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Another great review via Yahoo for HuffingtonPost.com!

Lions for Lambs : See This Movie

Matt Littman

I am not a critic, and I don’t pretend to be. I enjoy bad movies almost as much as I enjoy the good ones. Weird Science was as enjoyable for me as Raging Bull. Sorry, but that’s the way it is. I’ve blogged on this sight about my love for the best show on TV, Friday Night Lights. If you’re not watching it, well, I want you to know that in some Islamic countries, they kill you for less of an offense.

But even though it’s not really my role, I saw a film last night that I encourage you to see.

The film is Lions for Lambs. It stars three legends: Robert Redford (also the director), Meryl Streep (you may have heard of her), and Tom Cruise.

First, let me say that I enjoy nearly every movie that Tom Cruise has made. From Risky Business to Rain Man, to Mission Impossible, the one thing I always get from a Tom Cruise movie is that he seems to be the hardest working man in show biz. It always seems as if he is fully invested in the role he’s playing. I don’t care about his personal life.

Here, Tom has found the perfect role. He plays Senator Jasper Irving, a Republican who may be the future of the Party. Meryl Streep is his foil, a liberal reporter but one who once wrote a piece comparing Senator Irving to JFK. Senator Irving, a West Point alum, has conceived of a new plan to win in Afghanistan, and, as the movie opens, the plan is going into motion. The Senator is giving the scoop to the reporter who launched his career.

This is one-third of the story in Lions for Lambs. Another third consists of Robert Redford, playing a college professor, talking to a young, underachieving student about taking risks and fulfilling potential. He compares the student to two other grads, both of whom have gone off together to fight in Afghanistan - and that fight, the battle for the high ground in the Afghan mountains, is the new strategy that Cruise and Streep are discussing, and is the other third of the story.

The two soldiers (one is Derek Luke, the other an actor whose name I don’t know) both come from tough backgrounds, and America hasn’t given them much. But they believe that change comes from action, and so they have gone off to fight in the war rather than go on to graduate school.

The movie goes back and forth between all three connected tales. I was most taken with the Cruise-Streep story, because it does a good job of portraying two sides of a difficult argument. Senator Irving believes that even though we’ve bungled the wars, we still have to get it right or we’ll be paying the price forever. The reporter played by Streep believes we have failed so miserably that this is Vietnam all over again; no strategy is going to work. It’s over. Go home.

My joy from the movie came in watching the great, genuine performances, and I recommend it to all HuffPo readers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20071019/cm_huffpost/069126

181 annabel

why are you bringing Shiloh into this? She is a Baby, She doesb’t dress herself you know. The Jolie -Pitss are just as successfu as Tom and Katie. What a tool you are.

at least suri wears new cloths every single time…new expensive ones!

LOL and this is a good thing?

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Another great review via Yahoo for HuffingtonPost.com!

Lions for Lambs : See This Movie

Matt Littman

I am not a critic, and I don’t pretend to be. I enjoy bad movies almost as much as I enjoy the good ones. Weird Science was as enjoyable for me as Raging Bull. Sorry, but that’s the way it is. I’ve blogged on this sight about my love for the best show on TV, Friday Night Lights. If you’re not watching it, well, I want you to know that in some Islamic countries, they kill you for less of an offense.

But even though it’s not really my role, I saw a film last night that I encourage you to see.

The film is Lions for Lambs. It stars three legends: Robert Redford (also the director), Meryl Streep (you may have heard of her), and Tom Cruise.

First, let me say that I enjoy nearly every movie that Tom Cruise has made. From Risky Business to Rain Man, to Mission Impossible, the one thing I always get from a Tom Cruise movie is that he seems to be the hardest working man in show biz. It always seems as if he is fully invested in the role he’s playing. I don’t care about his personal life.

Here, Tom has found the perfect role. He plays Senator Jasper Irving, a Republican who may be the future of the Party. Meryl Streep is his foil, a liberal reporter but one who once wrote a piece comparing Senator Irving to JFK. Senator Irving, a West Point alum, has conceived of a new plan to win in Afghanistan, and, as the movie opens, the plan is going into motion. The Senator is giving the scoop to the reporter who launched his career.

This is one-third of the story in Lions for Lambs. Another third consists of Robert Redford, playing a college professor, talking to a young, underachieving student about taking risks and fulfilling potential. He compares the student to two other grads, both of whom have gone off together to fight in Afghanistan - and that fight, the battle for the high ground in the Afghan mountains, is the new strategy that Cruise and Streep are discussing, and is the other third of the story.

The two soldiers (one is Derek Luke, the other an actor whose name I don’t know) both come from tough backgrounds, and America hasn’t given them much. But they believe that change comes from action, and so they have gone off to fight in the war rather than go on to graduate school.

The movie goes back and forth between all three connected tales. I was most taken with the Cruise-Streep story, because it does a good job of portraying two sides of a difficult argument. Senator Irving believes that even though we’ve bungled the wars, we still have to get it right or we’ll be paying the price forever. The reporter played by Streep believes we have failed so miserably that this is Vietnam all over again; no strategy is going to work. It’s over. Go home.

My joy from the movie came in watching the great, genuine performances, and I recommend it to all HuffPo readers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20071019/cm_huffpost/069126

#53 Her ears are just as big as her nose, so the hair comes in handy to cover up…oh ignore Puala she is teh scinetologist queeb bee on site..I wonder if she is a recruit or yet to join..pathetic..I see children everyday and they are all cute but Suri is nothing special and when the brian dead ******** go off about how precious and how in love they are..I wonder if they know nay cute kids, because all the kids I saw today surpuss this thing they call a child…sincerely i think the aliens have a lrh spermination ongoign, how else do you explain infertle folksk suddenly getting pregnant..this strange looking kids, then jenna elfamsn ugly child who has red hair just like LRH and of ocurse JLOs twins…If they share any genes with LRH then lord help them..

Makes me think miscaviage went along for the honey for more than just a tomfuck..he actually carried teh turkeybaster with LRH forzen tadpoles.hahahahha

Brilliant review of Lions for Lambs!

Lions For Lambs: Dramatic Discourse As A Journey Towards Political Enlightenment

By Prairie Miller
WBAI Arts Magazine

Unfolding as nearly a raw, gritty, highly stylized rough cut of itself, Robert Redford’s Lions For Lambs is a breathlessly urgent and stinging reality-based dramatic indictment of recent US foreign policy and its endless war on terror. As a kind of antidote to the evasive and compartmentalized tactics of the money media that goes to great lengths to omit or deny cause and effect when it comes to official government policy and the multitude of lives impacted by it, Lions For Lambs makes its critical and indeed defiant point that life and death decisions about issues like war have concrete and irrefutable repercussions that stretch far and wide to various corners of the planet. Or perhaps as close by as the person right next to us, whom we may care for deeply.

The title is taken from a German general’s mocking comments during WWII, expressing his admiration for the courage of British foot soldiers, while ridiculing their commanding officers: ‘Never have I seen such lions led by such lambs.’ The words are spoken in the film by Redford’s character, Dr. Malley, a former ’60s activist and idealistic professor at a West Coast university who is increasingly frustrated by the cynicism, materialism and complacency of the younger generation of students in his political science classes. Malley is also shocked and stunned that the moral convictions he tried to impart to his young charges has led to two of his students of color, played by Derek Luke and Michael Pena, to sign up for the military to fight the war on terror. And their unit has been assigned to a dangerous secret mission in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, the architect of that new plan - essentially a dismal replay of the failures of Viet Nam - is the brash and ambitious US Senator Irving (Tom Cruise). Irving has called in star DC reporter Janine Roth (Meryl Streep) to reveal limited hints about the plan without giving much away, attempting to manipulate the interview and dictate the story to what he hopes will be more a stenographer’s than a journalist’s ear, in order to produce the promo puff piece that will enhance his future bid for the US presidency.

But a clearly stressed and distraught Roth has long been jaded by the seemingly aimless and perpetual war on terror in which she herself feels a gnawing complicity as an initially compliant player in the media. So a heated political debate between the two ensues rather than a conventional interview, and all sorts of controversial topics touching on the nature of present day paranoid, violent, preemptively destructive and victory-obsessed government policies fire up the dialogue.

With references to Greek philosophy at hand, it’s apparently Redford’s intention to spark political discourse in Lions For Lambs about the ailing state of the nation, and the needless sacrifice of its young to wars, with a concurrent warped sense of glory telegraphed by the cheerleaders in authority - the lambs - far from the battlefields. Specifically, the drama is shaped in the manner of the dialectics of classical Greek philosophy and its ultimate intent, namely the search for truth. The weighty issues are at times delivered in too rapid a style to fully contemplate and digest, but their significance for an urgent and long overdue national debate is in no way diminished. In any case, Lions For Lambs tugs at the heart and mind and shakes an uneasy stirred collective consciousness awake, revealing as in a mirror a thirst for logic and the truth, that has long been an endangered cultural entity.

Prairie Miller
WBAI Arts Magazine
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blah blah blah.. At least suri’s not a bald headed - mentally challenged dwarf, w/ a cranium BIGGER than her parents!

Suri unlike some can actually use her limbs. And she doesn’t get dressed like a freaking bum in hand me down RAGS that she over and over and over again.

Look at Violation’s face, look at Shiloh’s face, YOU CANT BE SERIOUS!!! ****SMH****

no 193
can u stop posting ur long biographies or watever u call it

no 189**

Katie is so classy. I just adore Suri and Tom is ultimately the best American actor. I have other faves but Tom is tops.
He is looking good too.

Why in the hell would anyone be ‘jealous’ of Suri Cruise? Yeah, I really wish my ‘father’ (ha, ha) was a closeted gay midget dwarf who belonged to a whacky cult and my mother was a famemonger who rented her womb for money and fame. Sounds like a dream childhood-on Planet Xenu perhaps.

[~Famous~]

You are disgusting. You can dish it but you can’t take it. What a wimp. Babies should off limits but You are mentally challenged so there’s that.

Brilliant review of Lions for Lambs!

Lions For Lambs: Dramatic Discourse As A Journey Towards Political Enlightenment

By Prairie Miller
WBAI Arts Magazine

Unfolding as nearly a raw, gritty, highly stylized rough cut of itself, Robert Redford’s Lions For Lambs is a breathlessly urgent and stinging reality-based dramatic indictment of recent US foreign policy and its endless war on terror. As a kind of antidote to the evasive and compartmentalized tactics of the money media that goes to great lengths to omit or deny cause and effect when it comes to official government policy and the multitude of lives impacted by it, Lions For Lambs makes its critical and indeed defiant point that life and death decisions about issues like war have concrete and irrefutable repercussions that stretch far and wide to various corners of the planet. Or perhaps as close by as the person right next to us, whom we may care for deeply.

The title is taken from a German general’s mocking comments during WWII, expressing his admiration for the courage of British foot soldiers, while ridiculing their commanding officers: ‘Never have I seen such lions led by such lambs.’ The words are spoken in the film by Redford’s character, Dr. Malley, a former ’60s activist and idealistic professor at a West Coast university who is increasingly frustrated by the cynicism, materialism and complacency of the younger generation of students in his political science classes. Malley is also shocked and stunned that the moral convictions he tried to impart to his young charges has led to two of his students of color, played by Derek Luke and Michael Pena, to sign up for the military to fight the war on terror. And their unit has been assigned to a dangerous secret mission in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, the architect of that new plan - essentially a dismal replay of the failures of Viet Nam - is the brash and ambitious US Senator Irving (Tom Cruise). Irving has called in star DC reporter Janine Roth (Meryl Streep) to reveal limited hints about the plan without giving much away, attempting to manipulate the interview and dictate the story to what he hopes will be more a stenographer’s than a journalist’s ear, in order to produce the promo puff piece that will enhance his future bid for the US presidency.

But a clearly stressed and distraught Roth has long been jaded by the seemingly aimless and perpetual war on terror in which she herself feels a gnawing complicity as an initially compliant player in the media. So a heated political debate between the two ensues rather than a conventional interview, and all sorts of controversial topics touching on the nature of present day paranoid, violent, preemptively destructive and victory-obsessed government policies fire up the dialogue.

With references to Greek philosophy at hand, it’s apparently Redford’s intention to spark political discourse in Lions For Lambs about the ailing state of the nation, and the needless sacrifice of its young to wars, with a concurrent warped sense of glory telegraphed by the cheerleaders in authority - the lambs - far from the battlefields. Specifically, the drama is shaped in the manner of the dialectics of classical Greek philosophy and its ultimate intent, namely the search for truth. The weighty issues are at times delivered in too rapid a style to fully contemplate and digest, but their significance for an urgent and long overdue national debate is in no way diminished. In any case, Lions For Lambs tugs at the heart and mind and shakes an uneasy stirred collective consciousness awake, revealing as in a mirror a thirst for logic and the truth, that has long been an endangered cultural entity.

Prairie Miller
WBAI Arts Magazine
Artsmagazine@juno.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it