Iron Lady - what were they thinking?

[barnaclelapse]

I'll wait for the American remake where Thatcher builds a high-tech suit of armour and flies to the Falklands to take on the Argentinians , led by Mickey Rourke.

Geoffory Howe will be played by Don Cheadle, reprising his awful accent from OCEAN'S ELEVEN, and Powers Boothe as Denis Thatcher, a raving alcoholic who struggles with being married to the female saviour of the free world.

I'd go see that.

Meryl Streep is the only reason why I could imagine sitting through a movie about Margret Thatcher. There's been quite a few TV spots for it around here (Richmond, VA).

 

[Captaindemotion]

The feedback I've been hearing is that people over-50, especially women, thought it would be a biopic about a mighty political war horse but it turned out to be about a demented old lady.

She was always fucking demented.

oh, the shame, it's doing well in Ireland.

I know a lot of people who've seen this. They've either seen/are going to see Iron Lady and/or The Artist or both, and I'm not sure why that otherwise entirely arbitrary combination is so common. That they generally prefer The Artist is more couched in the notion of it having a better story than anything political.

I passed on Iron Lady because of middling reviews, personally. If I'd been told it was a stronger film i might have considered it, as Oscar bait British dramas can be fairly tolerable (hello, King's Speech, no you were not a complete waste of my time).

You Trinity college types!

 

[Roshi]

Eagerly waiting for the American remake about an actor turned-into-politician biopic... Should give a boner to the nostalgic.

 

[Kegg]

You Trinity college types!

Now now, it's not like they're all or even mostly Trinity alumni.

Eagerly waiting for the American remake

Since the film already has Meryl Streep as the lead, I think the point for that joke has sailed, no?

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ Kate Winslet as Sarah Palin?

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Since the film already has Meryl Streep as the lead, I think the point for that joke has sailed, no?

I assume he's referring to Reagan.

 

[captcalhoun]

Helen Mirren as Barbara Bush. With Michael Sheen as George HW.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I was hoping a biopic of Fred "Gopher" Gandy.

 

[Roshi]

Since the film already has Meryl Streep as the lead, I think the point for that joke has sailed, no?

I assume he's referring to Reagan.

I am.