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Nixon must have been a very lonely, insecure, sad man. There are always jokes and remarks of him being so insecure, needing the approval of the nation, but it’s never been portrayed in such an honest, almost endearing way. My favorite scene is when Frost is watching Nixon get into the helicopter and right before he gets in, Nixon’s face drops, and you can truly see how empty he is and feels. By the end of the movie, I feel more sorry for him than anything. The acting in this movie was phenomenal.

And more than anything, it seemed like he really wanted to get it out there. It was something that was weighing him down. And it’s hard to imagine ever doing something so wrong that it would continue to define you after your death. That it’d be the one thing anyone remembered you for. And that it’d be the thing that you tried so hard to get people to forget. Isn’t that always the way life works out, that no matter how hard you try and prove that you shouldn’t be defined by your mistakes, the more it sticks?

Wow, what a huge disappointment. Having loved the original, I was excited for the remake. I expected better choreography, bigger stunts, better music and most of all, more detail into the characters’ lives. But I felt totally disconnected from the 2009 characters and although the few dance performances were amazing, they were few and far between and didn’t carry the movie at all. The best part of the movie was the last 8 minutes of it, the graduation performance, and that’s pretty much all I spent my money on. With almost 30 years between the two movies, I really expected them to bring something new and enchanting to the remake. Instead it just felt like one big cut and paste job. Plus I hate this poster.