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Plot: "Chicago 10" is about the 1968 anti-war protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the ensuing Chicago Conspiracy Trial in 1969.
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MCT:November 13, 2008This is a documentary about the protest at the 1968 Democratic convention and the trial that followed. This is an important story worth telling, and the actual documentary footage works pretty well, but the film shoots itself in the foot with its animated recreations. The first problem is that the animation in these reenactments looks horrible; it?s a form of rotoscope animation drawn over live actors, but it isn?t done anywhere near as well as it was in Richard Linklater?s films, it looks like something that would have been used in a computer game from 1995. Secondly the voice acting is ridiculous on a regular basis, particularly with the judge whose voice sounded like a mix between Mr. Magoo and Froghorn Leghorn, the facts of this trial are more then enough to feel like a miscarriage of justice, the added effect is cheesy and unneeded. The film uses modern protest songs by the likes of Rage Against the Machine and Eminem, this initially felt out of place, then again the last thing the world needed was yet another montage of 60s civil disobedience to the tune of Buffalo Springfield. I think what the film really needed was some contemporary interviews looking back, six of the ten are still alive and I would have loved to hear their take today.
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MCT:September 6, 2008fantastic! i absolutely agree with the tag line, so much of the trial was comedy, but what i feel made the film was the integration of great footage from the '68 DNC- still relevant and awe inspiring.
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MCT:September 2, 2008
wow, very interesting documentary. The animation of court transcripts with modern actors playing the real people, modern music and a message that is very much applicable to today's anti-war sentiment. One of the best done documentaries I've ever seen and I thought the content as well as the message was interesting enough plus strong language and violence, Yippies are very funny at times and the pigs are so lame but in the end people on both sides do wrong, and some do right. My early pick for an Oscar for a documentary
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MCT:August 23, 2008
A film that will enrage you when you discover the real police-state style brutaliy against peaceful protesters during the 1968 democratic convention. Tienanmen Square in America
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MCT:July 14, 2008Animated trial segments with celebrity voice actors distract from more gripping news footage about those who protested a government which denied its citizens their rights.
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MCT:April 23, 2008This is one of the untold stories about the power and corruption in the belly of Chicago's power system and unless you're told, you'll never know.
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MCT:March 15, 2008
A perfect companion piece to Robert Greenwald's Steal This Movie (2000), Brett Morgan's Chicago 10 is a fascinating documentary made of actual footage from the controversial period surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention, animated recreations of the court proceedings starring various famous voices as such people as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, all scored to music befitting the tone (Eminem, "Sabatoge" by Beastie Boys, etc.). A terrifically entertaining history lesson.
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MCT:March 26, 2007Listen, I saw the preimer of this flick at Sundance, and I am telling you, go see it, I do not know when it will be released, or how many theaters are going to take it, but it is a wonderful film, there is info for this film at http://www.participate.net/files/C10_main.html
check it out. The movie is a mix of live action and animation, which is wonderful, Chicago ten also uses contemporary music to tie the events of 1968, to the events of today, Really I highly reccomend it.
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