For my new Movie Review, i present to you the Historical Fiction, Dick
Dick is about Richard Nixon, and the Watergate scandal, and the events that transpired to bring baout his downfall.
The story centers around two girls: Arlene, a bookworm kinda nerdy person, played by Michelle Williams; and ------, a ditzy blonde, played by the ever beautiful Kirsten Dunst (incidentally the only reason I went to see this movie).
So, they live in Washington DC, and they caught sight of one of the Watergate Breaker-innerÕs. They left, and while on a tour of the White House, they saw the same guy.
He recognized them, and told Nixon, and Nixon made them official White House Dog Walkers. So, they walk Checkers, the Official White Hosue Dog, and on their first day back, while looking for the PresidentÕs ofice, they stumble across the Shredding of the Documents, and the Counting of the Money.
Nixon gets wind of this too, and makes them his official White Hosue Youth Advisors, to bring the opinions of the young people into play. In so doing, the end of the Vietnam war is brought about.
So, they are made the Youth Advisors, and are told not to tell anyone that they are.
So, of course, they do.
Then, they discover a tape player while picking up the dog one day, and decide to leave a message for Nixon. When they play it back to make sure that it got recorded, they hear recorded conversations, Nixon kicking his dog, making racial slurs against jews, and the like.
They decide that Nixon is a jerk.
Then, they make a prank call to the newspaper, and claim they have info on Watergate.
They carry the joke a bit far, and actually start giving them the real information they have.
They give themselves the name Deep Throat, and tell Woddward and Bernstein, the two reporters who broke the story, everything they know, and heard.
Meanwhile, the government, has bugged their phones, and searched their house, and they are being pursued.
Just at looking at this summary, i suppose it sounds pretty good. but when you go to see it, you have trouble staying awake. I know I did. The movie was boring, the Characters were flat, with no emotion other then ÒIÕm a ditzy blonde.Ó
One of the White HOse advisors says that he has seen Yams with more going on upstairs then these two, and thatÕs not hard to believe.
I was really disappointed, but I havenÕt lost any faith in Kirsten Dunst.
Anyway, the movie gets a rating of 2 Field Mice. it would have been 1 1/4, but Kirsten Dunst saved it. This was one of the few movies I wasn't afraid to walk out in the middle of to go to the bathroom.
Now, onto the morality rating. There was no sex scenes, but there was a fair amount of joking around with the PresidentÕs name. He tells them early on to call him Dick, and throughout the movie, you here phrases like, I like Dick. I love Dick. You canÕt let Dick rule your life!
Obvious double entendre there.
There was one final double entendre at the very end, but it was absolutely hilarious, and IÕm not going to put it here, for a couple reasons.
1. ItÕs really crude, and
2. It would spoil the fun for those of you who might decide that I donÕt knwo what IÕm talking about and go see it anyway.
There was very little cursing, but a lot of the Dick jokes, and the name Deep Throat comes from the name of a porno movie that one of the other chracters saw.
All in all I give it Two Field Mice for Morality.
ThereÕs my movie review for today. I hope to have another tomorrow, and about three on Friday and Saturday.
So, until then, Ebert Can have the Blacony, those other two can have the Aisle seat, I want the exact middle!