I’ll say up front that I’m generally not a big fan of Ron Howard movies (although I loved [i]Parenthood[/i]), but I definitely enjoyed [i]Frost/Nixon[/i]. It was really interesting to get the inside play on how Richard Nixon took himself down, and how unlikely it seemed that it would happen the way it did. The movie gives a real feeling of the times (so people tell me who remember them), and the face-off between reporter David Frost and the ex-president were riveting at times.
Yet while I I’ll say up front that I’m generally not a big fan of Ron Howard movies (although I loved [i]Parenthood[/i]), but I definitely enjoyed [i]Frost/Nixon[/i]. It was really interesting to get the inside play on how Richard Nixon took himself down, and how unlikely it seemed that it would happen the way it did. The movie gives a real feeling of the times (so people tell me who remember them), and the face-off between reporter David Frost and the ex-president were riveting at times.
Yet while I did really like [i]Frost/Nixon[/i], there wasn’t a lot of there, there. I was definitely into the movie while I was watching it, but it didn’t stay with me for very long after it was over. Essentially it’s just a two-man play, on the screen, about an interview between two very different men–and extremely unlikely adversaries. The performances are terrific and it is a fun movie, and even more so if you like history.
[i]Frost/Nixon[/i] is getting a lot of Oscar Buzz, some of it deserved (for the acting). I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s "movie of the year" calibre, but it is a thumbs up for sure.
