Chappaquiddick movie trailer

[quote] When asked if the Kennedy family was consulted about the project,

What kind of stupid question is that? "Yes, we asked them, and Joan told us all about what happened that week."

All these comedic actors in it - weird

Was drinking involved?

I never really considered it before but it's an interesting contrast how Jack was awarded the Navy Cross for swimming miles while towing an injured man to keep him from drowning, while by contrast Ted ran away letting a helpless girl drown, and should have won an acting award for his alibi.

Jack earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal. Joe Jr. was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. The movie is a shit-stirring piece of crap about people who are no longer alive promoted by people who are going to be desperate in 2018 to find something, anything, that will enable Republicans to be even slightly relevant in that election.

Any cute twinks in the movie?

To R5: huh?

Just this R7---the Republicans have used Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick for 50 years as an example of Democrat immorality much like they've used Clinton's Oval Office blowjob for the same reason for 30 years. No story is too old for them to use against us. This movie is something they are likely to use to deflect from the fact that they are laying waste to America every way that they can. It is the sort of thing outlets like Fox News will latch onto and pound into the ground like it happened yesterday.

Oh my goodness! Now I understand!

It was all a vast right wing conspiracy!

Oh, please, R5. Chappaquiddick had all the elements of a stereotypical Hollywood political thriller. If you wrote a script like that, it would get rejected for being so cliched--married scion of political dynasty slinks away from the scene of a crash which kills his young blonde "assistant."

And yet not only did Kennedy mostly avoid the fallout from the proverbial live boy/dead girl scandal, the topic is supposed to be somehow off limits, or only right wing extremists consider his behavior scandalous? The fact that it's taken 50 years for a hard look at the incident is a testament to the power of the Kennedy political machine, as well as how deeply invested a whole generation of media types were in preserving the Kennedy mystique.

Yeah, I’m with R10 on this.

So. Are they going to address Mary Jo's being pregnant? With Teddy's kid?

[quote] The fact that it's taken 50 years for a hard look at the incident is a testament to the power of the Kennedy political machine, as well as how deeply invested a whole generation of media types were in preserving the Kennedy mystique.

Plus how easily the grieving parents silence could be bought.

"It looked as if she were holding herself up to get a last breath of air. It was a consciously assumed position.... She didn't drown. She died of suffocation in her own air void. It took her at least three or four hours to die. I could have had her out of that car twenty-five minutes after I got the call. But he [Ted Kennedy] didn't call." — diver John Farrar, Inquest into the Death of Mary Jo Kopechne, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Edgartown District Court.

Like Ann Coulter said: "In the war against women Teddy Kennedy is the only one with a confirmed kill."

See, in countries that don't have a 2 party system, freaks like r5, who treat anything that paints a representative of "their" party in a bad light as if it was a personal attack on their own family, simply don't exist.

It’s just a movie, no tin foil hats needed.

It's about time. Hopefully the entire truth will come out.

Ted Kennedy was a shit, plain & simple. He had taken Kopechne over to the beach at the far east end of the island after they'd left the party. Later as he was driving back from whatever the two did at the beach he had to cross the little dike bridge, his car went off the bridge landing upside down in the drink. Ted was able to get out of the car and swam to shore. He later claimed that he dove down many times trying to free Mary Jo.

Ted went back to the house where the party was still going on, passing several houses from where he could have summoned help.

Once at the house he told his cousin Joe Gargan what had happened and the two allegedly returned to the accident site to see if they could get to Kopechne. Ted begged Joe to claim that it was he who had been driving. Gargan flat out refused. Supposedly he made Gargan swear that he would let him (Turd Kennedy) handle everything.

Ted had Gargan take him to the western end of the island nearest Edgartown. The last ferry of the night had left several hours earlier so Ted swam the short distance over to the main part of Martha's Vineyard. He then sneaked into a rear entrance of the hotel where he was registered, got to his room and then called the front desk to complain about noise coming from another room on his floor, thereby creating an alibi.

The following morning Ted was his usual self when he came down to the main floor to enjoy a full breakfast. Gargan met up with Turd at the hotel and was furious to find out that Turd hadn't notified the authorities at all. A couple of fishermen had found the car that morning, stop by the house closest to the accident and notified the police who in turn had a professional diver go to the scene. Kennedy finally went to the police station. He lied through his teeth of course claiming that he was disoriented and that the previous night he was taking Kopechne back to Edgartown via the ferry.

* Kopechne did not tell any of her girlfriends at the party that she was heading back. She also left both her handbag as well the the key to her hotel room at the party.

I didn't know Mary Jo was a great big fat person.

I saw the film at TIFF. It's good but not great. But it's pretty much an indictment of Ted and the Kennedy dynasty in general (Bruce Dern steals the film as Joe Kennedy - completely intimidating and forceful).

I don't think the film will make any impact.

Funny you mention that r2. Someone at the screening at TIFF said it took him out of the movie. The guy even said to Ed Helms (who was on stage after the screening) that it felt like The Hangover with the Kennedys.

Another liberal for DL to enjoy hating.

It was an accident and a tragedy. It's been used against the Democrats since it happened. Why resurrect it now? We all know that answer.

and a crime too r20. (leaving the scene of an accident.)

R21 It was a million years ago. It's long over. And he was drunk and probably blacked out. What does this serve at this point? His life was never the same, his Prez aspirations destroyed. What more do you want?

then why make a movie about Lincoln, or Tonya Harding, or anything else that happened a "million years ago" r21.

I guess it is just republican, right wing Hollywood up to their old tricks again....oh wait.

Oh please honey. Your Republican slip is showing.

Just from seeing the trailer, it looks like a crappy Lifetime or Reelz movie.

r25 yeah, it's not a very dynamic film. Jason Clarke is just not a movie star. Bruce Dern, however, was excellent as Joe Kennedy. He brought the film some prestige.

Republican porn. I want to see the movie where Reagan negotiates with Iran for the release of the hostages and fucks over a weakened Carter. Republicans have a history of ad hoc negotiations with hostile enemy nations.

[quote]I want to see the movie where Reagan negotiates with Iran for the release of the hostages and fucks over a weakened Carter.

they did that. It was called Argo and it won Best Picture.

I thought I put a bullet in Mary Jo's head.

What happens when people with no cultural confidence take power.

The Kennedys tried to make the moon landing all about themselves and steal thunder fron Nixon, but instead, Ted drives his car off the bridge just as Apollo 11 was headed for the Sea of Tranquility landing site.

Bumptious Mick.

R31

sing it !