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12th January 2008, 2:28pm
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#1 | | Gutentag McGyver
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| Charlie Wilson's War
"In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring (Julie Roberts), Wilson learns about the plight of the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow"
Went to the cinema last night to see this. Was a good movie. The plot and storyline coulda beeb developed better though.
Best performance in it was Philip Seymour Hoffman. Definetly the best actor in Hollywood. | 
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12th January 2008, 2:35pm
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#2 | | Heiliger Bimbam!
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 3,077
| Re: Charlie Wilson's War
i've loved PSH for years, ever since his performance in Almost Famous.
Looking forward to catching this at the cinema. | |
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12th January 2008, 3:42pm
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#3 | | I hate your band SuperMod
Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Slacktivism
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| Re: Charlie Wilson's War
Aye, I fancy this one too.
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12th January 2008, 3:45pm
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#4 | | Belligerent Ghoul
Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: House Of Brick
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| Re: Charlie Wilson's War
Written by Aaron Fucking Sorkin.
I'll try and catch it this week if I can find a non-swamped in work 2 hours.
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12th January 2008, 6:20pm
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#5 | | A little glass vial?
Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Airstrip One
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| Re: Charlie Wilson's War
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Originally Posted by James  Philip Seymour Hoffman. | Quote:
Originally Posted by McLeary Written by Aaron Fucking Sorkin. | There was no way I wasn't going to see this.
Tomorrow, I reckon. | |
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12th January 2008, 6:26pm
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#6 | | tear you apart
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: piano island
Posts: 22,434
| Re: Charlie Wilson's War
I really really don't fancy it at all, but we shall see. | |
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12th January 2008, 7:14pm
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#7 | | Gutentag McGyver
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 21,790
| Re: Charlie Wilson's War
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Originally Posted by Semprini There was no way I wasn't going to see this.
Tomorrow, I reckon. | Philip Seymour Hoffman is always excellent in whatever he does
There's a few other familiar faced in it aswell. Amy Adams from Enchanted and the guy from Rebus aswell | |
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12th January 2008, 7:18pm
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#8 | | Bring the heid o' charlie Editor
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| Re: Charlie Wilson's War
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17th January 2008, 12:43am
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#9 | | Heiliger Bimbam!
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Glasgow
Posts: 3,077
| Re: Charlie Wilson's War
really enjoyed this. felt like a somewhat abrupt ending, right enough, but entertaining enough. PSH stole every scene he was in. Love him. | |
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17th January 2008, 1:34am
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#10 | | Kurwa
Join Date: May 2001 Location: Merton Hotel
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| Re: Charlie Wilson's War
Hoffman's great but has a tendency to go over the top sometimes. Sometimes it's a good thing and sometimes it's not. Either way I'll be going to see this.
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22nd January 2008, 10:34am
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#11 | | Go with the flow.
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| Re: Charlie Wilson's War
Its good.
Very, very good.
Ending was abrupt, but thats a whole other film.
Tom Hanks is fantastic, espescially in the final scenes.
Only thing I wasnt mad keen on - when theyre revealing the stats of how many helicopters they shot down, it meant nothing to me, because I didnt think that 30 or so helicopters were a lot. Obviously I dont know much about war, but Im sure I wasnt the only one thinking 'what about the people saved?'
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