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Title:	Movie Reviews and Discussion
Notice:	Please do DIR/TITLE before starting a new topic on a movie!
Moderator:	VAXCPU::michaudo.dec.com::tamara::eppes

Created:	Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1249
Total number of notes:	16012

1213.0. "Truman" by VAXCPU::michaud (Gene Siskel) Fri Jan 31 1997 01:07

	This one STARS Gary Sinise, in yet another great role.
	He plays Harry S. Truman from the roots of his political
	career, from local government, to Senator, to President,
	all the way to the end of his presidency.

	It was also quite a refresher course too in American history,
	including World Wars I & II, Korean War, civil rights for
	African Americans, the formation of the Jewish State in
	the Gulf (I didn't know Truman was Jewish himself!), the
	development and deployment of the atom bomb, and did you
	know (or remember) that General McAuthor wanted to drop
	50 atom bombs on China?

	Like an Oliver Stone film (no it wasn't a Stone film), I
	don't know how much of this film was artistic freedom vs.
	documentable fact (fwiw, the box says this is based on the
	book by David McCullough), but if true (and they didn't
	leave out a hidden dark side), Truman was one of the best
	Presidents this country has had in recent history.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1213.1	TV?	PCBUOA::CHENARD		`Fri Jan 31 1997 09:34`	5
	Just a question - but shouldn't this be in the TV notesfile since this was an HBO movie - made for TV. Mo
1213.2		BUSY::SLAB	As you wish	`Fri Jan 31 1997 10:27`	5
	"Made for TV" or "Made for HBO"? There's no reason it shouldn't be here.
1213.3		STAR::64822::DKOSKO	Dancin' on a bubble full of trouble...	`Fri Jan 31 1997 11:09`	7
	In case you haven't been paying attention recently, HBO is producing some very powerful, very watchable movies these days. To compare HBO (and Showtime) movies to network fare is ludicrous. They stand up very well against some of the better movie house films, and are vastly superior to most of what appears on the silver screen. dave
1213.4	GOD KNOWS I WON'T ASK THIS QUESTION AGAIN	PCBUOA::CHENARD		`Fri Jan 31 1997 11:37`	8
	I am not saying that HBO is not producing great movies - they are. In fact they produced my favorite movie of last year - Rasputin with Alan Rickman - which I wrote about in the TV notes file. All I was saying was that I thought this particular notes file was for movies released to theaters and/or videos. Mo
1213.5		BUSY::SLAB	As you wish	`Fri Jan 31 1997 11:53`	9
	The guideline is that the same movie shouldn't be discussed in here and in TV_CHATTER, for redundancy purposes. This made a little more sense when MOVIES and TV were hosted on the same node, but still has some merit. IMO, a movie is a movie and a TV show is a TV show. 1 should be discussed here and the other in TV_CHATTER.
1213.6		VAXCPU::michaud	Lee Remick	`Fri Jan 31 1997 11:54`	13
	> All I was saying was that I thought this particular notes file was > for movies released to theaters and/or videos. Moderator hat on This has been discussed before, but I don't have the time write now to do an AV NOTES search. As Shawn and the other noters said, this is not a so-called "made for TV" movie, but a real movie production, funded by HBO, so that they can offer it to their subscribers first. Some of these productions do then go on to be released to theaters (like "The Last Seduction" discussed in topic 701), and then onto home video (which is how I saw it, I rented the video).