Vice (2018)

[Greg]

Christian Bale disappears under tons of make-up and acting talent to play our president. Sorry, I mean vice-president. Well. After watching this film I'm not sure what office Dick Cheney served it. This film makes the case that long before Trump, Cheney did his best to ruin the country. And it's pretty convincing.

Adam McKay, who also directed The Big Short, does a great job telling this story. He does a lot of things just to amuse himself, which are amusing to the audience as well. I think the source for the narrator was brilliant. Mainly because you spend a lot of time trying to determine who the narrator is. I figured it out about 30 seconds before they revealed. McKay does something unexpected about halfway through the film which is also quite amusing.

But for the most of the film, you just experience terror as you watch people do whatever they think is necessary to be in power and get what they want. Even Lynn Cheney turns out to be a vile person basically pushing Dick forward because she can't get elected at that time and place.

The other standout star is Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld. He disappears into the role, as well. And he is just a miserable a human being as you expect.

It's all a great ghoulash of misery for our country. Although, I don't think Vice was as good as The Big Short. But it was still very entertaining.

[Drunk Monk]

Why watch the fictionalized horrors of days gone by when I can just watch the news?

I’m sure this is solid but I’m need escapist fantasies right now, not bitter reminders of how far we’ve fallen.

When you gonna see Endgame? I’m dying to see that but I don’t know when I’ll find the time before some asshole spoils it for me. Which reminds me - I should block scapino’s social media for a while, huh?

[Greg]

My tickets are for Endgame are for tomorrow morning at 9am. I reached out to Scapino to see if he wanted to join us. I never heard back from him after I told him what time I was going.

[cranefly]

LCF and I are likely hitting Endgame on Tuesday afternoon for the same reason -- to outrun the spoilers.  Yeah, this thread is drifting off course, so I'll comment on Vice.

Like DM, I have absolutely no interest in seeing what strikes me as a glorification of evil.  Maybe that's not what it is, but I can't convince myself that it isn't.  I do like Bale and would like to see another great performance from him ... but not this.  I just can't stomach it.

Maybe I'll go watch American Psycho again.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Ditto on the “reality already sucks, and didn’t I live through that shit already?”

I’m aiming at 12 noon tomorrow (Monday) for Endgame. Ditto on trying to outrun the spoilers.

[Greg]

Then I will post the spoiler filled review after I get out of Avengers: Edamame immediately, so I can head your enjoyment off at the pass.

[Drunk Monk]

So scapino. So very scapino.

Enjoy! 

I have no idea how this week will go so I don’t know when I’ll get around to endgameofthrones...

[Greg]

I still have yet to see any of Game of Thrones. i was a books first kind of guy and I'm still waiting for GRR Martin to finish the books. He should be done in another 10 years or so.

As for Vice, it was good to see how the evil happened.

[Drunk Monk]

You know, I have yet to see any GoT either.  It sounds like heroin to me.  I think if I tasted it, I'd be so addicted that I'd have to binge the whole thing.  So I'm waiting until I'm bedridden with the flu or something.

[Greg]

I'm kind of invested in the books, which I started reading in 1993. I had this dream that I would finish the books and then I could dive into the HBO series. That has turned out poorly as I await books 6 and 7.