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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.
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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.
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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