Bombshell (2019)

John Lithgow deserved an Oscar for his portrayal of Roger Ailes

I thought it was shit. A sympathy story about 3 pieces of shit.

They really made Theron up so amazingly to look just like Cunting Kelly.

R2 someone is letting their bias take over. Regardless if you agree with them or not, they were victims.

R4, yes they were, but I don't have any sympathy to anyone male or female who decides to start or build acareer on the garbage Fox NEws was peddling. They put up with his shit for a long time before they spoke up. If you want to get the real scoop on Ailes and how sick and disgusting he wsa, read The Loudest Voice in the Room. Excellent book.Should be required reading to understand how all the news media of today, got to this point. BEcause it started decades ago.

R5 Sure, I'm not going to victim blame. Think of coming forward like coming out, you can't just push someone and it is their own emotional time.

R4 Richard Ramirez was a victim too.

Megyn Kelly is a cunt. I don’t care what happens to her.

Was it truthful enough that Rupert and Lachlan were pissed?

I thought the miniseries The Loudest Voice did a better job telling the story. Bombshell went out of the way to emphasize the 'Fierce She-Warriors' who brought Ailes down, whereas The Loudest Voice, without downplaying the womens' role, told a more nuanced tale.

It had promise, but Nicole Kidman was completely miscast as Gretchen Carlson, and Jay Roach just couldn't resist throwing in a "hot lesbian" subplot.

R9, I agree. I have to ask if you read the book, and if you did, was it before or after you saw it?

I loved the part where someone goes "You are wearing pants?" to Guilfoyle and she goes "fuck off." after a few weeks before she was "guys we have to support Roger!" who would not let female reporters wear pants.

I liked the movie, but I liked the teaser for it even more.

R12 Kimberly also sexually harassed other women at Fox, so no surprise she supported Roger.

It was so so, but Charlize was completely unrecognizable with the nose. Kidman was great.

Nicole Kidman seemed out of place but the rest of the cast were fine.

Hi r11. No I have not read the book. I will certainly check it out though. Thanks.

My favorite part is when they start out as mouthpieces and operatives for the Republican super-rich, but when they are on the receiving end, they transform into democrats just enough to defend themselves from injustice!

With costumes by Colleen Atwood, who is largely known for her Tim Burton collaborations.

R13 The teaser was more interesting than the movie. I thought it was going to be an all out Mean Girls backstabbing bitch fest.

But it was nothing like that at all.

I thought it was awful. It was a deserved flop. Kidman, as in almost everything, was stiff as a board and terribly miscast.

It's also funny considering how Megyn Kelly rails against woke Hollywood every chance she gets yet Hollywood made a big picture featuing her as a heroine we should all admire.

Roger Ailes got his start working as a f unctionary in the Nixon White House. Guess who he was close to? Roger Stone. That's how far back all this vermin goes.

The book, The Loudest Voice in the Room is written by Gabriel Sherman. It is one of the best biographies I've read about Ailes and Fox and his impact on our political landscape.

R23 I looked up the book and it was written in 2014. Wonder if there is a book about the 2016 election

Don’t care about this story and I really do not like any of the lead actresses, but I still saw this for some reason when it premiered. Meh.

Megyn Kelly is a huge piece of shit but Ailes was even worse

I enjoyed the movie. The move got a well deserved Oscar for Make-Up.

R27: Oppsie, that should be, "movie" not "move".

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I too really liked this movie.

I thought Naomi Watts was better as Gretchen Carlson in The Loudest Voice than Nicole was in Bombshell.

This would have been better as a documentary. The movie jumped around too much and broke the 4th wall which was weird. The prosthetics on Theron and Kidman were distracting. Robbie’s character seemed pointless and was only there to entice male viewers.

Also felt the movie was a bit hypocritical as plenty of “Liberal” organizations sexually harass and assault women, but Hollywood doesn’t go after their own.

Wasn't Roger Ailes good friends with Barbara Walters?

Yes he was - Barbara Walters had come after McGinniss hard in a TV interview: “Afterwards she says she is angry because she is a friend of Roger Ailes, who is a character in the book. She thinks I treated him unfairly.” (He replies that Ailes likes the book and has helped him promote it.) And when someone asks McGinniss how a particular politician might fix his TV image, the answer is simple: “I tell him to call Roger Ailes.”

Over the next few years, Ailes popped up here steadily as just such a fixer. He took on unpromising clients: Al D’Amato for Senate in 1980 (he won), Lew Lehrman for governor in 1982 (he lost to Cuomo, badly). Ailes’s second major triumph, after Nixon, was transforming George H.W. Bush into a tough guy in 1988, helping him roar past Michael Dukakis via a very low road. “The only question,” political columnist Joe Klein wrote, quoting Ailes, “is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife or without it.”

R32, I guess you missed She Said, the Harvey Weinstein movie. You just want to complain about liberals

They let O’Reilly off too easily.

They were definitely mistreated, which is why it's so odd that Megyn Kelly now seems to be one of Trump's biggest supporters.

R37 Megyn Kelly is about making money. And being a reichwing podcaster is keeping her bank account busting at the seams.

The TV series The Loudest Voice, with Russell Crowe as Ailes, is excellent. It deals (better) with the events of Bombshell, but not before a number of episodes showing how Fox News originated and grew, and setting up how controlling and paranoid Ailes was once he was in charge of the juggernaut.

There are no victims here. They went all out to get for themselves.