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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 4700010" data-attributes="member: 2572">I have never read the comic so I am basing my opinion on the film alone. I thought the film looked great and it did well not feeling like 2 hours and 40 minutes. The casting of the main characters was great, but this barely makes up for the spectacularly bad casting of real life politicians and newspeople. I would have prefered made up newspeople and just about anyone else as Nixon. I cringed every time I saw these people. One review I saw complained about the music overwhelming the film, and I have to agree. Less would have been more in this case and a little less volume at times would have been good as well. At least none of the music sucked and they were willing to pay major royalties for big songs. My biggest complaint however was dated feel of the movie. I fully understand that this is based on a 20 year old story, but the literal adaptation of it just doesn't work in this time frame. Overall I gave it a 7/10 based on cinematography and acting by (most of) the main characters. This is pretty good for me as I rate on a bell curve with 5 being average and maybe 1 movie every year or two managing a 9+.</blockquote>