Indeed as per the summary, I have a new desire to check this out.

He had a bunch of really good lines in this. Very, very entertaining.

Hanks was good in the film, but Hoffman was like Hit Girl in KickAss - owned every scene he was in.

*comedy
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Yeah it's a good movie...if you don't mind the hypocrisy of deifying a senator for something completely misguided and deadly.

If you haven't seen this movie, you need to.

Think of it as the highly entertaining prequel to...everything that's ever happened in our delightful war on terror.

It's fucking funny, too.

>> ^Retroboy:

He had a bunch of really good lines in this. Very, very entertaining.
Hanks was good in the film, but Hoffman was like Hit Girl in KickAss - owned every scene he was in.


right on brother.
hoffman banked this movie all the way.

This is good. I liked the bugged bottle of Scotch whiskey even better.

jesus, phillip seymour hoffman is an underrated actor. i've never seen him have a bad performance, but for some reason i feel like he's not among the acting elite. the guy's amazing in every role he does.

Amazing! You know, I've often thought that showing a scene like this in previews would make for a better 'trailer' than any actual trailer ever would. I MUST see this film!

>> ^Dignant_Pink:

jesus, phillip seymour hoffman is an underrated actor. i've never seen him have a bad performance, but for some reason i feel like he's not among the acting elite. the guy's amazing in every role he does.


PSH has been awesome for several years now. But he's no longer underrated.

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>> ^Yogi:

Yeah it's a good movie...if you don't mind the hypocrisy of deifying a senator for something completely misguided and deadly.


If you read the book, he's not exactly deified (nor was Charlie Wilson a senator). I don't really think he was deified in the movie either, but it wasn't as clear as the book, I suppose. The author (George Crile) does an extremely good job at making something that's at times extremely dense quite readable. The entire situation is something everyone needs to understand, because it shows how much influence a single person can have. The book and movie make the entire thing seem amazing because it was. A single US representative from Texas, with the help of a CIA agent (whose character you see in this clip) escalated US spending on equipment to incredible levels.

I don't think anyone would argue that opposing the Russian invasion of Afghanistan was necessarily a bad goal in and of itself, but the secretive way in which it was done meant the Afghans never knew it where the help was coming from, and that ultimately had unintended consequences. The book devotes quite large section at the end to discussing some of those issues. The movie sort of glossed over it if I remember correctly.

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