Lincoln

Lincoln has recently won a ton of awards even beating the hobbit at set design, and honestly after watching it you can see why. This is not a hollywood movie, this is a high budget experience. You do not watch this movie to pass time, you watch this movie to transport yourself into the white house as lincoln finishes the war and amends the constitution.

The movie takes place after the emancipation proclamation and every scene is as if you where there. This movie has quite a large amount of assumed knowledge which I believe had I not been taught American history in school I would not have known. However I did have all the assumed knowledge and this movie was exactly as I had imagined Lincoln to be, A kind, honest man who just wants to move the world forward.

A caution for this movie, it is LONG totalling two and a half hours for a movie I would put into my documentary collection it is not something you watch lightly and unless I was going to formally learn about Abe in some way, I would not watch this again. Many scenes went on for a really long time and that helped with empathizing with lincoln, he was old and weary and just wanted the war to be over which is how I feel about this movie. Another problem I face is that the death of Lincoln is well known (after all he isnt alive anymore) and so the movie doesnt even try to have a build up to his death (not that there was one in real life) and in fact it does come as a shock.. or it would if i wasnt two hours and twenty minutes in and it hadnt happened yet.

If you want to be Abraham Lincoln for a few hours, watch this movie, if you don't well I guess don't watch it. I wouldn't recommend it to any of my friends but I don't know many people that are history buffs.

Also Large shout out to Tommy Lee Jones, who went a whole movie without killing anyone. Although a fight scene between him and Vampire hunter Lincoln would have been hilarious.

4/10
Movie? This is a movie for lincoln fans, I wouldnt watch it but if its your type of movie then its spectacular looking.
DVD? I wouldnt buy it on DVD
BluRay? Buy it on Blu Ray if its your sort of movie, skip the dvd and go straight to HD for this one, the set design is stunning.