This movie looks encredible. I'm going to watch it.
Posted by Pegasus (Member # 10464) on :
Dictionary.com suggestions: uncredible incredible
Also, what movie are you talking about?
Posted by MattP (Member # 10495) on :
W., like it says in the title.
Posted by Danlo the Wild (Member # 5378) on :
George W. Bush is the smartest conservative/republican of the last 10 years.
The movie looks hilarious.
Posted by naysayer (Member # 11778) on :
Ludicrous!
Lies I say! Mendacious!!
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I'm as much a Bush basher as anyone when its warranted, but I'm not going to spend $8 to watch his crappy life story play out on the screen. I've seen eight years of it up front; I think I get the idea. It sounds like a movie designed to make people who already don't like him feel better about their disapproval. I don't need validation.
Posted by Reshpeckobiggle (Member # 8947) on :
I don't think that is the point of the movie. However much one might disagree with an artist's opinions, I believe that a true artist's main motivator is to create good art. Whatever else one might say about him, Oliver Stone is a true artist.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: I'm as much a Bush basher as anyone when its warranted, but I'm not going to spend $8 to watch his crappy life story play out on the screen. I've seen eight years of it up front; I think I get the idea. It sounds like a movie designed to make people who already don't like him feel better about their disapproval. I don't need validation.
Pretty much the first half is going to be young Bush playing out his role as a young dumb kid who parties it up, acts like a meathead, fumbles around, drinks copiously, coasts through college, then starts working with millions of dollars of business opportunities that are his just for virtue of being in a monied and connected rich family, and he fails at that too, and it will be a dark comedy because the implied overarching subtext of the entire first half of the movie will be "THIS MAN BECOMES PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FWXQIWQOIHMQOTQWEFGH"
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
I would just like to say that they have an awesome look alike cast: Jame Cromwell as George Bush Sr., Scott Glenn as Donald Rumsfeld, Ioan Gruffudd as Tony Blair, Thandie Newton as Condolezza Rice, and Richard Dreyfuss looks EXACTLY like Dick Cheney.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
My reaction on seeing the display for the movie was much like Lyrhawn's: "Why would I want to pay to sit through two more hours of what I've been cringing at for eight years?"
Maybe when it comes to Netflix.
I don't doubt Oliver Stone has made an interesting movie, but... Maybe in a year or so.
Posted by Paul Goldner (Member # 1910) on :
"I don't doubt Oliver Stone has made an interesting movie, but... Maybe in a year or so."
When we saw the preview for this last night, my girlfriend said "Umm. The man is still in office. Thats pretty bad taste."
I'm inclined to agree. Give it a year or two.
Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :
That's what I said. Why make it now? Why not wait another year? I suppose they might think that it will take a few votes away from McCain but I seriously doubt this movie is what will convince people Bush is an idiot.
I seriously doubt this movie will be any good.
Posted by T:man (Member # 11614) on :
Blayne...
You hate Bush way too much for a foreigner...
Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
I cannot understand how Ioan Gruffudd can possibly be made to look like Tony Blair. Latex? False Teeth?
Anyway, I don't know if I can watch this movie any more than I can bear to watch most movies and shows which find comedy in embarassment. I've already got to the point that just seeing Bush on TV puts my teeth on edge, and the fact that it's a true story just makes it all the more cringeworthy.
Posted by Danlo the Wild (Member # 5378) on :
I don't hate Bush, never have.
He's not very smart.
I think his dad was behind everything.
He's a very clever man who does what he will.
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
quote:Originally posted by T:man: Blayne...
You hate Bush way too much for a foreigner...
Actually no. We mostly think he's a gibbering idiot. Hate might be a little strong..... but not by much.
[ October 12, 2008, 01:36 AM: Message edited by: Troubadour ]
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
Ironic. Double post.
Posted by Destineer (Member # 821) on :
I'm looking forward to it! The Oliver Stone crackpot treatment is exactly what GWB deserves, and he's a wonderful muse for such a picture. I hope and expect that the movie will be as crazy as JFK.
Posted by Trent Destian (Member # 11653) on :
I can't claim to love the guy, but I do lean towards Paul's view that it might be in better taste to wait until he's out of office to make a movie like this. What is most likely is that I won't watch this, I don't feel like paying money for more GW bashing.
However I will watch Frost/Nixon, which I predict will be a better movie concerning political criticism.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
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