We watched All the President's Men in my Politics and Film class yesterday. I had never seen it before, but had been meaning to for some time. I was not disappointed.
I'm feeling lazy today, so I'm just going to say that this is a good film because director Alan Pakula manages to make something that should be incredibly boring and snore-inducing into an engrossing, suspenseful story without adding anything dumb like car chases or explosions or sex scenes or, really, anything you'd see in a Hollywood movie. I am just as entertained watching Robert Redford scribble down notes while talking on the telephone and watching Dustin Hoffman subtly convince a young woman to give him information as I am when I watch Bruce Willis shoot bad guys in Die Hard. That is a great credit to Pakula for pacing this film perfectly, and to Redford and Hoffman for acting the hell out of their roles.
If you didn't know, All the President's Men is about Watergate and how two journalists connected the dots from the initial break-in all the way to President Nixon. This is a great film.
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