Bombshell (2020)

[surreal]

Anyone seen this yet?  I saw it at the weekend and really enjoyed it. I think this will probably be one of my favourite movies of the year - I know they didn't go in-depth about Fox News itself but the performances are great across the board and the make-up job they have done to turn Charlize Theron into Megyn Kelly is amazing.  Apart from the voice I couldn't see her as herself at all.

[SavageHedgehog]

I really enjoyed it, but I think a lot of that has to do with being interested in the subject matter. Performances were generally excellent and there were some very effective scenes (in particular Robbie's meeting with Ales is very creepy and disturbing), but some of the writing was a little clunky. I was concerned early on with a fourth-wall breaking exposition/fact dump (much of it not particularly relevant to the actual story of the film) and some borrowed gimmicks/gags from Adam MacKay's recent that jarringly are dropped completely as the film progresses, but after the first 15 minutes or so I did find it compelling.

[Enrico Palazzo]

I really enjoyed it, but I think a lot of that has to do with being interested in the subject matter. Performances were generally excellent and there were some very effective scenes (in particular Robbie's meeting with Ales is very creepy and disturbing), but some of the writing was a little clunky. I was concerned early on with a fourth-wall breaking exposition/fact dump (much of it not particularly relevant to the actual story of the film) and some borrowed gimmicks/gags from Adam MacKay's recent that jarringly are dropped completely as the film progresses, but after the first 15 minutes or so I did find it compelling.

Same guy that wrote The Big Short. Was amusing seeing Larry David's cousin from Curb pop up as Crazy Giuliani. I enjoyed it though John Lithgow was a bit pantomime villain and Nicole Kidman is a rubbish actor.

[Blumf]

The adverts made me think it was some weird gritty reboot of 9 to 5.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Can't say I was interested enough to see it from the trailers and that, but the interview Theron gave for Kermode and Mayo was very interesting given I wasn't all that interested in the film to begin with. Will watch when it's on streaming and that I reckon.