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Finally saw Thirteen Days. Very good movie.

Posted by Inigo (aka Inigo) Dec 14 '09, 08:18

How accurate was the movie's potrayal of military personel trying to find loopholes in Kennedy's orders so they could attack the Soviets?

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It's apparently a peek into how these 'things' operate... - OAE Dec 14, 08:50
Agreed. The guy who played Robert Kennedy was very good. -- nm - Loyola Dec 14, 08:26
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- My vote would have gone to Culp as RFK. -- nm - Reagen Dec 14, 08:26 1
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It would have been five full places higher on my best of list that year if not for Costner's accent. -- nm - Reagen Dec 14, 08:24 8
- I think that accent just sounds fake on film to me. Even Matt Damon in The Departed seem forced. -- nm - Inigo Dec 14, 08:26 7
  - You'd be surprised. The accent is so thick up here I sometimes have to ask the natives to repeat themselves cuz i friggin' don't understand - Diva Dec 14, 08:43
  - speaking of accents, have you seen Mel Gibson's new trailer? -- (link) - Max Dec 14, 08:29 4
    - Oh good, Danny Huston. -- nm - Reagen Dec 14, 08:33
    - That was only the 2nd most grating accent I heard in 48 hours...Julianne Moore's from 30 Rock was nails on chalkboard to me. -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 14, 08:30 2
      - Though there it was suppossed to be ridiculous. -- nm - Reagen Dec 14, 08:33
      - yes, that was annoying -- nm - dogbert Dec 14, 08:31
  - yeah, that it's a hideous accent doesn't help. -- nm - Reagen Dec 14, 08:27
I liked when future Robert McNamara came back. -- nm - Dano Dec 14, 08:21 4
- No!!!! Primer will not confuse this movie too. -- nm - Inigo Dec 14, 08:23 2
  - In JFK future John F. Kennedy came back and assassinated original John F. Kennedy. -- nm - Dano Dec 14, 08:25 1
    - Then suggested a daytrip to Dallas a year later? -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 14, 08:32
- Oh boy. -- nm - Viet Cong si Dec 14, 08:22
I've read several books on the subject, and seems to have been pretty close to accurate. words like "coup" -- nm - Don Homer Dec 14, 08:21 5
- Wow, pretty crazy stuff. Any of those books you'd like to recommend? -- nm - Inigo Dec 14, 08:22 4
  - and One Minute to Midnight -- (link) - Don Homer Dec 14, 08:28 1
    - Thank you, sir. -- nm - Inigo Dec 14, 08:28
  - also from the kennedy tapes on missile crisis -- (link) - Don Homer Dec 14, 08:27
  - one the movie was based on -- (link) - Don Homer Dec 14, 08:26
it's a movie, so it's 100% accurate - dogbert Dec 14, 08:20

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Finally saw Thirteen Days. Very good movie.

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