Anyone seen "The Post" yet...?

[FirstLight]

My 80-something parents saw it today and they were blown away.
(Dad watches Faux news) and my mom calls me and says...omg, Trump and his "fake news" ... aaaagh!

I'm and old Journalist, worked in the newsroom before the Internet really took off... so I can't wait to see it.
Also, Meryl Streep hasn't ever done a bad move I don't think. So yeah, should be good.

Too bad our Milennialls (sp) won't give a shit enough to seek out the historical aspect of films like this...

[SharonAnn]

1. A couple of my Dem friends have seen it and said it was absolutely terrific!

[dlk]

2. I've Seen the Film. It was Excellent!

As a former journalist, I think you would enjoy the film. There are certain parallels from events of that time and today--presidential threats to the First Amendment, decades-long lies about foreign military actions...we've been here before, with a Republican administration.

[FirstLight]

7. That's what my mom was getting at

As a former Journalist, there's a few movies that really get me going..

The Paper- Glenn Close &Michael Keaton
All the President's Men
Broadcast News (Holly Hunter was so fucking great)
Shattered Glass

...also His Girl Friday (1940)

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. I want to see it

Several of my friends have already and said it was great,

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Not yet.

I was living in the DC area at that time, so I will be seeing it.

[FirstLight]

5. coolness

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. An I was there through Watergate.

I didn't work on the Hill, but it was incredibly obvious by the last three or four weeks before the resignation that NOTHING was getting accomplished in the federal government. Even I could tell that things were at a total standstill.

[Ohiya]

8. Excellent!

Two thumbs way up!

[Meowmee]

9. I saw it

- I thought it was a great film. Great performances, great everything- the printing scenes are fabulous. I lived through a lot of that era, as a child. My father who hasn’t seen it yet is sure it’s not accurate and that the post didn’t play such a large role in all of this. It’s very relevant to what we are going through now imo.

[Laffy Kat]

12. Yes, so glad they showed the entire process:

Typing, editing, proof-reading, type-setting, etc. Love the way the entire building shook when the press started printing, LOL. My boys couldn't get over how a paper could be produced without computers, LOL, how much everyone smoked. I told them that's just the way it was back then in the "Old Days."

[FirstLight]

14. I worked as a reporter in the mid 90s

The press had been moved to a sister paper location in Carson City, I would have LOVED to have seen that process!

One of the reasons I loved the movie "The Paper"was the whole "stop the presses!"moment!!!

[Meowmee]

17. Id love to see that too

I haven’t seen The Paper, I’ll look for it at amazon.

[Meowmee]

16. It was a wonderful trip down

Memory lane, reminded me of when I bought my first type writer, which I still have and when computers were punch cards in an entire room which my father used. Even though I also felt like your boys that it was a bit foreign to me, I could never type well except on computers, so grateful for them 😹

[DemocracyMouse]

10. In Brooklyn, the audience cheered when the Post's publisher...

.... said "publish!" to her financial backers (some of whom said they would pull out if she did). The film was a study both in democracy's need for a free press, and the emancipation and on-the-job education of women. (i.e. how to assert independence). Streep and Hanks were at their best. SEE IT!!!!! Thoroughly satisfying and encouraging flick.

[Laffy Kat]

11. Yes, loved it, and so did my two twenty-something kids.

Both my boys couldn't wait to see it. They love history and politics.

[R B Garr]

13. Cant wait to see it.

This thread is getting me fired up, ready to go! Ha, miss that saying from the Obama years....

We watched the Churchill movie first. This up next.

Thx for this thread!

[Snotcicles]

15. Did Sunday the 2:30 was sold out in two rooms we had to come back for the 4:15 and it was packed. nt