I actually had to stop it 5 minutes in to enter into a lengthy discussion on american imperialism and the macropolitics of the Iranian revolution as it pertained to the cold war.Originally Posted by Unkle Al
Glad to hear it
lol, that is a movie I'd like to check out sometime, but I'd have to add it to........the pile.
Because the movie spent five minutes giving a cliff's notes version of the whole thing. Without loads of AMERICA FUCK YEAH overtones that you'd expect.
Which is simultaneously respectable and opened the gateway to lots of oil politics talk.
YAY!
And then it leads into a pretty interesting narrative that largely hits the key ideas of the hostage crisis while still taking massive liberties because it's a movie and movies do that. And it's pretty well played out. Even if some of the people involved in said crisis didn't exactly approve.
Which is disappointing, because I'm not sure their sentiment of "it's a bunch of pro-american garbage by a shallow hack" is really all that warranted.
But then again I didn't spend several months running from basement to basement under threat of death, so....
