Good Night And Good Luck

[Matt]

I saw it recently and it was actually pretty good. The Black and White concept seemed a bit un-neccessary, but it does fit in with the times anyways.

[S.E. Hardy]

I loved it. The reason that they used black and white is because they wanted to use the actual footage of McCarthy, and if the rest of the film was in color, it would have been too weird to go to the B&W of McCarthy.

[Matt]

Well they could have just done the news segments in Black & White. But colour would have worked all the same too because it's not like film back in the day was in colour anyways, so when the show was airing it could have worked to have it in B&W and the rest in colour when they are not.

[S.E. Hardy]

Cutting back and forth between color and B&W I always find really unnecessarily distracting, unless it's used for the plot, like Pleasantville. I think a good movie is a good movie, color or B&W. I think it definitely evokes a time period very quickly. Now I think back about it, I really can't imagine this movie in color, the same as Citizen Kane or Schindler's List.

[Sparq]

T'was good indeed. The black and white suited it.

[Matt]

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

[HoboFactory]

Just saw it. I think it's pretty well done. The b&w wasn't at all a problem, I too thought it was appropriate given when it was set. I'm not a big fan of George Clooney (although it seems most everyone else is these days) but he did a good job with this one.

[Crusader]

Best part of the movie.

 

"Everybody knew we were married?"

[Matt]

Actually the best part was when Murrow was the only one who didn't know they were married...

[QueenCanadia]

i have this movie on my netflix queue... but which way does the movie lean politically? as in, from what ideological perspective is the story told?

[HoboFactory]

To me there didn't seem to be a deliberately strong lean in either direction. I think of the most important ideas stressed in there is political objectivity, and having an idea of what's right and wrong regardless of political climate.

[S.E. Hardy]

I think it's fair... you can tell that the filmmakers have a leaning, just making this film, but they don't push it, they have a lot of respect for their audience.