Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Lee Eisenberg In the past five years, Lyndon Johnson has gotten portrayed in movies a lot. He got played by Liev Schreiber in "The Butler", Tom Wilkinson in "Selma", Bryan Cranston in "All the Way", and now Woody Harrelson in "LBJ".*Rob Reiner's movie focuses on a few of the same things that "All the Way" did (namely Johnson's efforts to pass the Civil Rights Act in the wake of the Kennedy assassination), but focuses more on his few months before becoming vice president, and a bit on his days as veep, particularly his dislike of Bobby Kennedy. Nothing especially profound, but it makes clear that this was one brusque individual who made no pretense about who he was. In fact, there's a scene where he's conversing with Richard Russell and they casually talk about non-white people, even as the black maid serves them.It could've been a better movie, but I like how it let us see Johnson the man. It was a sad irony that right after Johnson had signed the Civil Rights Act, he escalated the Vietnam War.Also starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Jenkins (Nate Sr on "Six Feet Under"), Bill Pullman, and C. Thomas Howell.*The only other person who's been this popular in cinema in the past few years is Winston Churchill. He got played by Brendan Gleeson in "Into the Storm", Timothy Spall in "The King's Speech", John Lithgow on "The Crown", Brian Cox in "Churchill" and Gary Oldman in "Darkest Hour".

bkoganbing I remember Lyndon B. Johnson quite well from the 60s, the man who made possible a social revolution that the Alt right is doing its best to demolish, but who also enlarged the war in Vietnam and left us with a quagmire that haunts us to this day. Although there's a good film out there with Randy Quaid as LBJ Woody Harrelson will be as definitive a Johnson as Raymond Massey was a Lincoln. Harrelson really does come across like LBJ, both the public image and from some of the saltier memoirs of the times. He had both a temper and a command of the fouler parts of the English language. Harrelson is also well matched with Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lady Bird Johnson.A whole life story might one day be filmed either for the big or small screen. The various portions of Johnson's life might make a great miniseries. What we are concerned here with is the years 1960 to 1964 when he is chosen by John F. Kennedy as his Vice Presidential running mate. It was a demotion according to Johnson and two history. No one as majority leader ever had a better grasp of the Senate than Johnson, he was the second most powerful man in government after President Eisenhower. These also were the years that the Civil Rights Revolution kicked into high gear. The white south and those who represented it, all Democrats then, a carryover from the Civil War. were determined to preserve their 'way of life'. The south had a lot of hopes and dreams invested in a southern president, but the country was ready for something wholly different. As Senate Majority Leader Johnson saw the passage of two Civil Rights laws, watered down though in 1957 and 1960.John and Robert Kennedy are played by Jeffrey Donovan and Michael Stahl-David. The contrast in the character of the two brothers is shown here. JFK the more coolly detached and Bobby the more passionate. It made it possible for Jack Kennedy to work with Lyndon. It also made it possible for Bobby to have an unrelenting hatred for LBJ. Their personal feud shaped a lot of the history of the latter part of the last century.When Johnson was in the House Of Representatives his mentor was Sam Rayburn fellow Texan and Speaker of the House. In the Senate it was Richard B. Russell of Georgia, courtly southerner of the upper class plantation south and chair of the Armed Services Committee. Played here by Richard Jenkins, Russell show Johnson all the levers of power and when to use them. Also where all the bodies are buried in Washington, DC. It was with Russell's support with the southern bloc that Johnson became the Senate Majority Whip in third year in the Senate, minority leader in his fifth year and Majority Leader in the seventh year. There relationship has induced much speculation to this day.LBJ is a slice of 60s history and love him for his social revolutionary war on poverty and hate him for the sinking quagmire of Vietnam, LBJ left his mark on the country. And Woody Harrelson has left his mark on LBJ.

Gordon-11 This film tells the story of a long serving politician who is made the vice president. He becomes the president due to unfortunate circumstances.I think Woody Harrelson is great in this film as LBJ. The story is adequately engaging, and the ending speech is very captivating.

st-shot Lyndon Johnson gets a very sympathetic (while RFK does not) look from the most unlikely of defenders in liberal film maker Bob Reiner's LBJ. The grossly misleading title about this larger than life character however covers little of his career, deciding instead to zero in on the period around JFKs assassination, Johnson's ascendancy to the Presidency and passage of The Civil Rights Bill. It offers an interesting look at power play at the highest levels as Johnson intimidated to begin with by all the Harvard intelligentsia in the cabinet attempts to establish himself. Woody Harrellson's LBJ passably captures the crassness and incertitude but fails to deliver the man in full that as Senate Majority leader bullied and cajoled members into line. There are flashes of the famed abrasiveness but they are far out weighed with a pouting, insecure LBJ huddling with Lady Bird. Anyone familiar with this man's public career know the material Reiner had in his arsenal to make an outstanding character study. Instead he only gives us a chapter of an incredibly controversial career when we are expecting a book. LBJ shortchanges.