when I got out of the press screening
for this movie and I was totally blown
away I did not expect it to be anywhere
as good as it is some of you might find
yourself in the same situation like
should I say bombshell I don't know what
do I want to be preached to for a few
hours and also if you tried the loudest
voice on Showtime which was not good and
largely made up you might be like I'm
already seeing this story go watch this
movie please
as I tweeted when I came out of the
press screening I said every woman who
wants to work and any business should
see bombshell why did I say that while I
said it for two reasons
one and I think this is very important
it's refreshing to see women in the
workplace portrayed as vibrant energetic
and here's the most important part
competent professionals rather than the
grading complainers wet blankets or non
entities that they usually are you know
no girls allowed clubs right that's how
business is so often been portrayed and
when the woman does show up and
entertainment everyone's like yeah this
does suck but it doesn't in real life
and it shouldn't and I don't like that
portrayal of women in the work
environment so I was very happy to see
women portrayed as real commodities here
that was great but then also of course
number two it's important to see how
some men emphasis on some this isn't an
indictment of men in general at all in
any way this is like a warlock hunt
right hmm
but how some men try to cut down or take
advantage of those vibrant energetic and
competent professional women and even
some of the other ones you know
everybody nobody should be targeted like
this now obviously the big problem with
bombshell is that it's about women who
work or worked at Fox News which makes
them incredibly unsympathetic and I
think that many critics can't see past
that fact which is why the movie has
such a low rotten tomato score and to be
fair the movie does totally sweep under
the rug
megyn kelly is horrific comment about
Santa Claus because you know the movie
needs megyn kelly to be their hero and I
guess in some ways it would have been
nice if they had portrayed her as the
complicated she sure was heroic in this
in this specific situation that she is
right megyn kelly
someone who's very instrumental in a
great and a great development here about
exposing this type of behavior but she's
also done a lot of really bad things I
mean the santa claus comment if you
didn't know about that that controversy
and i should it's because what she did
should never be forgotten
and especially because she's continued
to make comments in the same vein you
wouldn TVE even recognize it if you
weren't if you didn't already know about
it and weren't aware mm-hmm and also by
the way speaking of megan kelly the idea
that she is the one woman who is able to
say no to rogers eight roger ailes
advances yet still climb the ladder at
foxnews to the very top well it just
doesn't make any sense and considering
all the other horrible things megyn
kelly has done i wouldn't put a pastor
to have lied about this but you know
what at least you led the charge even if
she didn't want to be personally
involved her so well she didn't leave
the charge but as you'll see from the
movie she was she was key to its success
the person who led the charge is
Kidman's gretchen carlson who I think
quite admirably is seen trying to change
things at least on her own show her own
little corner of Fox News which is a
punishment for you know not getting
along with the guys on Fox and Friends
very powerful stuff in that regard now
I've never watched Fox News so I don't
know if Gretchen Carlson actually did
try to do these things but it's
interesting to see her trying so hard
even when her boss and her audience
aren't interested hard truths about
television you know what does your
audience want to see but then there's
also the line of what's responsible even
if they want to see it you shouldn't you
know you shouldn't reward that behavior
necessarily that's a whole other movie
now Marvel Robbie is playing a fictional
character but her experiences in the
movie and her emotional reactions to
them are all too real and that realness
is the important thing here because
while you should keep in mind that yes
this is Fox News what happened at Fox
News has also happened and continues to
happen in many professional environments
across the globe it just so happens that
Fox News was a major turning point for
again exposing that behavior and so
that's where this movie takes place I
mean that's how it went down you know
that's what are you gonna do about it
and the situations that these women find
themselves in and how they try to
navigate them both
personally and professionally while
trying to maintain their dignity and
keep their careers going well those
situations are portrayed with astounding
realism there is one conversation which
according to the news you know reports
actually took place it's not with one of
the three leads but with a reporter
talking to her superior about a dream
posting only to font to only to realize
during the conversation that he's
actually propositioning her you know if
she really wants the job and the thought
process that's in her head that we hear
in real time is one that every single
woman has experienced it's amazing and
important to get out there and the
casting for the male characters is also
strong there is the almost
unrecognizable John Lithgow is Roger
Ailes who makes them a real person a
monstrous person of course but they
don't you know this isn't a movie about
Fox and it's politics it's a movie about
what happened there in terms of sexual
harassment so if you're if you are a Fox
News fan you know the movies not gonna
you should I mean everybody should see
this movie I would feel bad if anyone
turned away from it for other reasons
but you know it's not a caricature of
Roger Ailes Rob Delaney as Megyn Kelly's
producer who is her friend but you know
wants to keep his job which i think is
is realistic mark Duplass says Kelly's
supportive husband but also there's the
the wrinkle of her being the breadwinner
of the family and I thought that was
portrayed very interestingly and then
there's Malcolm McDowell in a small role
as Rupert Murdoch but even more so actor
brothers Ben Lawson and Josh Lawson as
the Murdock brothers Dead Ringers for
the Murdock brothers who you know again
this is a real variance unfortunately
the way things usually go they don't
really care about what Ailes is done
they're just looking for a reason to get
rid of them ah but you know sometimes
that's the way things work you mean you
know things might not fall in your favor
for the reasons that you want them to
but who cares they fall in your favor
and so I think this movie is very
interesting and realistic in that regard
as well now there are also a ton of fun
cameos like a lot of them which are not
only fun but show how many people take
this subject matter seriously and
support this movie which i think is
wonderful but the real stars of course
are our trio Charlize Theron becomes
Kelly it's uncanny but the idealized
version of megyn kelly the one that NBC
thought they'd hired away from fox only
to then discover then you can take the
reporter out of fox but you can't take
the Fox out of the reporter at least
this one uh megan kelly wishes that she
was actually this version of herself
it's Charlize Theron is amazing she's
like the ideal businesswoman because
they left out all the bad parts about
megyn kelly
alright so Nicole Kidman also does an
amazing job portraying a professional
woman from little things like how she
holds her pen like talk about an actor
that was astounding I was like that
little that little touches like Meryl
Streep level man
maybe some of it rubbed off on her and
big little lies season 2 - losing her
temper with Robby over how women should
be more loyal to each other at work that
was an amazing give-and-take between the
two of them the complexities of the
politics of the workplace and how people
at women don't feel their women will
look out for them or that they are gonna
be able to advance their careers oh my
god it was amazing
and then also Nicole came in trying to
hide her pain from her kids that was
very small but I felt it and then
there's Margot Robbie in a role that
easily could have been unsympathetic
considering that she's trying to get
ahead largely on her looks and she
looked all everyone looks beautiful in
this movie but Margot Robbie here will
not only break your heart which is
amazing and gang considering she's just
trying to get ahead on her looks but
Margot Robbie turns it into a very
relatable role because it's someone
who's out of her depth and you know just
you know so I you know she saw a
potential shortcut but she didn't
realize with the product what exactly
the price was I don't want to give too
much away about that but it was it was
Margot Robbie did a great job kate
mckinnon also has some great scenes but
basically disappears after the first act
which was kind of weird bombshell so I
would tell you the bombshell is a
perfect movie about very imperfect
people but it is the best depiction yet
of the complicated situation women find
themselves in the workplace and it
deserves to be seen so that's my review
of bombshell
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