Well gee, Daniel Day-Lewis would be disappointed... being a method actor he probably learned how to design dresses from scratch and do all manner of cutting and stitching as well before he showed up for this film. As for the music: I remember it as being engineered too far forward in the early going, or else they had some pianos mic'd wrong, and it was almost campy in "telling" the drama of certain scenes. Oooh look they're all rushing up the marble stairs now! It got better later on, which is to say it became underwriting rather than telegraphing. I think the score got quite a few awards but it was not my cup of tea. The film was best in its understatement of ...everything... to do with plot, and sometimes Jonny Greenwood just seemed to get in the way.
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I too was sorry to hear of your dad's death. And I too loved the movie All the President's Men, I still watch it again at least once a year. I do want to see The Post when it ever comes to streaming, but somehow have a feeling it may at least briefly bother me that Tom Hanks doesn't look like Jason Robards. Usually I pay no mind to whether an actor physically resembles a particular character known to us in real life, but the late Mr. Robards became Ben Bradlee for me so I suppose I've nominated him as the executive editor of the WaPo in perpetuity -- no offense to Marty Baron... or to Tom Hanks either!
