My First Time Watching... ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN

Movie All The President's Men My First Time Watching Image Safe about 4 years agoby Koren Butkovich

Editor’s Note: Koren is a millennial movie geek and while we were hanging out at Comic-Con this year, we started talking about classic movies and almost every movie we mentioned, she told us she hadn’t seen it! Over the course of Comic-Con our group would mention a movie, to see if she had seen it, and I started making a list of classic movies that she has never seen. There are hundreds of moves on this list that will continue to grow! I asked her if she would be willing to watch these movies and share her thoughts on these films that she is seeing for the first time. I thought this would be cool and interesting to get a millennial’s point of view of these classic films. This is all in good fun!

My First Time Watching… All The President’s Men

All The Presidents Men tells the story of The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that lead to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

This was one of the many movies, I did in fact, judge by both the description Netflix gave me and the cover art for the film. I didn’t think that this movie was going to be good, which is why it took me so long to get around to watching it. However, in the end it proved me wrong and I thought the film was great.

All The Presidents Men is a slow burn kind of film. It doesn’t grab your attention and hook you right away. Instead, it ropes you and slowly pulls you in until you’re fully tangled up in the intriguing story and interesting characters.

This movie is very dialogue heavy, which we don’t see a lot of these days. Most political dramas we see made these days have a lot more action in them. Dialogue heavy movies are tricky because you need writers who know how to create impactful and memorable dialogue and actors who can deliver that dialogue without losing the audience's attention and that is exactly what All The President's Men delivers.

Both Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford did an excellent job in their roles of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. The film was filled with all kinds of wonderful actors who perfectly brought their characters to life.

The 1976 classic was directed by Alan J. Pakula from a script by William Goldman, and they set a tone for the story that was both relaxing and gripping. While I thought this movie was going to be a chore to watch at first, it wasn’t. I enjoyed it and didn’t find myself counting down the minutes waiting for it to be over, instead I got sucked into the journalistic investigation that showed just how important the first amendment truly is.

If you find yourself aimlessly scrolling through Netflix one night and stumble upon this film and you haven’t seen it, it’s something you should consider putting down on your ‘watch list’.