My Fandango

"Love him, Hate him - you don't know him."

I don't know that a vetting of a candidate has ever taken this long to finally come out. Why it would take 4 years for an examination of a Presidential candidate to see the light of day is less perplexing once you see this documentary. When you consider that in the 2008 election that Sarah Palin had been probed, and examined all the way down to her PTA board voting record and had multiple hard hitting interviews within mere days of her nomination one has to wonder WHY any such interest was never shown in doing the same for Mr. Obama at the top of his Party's ticket. This well researched documentary attempts to answer not only the media's reluctance to do the any type of competent examination of the candidate, but also why the candidate would be reluctant to expose the background information that would result in hard questions being asked. Much of the movie is in Mr. Obama's own words-now the context is added for you to decide! ...(read more)

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Having seen Casablanca one hundred times (it seems, at least) it was great to see this great movie as it was intended, on the big screen. There is really nothing that can be said about this movie that has not already been said, so the only thing that was different from so many prior viewings was the movie theater setting, with the audience, and bigger than life images on the screen it was a truly unique experience. I was actually hoping that the Robert Osborne (TCM) introduction would have been a little longer and in depth in order to give a better perspective to the players, studios, and times in which the film was made. What was provided, however, was very well done and interesting. Thanks TCM for this event. As a fan of the network, and the classic films generally, I look forward to future events as well. ...(read more)

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This was a well done murder mystery. Incredible acting, well cast, with a very real sense of suspense. It was a very participatory production that challenges the viewer to not only follow a detailed and complex story line but juggle a large number of characters (some by name and relationship only), all the while trying to solve the 40+ year old murder. The gray and cold backdrop of Sweden acts as another character in this film that envelops the story with a foreboding. There was a gratuitous amount of explicit sexual activity including rape that seemed placed more to satisfy the book's author and embraced by the director that does little if anything to move the story. These scenes seemed included to exclusion of very important and pertinent scenes that would help the viewer follow the story better, and ultimately lead to a more satisfying conclusion. Perhaps "satisfaction" in relation to the story, in the end, were not the primary concern of the director and producers. ...(read more)

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