"Good Night, and Good Luck" is at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes

with 86 reviews in from the nation's reviewers.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/good_night_and_good_luck/?beg=25&int=25&page=1

For the uninitiated, "Good Night, and Good Luck" is a film about CBS anchor Edward R. Murrow's exposé of Junior Senator Joseph McCarthy during the 1950s. The film is directed by George Clooney and stars David Stathairn as Murrow and Clooney as his producer Fred Friendly. Clooney has said he made the film as a wake-up call to the modern media to start reporting the facts again--to go back to the days when televised news really meant to SHOW what was truly going on.

"Rotten Tomatoes" is a web site that compiles reviews from the media across the country and then computes a percentage of how many of those reviews are positive versus how many are negative. 97% positive is pretty darn high. I actually don't think I've seen a number that high for a film since the first "Lord of the Rings" movie.

Call your local theater and demand that they show this film. It is truly an important piece of filmmaking.

tee hee

incidentally "Kiran Chetry" is one of the dumbest sounding names on the planet.

But then again, so does "Steve Doocey". What the Hell kind of name is "Doocey." Dutch? Scottish? Wouldn't it look beter as Ducey?

This is the kind of shit I think about when I see "Fox and Friends."

its hypnotically awful, I guess. That and it does a better job than coffee waking me up in the morning, just a few minutes of that show and i'm in a near-blind rage, ready to face the day with a clenched fist.

A minute of "Fox and Friends" and I'm ready to indiscriminately kill. That's the sort of adrenaline rush that helps me through the day.

Thanks Steve Doocey.

Irish surname search

(O) DUCEY, Dufficey Ducey, Ducy, Ducie Doocey

. Found mainly in Munster, especially in Counties Tipperary and Waterford. It occurs eleven times in the index to the only record now extant of the Hearth Money Rolls for Co. Tipperary Rolls. In Griffith's Valuation (c. 1855) for that county there are 21 householders called Doocey. These names occur very rarely in other Irish records, though Ducie does appear occasionally in Great Britain. The form Doocey has been occasionally reported as in use as a synonym of Duffy in the Milford district of Co. Donegal.

A note of interest: Lookie where I found an entry for "Steve Doocey": http://liberalscum.com/archive.html Ya think this has anything to do with his negative review? Hmmmm? ;)

Funny what you find online.;)

about Terri Schiavo:
http://www.moveleft.com/moveleft_essay_2005_03_25_fox_news_invites_a_psychic_to_comment_on_terri_schiavo.asp

Even for a useless skin job like Doocey.

I remember his dumb afternoon talk/variety show "House Party" which always seemed to be on when I came home from work back in the late 90s. It was, naturally, bland and stupid just like its host, and it didn't last very long. I can't believe the guy found another job after that, but leave it to FOX to break new ground in lameness.

I'm kind of surprised FOX didn't list it as a horror flick. :P

one of FOX's "friends." And, Murrow was a journalist with cajones, unlike ANYTHING they have at FOX.

there a many big words and deep thoughts, and nary a car chase or sex scene.

saw it last week when it opened in LA and loved it, however I was jonesing for
a cigarette afterward; lots of cigarette smoking - amazing to see that now - a
broadcaster smoking on air.

I hate it when I repeat what the poster above me said!

carry on!

of the most interesting times in history and I saw George Clooney on Jon's last night(repeat) and the clips were riveting..so was Clooney's talking about it.

Clooney.

as Marrow. I had to take a cold shower. SEXY.

I used to work with his brother. We had classrooms next door to each other for over ten years. I met the actor once. But I always heard stories my teaching buddy.

Classy guy. And I read an interview once with several actresses saying they love to work with him!

He was just great in "Son of the Morning Star". He stole the show from mean ole Custer! Ya! Where was school?

His brother talked of him wanting to do something in NYC so that he could be home w/his kids and wife. Also, picking apples.

I think that's when he tried t.v.

He is very picky about roles. So, he does have time w/family.

From bro's stories, could have been a tumultuous early life. You never know. Siblings don't always see things the same way.

the man who played Benteen. I've only seen the trailer for the Murrow movie a couple of times but there's no mistaking those eyes. I'd never heard his name before.

You're absolutely right.... as Benteen he monopolized my attention from the moment he first appeared on screen. Fourteen years later I still remember the first words he spoke: "Mistakes Were Made".

What a freakishly poor case of casting that the historically flamboyant, charismatic, and passion-provoking Custer should by so eclipsed by a subordinate who had almost no screen time at all. In fact even the guy who played Reno made more of an impact. And as for Rodney Grant as Crazy Horse... :loveya:

Anyway, just based on that experience I would expect that the Murrow movie is going to be fantastically good, from the charisma of the star if nothing else.

"They come to kill me."

I can't wait to see it. This movie will say just as much about the times we live in now as what went on in the McCarthy era.

Even in ER, I thought he was a pretty lousy actor, or maybe the parts he played just weren't appealing to me. The only entertaining thing I've seen him do was "From Dusk till Dawn", and that was just because I like almost any vampire movie.

he's an outspoken, unapologetic liberal and a talented filmmaker. He has a true love for the integrity of television news of old, as his dad was a popular TV newsman in Ohio back in the day (and a Dem candidate for Congress in the last election).

Check this movie out. I guarantee you won't be disappointed. Clooney made a lot of gutsy decisions in this movie, including presenting only REAL video of Joseph McCarthy instead of hiring an actor to portray him. Test audiences loved the movie but that thought the actor who played McCarthy was "over the top". They had no idea that the cartoonish goof on screen was the real deal!!

Clooney's first directing job...the film about Chuck Barris. I was very impressed with it...very quirky film. I loved it!

I thought Clooney did a great job with it.

Before I saw the movie, I thought it would be ridiculous for Chuck Barris to be a contract killer for the CIA. But now I'm not really sure!

I really thought it was great top to bottom...the music, the scenery (loved the 70's sets and clothes), the acting and the way it was shot. Lots of interesting angles and "effects."

:shrug:

What are you talking about? Have you seen "Irreconcilable Differences"
and "O'Brother?"

I even liked him in the Crap "Oceans 11 and 12"..and he's really interesting. :eyes:

:eyes:

n/t

GREAT BOND! And if anyone would ever go back to the Ludlum or other "spy genre" (sorry don't have an "accent key") they would find that all those spy novelists were really trying to TELL US SOMETHING!

Clooney would make and excellent spy...:-)'s if we had a Hollywood and MSM that weren't afraid and cowered like they were in the '50's.

I don't remember him in that.

and hey...I really liked the Ocean's films. am I bad???

I actually think he's a pretty good actor. He also did a great job in "Solaris".

rif about this last night on a repeat of the Daily Show..I'm so glad I got to catch that.

http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=23381&poppedFrom=_shows_the_daily_show_videos_celebrity_interviews_index.jhtml&

That was the first time I took to Clooney (loved it!). I would say Spacey, Crowe, Depp and Clooney are the top four actors.

When it came out ...it might not have seemed as important as it would become...but for any DU'ers who have "Brain Smarts" then RENT IT THIS WEEKEND...IF YOU MISSED IT! :smiles:

Clooney was terrific in it, and wasn't John Goodman a helluva villain? :scared:

deserved...but a second look shows that it was maybe "ahead of it's time." Great Movie...:-)'s

I've posted these before. I'll keep these up on my server so people can hear Murrow in action. Repost so those who've missed them can snag them.

All of these are in MP3 format and should play on any computer.
Right click the link and select (Save as...)

Sociological impact of war from 4 Sep 1939 - 724 Kb (3:04)
No confidence debate in Commons from 8 May 1940 - 652 Kb (2:45)
Personal impressions of bombing from 24 Aug 1940 - 892 Kb (3:47)
Wartime spring in England from 9 Mar 1941 - 1.7 Mb (7:14)
Reflections on wartime life in Britain from 24 Feb 1946 - 1.1 Mb (4:43)
CBS newscast - Joseph McCarthy from March, 1954 - 2.5 Mb (14:24)

Where's today's Murrow? Who could possibly fill his shoes?

that's partially why we are in the fix we are with 50% of the population or more having no clue and believing propaganda.

Take Heart. There's NO Space today on M$M for Murrow...but the "Internet" has hundreds of him....and eventually those of us here will find that WE here on this medium ...made a huge difference.

Murrow got his voice in the very early days of TV becoming "Mainstream."

Almost where WE ALL ARE with the Internet these days with it almost becoming "mainstream" yet today on CNN Karen Hughes (Bush's Good Will Ambassador for "Karen's Great Adventure Across the World) said that her SON ...knows "all about the internet" but it just isn't something she's comfortable with."

:rofl: Karen and Bush Admin...don't realize that there's thousands of "reporters on the beat...foot soldiers" who are doing and supporting a whole new age of reporting "right under their noses." :-)

WE ARE THE MURROW's...believe it ...we ARE!

:-(...Have to hope we get it soon!

:mad:

I'm not going till next weekend either.

We can come back and compare notes!

It was very good but not quite 97% good IMO. More like 87-90%.

Still, Clooney has done us all a favor by showing how little things have changed re integrity and the media.

which is quite an honour (and will also mark its UK premiere, as it is not released here until February).

either.