Sunday, December 29, 2013

American Hustle: The Movie 2013

So far, "American Hustle" and "47 Ronin" are the two most impressive movies this season I have yet seen. "The Hobbit" the latest one is the best for special effects.

Anyway, today I saw "American Hustle" and Christian Bale, Amy Anderson and Jennifer Lawrence especially (actually all the actors in this movie) sort of blew it right out of the water with their depictions of the Abscam charactors.  Since this is based on real life or how it read at the beginning, "Some of this actually happened" made me laugh because usually it says "Based on a true story" instead.

This is a do not miss movie in almost every way. It is likely to give us at least one best actor or best actress award in the Oscars from everything I saw today. Very well done indeed. I remember watching the video Tapes of this on TV news (probably 60 minutes back when it happened) (I was 30 in 1978 when this actually occurred). It was interesting watching this because this was the New York, New Jersey East Coast culture which was in many way completely different from the San Diego, Los Angeles Culture I mostly knew then here in California. So, it was amazing to see these East Coast Characters depicted so very well.

American Hustle (2013) - IMDb

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Rating: 8.2/10 - ‎16,923 votes
Directed by David O. Russell. With Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence. A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive British ...
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