All the Way | Based on a True Story
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Didn't expect this one to be so good. HBO's All the Way is actually a worthwhile watch. Come see why this is probably Brian Cranston's best role yet.
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All the Way is a 2016 American HBO biographical TV drama film based on events of the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, directed by Jay Roach and adapted by Robert Schenkkan from his play with the same title. The film stars Bryan Cranston, who reprises his role as Johnson from the play's 2014 Broadway production, opposite Melissa Leo as First Lady Lady Bird Johnson; Anthony Mackie as Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.; and Frank Langella as US Senator Richard Russell Jr., from Georgia.
The film was broadcast on HBO on May 21, 2016.[1] The film was well received by critics, with Cranston's portrayal of Johnson garnering praise. It has been nominated for a Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries and Specials, with Cranston also nominated for Individual Achievement in Drama for his work on the film. It got nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Television Movie as well as acting nominations for Cranston and Leo.[2]
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“Jesse, we need to break the Filibuster.”
"This is my civil rights legislation and it will not be amended... bitch!"
-hubert humphrey I think
I'm so happy to hear that this was great! I love Bryan Cranston, and LBJ is my favorite President (note: I'm not saying he was the best president). I gotta go watch this now
8/10 lbj didn’t pull his pp out in front of politicians
Another good LBJ movie that was also an HBO production is "Path to War". It chronicles LBJ and Robert McNamara's decisions and actions that expanded the Vietnam War. It was John Frankenheimer's last film. Michael Gambon is great as LBJ and Alec Baldin is terrific as McNamara. I'd love to see you do an episode on that. Like how Vietnam is only mentioned in passing since this movie is about the Civil Rights Bill, in "Path to War" the Civil Rights Bill only gets one brief scene with LBJ and MLK in the Oval Office and focuses more on Vietnam. Put these two movies together in chronological order of scenes and I think you'd get one really great movie about LBJ's presidency.
I watched this during the Pandemic when looking for something random to watch and it blew my mind as to how good it was.
Lyndon B. Heisenberg
thats a good one
Say my name…
If there was a criminally underrated channel reward you'd deserve first place! Went and watched the film and your right Cranston IS LBJ so many shots were he looked exactly liked the man. Great movie but was pretty packed with alot of stuff going on at once. Cheers again.
Hey look another Schenkkan!
I saw the opening of the play, not on Broadway, but the first production... (also you know, my parents are some of the closest friends of the director, oh and commissioned the play in the first place)
It's cool to see something I've known about for so long get out and about.
Edit after watching the video: The sequel to the play, The Great Society, discusses Johnson's war on poverty and Vietnam. It's a lot more about the decline of the presidency where All The Way is about the ascendency. I Don't know if HBO wants to make that into a film but it hasn't done as well compared to the original play (which makes sense as All the Way won every award.)
I was honestly disappointed when this movie ended. I could’ve gone for a whole series with this cast about the Johnson presidency. I thought Bryan Cranston was out of this world as LBJ, portraying him warts and all. Anthony Mackie also really surprised me. I can’t imagine MLK was an easy role to take but he did a really good job and I got lost in the performance. And Melissa Leo and Frank Langella kill it as always. Vastly underrated movie
I was bored the first time I saw it but the more I’ve seen it, it gets better. One of my favorite political dramas
Can you do a base on a true story about Malcolm X
Honestly watching this movie all the way through isn't hard. It's just so good. The lack of addressing the war on poverty upset me though.
Thanks for doing this review. I had never even heard of this movie, but I will definitely be watching it in the near future.
Couldnt agree more about All The Way. Best recent historical movie out there.
How this wasn’t nominated for awards is crazy .
Have you read the book "Guns of the South?" I know it's a alternate history book, but I still want you reviewing it.
just looked it up. time-traveling confederates... that could be fun
Sorry, Hollywood. HBO/Netflix, etc are the future of movies. And what a glorious future it could be.
Oh, how your comment ages like milk
“Especially on the History Channel”... too true.
A historically accurate film? Of course I've never heard of it.
You know a year after this came out, Rob Reiner did his own LBJ movie with Woody Harrelson. I’d be curious about your take on it
Amistad, Gangs of New York or Rapa Nui.
And I wonder if you might have seen the Russian movie "The 9th Company"? Great foreign movie showing the Russians in Afghanistan. Wiki says it's loosely based on a battle in '88 during the Russian military operation "Magistral". According to the article, the biggest historical inaccuracy is they show the Russian company being decimated in the attack, when in reality, the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment of 39 men stopped three attacks from about 200-250 mujahideen and lost 6 men with 28 wounded.
But I'm much more interested in just what your thoughts and observations would be about it. I discovered you because of the recommendation from the guy at History Buffs. I'm glad he did. You have a lot of great videos. Thank you
I am interested in this.
I second Amastad!
Can you do an episode about the historical accuracy of Mississippi Burning?
This channel is my bananas, peanut butter, and bacon.
Speaking of this era and a lot of these people, are you going to cover Thirteen Days?
definitely one for the list
Since you reviewed All The Way on HBO, did you happen to watch The Putin Interviews on Showtime by your favorite director Oliver Stone? I had moments where I thought my head was going to explode, even though I tried to be open-minded...some of the things Putin says and Stone agrees with...well I'm sure you can imagine that anyone with brain cells would be offended. I know its pretty much current events, but they talked about recent Russian/US relations and I though you might enjoy it.
Keep up the great work. I really enjoyed All The Way and I'm glad to see that you gave it a review. Thanks!
I'm afraid to even set eyes upon it. I saw an advert for it and just said "NOPE!"
For the life of me, I can not understand Putin's appeal outside of Russia.
I have to say, i watched All the way and i prefer it over the movie Selma. Yes i seen Selma, wasn't impressed at all. Thanks for covering this. Great vid. 👍😎
hello good sir, would you mind to review/analysis of Das Boot? ? please? ?
I was recommended this movie for MLK day
I know I'm most likely too late for you to see this but seeing as you speak of HBOs historical accuracy in its film and mini-series department have you seen what i think is HBOs best miniseries (not just historical but in general including things like Chernobyl and Band of Brothers) Generation Kill? Given your service background I'm curious what you think as from what I've heard from other servicemen its a more accurate representation of the service and of servicemen than the highly praised Jarhead (which to be clear i loved) and far far more accurate than the standard fare of things like American Sniper
Wow, high praise for a video!
So you liked the John Adams miniseries?
very much so
For some reason I heard the title and thought it would be a movie about Alvin York and the first us Airborne.
I will forever see Bryan Cranston as Hal
Curiously "Path To War" also completely ignores RFK as daily part of LBJ's term in office .....and like this film he referred to as outsider waiting in the wings to re take his ate brothers place in the White House
You should do the Sound of Music
I watched this movie in like July of 2020 and I had no idea that the LBJ dude played Walter White lmfao.
Please review Path to war - I think I prefer its depiction of Johnson’s presidency
Bryan Cranston looks so much like LBJ
Have you done 13 days yet?
no, but it is fairly good from what I could tell without researching it
Excellent movie.
i dont know if you take requests by viewrs but id love to see you do NordWand a German film about the failed 1936 climb of the north face of the Eiger and i know there are added sub plots that are as far as im aware untrue so i think youd find it intresting
Sooo, a John Adams review one day?
Seconded!
Have you thought about doing A bridge too far?
if i may suggest a historic biopic to review, maybe ypu could do "the danish girl". I find it an interesting movie especally seeing its a bio pic pre-WWII, but if it is not exactly very researchable, or atleast not so much without partisan bickering.
It's apparently a fiction story inspired by a real person.
kmzstube that makes a lot of sence seeing most of her life was medical record only and anyone she would have known is long gone as well.
"Sometimes it's important to laugh at the cruelty."
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Check out "Path To War" starring Michael Gambon as LBJ..every similar to this though a little broader in scope ....with its focus more on the Vietnam side of LBJ's admin with only touches on the domestic side..the two movies actually compliment each other as more whole narrative if watched back to back imo
2:07 so you don't watch it All the Way??
TA FUCKIN VICTORY TOWN!
I didn't have to listen to you to know this is a great movie... .I knew it when i saw the first five minutes.. Bryan Cranston has embraced LBJ and given him back to us, to someone who was raised in the south during the Vietnam War... I tell you... it was very crazy and thought provoking, it was as if LBJ was alive again... God Forbid! LBJ was one American President who understood power and very cruelly ... "in your face"... He took over after the death of JFK; in your face!!! He championed the great society; in your face!!! He put us in to Vietnam when JFK was trying to get us out of Nam; in your face!!! He tried to bring America together and America tore itself apart; in your face!!! America got used to Jackie and the lovely young kids, he gave us Lady Bird and the bird children; in your face!!!! He was relevant, at the helm, and he knew how to pilot a ship. What he didn't realize, America was sold on JFK's idea of a new America born in this century... Johnson was still in a post civil war America based on pandering and favors, and the bull whip... I love this movie... Gosh.. it sometimes scares the heck out of me!!! When I watch it... I go clear back to 1964 and it is the Democratic Convention all over again... I watched it every evening with my mom.... no air conditioning, just the sultry heat, and the Louisiana humidity making our dog drag that chain across the porch with a constant monotonous rattle. This movie moves my inner self. Wow!!! I want to relive it and am ashamed of it... They certainly did a good job on this one.
please do the Norwegian film "kongens nei" or Kings No
You should review Citizen X and Gandhi.
SNCC -- Student Nonviolent CoordinaTING Committee
I love this movie
please do Waterloo
I loved the John Adams miniseries. Now I've got to see All The Way.
Do a video on any Soviet film
i agree i liked it as well
Hi, please do Munich movie by Steven Spielberg starring Eric Bana and Daniel Craig.
I really like this movie also
This sounds like a teen comedy about getting laid.
hey cipher could you respond as soon as you get the chance
+thatonegamer did you have a question?
and Platoon!!!!!!!!!
Yo Cypher! Review Snowfall.
Picked up.
review Oliver Stone's Alexander!!!!
This may be the most accurate Historical film since Song of the South.
A well acted made directed shot movie but morally doesnt work in my opinion because it shows LBJ in a way too friendly light for what have have atuhorized in the vietnam war.
Yeah all the way is based on a true story no shit
The scene where McNamara an ivy league little pipsqueak, is shown pressuring 6-2 Texan into responding to the Tonkin Gulf incident always pissed me off. Yea other way around
The president's dead... How sad... Now get me sworn in as the pres goddammit! Heh, Albert... (grin). I'm the president! (wink)
Does the film touch on LBJ's personal racism? Despite passing civil rights he was notoriously known for that
He was a man of his time. Though racist nonetheless, you got to give him credit for going against the southern politicians, his friends for all his political life, as a white southerner himself with family ties and ancestors who fought for the confederate. Very ironic that a southerner, and not a liberal northerner like Jack Kennedy, passed the biggest civil rights legislation since Abraham Lincoln and Grant.
Woud you agree that L.B.J was the best president of USA?
No. Lol.
I think Donald Moffat nailed it in "The Right Stuff (1983)." And of course it was LBJ who ordered to send the presidential limo back to the Ford factory where it was disassembled, cleaned, rebuilt and neatly polished. Bulletholes? Bone and tissue fragments? Oops. If anyone else had done that, they would have been arrested for destroying evidence in a murder case.
LBJ is actually kind of appalling, and now we can look back 50 years later and see how much inner-city - and especially black - communities have been damaged by The Great Society, with the welfare dependency and fatherless homes it encouraged, leading to all sorts of social pathology, especially when the drug culture came in. It's not a coincidence that some of the major gangs, Bloods, Crips etc. were founded after the Johnson years. And Nixon didn't help.
In hindsight, every American president is an all encompassing shithead. Even my personal favorite, Teddy Roosevelt, was an interventionist war-monger (until his later years). Legacies go through life-cycles. Disdain, or division, nostalgic reverence, and then the sobering reality of the individual administration - because by this time, we are forced to live in the consequences of these actions. It is only through hindsight that we have a chance to see the truth, but sometimes truth becomes irrelevant. Unfortunately.
Fuzzy Dunlop - couldn't have said it better myself. I'm much better at pointing to the worst presidents (grr...Wilson) than saying who are the best, because they all have their drawbacks. Even LBJ. Yay Civil Rights. Boo Vietnam.
Do "A bridge too far" 1977