well, then forget about the ratings and just follow your own instinctsOriginally Posted by a007_hacker
that movie (invictus) was filled with political propaganda, portraying mandela as some kind of wise saint or smth (whereas he was/is a suffering cult-of-personality-icon puppet in reality to the same ones who started the apartheid in the first place and his political party continued a similar politics, getting financial support from all over the world)The acting was disappointing from all actors, even Matt Damon. However, what saved this movie is the story line, which I admit is very nice, especially that the story in general is true.
a strange element is this victory of their national team (led by the white guy, who is the main actor, symbolically showing the black guys how 'its done'), as it was supposedly won by an unfair incident - the other team, superior in skills (south-africans were outsiders) had food poisoning just before the match thus having a major disadvantage
agora is similarly propagandist, yet concerning ancient times (picking sides as to whom is to be blamed for burning the alexandrian library and what were the actual circumstances, as usual using a hollywood-style (fake) history biased filtering, painting local people as an ignorant mob and so on), the only thing good about it are the 'costumes' & the decent lead actress, the battles were just plain bad and imo unnecessary (but war is trendy isn't it?)
interesting, i liked that one, fonda was cool as usual, not to mention it had a few morals on 'justice' and 'conformity', being shot almost entirely in a single room is quite an achievement from filmmakers point of view and it fits well in that movie era (not so flashy/fast as later lawyer driven movies)A bad movie to watch is "12 Angry Man", 7th on IMDB (8.8/10), maybe because it is a 1957 movie but it was boring.
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