Cohen and Eastwood


As much as I love many of Clint Eastwood's films--I thought "Hereafter" was the best movie I saw last year--the long and lumpy "J. Edgar" pales next to Larry Cohen's 1977 "Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover." It may have cost a sliver of the former's fulsome budget, but It's nervier, feistier, funnier and has teeth that the current film simply doesn't have. Whatever Hoover's relationship with Clyde Tolson was, it wasn't half as important as the damage he did to this country, and that's what the Cohen film is all about.

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Oh, please.

Hoover is a rank amateur compared to the current administration's invasion of privacy violations.

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@B_Movie


Oh,please--the last administration BEFORE this one started ramping up the surveillance/privacy invasions right after 9/11, in the name of preventing more terrorism,they said. People need to quit acting like all of America's problems just all of sudden started with Obama---most of them have been going on for decades slready. Liked this film---caught it on the THIS channel last year---wouldn't mind seeing it again.

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