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Day-Lewis is as good as people say. All of Hollywood is in this thing, and it is a pretty huge film. Spielberg, so you know that there will be some speechifying, but the period makes it work.
Totally relavent for its depiction of politics, high and low, and how little has changed on the "low" part.
Thumbs up, no need for big screen.
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Wait a second. How did the Yeti get to a movie that didn't involve moon Nazis before the rest of us?
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Someone lied to me.
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i think you wanted to see the one where lincoln hunts vampires...
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I feel so pwned.
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It's really hard to sustain suspense when you know what's going to happen. It reminded me of some of the Chinese historical flicks I've seen of late - wouldn't make a lick of sense if you didn't know your history, but redundant if you do. Day-Lewis vanished into the role, but was upstaged by Tommy Lee and Spader, doing exactly the kind of characters they both do best. I want to party with Spader and have Jones school my adversaries. Good to see Sally all righteous again. Lots of great dialog from a superb cast, but predictable obviously.
T was amused that there was a bit she knew from history class, but didn't care for it as it was 'too much history'. S's artist friend thought it was too complex. S & I thought it was too oversimplified.
One sword fight, on stage, and it wasn't have bad. Needed a Bollywood number with the grey on one side and the blue on the other, singing some flirtatious romcom song in Hindi.
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CF could have totally rocked the role of Lincoln.
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Funny you should mention that. I actually played Lincoln as a kid. It was in the 7th grade, and we were doing the play, Lincoln Dodges a Bullet, but Not So His Paramour, one of Shakespeare's lesser-known tragedies.
It was a tricky part for me, because I was the smallest kid in the class. The morning of the day of the play, the teacher panicked, because some parents had seen one of our practices and called attention to how short I was. In their opinion, Lincoln needed to a towering figure. So the teacher begged me to go get some stilts and learn how to use them. Which I did, but there wasn't time to shop around. They were eight-foot stilts, and when I walked on stage, all the audience could see were these two sticks scissoring about. Nor could anyone hear anything I said, because I was addressing the rafters. I didn't see much of the play, even though I was in it. I remember running into these spiderwebs all the time. Eventually the audience was treated to the sight of my beard falling to the stage, and that brought a standing ovation.
It would be great to get an opportunity to reprise my role. I've grown a bit, I've got a real beard now, and I've finally memorized the opening phrase of the Gettysburg Adress.
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I played William H. Seward. No, really. My first post-college job was as part of a regional theatre company in New Salem State Park (just outside of Springfield, IL). I was in a show called "Your Obedient Servant, A Lincoln" and played, in turn, Mary Owens, William H Seward, a confederate soldier, a Union soldier, and half a dozen other roles. I have a scar on my right knee from a mishap one night while getting killed at Gettysburg...
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Does that make G-Man "Seward's Folly"?
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Ow! Ow! I can feel the tip of the knife in my back in my chest.
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Quote:I have a scar on my right knee from a mishap one night while getting killed at Gettysburg...
The Queen needs to get on Jeopardy so during the brief interview segment she can deliver that line.
As for PPFY's remark, "yeti" should be made an honorary particle of speech that combines the properties of conjunction, preposition and interjection, and includes a sense of hairy. Sort of a wild card in the deck of language.
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We saw it tonight. The rousing chorus of "Rally 'round the flag, boys" brought back some memories from my regional theater days. I enjoyed watching with iMDB open so I could figure out that Grant was the evil Jones from Fringe, and that the whiny guy trying to get Tommy Lee Jones in a lather was the guy from Pushing Daisies. And I think that's the first I've seen of Jackie Earl Haley since he played Rorschach!
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Spader did act his ass off, but it seemed like he was in a different film from all the earnest folk.
The patina on Spileberg films is all starting to look the same. I love Kaminski as a DP but it might time for a different dance partner.
A lot of Lincoln's dialogue seemed like Lewis was reading it off stone etched monuments rather than real dialogue.
All that being said, I did like this film. I would have cut the vote scene down. You probably don't need to hear every one's vote. I think we know the outcome.
The most ironic thing about the movie that I learned from the behind the scenes footage was the film was made in Richmond, Virginia.
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