Actuakers
One of my all time favorites.
Claysaba
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Console
best movie i've ever seen.
Syl
Dalton Trumbo was an Academy Award winning screenwriter who was blacklisted in Hollywood during the McCarthy years. Bryan Cranston was well-honored with an Academy Award nomination for his performance as the smart-mouthed screenwriter. Diane Lane played his long-suffering wife, Cleo, who supports him. Dame Helen Mirren was perfect as Hedda Hopper actress turned gossip queen. The film has a stellar cast such as Roger Bart, John Goodman and Louis C.K. The actors who played Kirk Douglas and John Wayne were perfect with their voices and appearance. The film was well-done and well-deserved to tell a forgotten story. I would like to see Dalton Trumbo get a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures posthumously.
fanaticusanonymous
I happened only 70 years ago and so many young people have never even heard about it. How can it be? And, how dangerous. Not to know will always put you at a disadvantage, oh yes, sooner or later. Trumbo feels like a story set in a totalitarian Country and yet...The spread of fear is a powerful weapon used by self-aggrandizing sociopaths. Joe McCarthy's success is still a mystery to me and Trumbo proves, in the most riveting way, how easily we can fall in that trap. Bryan Cranston is simply, sensational portraying a true American in all its contradictions. I never really thought of the actual degradation Trumbo and the other blacklisted writers went through until I saw it in Bryan Cranston's face. David James Elliott portrayal of John Wayne is chilling and disturbing, specially because id true. I've heard from people who knew him, what a nice man Duke was and yet...Helen Mirren as Hedda Hopper was another chilling and unexpected portrait of utter ignorance. I've only recently found out that she was behind the forces that wanted Charles Chaplin out of the Country. Congratulations to director Jay Roach and to a spectacular cast. Let's hope everyone pays attention.
guylyons
I love cinema, and time after time failed to appreciate the importance of a good script. Take the classic film Spartacus, and listen to the lines of Olivier, Laughton, Ustinov, Douglas. Yet i always leaned towards Spartacus as the finest epic ever made. Trumbo was an education, as Cranston rattled off his lines in his bath, and it hit me, we cinema goers, who are not acting students, just might underestimate the importance of script writing. As a film Trumbo does a fine job as telling us this, and it is far more important than the commie witch hunting business. Senator mccarthy died out as the cold war cooled, and common sense prevailed. I loved the film, and now i am far more critical of cinema than ever before, as i see so many movies with dreadful lines , no story and overrated CGI effects.
zkonedog
I'm always up for a good historical biopic, so I was intrigued by "Trumbo" from the first time I heard of it. The fact that Brian Cranston was in the lead role piqued my interest even further. Amazingly, though, this movie surpassed even those high expectations by telling a highly compelling story (filled with great acting) that can still resonate just as much in today's times even though it takes place in the 1950s.For a basic plot summary, "Trumbo" is the story of Dalton Trumbo (Cranston), a Hollywood screenwriter who gets blacklisted and even goes to prison under the suspicion of being a Communist during the Red Scare of the 1950s. The film shows how the Communist witch-hunt played out in both Trumbo's own family, most notably wife Cleo (Diane Lane) and daughter Niki (Elle Fanning), and in his relationship with other Hollywood luminaries of the time like Edward G. Robinson (Michael Stuhlbarg), Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren), & even John Wayne (David James Elliott).What I liked the most about "Trumbo" was that it really took the time to examine both sides of the Red Scare. Even though in hindsight most agree that it was ridiculous and overbearing, director Jay Roach does a great job of still humanizing both sides of the issue. There aren't black-and-white heroes or villains in this movie, but rather two sides who fervently believe they are "right" and keeping the country safe in doing so. Trumbo wasn't going to back down from his beliefs, and neither was a fellow like, say, Duke Wayne, which makes for an epic clash of ideologies.Of course, it sure doesn't hurt that the acting is tremendous from all involved. It quietly features an all-star cast, while Cranston continues to prove how great of an actor he is. I have trouble believing why he had to toil as "the goofy Dad on Malcolm in the Middle" for so long before people began realizing what a serious actor he could be."Trumbo" is very similar to another film that came out in 2015, that being Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies". Both films look at the Cold War Era and draw parallels to today's turmoil-filled political landscape. "Trumbo", however, might be an even better experience because it is so fresh and new. With Spielberg (though obviously through no fault of his own) a viewer kind of knows what is coming, and then he always comes through. With Roach, who before this was known best for directing the three Austin Powers movies, you never know where the story is going to go. Fortunately, it always pays off and elicits high emotion.Overall, "Trumbo" was one of the best movies I watched of late for its ability to tell such a compelling story that really will make you think about politics today too and if anything has really changed. Do we learn from our mistakes, or will they keep popping up in other guises? That is what is at the heart of "Trumbo", and the incredible acting performances really drive the point home. Highly recommended for anyone who is a fan of history or even just the Hollywood scene in general.
