The Assassination of Richard Nixon

[jaw2929]

Sean Penn follows up his Oscar winning performance in Mystic River, with an equally brilliant performance in this troubling and deep yet awesome movie!

Penn plays Sam, an everyday business man in Maryland 1974... A furniture salesman who's not really good at his job... He can't grasp why people have to lie their asses off day in and out just to make money.... He becomes fed up with being a slave to the corporate world, ruled by President Richard Nixon during this time.... His marriage is failing, he hates his job, everything is going wrong....

Without getting too much into the details, I could really identify with Penn's character, his digust and disdain with how politics and the business world is run by money and lies.... He becomes disenchanted with it all, which slowly drives him to madness... Naomi Watts stars with him once again (They were both in the equally brillian 21 Grams movie together) as his wife with the marriage on the rocks, as well as Don Cheadle as his best friend who's a mechanic....

This movie was fuckin awesome, just as good (if not better) than the last movie I saw "The Woodsman" if you liked such movies as Falling Down, I HIGHLY recommend this one (to ANYONE!)

[MadsenOMC]

Agreed. I saw it tonight and loved it. A totally absorbing, disturbing character study. There simply is not a finer actor working today than Sean Penn. Great work all around. I'd definitely include this in my top 10 of 2004 (since technically it was released last year).

[Raging Bull080]

I can't wait too see this film, especially since I heard Roeper saying how amazing Penn is in it. No surprise though, he is only the most gifted actor working now. I will see this the first chance I get.

[King of Depew]

I saw this in a little theater like two months ago, it was a private screening and the director Niels Muhler was there.

This movie is fucking INTENSE. Definitely better than his work in Mystic River too. It should be a major Oscar contender, but of course you won't hear anything about this film.

Anyways, the director is a really nice guy and he's got kind of a cinderella story, its his first film and he wrote it in UCLA, he just graduated a short time ago. It was funny at the screening, he's like "I always love to see the SPOILER ALERT reaction of the crowd when he shoots the dog. Everyone is all aghast, but when he opens up in the plane no one is really affected."

[EDsoulsurvive*]

I'm so pissed off. The Assassination of Richard Nixon came to my local art theater but left the theater in a week. The same thing happened with the Machinist, I wish I wasn't so damn lazy because I really wanted to see both of these.

[SkyNet]

i saw this last week at a sneak preview... it was pretty good.

Most people would think it was slow... but you have to read into the movie, its about a guy who is sick of going un noticed and getting fucked over and he just wants ppl to kno whis name!

Pretty good

[brodeurnumber1]

Even though this is the third thread on the movie(I made the first:) ), I'll share my opinions once more. I just wish it would go wide so I could actually see the movie, because it's look very intriguing.

[Madhatter]

I just saw it today and I loved it. So intence... Sean Penn did an great job acting. Once the movie ended it was comeptly slient no clapping, the move really effected people's emotions in some sort of way

This might be controversial butI like this movie better then Taxi Driver, just becasue i cared about the Sam Bicke more then Travis Bickle

[jaw2929]

Originally posted by brodeurnumber1
Even though this is the third thread on the movie(I made the first:) ), I'll share my opinions once more. I just wish it would go wide so I could actually see the movie, because it's look very intriguing.

Oops, sorry Brode... I didn't see it, (though admittedly I wasn't looking that hard) otherwise I would've bumped it up :p

[Fisting Ackbar]

Wouldn't call it a bad movie and the slowness didn't bother me, but it was too pre-ordained for my taste, and I found it hard to empathize with Sean Penn's character. Too much whining and lack of personal responsibility on his part.

6/10