Teh Dialog was horrible. The Movie was not even about Bobby till 1:40. then we had to be dragged though charectors we didn'y care about. 1:40 in the movie so way too long to watch good actor give horrible lines. This is one of the worst movies ever.
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The movie was titled Bobby, but is not specifically about Robert Kennedy. It's about the lives of 22 people who's lives intertwined with the assasination event. If it took you an hour and 40 minutes to figure that out, it's on you. To save yourself some frustration, watch a trailer or read a review about a movie next time. Or just come here to IMDB.
By the way, if you can't type or spell, your criticism of the movie's poor writing loses a certain amount of credibility with me.
"Aaaawww, what's in the box? What the f#@k's in the f#@king box??"
LaL that was funny:)
shareThis movie was a noble failure. Rather dull and poorly written. Too adoring of its subject. But you have to give the director credit for trying.
shareI believe this movie was amazing and I am not even American.
I have little knowledge of the Kennedy family but still I am overwhelmed with love for the man, his family and the people of the United States based on this one barely two hour movie.
Ten stars.
Well, the Kennedys and their fans do not represent all of the United States but they are considered like American royalty.
They are like celebrities, but if you get more knowledge about them, their personal lives, their associations, and how the family got most of their money through Joe, Sr.'s bootlegging back in the 1930s - then your opinion of them might be a bit different.
OK, I understand. I am sure you have a point, but I am not that interested, I am sorry, I mean no offense, I just have other things to do, right now.
About the film, I simply mean to say, it reminded me of what the USA stood for and what it was before it lay down and bought the Warren Report.
The film isn't about the Kennedys in general, or even Bobby Kennedy in particular -- it's about what Bobby Kennedy represented to a great many people, at a crucial point in American history, and what his death meant to those people. It wasn't just the death of a human being, it was the death of a dream -- the hope that the country could be turned around & stop going down the destructive path it's continued to follow right up to the present day. Was that dream naive? Perhaps. But that hope is what the film is attempting to portray. And it does a good job of it, too.
shareThank you! Perfectly stated! I was NOT ever a Kennedy supporter. Not back then. Now, 50 years + later, how I wish these men had been given the opportunity to carry out their terms and change America to include all our people and begin to really build America. I would vote for them today! What their father did to build the family fortune was back in the 30's! Who cares! I think his sons wanted to give back to America. I just think it is UNthinkable that JFK MX MLK & RFK were ALL assassinated back in the 60's. That is about as ugly a chapter that America has ever shown to the world, outside of the Civil War!
shareha. i think one has to be ignorant of the kennedy family to be taken in by this film. that explains all.
i've got some property in new orleans...care to buy some? i can put together a great film of NO to convince you!
Yes, you are right. I wrote that nearly a year ago, now. I've since learned about a certain car crash, etc.
In order not to sound ignorant, however: as a fictional document, it tells a delightful story, very well.
I thought it was great.
shareMenzo, I agree with you one hundurd purcent...
no, seriously, that guy should be made aware of the "accent" he creates to his words with such terrible spelling. It removes a certain amount of credibility
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If you can't fix it with a hammer then you've got an electrical problem.
-- unknown (Brant Freeman)
What kind of sicko decided that the word for a lisp should have an "s" in it?
- unknown
Butterfly: one word that makes a dyslexic right. - me
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Wrong.
sharejeese. whether or not you liked the Kennedy family should not affect, what you thought of the film. You judge a film on whether it's great or not, not on the subject matter. personally the movie was amazing. It wasn't about Bobby specifically but about how he changed people's lives. I thought the dialogue was clever. =) One of the best movies i have seen recently.
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. - Errol Flynn
It was definitely a vanity picture, but I still got choked up at the end and some of the stories were moving. This played out more like a TV movie of the week and certainly wasn't an epic, but I wouldn't call it a complete failure.
Amylopan, I agree completely.
As someone born in the 70s, I think I liked this movie a lot because it sort of set the tone of how people were feeling back then. "...No one left but Bobby..." That sums it up. Regardless of whether he was going to be the answer, many people certainly thought so. Also, I loved hearing the speech at the end. If you can sit through it, I would recommend it to anyone in my generation or my little sister's.
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kevkoomer...
Please. You wouldn't know good writing or directing if it whacked you upside your pretentious head.
Quit trying to sound so important and actually try watching a good movie sometime.
I think what made this movie great was it truly set the mood of the time and I think you have to give credit to the actors who were in it for taking the storylines and dialouge and making it a good movie experience. I think the issues of race relations, the horror faced by young people about going to Viet Nam, particularly are really important here and I give credit to the portrayals of those scenarios as very real and very significant to the hope of electing Bobby Kennedy as President. I dont think a movie about Bobbys entire life would have really been as interesting as what you learned about who he was thru this movie.
As to the Kennedys... Despite the fact that history has given us the full picture on their imperfections, they were in fact important factors in American Politics. Regardless of how you felt about John and Bobby particularly, they did in fact have a passion for the modernization of this nation and making progress particularly in the area of social justice. That is why they were important to this country. Bobby in particular I believe, would have been an even greater President and had more of an impact on change than his brother did or potentially could have. Their deaths, regardless of your politics, were tragedies for America at a time when their were very few leaders who represented the generation that needed such leadership. Instead, we were treated to another two decades of old men telling us how to live our lives....
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I think of all the reviews above, yours was most spot on. It always irritates the bejeebus out of me when I hear people resort to belittling the Kennedy legacy (or at least John and Bobby's)because of how their family made money for bootlegging. However Joe Kennedy made his money does not negate the impact his sons made on our country in an era when we clearly needed progressiveness, guidance and tolerance by our leaders. For the younger participants on this board, I don't think they understand the hope that wiped out when the Kennedy brothers were assassinated. Imagine our world as it is now, with the election of President Obama and people every where hopeful once again, inspired once again, hearts open and dreaming once again.. and then (god, forbid) him being assassinated and Bush (or someone like him) stepping back into that spot. The impact on so many levels would leave us as a country feeling defeated, hopeless, confused and without direction... I think that's what show's in this movie. It's not about Bobby. It's not about the Kennedy's.
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shareBoring movie. I thought there were too many characters and it felt bogged down at times. very ambitious project though, I give Emilio an A for effort.
shareI agree completely with the OP.
Though the movie had a few good moments, it wasn't at ALL about Bobby Kennedy. -Nor was it about how he changed people's lives. No one in the movie even talked about Kennedy or his impact, except perhaps for a few quick lines with no depth.
This was basically "The towering Inferno", except substitute Bobby's assasination for the fire.
Otherwise, same movie.
So maybe the title was badly chosen?!
That doesn't make this movie bad. Sincerely, this movie grasped me and held me till the end: I think it was great to see what kind of impact RFK had on people's lifes. Besides that this movie features a great soundtrack, realistic dialogue (for those people who disagree: please, you think people in daily life have conversations as in Tarantino's movies?) and good representation of the 60's life style/ society.
I think people who did not like this movie had different expectations of this movie beforehand because of the title... I can imagine.
I had to fast forward through a few of the subplots of which there were just too many which left each one underdeveloped. I like Freddy Rodriquez the best in the film and the high guys playing tennis was funny.
One scene that really bugged me was when Virginia goes for her appointment and Sharon Stone just brushes her hair constantly. The later, she gives her husband the most obviously faked haircut ever.
It's not supposed to be about Bobby Kennedy the individual, but about Bobby Kennedy the symbol, the embodiment of hope for so many people at that time.
share100% agree. it's weak movie.. the only quite engaging part was with young mexican fellas workin in the restaurant. rest was amazingly boring.. :( the movie could be 30 minutes lenght.
shareI thought it was an interesting, watchable movie and it certainly captured the feel of 1968, which I remember well. However, it couldn't seem to decide if it wanted to be about all of these characters or about Bobby Kennedy. The first 3/4's of the movie was a build up of characters and then the last 1/4 was all about Bobby Kennedy, which left the viewer somewhat puzzled. Or me, at any rate.
Still, good try, Emilio!
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Don't care about the family one way or the other, but although well shot it was relatively boring. If it was about somebody else other than a Kennedy, there is no way this would have 7.2/10 here on IMDB. I will say that I thought both Laurence Fishbure & especially Freddy Rodriguez in particular were excellent. Too bad the rest of the story was weak. I understand ensemble's but this had WAY too many characters to be following w/too little characters & their lack of development.
sharefor me, who has studied the 1960s for about 5 years, this movie was not that great. It made it seem as if the characters knew what was going to happen in the turbulent decade and I doubt people in that era said, "the 60s are so turbulent" or "everything is changing in 1968." If you've seen films from that era they just were clueless of what was happening and were not prepared for what 1968 would create. Some of the characters were underdeveloped and it made it seem like a poorman's "Grand Hotel" which is a film that actually is good and has an all star cast. The music was awesome but seemed awkward in certain moments. I would rather recommend seeing Zabriskie Point which is from the 1960s or other 60s movies to get a more feel for what was happening during that watershed year.
shareMark 85 LA...
I couldn't be less surprised by your remark. Your username says it all.
You are nowhere near old or mature enough to recognize what makes a good film. Here's a hint... movies with the best CGI effects and the most explosions don't mean they're superior in quality.
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