The last time Ron Howard was on TDS, Jon had fluffy hair,with only a trace of gray. And they were chatting about a movie with a certain amount of awards buzz going on.
Howard's latest project is Frost/Nixon, which opens tomorrow. RottenTomatoes has it at 88%, with 41 reviews, and Metacritic has it at 78%. I have an assortment of links from when Frost visited a few weeks ago, but I guess I didn't talk about the movie that much. Lazy. Well, here's from the official site, frostnixon.net:
The Frost/Nixon Movie Trailer - Videos, Video Clips & Scenes From The Film
Watch the Frost/Nixon movie trailer here to get a preview of what you can expect when the movie launches in theaters on December 5th. You can also read the Frost/Nixon film synopsis and view Frost/Nixon photos here on this site to build excitement for the film.
The Frost/Nixon trailer opens with Richard Nixon announcing his resignation from the presidency combined with news clips and footage from that time in history. You're then introduced to David Frost, the British talk show host who wants to interview Nixon, much to the shock of his colleagues and Nixon himself. At that point in the Frost/Nixon movie trailer, you see Nixon being offered half a million dollars, and his interest is piqued....
Later in the Frost/Nixon movie trailer, you see Nixon and Frost sit down for the interview and right before the camera rolled, Nixon threw out a question designed simply to ruffle Frost's feathers and throw him off his game. While Frost's advisors and investigators are determined to use the interview to give Nixon the trial he never had, Nixon and his advisors are intent on shaming Frost and winning back the respect of the American people. As the Frost/Nixon trailer comes to its climax, you see Nixon's advisor threatening Frost after the interview. What exactly happened? How did the interview go?
Find out how the scenes introduced in the Frost/Nixon movie trailer play out on screen when the movie launches in theaters on December 5th. You can also share this trailer with your friends and family to get them excited for this historic new film.
I guess having Flash turned off got me the visually-impaired description. That's... really? Follow these links to "build excitement for the film"? I mean, sure, we know that's what you're doing, but... um. Well.
I found an assortment of links, reviews and such. But I got distracted:
Although he insists that his movie has no political ax to grind, given the timing, questions about its contemporary relevance can hardly be avoided. During one interview on Monday, {Howard] observed, "The only thing that is kind of quaint about the story at all is the fact that the Nixon crimes pale by comparison with, you know, what we have been reading about and hearing about in the last few years." And then at an A-list panel discussion and advance screening later in the day, he really got into it, noting that despite all the talk about "never again" after Nixon, Bush happened. Most panelists concurred, but it did provoke quite an animated response from Fox News anchor Chris Wallace who, as one commentator put it, "threw a fair-and-balanced apple of discord into the middle of the festivities" with his defense of Bush's record.
Gawker has more:
"Richard Nixon's crimes were committed purely in the interest of his own political gain," Mr. Wallace told Mr. Howard before an audience of a few hundred after viewing the filmmakers new film "Frost/Nixon," which is about the only U.S. president to resign from office.
"I think to compare what Nixon did, and the abuses of power for pure political self preservation, to George W. Bush trying to protect this country — even if you disagree with rendition or waterboarding — it seems to me is both a gross misreading of history both then and now," Mr. Wallace said....
...Chris is right, of course. Bush is no Nixon. Nixon was a smart paranoid criminal lunatic who actually effectively managed the nation even as he abused the office for his personal gain, railed against Jews, and illegally bombed Cambodia. Bush, of course, is a messianic moron who ran the nation into the ground, allowed a great American city to be washed away, and lied us into a pointless, poorly planned foreign war because he was so stupidly convinced of his own essential goodness and infallibility...
...Also, yes, Chris, motivation aside, making torture official United States policy is actually worse than a two-bit burglary. Asshole.
How the hell does Mike Wallace even talk to his miserable son?
But to get back to the topic.
Director Ron Howard is so going to hell: He told a TV interviewer that after Vatican officials refused him permission to film there for his new Dan Brown movie, he just shot some scenes, anyway. "We didn't shoot at the Vatican ... officially. But cameras can be made really small."
Ok, so that's pretty irrelevant. But I just had to fit it in here somewhere.
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