Lee Daniel's The Butler and August : Osage County
Posted by Itheliving 11 years, 10 months ago to Movies
Lee Daniel’s The Butler / Rated PG-13 for smoking and language
August : Osage County / Rated R for language, smoking, adult situations and fighting
Oscar 2fer #2. The fight for the Statue of Statues gets hotter.
Lee Daniel’s The Butler opened last August. It is a performance driven drama. It is a big time acting Oscar contender.
August : Osage County may already be showing in your area but for many it will open on January 10th. It is a performance driven drama. It is a big time acting Oscar contender.
Here’s what the fight is all about. Almost everybody in these films has won an Oscar. In some cases more than one. Is it enough. No, they want more. Lots more.
Lee Daniel’s The Butler is so named because way back in 1916 Warner Bros. released a short film called The Butler. That’s what this new film was to be called. So people wouldn’t get confused, and who anywhere hasn’t seen the 1916 movie, WB objected to the title The Butler thus the change to see above. The Lee Daniel’s whose name is above the title is the Director. The Oscar hopefuls include Forest Whitaker in the title role, Oprah Winfrey playing his wife and a bunch of others who will be disappointed. The film is a long and rambling story of Civil Rights in America played out through a Butler, not Rhett, in the White House. It is a fictionalized account of real life Butler Eugene Allen who served in the WH from the Truman through the Reagan era. In the film the name becomes Cecil Gaines.
CG makes his way out of the old South to a job as The Butler. He serves under a whole group of President’s and sees lots of history. Most of what is on screen is based on the Civil Rights Movement. What is interesting and fun to watch play out in this film are all of the Presidents and actors portraying them. Robin Williams (who played Teddy Roosevelt in the Night in the Museum films) is Ike. John Cusack is Nixon. James Marsden plays a young John Kennedy. Liv Schreiber is LBJ and in the best nail the image and motions is Alan Rickman doing Ronald Reagan. Jane Fonda plays Nancy. Mariah Carey turns up early in the film. Still not sure why. The film is a little too long and obvious. The performances help keep things moving.
In August etc. the cast is loaded. The film is based on a play and takes place mostly in one room of one house. Included as members of a troubled family are Meryl Streep, Sam Shepherd, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Margo Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Juliet Lewis and Benedict Cumberbatch. BC has been in 5 of the last 6 films I have seen and is about to reappear in three 90 minute episodes of the most brilliant Sherlock which should be available for viewing in the US after 1/19.
In this film MS plays a dying woman. Her scattered family gather in the heat of summer for a farewell when another family member departs life early on his or her own. The rest of the film, based on a play, is about the trials, tribulations and shocking surprises which pop up mostly toward the end. This film is not fun to watch despite a few moments of humor. This family is a mess. The Corleone family, sitting around the family table, eating spaghetti and planning to murder 50 or 60 people and bribe every official in the country seem much more well and adjusted than do the group in August
This dysfunctionality will not stop the Oscar acting nominations from flowing to Osage County. On 1/16/2014 not in August.
The Butler (2013) rated 3.0 out of 4.0 reasons I hope I have your vote. If not I will have to get a job, a real job.
August OC rated 3.0 out of 4.0 reasons to agree to stop fighting.
Ratings based on acting performances. In both cases they are better than the showcases.
August : Osage County / Rated R for language, smoking, adult situations and fighting
Oscar 2fer #2. The fight for the Statue of Statues gets hotter.
Lee Daniel’s The Butler opened last August. It is a performance driven drama. It is a big time acting Oscar contender.
August : Osage County may already be showing in your area but for many it will open on January 10th. It is a performance driven drama. It is a big time acting Oscar contender.
Here’s what the fight is all about. Almost everybody in these films has won an Oscar. In some cases more than one. Is it enough. No, they want more. Lots more.
Lee Daniel’s The Butler is so named because way back in 1916 Warner Bros. released a short film called The Butler. That’s what this new film was to be called. So people wouldn’t get confused, and who anywhere hasn’t seen the 1916 movie, WB objected to the title The Butler thus the change to see above. The Lee Daniel’s whose name is above the title is the Director. The Oscar hopefuls include Forest Whitaker in the title role, Oprah Winfrey playing his wife and a bunch of others who will be disappointed. The film is a long and rambling story of Civil Rights in America played out through a Butler, not Rhett, in the White House. It is a fictionalized account of real life Butler Eugene Allen who served in the WH from the Truman through the Reagan era. In the film the name becomes Cecil Gaines.
CG makes his way out of the old South to a job as The Butler. He serves under a whole group of President’s and sees lots of history. Most of what is on screen is based on the Civil Rights Movement. What is interesting and fun to watch play out in this film are all of the Presidents and actors portraying them. Robin Williams (who played Teddy Roosevelt in the Night in the Museum films) is Ike. John Cusack is Nixon. James Marsden plays a young John Kennedy. Liv Schreiber is LBJ and in the best nail the image and motions is Alan Rickman doing Ronald Reagan. Jane Fonda plays Nancy. Mariah Carey turns up early in the film. Still not sure why. The film is a little too long and obvious. The performances help keep things moving.
In August etc. the cast is loaded. The film is based on a play and takes place mostly in one room of one house. Included as members of a troubled family are Meryl Streep, Sam Shepherd, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Margo Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Juliet Lewis and Benedict Cumberbatch. BC has been in 5 of the last 6 films I have seen and is about to reappear in three 90 minute episodes of the most brilliant Sherlock which should be available for viewing in the US after 1/19.
In this film MS plays a dying woman. Her scattered family gather in the heat of summer for a farewell when another family member departs life early on his or her own. The rest of the film, based on a play, is about the trials, tribulations and shocking surprises which pop up mostly toward the end. This film is not fun to watch despite a few moments of humor. This family is a mess. The Corleone family, sitting around the family table, eating spaghetti and planning to murder 50 or 60 people and bribe every official in the country seem much more well and adjusted than do the group in August
This dysfunctionality will not stop the Oscar acting nominations from flowing to Osage County. On 1/16/2014 not in August.
The Butler (2013) rated 3.0 out of 4.0 reasons I hope I have your vote. If not I will have to get a job, a real job.
August OC rated 3.0 out of 4.0 reasons to agree to stop fighting.
Ratings based on acting performances. In both cases they are better than the showcases.
August OC is soap opera. They need the soap for all the dirty laundry on display.
The Butler has an awesome cast but also an awesomely large agenda.It might be worth it just to see how well the presidents are portrayed.