The Best Bad Idea

Argo is the real movie about the fake movie. At the height of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, six people had escaped the US embassy from takeover and its Tony's (Ben Affleck) job as a CIA extractor, to get these six people out of hiding in Iran back home safely. SO, how does he choose to do this? By posing that he and the other six are part of a film crew in Iran to shoot a science fiction movie. They have everything to back it up: real producer, story boards, script, etc. Now all Tony has to do, is train these six escapees on their temporary identity long enough to not be pubicly excuted since the Iranians know they are missing. Sound crazy? That's because it is! Thats basically all I can tell you about the movie's plot-and there is so much more to this movie. It is seriously intense, pretty much from beginning to end. I spent the majority of the movie trying to keep my shit together, and it was pretty tough. Thank goodness for John Goodman (as a hollywood makeup artist) and Alan Arkin (hollywood producer), in between fits of biting my nails off, they provided lots of good one liners (Argo fuck yourself). I have always loved Ben Affleck, to me he has always been a bit underrated. He's on a nice little roll with his directing and starring in his own films, though (The Town, Gone Baby Gone). This time around, I have to admit it was weird not seeing him in a Boston-area heist involving cops and robbah's, but it still worked, and I definitely liked Argo more than I thought I would!