Is 'All the President's Men' the Best Political Movie Ever? | The Ringer | The Rewatchables
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- The Ringer's Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan dive deep to uncover the details of the Watergate scandal as they rewatch the 1976 political thriller ‘All the President’s Men’ starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman and directed by Alan J. Pakula.
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It's a rewatchable but not the same way a lot of other movies are. It's rewatchable because of the insane amount of names and information thrown at you. Can't possibly remember everything from one or two viewings
I watch this movie every few years. No idea; I know what the freak happened already. But something about it. Maybe it's nostalgia for when there were grown-ups somewhere. Even when there were bad guys, there were other guys.
I think Charlie Chaplin started the actor, director, screen writer, composer, and studio owner paradigm.
actually , it probably was , Alice Guy - Blaché ( active from 1894 - 1922 ) .
Listened to the JFK rewatchable pod. Appreciate the effort. But the Wikipedia version is simply wrong. Sounded like Bill was the only one that actually knew anything about it. The character “X” was not “made up”…based on Fletcher Prouty and a little Richard Case Nagell.
Capricorn 1 would make great episode. It checks all the boxes.
Also checks out the parallax view & klute
Jason Robards is amazing in Once Upon a Time in the West.
No mention of the startling opening: white space for 17 seconds until the explosion of a typewriter key striking the paper. It’s brilliant.
It's not the best actor scene because it's so dark but the last Deep Throat scene is amazing. Redford gets so righteously angry, Deep Throat looks like he's signing his own death sentence in response and Redford response with utter astonishment both in what DT is saying but also that he would respond at all.
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I'm 23, and i know who martin Balsam is, but great breakdown like always deep cast in this one.. 😅
It is NOT a political movie. The focus of the film is how Woodward and Bernstein got the story. It's really a journalism movie. Robert Redford has said that multiple times and he was one of the producers. The political aspect is necessary to tell the story only. "Follow the money" from Deep Throat is an important line in the film but the most important line is from Harry Rosenfeld (Jack Warden) when he tells Bernstein "I'm not interested in what you think is obvious, I'm only insterested in what you know." That line should be framed and hung in every newsroom in America. Sadly, the news media is nowhere near that now. Everything is narrative driven, from both sides of the aisle, and facts that don't support that narrative are conveniently left out. This movie should be required viewing for all journalism students.
No love for Jason Robards in Once Upon A Time In The West?
LeBron is no Robert Redford.
I love the scene where his boss/editor if you don't make progress you guys would have to go out and get real jobs.
Bill Simmons looks like Markham in the movie
What about Clint Eastwood, re: producer/director/actor? He started doing his thing before Redford was even a well-established actor!
Redford was beyond a well-established actor by the time Clint started directing/producing.
All the Presidents Men is a masterpiece. Feels like going on a late night conspiracy theory deep dive until it all comes together in a way you think is the truth
Just a very boring movie!
@@Jeckxdeel just pay closer attention next time youre watching it
@@griffinwalker823
I paid a lot of attention and especially about the conversations when I watched it several years ago .
I recorded it on vhs during a TV broadcast in the end of the 90's and I watched a few days after.
It was so over the top talkative, painful and boring that I stopped it after about 60 minutes.
This is one of the rare movies that I didn't watch until the end.
And I don't intend to try watching it entirely again at all.
I even watched until the end some boring piece of shit movies such as THE ENGLISH PATIENT and THE LAST EMPEROR.
I don’t think it’s even the best political movie starring Robert Redford. Watch The Candidate. It’s not historic (although loosely based on Jerry Brown’s early runs for office in California) but gets into some of the conflicts in any political campaign.
No, The Candidate, also of course with RR
The Rewatchable take on Russiagate has not aged well.
Coming to America
"Who's this podcast for?" Word.
Curtis, 57, retired Navy from San Diego and a life-long Reagan Republican.
I was only age 5 or 6 during Watergate. I'm NOT a Watergate scholar by any means.. but I have gone down the TH-cam rabit hole about Watergate.. and just like (You) Bill Simmons, I have watched the movie over and over.. and 100's and 100's of hours of TH-cam speakers and clips of John Dean.. plus Bernstein and Woodward of course.. (Now Thanksgiving 2023') This movie and the next level criminality of Trump and everyone who enables him, is scary shit!
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I call BS on being a Reagan supporter, that entire comment sounds like a Marxist antifa supporter.
TRES Cool\TRES Heavy, The Quill!
Excellent film
Boring you mean!
@@Jeckxdeel you replying this to all the comments appreciating this movie is hilarious. if you're insecure that you didn't get it then just say that & move on man.
@@griffinwalker823
"You didn't get it"
It's not a matter of understanding at all.
This movie has obvious pacing issues and is over the top talkative, pompous, pretentious, very slow moving, really boring, etc.
Alan J. Pakula was never good.
On the other side, some other directors (Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, David Cronenberg, etc) made some very good (and even wonderful sometimes) movies.
@@Jeckxdeel where were the pacing issues?
This movie has incredibly rich dialogue, written by the same guy who wrote misery, butch cassidy, etc.
If you found it to be pompous or pretentious (redundant), then that is more of a reflection of you as the viewer.
“on the other side, some other directors (proceeds to name the most famous directors of all time) are good” - that is one of the most simple brained sentences I’ve ever read lmao.
this movie wasn’t for you brother. simple as.
@@Jeckxdeel & look, I understand english is not your first language and I commend you for being bilingual.
that being said, to think your grasp (or lack thereof) on the language doesn’t impact your ability to understand & appreciate a film whose impact lies entirely on intricate & layered dialogue is simply ignorant at best.
This movie had one very fatal flaw, which every other "media takes down right wing boogyman" movie shares. It's INSANELY self congratulatory. A media that would NEVER do this to a Democrat President, (and they've had back to back Presidents that were infinitely more corrupt than Nixon was on his worst day,) but this movie depicts the insanely partisan Washington Post as this irreproachable beacon of virtue taking down the big bad Republicans. We're expected to cheer for 2 Marxists with an axe to grind on this quest. Overrated movie that puts She Said to shame.
Fatal flaw for people as biased as yourself maybe, do you decide people are axe grinding Marxists as a reflex? Character himself in the movie says he is republican, and Woodward preached the Iraq war WMD lies for W. Bush
No it's Lincoln.
Who in the hell are you people anyway?
Hoffman did a great job Redford did a award winning movie Great movie I am in my late sixties saw the whole thing happening Three day of Condor special movie
Bill is good put the other three away
Watched again last night.
Are Republicans by nature crooks? First time in 1977.
I also use to work on a Philly area paper
Your brain adjusts
Muscle memory.
Imagine the best ever gamer or x player.
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bill talking about diversity is what aged the worst for this podcast. so a room full of white people is bad? that must mean africa has too many black people and is therefore awful.
This movie is just a real piece of shit!
Simmons I like the other three should get a new career
And what party do you vote for?
@@antispindr8613
I'm not American at all.
I'm from Belgium (Europe).
This movie is just over the top talkative, long, too slow moving and really boring!
@@Jeckxdeel 30 IQ
@@griffinwalker823
I already had more than 100 when I was a teenager.
You just don't know what you're talking about, you BIG DORK!
Terrible movie.
Go away
@@MrOctober44 Relax buttercup.
@@BishopWalters12 just pay closer attention when you're watching it. I watched it the first time back in high school & thought the same. rewatched it when I wasn't a moron and it was phenomenal
This movie is a real piece of shit indeed!
I found this movie to be incredibly boring.
Terram Lucida Tela Concilium well you have shit taste then
Let me guess you need the avengers to keep you awake.
@@randywhite3947 Nope, don't like that either.
Nah, this movie is a straight up masterpiece. Give it another chance. The more you absorb it, the more it gets under your skin. It becomes more compulsively rewatchable with every viewing. Trust me 😉
It's so overrated and has aged poorly.