Darkest Hour review
@BelleStarr (61047)
United States
January 18, 2018 3:04pm CST
Tuesday we went to see Darkest Hour. It is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I want to see it again. You will not believe it is Gary Oldman, he is that convincing as a hard-drinking, not always confident Winston Churchill.
The time covered in this movie is very short, it is from the crisis that led to Churchill being elected Prime Minister to the rescue at Dunkirk, less than a month.
You get a very good look at how Neville Chamberlin and Lord Halifax tried to undermine Churchill right from the start and their policy of peace and appeasement made them blind to what really needed to be done. I was thinking thank God for Churchill through much of this movie.
It made me cry, it made me laugh, it made me appreciate courage in the face of terrible odds and most of all it made me like King George IV and Winston Churchill and the understanding they finally reached.
This is a movie I want to see again and I can highly recommend it. Lily James did a very good job as Churchill's secretary and Kristin Scott Thomas is a wonderfully sympathetic Clemmie and of course Gary Oldman who was magnificent.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
18 Jan 18
You would not recognize him at all, I believed I was watching Churchill.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
18 Jan 18
You will like it, it is very well done and I hated to see it end.
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@amadeo (111948)
• United States
18 Jan 18
@BelleStarr I know I will liked it.Read many books on Winston Churchill he was quite an character.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
20 Jan 18
I can't wait to hear what you think I laughed and cried and wanted to stand up and cheer.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
19 Jan 18
I think you will really enjoy it, let me know if you do see it.
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@just4him (306239)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
20 Jan 18
@BelleStarr If the weather does what it's supposed to I'll have a chance next Wednesday.
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
19 Jan 18
I can imagine that, he was very much an aristocrat and not used to caring about the great unwashed so to speak. Still, he was what they needed at the time.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
20 Jan 18
@JudyEv Yes rather ungrateful of them I think, if it was up to Chamberland they would be speaking German!!
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@JudyEv (325758)
• Rockingham, Australia
20 Jan 18
@BelleStarr I'm inclined to think that too. But the public were a bit fickle and voted him out after the war was over.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
20 Jan 18
@BelleStarr Wow, it must be a good movie. Chamberlain was such a wuss and without Churchill, who knows how the war would have ended up.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
20 Jan 18
I know one thing, The British would be speaking German!!
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@m_audrey6788 (58485)
• Germany
18 Jan 18
Sounds good to watch 
I`ll try to watch that. Thanks for sharing
I`ll try to watch that. Thanks for sharing 1 person likes this
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
18 Jan 18
I hope you like it, it is a time period when lots of things were happening very quickly.
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Yes so true but the good thing is we can manage to survive no matter what happens 
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
19 Jan 18
He was a bit if an eccentric but I am a big fan of his.
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@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Jan 18
I saw the Golden Globes and an interview on one of the talks shows with Oldman. The make-up and such. He is such a good actor anyway.
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@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Jan 18
@BelleStarr .....Hours in the make-up chair.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
19 Jan 18
Yes it was quite a makeover he looks so much like Churchill
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
19 Jan 18
Definitely sounds like you enjoyed the movie.
Not sure its one i will see though.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
19 Jan 18
It might not be your cup of tea but yes you are right, I loved it.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
19 Jan 18
@BelleStarr probably isnt. Doesn't sound it.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Jan 18
Oldman will probably be Oscar nominated for his performance.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
18 Jan 18
He should be he was very convincing.
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