Argo

 

Argo 2012

• Director: Ben Affleck
• Based on the book by Howard Fast
• Cast: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Ben Affleck – Gone Girl, He’s Just Not That Into You, Daredevil, Dogma, Shakespeare in Love, Armageddon, Good Will Hunting  
• Bryan Cranston – mainly Breaking Bad
• John Goodman - many
• Alan Arkin – many
• Clea DuVall – Jacklie & Ryan, 21 Grams, Ghosts of Mars, Girl Interrupted, The Astronaut’s Wife, A Slipping-Down Life, Life During Wartime
• Scoot McNairy - Once upon a Time in Hollywood, Black Sea, Gone Girl, 12 Years a Slave, Six Feet Under, In Search of a Midnight Kiss
• Why? Good reviews
• Seen: 6 April 2024 

       In 1979 the US embassy is stormed by Khomeini revolutionaries and a lot of people are taken hostage. A very hot conflict, a lot of enflamed patriotism and bad guys on both sides.

       Six Americans escape from the embassy and hide out in the home of the Canadian ambassador. Ben Affleck is the super-spy who is going to get them out by pretending to produce a movie in Teheran. True story, sort of.

       This won the Oscar for best film instead of Lincoln which I saw yesterday. Is it better? Not really. Not worth the Oscar. Django Unchained should have won. Or even Life of Pi. Or even Les Misérables. The others I haven’t seen. 

3* of 5