Darkest Hour (2018)

[Edgy MD]

Sid Vicious is a British member of Parliament. Despite a checkered past, he has seen the threat of Hitler for what it was, contrary to his party's and his nation's leadership.

Britain now threatened with imminent attack and her army surrounded, new leadership is sought, and Sid has been elected to lead a wartime coalition cabinet to come to the UK's defense. Seemingly set up to fail, our hero has to rally his own resolve before he can rally his country's.

[Guest sharpie]

It was okay, but just okay. Sid was good but he was up against cartoon baddies so of course he wins.

[Guest cooby]

There's another Sid Vicious?

[Edgy MD]

No, I was just celebrating the strange delight that Gary Oldman, who once played the subversive ectomorph Sid Vicious, has now, later in his career, been called to play the establishment endomorph Sir Winston Churchill, alternately undermining and saving all that is good about the British nation and her character.

It's a great vehicle for Oldman's performance, but beyond that, it feels flat and dishonest. It's interesting to see Churchill struggling with self-doubt, as it certainly makes him more relatable, but by almost all historical accounts, the guy was the very embodiment of resolve. And the climatic journey aboard the London underground seems so cinematically perfect that it has to be untrue, and it isn't.

It's also a war movie without a war.

[Vic Sage]

if you want the war, see DUNKIRK. I found this a generic procedural, focusing on the inside politics of the British parliament while people were dying across the channel.

[Edgy MD]

Oh, I saw Dunkirk, and found myself even more disengaged.

[metirish]

Fuck Churchill , won't be watching

[Vic Sage]

Franz Liebkind: You know, not many people know zis, but der Furhrer was a terrific dancer.

Max Bialystock: Really? Gee, we didn't know that, did we, Leo?

Leo Bloom: No, we sure didn't.

Franz Liebkind: THAT'S BECAUSE YOU WERE TAKEN IN BY THE BBC! Filthy British lies! But did they ever say a bad word about Winston Churchill? CHURCHILL! With his cigars, and his brandy, and his ROTTEN paintings! ROTTEN! Hitler, there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two coats!

[dgwphotography]

Has anyone killed two remakes (that shouldn't have been made) like Matthew Broderick?

[Edgy MD]

Tim Burton?

[dgwphotography]

Edgy MD wrote: Tim Burton?

Good point, but I was thinking on screen