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theshowmustgo0n

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Mar 30, 2008 20:05

I saw the movie Vantage Point with the family yesterday. It was pretty freaking good for what it was: a thriller. Though the dialog was not great and the ending (and some of the plot twists) really implausible, first 10 minutes were set up in a pretty cool-ass way from inside the control room of major US news network GNN (I feel like that was a ( Read more... )

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1womanarmy March 31 2008, 00:46:13 UTC

As someone who votes in a state with a May 6 primary, I was overcome with excitement when I mailed in my application for an absentee ballot for the primary, and it would definitely be worse at this point for it to end now than to have had it end like it usually does a few months ago.

And the end of vantage point? More than just a little implausible, ridiculously cheesy! I sort of thought they were gonna make out :-) But yes, good entertainment.

theshowmustgo0n March 31 2008, 02:51:36 UTC

Hah! I thought they were going to make out TOO! Maybe that was intentional?

everabridged March 31 2008, 02:28:12 UTC

just a note - i'm pretty sure pelosi just said that superdelegates should not overturn the popular vote in the end, not that clinton should step down - that was other people. pelosi was threatened by big donors just for saying "If the votes of the superdelegates overturn what's happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic Party," which i think goes along with your call for all the primaries to happen.

theshowmustgo0n March 31 2008, 03:01:53 UTC

Caught in my ignorance. That's what happens when I get news-lazy and start watching CNN on silent in the gym rather than reading newspapers.

In my defense, this article says, "Her comments were widely seen as supportive of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the leader in pledged delegates who are determined through the primaries and caucuses," which I think I heard one commentator say might be taken as a call for Clinton to step down. But you're right, that's not what she seems to have said.

franklinshepard March 31 2008, 16:48:56 UTC

My biggest problem with Vantage Point was that it seemed like every time we were about to get a big Reveal (Dennis Quaid sees something and murmurs, "Oh my God!"), then we cut to another character and we have to see that whole scene all over again until eventually we a) already figured out the upcoming twist or b) just don't care anymore. I do agree about the dialogue being hokey and the ending being somewhat ridiculous. It just reminded me of an overlong episode of 24.