Discussion: Dick Cheney Biopic 'Vice' Tops All Golden Globe Contenders

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Idiotic that Green Book is being considered ā€œdivisive.ā€ Not questioning the accuracy of the writer’s statement, just exasperated by the Woke-Wars syndrome that has resulted in Green Book somehow being a thing of controversy.

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Cheney as a power-hungry tyrant behind the scenes? Gee, how thought-provoking. Never might have seen him that way without this, uh, take.

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The trailer for ā€œViceā€ looks pretty good:


Personally, I’m looking forward to reading his obituary.

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Not sure how a historical non-fiction drama (Farrelly already said that it’s not a comedy) is a) both a comedy and a drama (from paragraph 1: "the interracial road-trip drama Green Bookā€); and b) divisive.

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I saw it recently, and it’s an amazing piece of work. Christian Bale inhabits Cheney, as do the other members of the cast. It also reminded me of how much I despise Bush, Cheney and the rest of his Administration; only Trump could make them look remotely sympathetic. These were horrible men and women who trod on the Constitution as though it was toilet paper. And the beat goes on…

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I’d never seen previous A Star Is Born nor knew anything about it. Wife had read it was good so we went to see it last friday at the low cost theater.

Might have been great acting and music, but holy shit what a sad depressing movie!

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ā€œViceā€ topped all contenders Thursday, in nominations announced at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, including best picture, comedy and best actor nominations for Christian Bale’s nearly unrecognizable performance as the former vice president.

The comedy take stands out…as unusual.

I’ll watch anything Christian Bale is in, he’s amazing.

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It’s been remade four times now. I saw the version with Judy Garland and James Mason.

I’ve avoided the others.

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I’m disappointed Will Ferrell didn’t play George W.

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It says they classified The Martian as a comedy as well, so it seems they have some very strange ideas about comedy. I guess if the movie contains anything mildly humorous that makes it a comedy?

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Fair enough, that flew by me. Sounds like a goodie at any rate.

The production companies lobbied to get that in a category where it had a batter chance of winning.

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I had a very similar reaction to Quinton Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds having been marketed–at least some–as a comedy.

ā€˜the man that got away’ - now that’s singing

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I took to calling him Darth Cheney well before he became Vice President to GWB. He was clearly an extremely ambitious and power-hungry corporatist (and evil tyrant) all the way back to his days in Nixon’s White House. That’s where he and Rumsfeld really got their start, and learned the ropes. In the singularly corrupt orbit of Richard Milhouse Nixon. Tag-team Evil Empire brokers.

Is it any surprise then that he turned out to be among the most heinous individuals of my generation?

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I didn’t much like it but better half loved it. Even more depressing was one of the early iterations with Judy Garland where the failed husband walks into the ocean to kill himself.

@valgalky23 I love the actors Bale and Adams, remember them from American Hustle where they were partners in crime, so I’ll watch it for them. For the subject matter alone, I wouldn’t,

Not just singing, but acting. Watch that number again, as a scene (it’s on YouTube, along with two earlier, rejected versions): the singer’s rehearsing this new song, and even as she’s exploring the power and emotion in the music and the lyric, she’s experiencing the joy of discovering this phenomenal number, the joy of performing it. It’s a marvel to me. She was a marvel.

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