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Run, don't walk to see Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather
« on: July 12, 2014, 03:57:53 PM »
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Wed Jul 9, 2014, 03:00 PM
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‘Rathergate’ Drives ‘Truth’ Film; Robert Redford To Play Dan Rather, Cate Blanchett To Play Producer


http://www.deadline.com/2014/07/rathergate-movie-robert-redford-dan-rather-cate-blanchett-george-w-bush/

Redford is attached to play CBS News icon Dan Rather and Cate Blanchett is attached to play his producer Mary Mapes in Truth, a film that will mark the directorial debut of James Vanderbilt, the A-list screenwriter behind the first two installments of The Amazing Spider-Man. The film will explore the scandal that erupted after Rather reported on 60 Minutes II that George W. Bush had gotten preferential treatment that put him in the National Guard to avoid the Vietnam War draft. The ensuing scandal during Bush’s reelection campaign left Mapes fired and Rather’s storied reputation in tatters.

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Mapes, who’d worked in TV news 25 years and won the Peabody Award, was subsequently fired for what the network called lapses in judgment. Strangely, the Bush campaign benefited from the scandal, and exploited Kerry’s military service by getting some of his former soldiers to speak against him. When the current Secretary of State could not win that issue—he served while Bush didn’t—his campaign was doomed. Mapes maintained her belief that the documents were real, and that she and Rather were done in by a right-wing internet smear campaign that put the focus on “Rathergate” instead of the issue of whether the president benefited from his father’s powerful relationships to avoid service in Vietnam.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025217391

I predict that this movie is going to do about as well as Redford's movie about the Weather Underground bomber that came out at the same time as the Boston Marathon bombing.  This movie is going to sink at the box office.  For one thing, the 77 year old Redford looks too old to convincingly play the 82 year old Rather.  But with the magic of Hollywood stagecraft and a shitload of moisturizer and caked on makeup maybe they can pull it off.

Whoever invests in this bomb deserves to lose their shirt.  What do they hope to show?  That George Bush joined the military in order to avoid serving in the military?  Go for it, leftists.

The DUmmies think that this movie's time has come and that it's going to do boffo box office.

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Response to RockaFowler (Original post)Wed Jul 9, 2014, 03:02 PM
Star Member hlthe2b (50,738 posts)
1. WoW This will be SOMETHING with Redford/Blanchett-I will be in the front of the line to see it
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Response to RockaFowler (Original post)Wed Jul 9, 2014, 03:05 PM
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2. Holy shit...this should be good. I'm STILL pissed over this.

I wonder if Rather is being consulted and has input, hope so!
(I'll read the link now for more details)

I hope that Rather is being consulted and has input too.  That will guarantee its failure.
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Response to RockaFowler (Original post)Wed Jul 9, 2014, 03:11 PM
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4. I'm allllll

Over this movie!
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Response to RockaFowler (Original post)Wed Jul 9, 2014, 03:29 PM
hughee99 (11,874 posts)
7. I'm curious how this will be portrayed.

Will there be an attempt to portray the documents as authentic, falsified as part of a republican setup, or carelessness on the part of Mapes and Rather?
All of the above, that's how Oliver Stone would do it.
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Response to RockaFowler (Original post)Wed Jul 9, 2014, 03:36 PM
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8. Squeee! Here's a link to my thread from 2007. Finally someone's doing the movie!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3539083

I knew that this was gonna make a great film. Jeb Bush will wait have to wait at least another four years.
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Response to McCamy Taylor (Reply #8)Thu Jul 10, 2014, 05:01 AM
Star Member JustAnotherGen (11,219 posts)
51. Agree and Weinstein

Is a huge leftist - this will open on at least 1000 screens.
And sink like a rock.
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Response to RockaFowler (Original post)Wed Jul 9, 2014, 04:08 PM
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22. Holy hell!

About time the truth comes out. I never for a second doubted the validity of Rather's reporting on the issue. Republican heads will explode over this. I can't wait.
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Response to RockaFowler (Original post)Wed Jul 9, 2014, 04:08 PM
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23. This is LONG, LONG overdue!

Glad to see it. I personally never doubted the truth behind it then ... and do not doubt it now.
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Response to RockaFowler (Original post)Wed Jul 9, 2014, 04:11 PM
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25. This should be GREAT!

I smell an Oscar.
I smell something too. A stinker.
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Response to RockaFowler (Original post)Wed Jul 9, 2014, 04:20 PM
Star Member mopinko (41,640 posts)
28. hmmm. wonder if we will get a hat tip for exposing buckhead.

i was just telling this story to a friend who doesnt hang online. she hears a lot about du.
i told her this whole story.
i cant wait to drag her to the movie.

rather and redford have ranches very close together out there in one of those square states. not surprised to hear this.
A special Oscar for democrat underground--that would be the icing on the cake.
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Re: Run, don't walk to see Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2014, 04:46:02 PM »
They're going to make a movie about a bogus scandal?

Can you imagine all the material that commie Hollywood would have if Obama was a Republican?





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Re: Run, don't walk to see Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2014, 05:32:42 PM »
Quote from: Dori on July 12, 2014, 04:46:02 PM
They're going to make a movie about a bogus scandal?
Oh yes. The word is, "propaganda."
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Re: Run, don't walk to see Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2014, 05:39:24 PM »
It doesn't say when it will be released.  I'm predicting "right before the 2016 election" to get the BDS-inflicted rabble fired up to vote.
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Re: Run, don't walk to see Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2014, 06:56:17 PM »
I'm sure it will do as well as Micky Moore's Fahrenheit 911.  The same group of idiots will go see it.
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Re: Run, don't walk to see Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2014, 06:57:31 PM »
Quote from: I_B_Perky on July 12, 2014, 06:56:17 PM
I'm sure it will do as well as Micky Moore's Fahrenheit 911.  The same group of idiots will go see it.
Mikey made a ton of money off that movie.

In true progressive fashion, everyone else involved in producing it got shafted.
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Re: Run, don't walk to see Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2014, 08:09:42 PM »
Dinesh D'Souza's new movie AMERICA: IMAGINE THE WORLD WITHOUT HER, just came out.

We can compare who did the best at the box office after 'Truth And Duty' (the actual name of the movie) comes out....
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Re: Run, don't walk to see Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2014, 08:40:10 PM »
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    Response to RockaFowler (Original post)Wed Jul 9, 2014, 03:29 PM
    hughee99 (11,874 posts)
    7. I'm curious how this will be portrayed.

    Will there be an attempt to portray the documents as authentic, falsified as part of a republican setup, or carelessness on the part of Mapes and Rather?

I don't understand the bolded. So the stupid as dirt Republicans were able to steal not one but two elections from the smartest people on the planet AND set them up with documents that were so poorly faked that everyone was fooled but the stupid people? Interesting.
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Re: Run, don't walk to see Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2014, 10:50:23 PM »
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put him in the National Guard to avoid the Vietnam War draft
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Yeah. Every time I go to dodge the draft, I end up flying F-102's. :confused:

Damn, the bad luck.....


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I wonder if Rather is being consulted and has input, hope so!

Yeah,....uh, right.  Maybe he'll give you the frequency, you idiot.
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Re: Run, don't walk to see Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2015, 08:21:12 PM »
Heh! Per IMDB, "Truth" grossed just south of $2.5M worldwide as of a year ago. I could not find anything about how much it cost to make, but I have a feeling a lot of Hollyweird investors took a big one for the Prog-team.

And it's DU-folks' fault. Not enough of them ran to see it, and not enough of them saw it 10+ times!
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Re: Run, don't walk to see Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2015, 08:54:32 PM »
Quote from: SVPete on December 18, 2015, 08:21:12 PM
Heh! Per IMDB, "Truth" grossed just south of $2.5M worldwide as of a year ago. I could not find anything about how much it cost to make, but I have a feeling a lot of Hollyweird investors took a big one for the Prog-team.

And it's DU-folks' fault. Not enough of them ran to see it, and not enough of them saw it 10+ times!

I figured it would do about the same as F-911.  Same group of idiots went to see it.  Then again... there is not the seething hatred of the left right now like there was back in the Bush days. Libbies get to seething, their money is soon parted from their hands.  That and when they go thru drug withdrawal.
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Re: Run, don't walk to see Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather
« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2015, 11:01:36 AM »
 :lmao:  Look at them all orgasmic up there.  "I smell an Oscar."  NOBODY cared about this movie, except for a handful of nobodies. 
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Re: Run, don't walk to see Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather
« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2015, 11:14:55 AM »
The IMDB.com discussion forum for this movie is pretty entertaining, their are moonbats posting there who are stil defending Rather and Mapes.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3859076/board/?ref_=tt_ql_5
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Re: Run, don't walk to see Truth starring Robert Redford as Dan Rather
« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2015, 11:43:29 AM »
Quote from: Karin on December 19, 2015, 11:01:36 AM
:lmao:  Look at them all orgasmic up there.  "I smell an Oscar."  NOBODY cared about this movie, except for a handful of nobodies.

Well, it was voted best film at the Mill Valley Film Festival ... Mill Valley being in we-wish-we-could-be-in-San-Francisco poshly liberal Marin County.

I know it's not "good form" to necro old threads, but when I looked into how successful "Truth" wasn't I couldn't/wouldn't resist juxtaposing financial reality with DU folks' slobbering enthusiasm for this piece of recycled rotted tripe.

And gloating that the American public who rejected Rather & Mapes in 2004 rejected them again in 2015.
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