Anyone watched Zero Dark Thirty

[nmbluesky]

I haven't watch this movie yet. Is it good? Bad? Pro Obama? Or else.
I will watch it this week

[Robb]

1. It is a well done film, but gives the impression torture works.

[avebury]

3. Yup! nt

[Honeycombe8]

2. I thought it was really good, despite that I didn't have much expectation for it.

I wasn't in the mood for it, but it was really really good. The first half can be considered tedious by some, but it is necessarily slow & tedious....it is showing what it took to find OBL....years of tedious work and investigation. The 2nd half is riveting.

Obama doesn't play a part in this movie in any way....there are only two references to "The President." They are respectful, complimentary references.

The movie is mainly about the young woman who found OBL and what she had to fight to get people to pay attention to her theory.

IMO, the "torture" sequences are mild and are not really torture at all, technically speaking, except for one water boarding scene.

The scene of getting OBL is close to real time, I've read. The actual event took about 1/2 hour, and the sequence in the movie is about 25 minutes long. It's a riveting sequence.

BTW...it doesn't say so in the movie, but remember that it was Obama's idea to have a backup helicopter, remembering what had happened to Jimmy Carter's attempt to rescue hostages.

[sad-cafe]

4. it is a pretty good film

I don't like that they implied the torture worked but overall, it was done really well. I had watched the documentary that was on TV before the election and it was similar.