Watched "Argo" to fill a night in a hotel room the other evening and was a little disappointed. Though a good movie, I couldn't see what made it an Oscar winner. Unlike "Wag The Dog", it was a real life story, though it wasn't true-to-life, of course. For example, the exit through Teheran Airport was actually quite smooth, with none of nerve-jarring suspense depicted on screen. But, while we expect that sort of thing, you end up wondering what else was really true in the film and what was not. The script (especially in the Hollywood sequences) was very sharp (and quite funny) and you could understand why Academy voters would enjoy that. Of the Ben Affleck films I've seen in recent times, I much preferred "The Town" but then I didn't know the outcome - unlike "Argo" for which I knew what would happen before I saw it - and that makes a difference.
