re: Just popped in Zero Dark Thirty

Great movie. Better than Argo? Maybe technically, but Argo had way more soul. I cared about Mendez in Argo. I only cared about Chastains character insofar as I wanted her to catch Bin Laden. I had no interest in her personally. That's not to say I didn't like her or that Chastain dida bad job, just that they didn't feel the need to delve into her character more than they did.

Picked it up at RedBox last night and was very pleased. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm glad Argo won, because I like Ben Affleck, but ZD30 was every bit as good as Argo, if not better.

Both are very entertaining movies.

is this out on netlix yet?

I liked ZD30 better than Argo, but enjoyed Argo very much. My wife was the opposite. Matter of opinion. I just felt the tension of ZD30 was better drawn out and moments in Argo felt a little bit too much embellished for a true story.

Spoiler alert!!!!

As far as Argo goes, did Iranian trucks really almost catch up to the plane on the runway as it was taking off? I highly doubt this. Entertaining, but also a bit unrealistic.

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As far as Argo goes, did Iranian trucks really almost catch up to the plane on the runway as it was taking off? I highly doubt this. Entertaining, but also a bit unrealistic.

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No. This has been discussed many times on here. Every time it is, people get all pissy about how they misrepresented history to which I laugh at. Hardily. The last several minutes of the film, up to and including the chase, are pretty intense. Just because they fudged the exact detail there doesn't make it any worse than ZDT , as someone will inevitably argue. ZDT is also filled with historical inaccuracies to make it a better movie.

It was a well done movie, but damn I was bored throughout the entire movie. Even the raid at the end was boring. How do you manage to make a gun fight boring?

ETA: Gimme Argo over ZD30 every time.

Really gave a great sense of the drawn out beaurocratic horsesh#t without the movie itsself being drawn out-even though it was long and had virtually no score.

I remember a couple months before this went down some d-bag almost blowing it talking about "how out in the open UBL was living". He must have got muzzled quick, I don't remember hearing snother peep from him, but ZD30 made it clear how the timeline could've made for another missed chance.

Curious if the military was cooperative, those helos looked pretty detailed. Also glad that this wasn't a pom pom movie for either POTUS involved, if anything it was an indictment of the politics.

The last scene, on a grander scale reminded me of the last scene of Micheal Clayton when, after going through hell & back he hands the cabbie a twenty and says "just drive".

I finally watched it last night and thought it was just as great as everyone said. The thing I loved most was the interactions between the Agency people, the SEALs and the contractors working along side them. Those relationships were spot on, like how they are very candid with each other and kind of respect each others boundaries etc. but still really care and respect everyone else and their respective jobs for the most part. Egos don't play as big of a factor as some may think. To me the most boring part was the raid and that was still pretty great. I loved the whole CIA investigative build up in the first 2 hours though. And I actually liked Chastain. I was a bigger fan of Jason Clarke's role but I still had some compassion for Chastain and it feels like most people are kind of knocking her performance.



SPOILER: and who couldn't see that suicide bomb coming at that "Meet the Al Qaida doctor in Afghanistan" part? That was almost like 3 minutes of unnecessary build up, but that's my only knock.

I give it 5 Oprah titties.

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And you paused just to let us know you just started it ?

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You know it!

Just watched it. I thought it was a damn good movie. Def a great watch.

And it was pretty accurate too. I read the esquire article with the guy who killed Osama and I was very close. The only differences were they weren't screaming everytime one of them set a charge, and the actual killing of Osama. He was standing in the room with a women in front of him as a shield. And some other small minor details.

If you haven't read that esquire article about it I recommend it. Really awesome. LINK