JetLife
/ SOHH /
After finally getting around to watching these movies, it struck me at how eerily similar they were ... which one did ya'll think was better?
- Highly adapted/fictionalized movies based on true stories
- Lone CIA operatives working against all odds (external/foreign enemies & internal CIA/Govt. bureaucracy) to pull off impossible missions
- Both employ Coach Taylor as a momentum stopping mid level manager
- Both have fat ex-TV stars employed as scene stealers (John Goodman/James Gandolfini)
- Both typify the middle east nations as poor, street walking filled bazaar, slum villages each with 1-second rage filled trigger finger citizens against anyone remotely white
- Both have action/tension filled 3rd acts which magically bow tie everything in a nice tidy ending.
I think both were good movies, but I also think both of them are slightly overrated in terms of their general ratings on imdb/RT/real world etc. I actually thought Affleck and Chastain didn't do that great in their respective roles. Chastain's gunslinger attitude was a bit much at times and Affleck's attempt at family development background was flat. Like that scene with the wifey came out of nowhere and was like a Bruckheimer/Bay shot.
I think I'd go with Zero Dark Thirty in a very slight edge only because the ending of Argo seemed too James Bond-esque. The fact that literally every stop point came down to the very last razor thin second nosedived the credibility. One or two is fine to drive interest or tension, but literally 5 things happened at the last .001 second to let it happen? too much there ...
- Highly adapted/fictionalized movies based on true stories
- Lone CIA operatives working against all odds (external/foreign enemies & internal CIA/Govt. bureaucracy) to pull off impossible missions
- Both employ Coach Taylor as a momentum stopping mid level manager
- Both have fat ex-TV stars employed as scene stealers (John Goodman/James Gandolfini)
- Both typify the middle east nations as poor, street walking filled bazaar, slum villages each with 1-second rage filled trigger finger citizens against anyone remotely white
- Both have action/tension filled 3rd acts which magically bow tie everything in a nice tidy ending.
I think both were good movies, but I also think both of them are slightly overrated in terms of their general ratings on imdb/RT/real world etc. I actually thought Affleck and Chastain didn't do that great in their respective roles. Chastain's gunslinger attitude was a bit much at times and Affleck's attempt at family development background was flat. Like that scene with the wifey came out of nowhere and was like a Bruckheimer/Bay shot.
I think I'd go with Zero Dark Thirty in a very slight edge only because the ending of Argo seemed too James Bond-esque. The fact that literally every stop point came down to the very last razor thin second nosedived the credibility. One or two is fine to drive interest or tension, but literally 5 things happened at the last .001 second to let it happen? too much there ...
