Netflix movie "Mitt"

Jarod

Jarod

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I watched the Netflix documentary "Mitt" last night.

Has anyone else seen it? I cant tell if its simply his very dour personality or if he knew, in the closing weeks, he was about to lose the election. I was kind of shocked and surprised at how negative the entire family seemed. They portrayed such an up beat image during the campaign. I was also surprised at the formality between Romney and Ryan. The media reported it as if Romney was shocked by the loss, but in the documentary it did not seem that way to me.

The film did make me like Romney more, he seemed more real in many ways. It made me like his wife less, she seemed very detached and kind of spoiled.
 
Jarod said:
I watched the Netflix documentary "Mitt" last night.

Has anyone else seen it? I cant tell if its simply his very dour personality or if he knew, in the closing weeks, he was about to lose the election. I was kind of shocked and surprised at how negative the entire family seemed. They portrayed such an up beat image during the campaign. I was also surprised at the formality between Romney and Ryan. The media reported it as if Romney was shocked by the loss, but in the documentary it did not seem that way to me.

The film did make me like Romney more, he seemed more real in many ways. It made me like his wife less, she seemed very detached and kind of spoiled.
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It's on my Netflix "to watch" list but currently I am finishing up the last season of Dextor...which is proving dissapointing and I have Orange is the New Black and House of Cards on my Binge watch list. I've read some good reviews about the documentary.
 
Jarod said:
I watched the Netflix documentary "Mitt" last night.

Has anyone else seen it? I cant tell if its simply his very dour personality or if he knew, in the closing weeks, he was about to lose the election. I was kind of shocked and surprised at how negative the entire family seemed. They portrayed such an up beat image during the campaign. I was also surprised at the formality between Romney and Ryan. The media reported it as if Romney was shocked by the loss, but in the documentary it did not seem that way to me.

The film did make me like Romney more, he seemed more real in many ways. It made me like his wife less, she seemed very detached and kind of spoiled.
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Oh I think Romney knew towards the end that his 47% comment and embracing the southern strategy during the far to long GOP primaries had killed him with moderate voters and he knew he was toast. Considering the effort he put into it over 8 years....I can understand the negativity towards the end.

I look forward to viewing this and may have to bump it up on my list.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
It's on my Netflix "to watch" list but currently I am finishing up the last season of Dextor...which is proving dissapointing and I have Orange is the New Black and House of Cards on my Binge watch list. I've read some good reviews about the documentary.
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I am looking forward to House of Cards. Whats Dextor about?
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Oh I think Romney knew towards the end that his 47% comment and embracing the southern strategy during the far to long GOP primaries had killed him with moderate voters and he knew he was toast. Considering the effort he put into it over 8 years....I can understand the negativity towards the end.

I look forward to viewing this and may have to bump it up on my list.
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Do you think the professional pundits also knew and were lying on TV?
 
Jarod said:
Do you think the professional pundits also knew and were lying on TV?
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I think you use the term "professional" pretty loosely. ;)

I think the pundits on TV who have far more ego than brains. They generally speaking have incredibly poor critical thinking skills and even the ones who are non partisan are far to often guilty of believeing their own bullshit or the inside the beltway bullshit. I often wonder how these people get on television as they are so consistantly wrong and what aggravates me is their condescending attitudes towards people who are a hell of alot smarter than they are.

So to answer your question, no I don't think they lied. I tink they're just not very bright people who have convinced themselves that they are smarter than what they actually are.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I think you use the term "professional" pretty loosely. ;)

I think the pundits on TV who have far more ego than brains. They generally speaking have incredibly poor critical thinking skills and even the ones who are non partisan are far to often guilty of believeing their own bullshit or the inside the beltway bullshit. I often wonder how these people get on television as they are so consistantly wrong and what aggravates me is their condescending attitudes towards people who are a hell of alot smarter than they are.

So to answer your question, no I don't think they lied. I tink they're just not very bright people who have convinced themselves that they are smarter than what they actually are.
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Sounds about right to me. Karl Rove was clearly dumfounded when Mitt lost Ohio. I guess I thought Mitt likely listened to the likes of KR and that's why I was surprised to see that Mitt appeared to be expecting the loss.
 
Jarod said:
I am looking forward to House of Cards. Whats Dextor about?
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Dextor is about a Metro Miami Police Dept blood splatter analyst and forensic expert with a medical degree who is also a serial killer. Dexter developed into a psychopath at a very young age due to the trauma of witnissing his mother being cut into pieces alive with a chainsaw by a hitman. He was adopted by a police officer who identified his psycopathic behavior and developed a code for Dexter where by he identifies murderers who excape justice, hunts them down and kills them instead of innocent people as most pyschopaths do. In short, Dexter is one seriously fucked up dude...but so are his victims, which is what makes the show interesting.
 
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Mott the Hoople said:
Dextor is about a Metro Miami Police Dept blood splatter analyst and forensic expert with a medical degree who is also a serial killer. Dexter developed into a psychopath at a very young age due to the trauma of witnissing his mother being cut into pieces alive with a chainsaw by a hitman. He was adopted by a police officer who identified his psycopathic behavior and developed a code for Dexter where by he identifies murderers who excape justice, hunts them down and kills them instead of innocent people as most pyschopaths do. In short, Dexter is one seriously fucked up dude...but so are his victims, which is what makes the show interesting.
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Ill check it out.
 
Yea Season 4 was the Trinity Killer. That was the absolute peak of the series. Season 5 was "meh" but was a good story line of how Dexter dealt with the aftermath of Trinity but season six it took a real serious hit to the shows credibility when fuck mouth Morgan was promoted to Leutenant of Homicide. That was just utterly unbelievable that someone as scattered brained as her could be a cop...let alone a detective...let alone a commanding officer. Since then it has been down hill though I did like the relationship that Dexter developed with Izaak (Ray Stephenson of HBO's Rome fame)...the story line in general was a big let down...particularly the ending of season 7....that was some seriously bad over acting by Jennifer Carpenter.

I'm only one episode into season 8 and it's not promising. I used to subscribe to Showtime for the 3 months of the year that Dexter was on...I stopped doing that after Season 5....I'm glad I did.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I'm only one episode into season 8 and it's not promising. I used to subscribe to Showtime for the 3 months of the year that Dexter was on...I stopped doing that after Season 5....I'm glad I did.
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oh dude.... this season gets so much worse. I am actually looking forward to your reaction to this trainwreck of a season.
 
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oh dude.... this season gets so much worse. I am actually looking forward to your reaction to this trainwreck of a season.
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One of the things I really liked about Breaking Bad was the fact that they did not drag it out until it got awful and lost viewers.
 
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oh dude.... this season gets so much worse. I am actually looking forward to your reaction to this trainwreck of a season.
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It was awful. The series started out so great too. It got so bad it almost ruins the first two seasons in retrospect. Because you know what's going to happen.
 
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