West Wing) that certain people’s issues constitute real politics and some folks political lives (black people, native Americans, environmentalists) don’t make the cut.
Seale was bound and gagged for A LOT FUCKING LONGER THAN 5 MINUTES AARON
And still he finds a way to make the conservative prosecutor the hero by asking for him to be released. Man everyone should be fucking ashamed of themselves
He’ll show Seale getting gagged in pornographic detail but he won’t show the reality of sitting there next to him. Sorkin still laboring under the fucking delusion that scumbags like Richard Schultz have limits. They don’t. They let him sit there. Bound and gagged. For hours.
So fucking mad. Stupid fucking liberal asshole liar. Fuck this cowardly lying ass movie.
Aaron Sorkin still dining out on being a progressive because he wrote a show. He has terrible beliefs and he shouldn’t be allowed near a set or a camera ever again.
Love the idea that the movie can REALLY get goin now that there aren’t any black people in the room. Unreal.
And I bet they play the Bobby Seale stuff during the oscar clips
To the two followers I just lost: I agree!
Politics to sorkin: White adult men whispering to each other that they better get to work with a knowing wink. An absolute joke.
This shit is like Jim Henson’s Dissident Babies. Mustn’t offend the white audience!
This fake cross examination should be a show stopper. It is not.
I like Roland Emmerich’s STONEWALL better. Also whitewashed, also ridiculous, also mostly made up, but that’s at least shot like a movie.
“Buckeye is a nut. A poisonous nut.” Thanks Aaron, wouldn’t have known how you feel about Nixon for all the good it does this movie.
Lol psychoanalysis through grammar, right back in the Sorkin Zone
Jesus the fade after “never been on trial for my thoughts.” Couldn’t be more proud of himself
Lol nothing like a 3 minute set up to an obvious punchline
And hey let’s recap what he just said in case men on the moon didn’t get the telegraph.
This fucking music. Dear god, how are there still 10 minutes left?
Again, Steve McQueen’s MANGROVE is as subtle as this and is still an actual movie; a work of art, even. This shit isn’t even as good as the TV movie they made about this in 1987.
In conclusion: NO.
