Directed by Ben Affleck
Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin & John Goodman
Released October 12, 2012
Watched October 25, 2012
timmmc.com score: 5/5 stars
Contenders: Affleck (Director), Adapted Screenplay, Best Picture
ARGO was, simply, innnnnnncredible. #timmmcreviews
— Timm McIntosh (@timmmc) October 26, 2012
This is one of maybe 4 films in this year's crop of films that, in every way, is absolutely "Oscar Bait", but I am more than fine with this fact. Argo is a truly, truly wonderful film in every way. It's a very interesting film: you know the ending going into it, and really, the film doesn't contain much by the way of action... but if you aren't on the edge of your seat from the very outset, you simply do not have a soul. I recall thinking on my way out of the theatre how exhausted I was by the film... it was THAT intense. Great stuff.
Also... how many people would have thought in 2005 that Steven Spielberg (fresh off of his War of the Worlds adaptation/dud) & Ben Affleck (of then-recent Surviving Christmas, Jersey Girl, Gigli and Daredevil fame) would be squaring off at the Oscars just 7 years later?
Also... how many people would have thought in 2005 that Steven Spielberg (fresh off of his War of the Worlds adaptation/dud) & Ben Affleck (of then-recent Surviving Christmas, Jersey Girl, Gigli and Daredevil fame) would be squaring off at the Oscars just 7 years later?
