The trailer is out.
Thoughts?
Great cast, at least.
Sacha Baron Cohen is just wrong, physically, for Abby Hoffman. Yeah, he's dark, but he's also tall, slim, and rangy. Nothing like the stocky, compact, sprite-like Hoffman. I don't buy it.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 14, 2020 3:25 AM |
Sacha Baron Cohen Abbie Hoffman
Eddie Redmayne Tom Hayden
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Richard Schultz
Mark Rylance William Kunstler
Jeremy Strong Jerry Rubin
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Bobby Seale
Alex Sharp Rennie Davis
Michael Keaton Ramsey Clark
Frank Langella Julius Hoffman
Kelvin Harrison Jr. Fred Hampton
John Carroll Lynch David Dellinger
William Hurt
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 14, 2020 3:29 AM |
I can’t stand Sacha Baron Cohen.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 14, 2020 3:31 AM |
They're guilty!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 14, 2020 3:40 AM |
R1, Aaron Sorkin said he wasn’t casting “a museum piece production,” he didn’t seek exact physical matches for the real life counterparts. He was more interested in casting actors who could convey the emotional essence of who they’d be portraying. Next to none of those who watch this will know Abbie Hoffman was way shorter than SBC, anyway.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 14, 2020 2:25 PM |
Rave reactions from the virtual screening last night:
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 23, 2020 1:55 PM |
A film about a quintessentially American event and quintessentially American characters - and Brits in three of the principal roles.
There aren't any American Jews who can play Abbie Hoffman - especially ones that don't come with the baggage of Borat or Brüno?
Why does Eddie Redmayne have to play Tom Hayden? (Will they get some English rose to play Jane Fonda?)
Admittedly, though, Rylance as Kunstler - who was like a character out of a Shakespearean comedy - might be pretty good.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 23, 2020 2:40 PM |
Abbie Hoffman was 32 at the time depicted. Sacha Baron Cohen is 48. What's wrong with this picture?
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 23, 2020 2:48 PM |
I think Seth Rogen would have made a good Abbie Hoffman (who was essentially a clown). Of course, he's not American either.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 23, 2020 2:50 PM |
Well, it’s out today. Thoughts?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 16, 2020 1:43 PM |
I'd watch just to hear Sacha Baron Cohen attempt a Boston accent. R9, welcome to Hollywood.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 16, 2020 1:48 PM |
Sasha Baron Cohen was a terrible choice. The public is used to him playing dead pan sarcastic parody characters- how will it be to differentiate that from a dramatic performance?
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 16, 2020 1:54 PM |
[quote]Abbie Hoffman was 32 at the time depicted. Sacha Baron Cohen is 48. What's wrong with this picture?
He's an actor, he acted 32.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 16, 2020 1:55 PM |
Hard pass. Cohen is unwatchable.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 16, 2020 2:04 PM |
Love SBC. I’m watching it this evening.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 16, 2020 2:14 PM |
R16, I shall join you.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 16, 2020 2:17 PM |
Cohen was good in that Israeli spy thing.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 16, 2020 2:17 PM |
R18 yes he was. I think as an actor he's more than Borat and Bruno. I guess that's why he's an actor.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 16, 2020 2:20 PM |
Cody Saintgnue from Teen Wolf is an executive producer on the film.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 16, 2020 2:20 PM |
Self congratulatory Boomer jerk-off porn. Pass.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 16, 2020 2:42 PM |
Why all the hate? "Bruno" got under your skin?
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 17, 2020 4:46 PM |