The Iron Lady official US trailer

Meryl is way too pretty and soft-spoken for Reaganomics... though I suppose she'll pull off the performance just fine.

Uhh, I’m looking forward to this one. I have a feeling Meryl Streep is going to absolutely crush the role 😉

The Iron Lady official US trailer

looks pretty damn good to me

Watched it yesterday. I honestly don't see the point—the character development is nonexistent, and the plot jumps from one scene to the next so frantically that if you aren't already intimately familiar with her life story, you'll be completely lost. In short, it was pretty tedious and underwhelming.

Meryl Streep is just incredible.

What a massive letdown......

Barely 15% of this movie actually covers the life of Margaret Thatcher, and even then, it’s just through scattered flashbacks......

The rest of it? Pure, unadulterated boredom......

And now...... spoiler alert:

You just watch an old woman whining about the price of milk going up again... walking from room to room, getting dressed, making tea, drinking tea, watching TV, having a few hallucinations.......

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Look, it’s really not all that bad; I think people are blowing things out of proportion here...
When the news broke that Meryl Streep was playing Margaret Thatcher, you didn't need to be some genius to figure out she’d nail it. It was a foregone conclusion that she’d land her 155th Oscar nomination—and likely take home the Oscar again. No surprises there.
Now, the era of Thatcherism was a brutal stretch of history, especially if you were looking at it from the perspective of blue-collar workers or miners who felt like that woman was sucking them dry. You had the Falklands, the IRA, massive strikes... all that chaos. My gripe is that the movie spends way too much time dwelling on an aging Margaret being lost, senile, or hallucinating, rather than focusing on the actual tension of the era she ruled. All those heavy-hitting historical moments get mentioned, sure, but they feel rushed and kind of lukewarm. Making a biopic about Thatcherism only to spend half the runtime watching her wander around her house talking to her long-dead husband feels pretty half-baked to me.

Watched it the other night.
The acting was flawless 🙏
But honestly, the plot was a total mess. It leans way too hard into this psychological profile of an aging Margaret. Every time the movie tries to get some actual momentum going, it drags you back into her past, and then when it finally hits the present, you completely lose the thread. I found myself struggling just to keep up with what was actually happening.
It could have been so much better, IMO.🤷

Honestly, what a slog. I was counting down the days until this came out, and yet I barely made it to the credits. Look, Meryl Streep is incredible—no debate there—but I have to agree with what everyone else is saying: that sudden jump in the plot just makes zero sense.
Such a letdown.

vividlynx68 said:Watched it yesterday. Honestly, I didn't get the point—it felt like the relationships between the characters were totally glossed over. It jumps from one thing to the next so fast that if you don't already know everything about her life and work, you're just going to be lost. Pretty boring and a bit of a letdown, if you ask me.

hey hey hey!! First off, there’s absolutely nothing missing in terms of development—the characters work perfectly fine! And honestly, what you're calling a "flaw" is actually the whole vibe of this movie. It doesn't follow that typical, cookie-cutter biopic structure... it's super heavy on flashbacks. Plus, if you don't already know who the Reagan Era icon was, there's really no point in watching it anyway. Anyway, I just wanted to chime in for anyone who hasn't seen it yet—don't let this nonsense of a post talk you out of watching it!

Lawrence Martinez4 said:Look, there’s no need for more detail; the characters work perfectly fine. What you're calling a "flaw" is actually the whole point of this movie. It doesn't follow the standard biopic formula... it's heavy on flashbacks. Honestly, if you don't already know about the Reagan Era, there's no point in watching it. I just want to warn anyone who hasn't seen it yet: don't let this nonsense of a post talk you out of watching it.

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Classic post-Oscar snobbery right here.....

The issue with this movie is that it's too thin on flashbacks.

But Meryl Streep shouldn't have been up for an Oscar for Best Actress; she should've been in the Supporting category......

If you insist on watching it, I guarantee you won't make it through without Fast Forwarding the whole thing......

Megan Bishop41 said:The real issue with this movie is that it’s too light on flashbacks.

But honestly, Meryl Streep shouldn't have been up for the lead Oscar; she should have grabbed it for Best Supporting Actress instead...

If you're going to sit through it, I promise you won't make it to the end without using Fast Forward at some point...

I actually think the Oscar was well-deserved! The film just demands an audience with a bit more patience, because when they skip through time, you don't even need a single transition shot. From a writing standpoint, it's much tighter and better directed than, say, Eastman's "Edgar," where the acting is flat and—don't even get me started on the makeup—everyone looks like they crawled straight out of a horror flick.
Besides, the whole story centers on a former Prime Minister struggling with dementia, where her memories blur into the present, showing all those different mental states driven by her emotions as the illness takes hold.
Personally, I found this fictional version of Margaret much more endearing than the real thing... and the Oscar definitely went to the right person.

I ended up turning this movie off halfway through... I just couldn't do it... I might try to finish it later, but honestly, mostly just for the sake of culture at this point...

It had so much potential to be great—such a meaningful subject, an incredible lead actress—but man, what a letdown...

I feel like biopic films usually fall into two camps: either you follow the protagonist's life in a straight line from start to finish... or they start at the end, flash back through the past, and then circle back to the present...

But this one? It just jumps erratically between the present and the past without any rhythm... The flashbacks are so vague, too—we don't actually learn anything about her journey, like how she rose through the ranks to become a Congresswoman, or a Cabinet member, or eventually the Prime Minister... instead, in the present day, we're just watching her decline in scenes where absolutely nothing happens... it felt like a total waste of my afternoon...

I can't even remember the last time I sat through a film this poorly constructed given such a compelling story... Such a shame, really...

I caught that movie last week, and I’d say it was decent enough—though, honestly, most of the appeal came from Meryl, who was absolutely PHENOMENAL. She really is the powerhouse of her generation. Since I don't know much about the life of Margaret Thatcher personally, I can't quite judge how accurately it captures her history or where it takes liberties... but yeah, it was just a standard film, nothing groundbreaking.

I don't know what it is, but I'm just not feeling it today...

Meryl is nothing short of phenomenal, though I can't help but feel the film itself missed its mark. It lacked a certain depth, didn't it? After all, her life was filled with far more compelling chapters than just the struggles of dementia.

I watched it today and Meryl was incredible!! There were moments where the movie started to drag, but she kept it going.
Honestly, all I ever knew about Margaret Thatcher was her reputation. Because of that, I really expected the film to dig deeper into who she actually was.
I’m giving this one a 3.5/5—mostly just because of Meryl Streep.

The movie is definitely watchable; the technical execution is solid, and I actually find the approach much more engaging than if they had just churned out some dry, purely biographical documentary. Because of that, I don't really get all the complaints being thrown its way. As for those people whining that they didn't "get" anything or learn anything new... honestly, maybe they should try picking up a book once in a while instead of expecting a single film to be their entire education. It’s pretty obvious the movie assumes you have some baseline knowledge, otherwise most of the scenes won't mean a thing—I mean, even that opening scene with the milk requires a bit of context... Still, the film does deserve some criticism for being factually inaccurate, especially from people who actually knew Margaret Thatcher personally. Or, quite simply, because it frames her political career through this skewed lens—treating it like a tragic tale about the struggles of women in the workplace or just some elderly person lamenting bad decisions from the past. If you want a decent breakdown of all the errors and nonsense in the film, check this out: link.

Henry Sullivan3 said:A pretty decent breakdown of all the plot holes and nonsense in the movie: link.

😂 I’m reading this and honestly can't stop laughing... not even at the mistakes, but at how worked up her friends are. Apparently, she was their go-to guru for ruthlessness and political brutality, and now they're throwing a tantrum because the movie didn't make that the main focus—instead, it showed her "dementia and remorse." Personally, I highly doubt a single shred of regret ever crossed her mind. That kind of introspection is for "weak" people, not for a rigid, uncompromising mind like this young Prime Minister's.

It’s a shame the movie didn't show everything; there would have been plenty to see. Like the coal miners getting trampled underfoot while looking absolutely shell-shocked, or the poverty and hunger left in the wake of reforms designed solely to protect the upper-middle class she came from. She was such a massive snob and an absolute asslicker that it was common knowledge even the Queen couldn't stand being in the same room as her.

Of course, the film is just a sanitized, softened version of that woman's life. If it had been accurate, it probably would've required a parental advisory sticker.

Let’s be real: the entertainment industry has zero love for conservative politicians. They almost always try to paint them as manipulative psychopaths, while at the same time, they turn socialist revolutionaries—many of whom actually deal with clinically defined personality disorders—into these polished, melodramatic heroes. That’s just the Hollywood standard we’ve grown used to. But what’s really weird about this movie is how it focuses almost exclusively on the private life of Margaret Thatcher. It completely ignores the broader political landscape, failing to even mention her wins against union thugs or those welfare parasites. It feels pretty bizarre to make a biopic about someone whose entire legacy is built on their public service, only to fill it with such obvious mistakes... I honestly don't get what the point of this thing was supposed to be.