Wheel of Wonder Spin #18 "JFK" (1991)
Added 2024-08-09 17:35:00 +0000 UTCHI!! Continuing the W.O.W month with this audacious film!!
Congrats to the winner!!!
***Movie Spoilers Below****
Hey everyone! Without diving too deep into politics, I'm curious—were any of you around when the JFK assassination happened? It’s such a tragic and intense moment in history, and I can’t even begin to imagine what it must have felt like at the time. The endless speculation and conspiracy theories are fascinating, a mystery that’s never been fully solved. Oliver Stone’s take on it really brings that intrigue to life, crafting a story that leaves you questioning everything. I think I even started questioning myself by the end! It’s wild how this event still captivates us, with so many unanswered questions and layers of mystery that have kept people talking for over 60 years.
Shawn also won in the Movie Posters draw on YouTube! So that's why I was like go buy a lotto ticket but I had to be vague because I didn't want to spoil that in case this came out first! If you guys haven't entered to win a GC for a poster you can submit in the link! I draw once a month!
Comments
Great notes John!! Thanks for ur insight! I am VERY excited to watch some D.Sutherland stuff! I didn’t know he was Canadian! I also just watched an interview with him from a few years back and his eyes light up when talking about acting and the villains he’s played! I am instantly drawn to watching him now!
Amalia Wolf
2024-08-26 04:10:33 +0000 UTCI thought Oliver Stone did a creditable job of providing evidence of a conspiracy, but whether or not any particular theory turns out to be true, one idea keeps running through my head. Whenever there is a lack of transparency, conspiracy theories abound. I believe far too much information is needlessly classified as secret. I think "We the people" are too often kept in the dark, likely for political reasons rather than for national security reasons. When it comes to sensitive information, rather than asking, "How long can we keep this secret?", I think we should be asking, "How quickly can we release this information to the public?" I think there was some good dialogue in the film. "Mr. Shaw, have you ever been a contract agent for the Central Intelligence Agency?" "And if I were ... do you believe, Mr. Garrison, that I would be here today, talking with somebody like you?" "No. People like you don't have to I guess ... People like you just walk between the raindrops." "May I go?" "Yes." I was mesmerized by Donald Sutherland's narrative and I particularly enjoyed Kevin Costner's closing monologue in the court room scene. Nice reaction Ames and good pick Shawn! I was surprised how quickly the 3+ hours went by!
John Courtright
2024-08-26 04:05:22 +0000 UTCWell said! And you were far more economical in your words than I was, god knows! Someday, I'll get the hang of brevity.
Robert Livingood
2024-08-12 00:13:48 +0000 UTCThis is one of my favorite movies of all time. It is also just one of the many wrong and conspiratorial takes on this. It is truly fantastic.
Todd Rush
2024-08-11 12:11:31 +0000 UTCJFK has a ton of quotable moments, I don't know why they would include the "Ich bin ein Berliner" one in the intro. That's ones a hilarious gaffe, he should have said "Ich bin Berliner" including "ein" he basically called himself a doughnut.
Bubba Fett
2024-08-10 17:38:56 +0000 UTCWow! Thanks for sharing this Marc!
Amalia Wolf
2024-08-10 16:28:20 +0000 UTC"Back, and to the left."
Jeffrey Schmidbauer
2024-08-10 16:11:51 +0000 UTCwhoa! crazy cool!
Amalia Wolf
2024-08-10 03:14:11 +0000 UTCliterally thought that this woulda been a great started for the Kevin Game - and Kevin is in it! LOLOL!! thanks for this post! I would prob hate the accent if i knew it well!!! I wish Oswald woulda had a trail.. it would have been WILD
Amalia Wolf
2024-08-10 03:13:55 +0000 UTCI was 7 and at school. A fire drill bell sounded, and we all marched out to the playground, where the principal told the school what had happened. Most of us little guys didn’t understand the magnitude until we saw all the adults sobbing. We were sent home, and our moms were crying. Our dads came home from work early. Businesses closed. The country shut down. And everyone sat and stared at the TV, and everyone saw Oswald get gunned down. It was a scary time, not long after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Vietnam and the Cold War were ramping up. But the assassination was the event that caused me to start paying attention to the world around me. I have a pretty good recollection of history starting from that day. Love this movie and its place in history.
Marc Fredrick
2024-08-10 02:35:43 +0000 UTCAt least half bunk, but god I love it so! So much of Stone’s “evidence” varies from flimsy to twisted to downright specious, but who cares? The movie is so masterfully made (particularly its editing) that it’s absolutely mesmerizing. For once, the Academy had it right—Best Director, but not Best Picture. I’m no conspiracy theorist, but the official Warren Commission explanation for the assassination is just as ridiculous as many of the wacky theories I’ve heard over the years. Lots of the suspicious stuff can be semi-plausibly explained away ie eyewitness testimony is inherently unreliable, bullets can bounce all over a body once they’ve entered one etc, but, even if you throw out every other very strange aspect of the story, to me the most glaring unanswered question is this: why the hell did Jack Ruby kill Oswald? “Officially” it was said that he was a devastated and misguided Kennedy fan who did it to spare Jackie a trial…WHAT? Ruby was well a known gangster, not some lonely schmo with a white knight complex. Mafia involvement, somewhere, is the ONLY reasonable explanation. Stone is legitimately a wacko, but was once a helluva filmmaker and this is, for me, by far his greatest achievement. He made only two mistakes with this movie, but they are two doozies. 1: He based his story around Jim Garrison. I used to live in New Orleans, and even amongst his friends and admirers, Garrison was regarded as both a nut (he suffered terribly with WW2 PTSD) and pretty crooked—there was better and more credible scholarship on which Stone could have based a story. 2: Costner’s accent, just like any time he’s ever tried doing one, is so over the top dreadful it makes me want to claw my ear drums out! It was also wholly unnecessary, as the real Jim Garrison didn’t have any particular accent (he was born in Iowa, after all). Furthermore, he wasn’t even doing a New Orleans accent (a very distinct thing) but rather some sort of Foghorn Leghorn corn pone Mississippi type thing. WTF!! BTW, what a cast—talk about a movie that could be the basis of a six degrees game! JFK is like the axis of the late 20th century movie universe.
VivendoBem
2024-08-10 02:32:29 +0000 UTCMy ex-wife and I were able to see this film a few years back in 35 mm at the Texas Theatre, in Oak Cliff. We were seated where Oswald was found and arrested. It's now functioning mainly as a revival house, with the most amazing bar tending staff on planet Earth. https://thetexastheatre.com/
Shawn Goforth
2024-08-10 00:52:49 +0000 UTCSoo good!!! 😂😂😂😂
Amalia Wolf
2024-08-09 22:48:45 +0000 UTCThe best line in the entire movie is when John Candy is on the witness stand and he says “You got the right ta-ta but the wrong ho-ho!” I use that line whenever they get my order wrong at Starbucks but they inevitably tell me to stop harassing the employees
AstralCars
2024-08-09 22:32:01 +0000 UTCCongrats Shawn Great movie
christopher brown
2024-08-09 21:14:56 +0000 UTCTotally Shawn! Thanks for the pick! It was a great watch def brought up a lot of conflicting feelings within me! Loved the cameos and cast 🥰 capturing the time was done really well. Lots of different view points
Amalia Wolf
2024-08-09 19:49:34 +0000 UTCProb a good book!
Amalia Wolf
2024-08-09 19:48:48 +0000 UTCHe beat u to the double win John! U almost had it last spin! 😂😂😂 can’t wait for you to watch! I enjoyed the film!
Amalia Wolf
2024-08-09 19:48:38 +0000 UTCCongrats Shawn!! Way to go!! This will be a first time watch for me! I've always wondered what conspiracy theories people came up with regarding the JFK assassination so it should be an interesting one! I'm looking forward to it!!
John Courtright
2024-08-09 19:03:19 +0000 UTCCongrats Shawn!! Awesome choice! Look forward to this reaction. I remember seeing this opening night way back when. Kudos to Robert Richardson's amazing cinematography and the killer editing on this flick.. Oliver Stone always brings and this movie was no exception. The book by Judge Garrison this movie was based on was a great read. So was BEST EVIDENCE if you're a JFK Assassin historian..
RFK Fan
2024-08-09 18:46:55 +0000 UTCThanks everyone! Hope you enjoy. I know some people discount this one, just because it really can't be 100% historically accurate, as we may never know the entire truth, but what I appreciate is how the feelings of the time were captured and relayed to the audience. I certainly wasn't around then, but I felt I had an understanding of what everyone in the country was tying to process. The chaos of the moment and the rabbit hole of theories that came out after are thoughtfully presented, and done so through one of the greatest ensembles of casting I have ever seen. I think at one point during my first watch, I said out loud "Okay, who's showing up for the next cameo?"
Shawn Goforth
2024-08-09 18:39:32 +0000 UTCLOLOLOL
Amalia Wolf
2024-08-09 18:20:43 +0000 UTCCongrats SG! I didn't need sleep this weekend. Ames I'm just gonna switch my pick to a SERIES OK?
AJ
2024-08-09 18:13:43 +0000 UTCStoked!
Amalia Wolf
2024-08-09 18:09:14 +0000 UTCWhat a great pick! IMO this is peak Oliver Stone. A master class in editing and photography. Can't wait for the rewatch.
BD Williams
2024-08-09 18:04:48 +0000 UTCLOLOLOL love you toc! def a second shooter DONALD was an epic surprise!
Amalia Wolf
2024-08-09 17:55:53 +0000 UTCwow! i was thinking about what it would be like to stand where he was shot so sad
Amalia Wolf
2024-08-09 17:55:23 +0000 UTCAGRREEEEEE
Amalia Wolf
2024-08-09 17:55:00 +0000 UTCCongrats, Shawn! And also to all the other people who I've seen request this movie! And hey....you got to see some Donald Sutherland after all, doing the "JFK" version of "Deep Throat"! 😄 (and alot of other good actors). I prefer "Nixon", with Anthony Hopkins, that's a really great movie. And so is "W"! That's hilarious! Richard Dreyfus as Dick Cheney! 🤣 Anyways, this will be a fun watch! Congrats again, Shawn! P.S. Definitely there was a second shooter!
Toc
2024-08-09 17:53:13 +0000 UTCI was two and a half years old when Kennedy was shot. I vaguely remember all the hubbub at the time. Visited Dealey Plaza in Dallas back in 2006 to immerse myself in the sad event.
Jeffrey Schmidbauer
2024-08-09 17:49:49 +0000 UTCThis is actually the first film that came to mind for me when Donald Sutherland passed away recently. His appearance as X is one of my favourite cameo performances and that whole sequence is an astounding feat of making a massive information dump utterly riveting through brilliant editing and delivery. Costner is magnificent through JFK too, he absolutely nails that climactic courtroom sequence on which the whole film hinges. I understand why people take issue with the film for being nothing more than a crackpot assemblage of paranoid conspiracy theories, but it is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking by a director at the top of his game. I think Stone's Nixon is worth looking up too, as he uses a similarly audacious and hyper-stylised approach to bring a Shakespearean grandeur to Nixon's story.
Henry Graham
2024-08-09 17:46:56 +0000 UTCCongratulations ShawnG. Great pick. Kevin Costner is an amazing actor.
Jason Vulgamore
2024-08-09 17:41:20 +0000 UTC
