W

[seireikhaan]

I cannot believe this. The man's not even out of the white house yet, and there's a movie about him?

[Xiahou]

Don't worry- you'll like it. Brolin plays Bush and it's directed by Stone. It's pretty much guaranteed to be unflattering.

[Koga No Goshi]

Don't worry- you'll like it. Brolin plays Bush and it's directed by Stone. It's pretty much guaranteed to be unflattering.

As opposed to...... a more factual, flattering account? ;)

[KarlXII]

I'd like to see the portrayal.

[CountArach]

Is Michael Moore directing?

[InsaneApache]

Is Arnie coming back?

[Jolt]

Is Spider-Man finally going to vanquish Green Goblin? Stay tuned.

Any biography of Bush should really be a guide to the coming president of "what not to do".

[CountArach]

Spoiler alert:

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The Vice-President did it.

[Hooahguy]

wow. a movie about bush, arguably the worst republican president weve ever had (James Buchanan wins as worst dem). thats pretty low i think.... i mean, whats the point? most Americans hate him anyhow, no point making him look even more like .
and by the time this will be out bush will be out....
w/e....
probably end up like the other liberal, bush bashing movies- dumb, not really watched and given low ratings....

[Koga No Goshi]

wow. a movie about bush, arguably the worst republican president weve ever had (James Buchanan wins as worst dem). thats pretty low i think.... i mean, whats the point? most Americans hate him anyhow, no point making him look even more like .
and by the time this will be out bush will be out....
w/e....
probably end up like the other liberal, bush bashing movies- dumb, not really watched and given low ratings....

I think maybe you don't appreciate how many Americans out there don't just feel like "ugh I didn't like him", like many Republicans probably felt about Clinton. But that many of us have felt like we've been living in a damn nightmare for 8 years with someone gleefully destroying civil liberties and helping to expedite the gutting of our middle class. Even if someone went into office openly saying "I want to hurt and weaken this country as much as I can", I am not sure they could do a better job than Bush has.

[pevergreen]

I am waiting for Admiral Ackbar to come into the election scene.

[Koga No Goshi]

I am waiting for Admiral Ackbar to come into the election scene.

Why would Cindy McCain come in? Oh snap.

[Reverend Joe]

I am waiting for Admiral Ackbar to come into the election scene.

I'm waiting for the W. C. Fields/ Groucho Marx ticket.

I think we've both got a long wait ahead of us.

[Lemur]

I remember going to see Stone's film about Nixon. As a friend remarked leaving the theater, "I don't know enough about that period of time, and having seen this film, I feel like I know less."

I giver very low odds to this being a good movie, much less a worthy evaluation of the last eight years. Art turns to junk when it's propaganda.

[Hax]

I am waiting for Admiral Ackbar to come into the election scene.

IT'S A TRAP!

[Koga No Goshi]

I remember going to see Stone's film about Nixon. As a friend remarked leaving the theater, "I don't know enough about that period of time, and having seen this film, I feel like I know less."

I giver very low odds to this being a good movie, much less a worthy evaluation of the last eight years. Art turns to junk when it's propaganda.

Lemur, you make it sound as though Hollywood is full of historically accurate, factual accounts of real world events and this will be the deviation. ;) I can't even go see movies about so called "history" because they are so full of made up things and forced-in love stories superimposed over the events that I become ill. (Pearl Harbor anyone?)

It bugs me even when it is distant history and/or has few "hard source" accounts to base it on. I always feel like, if you're just going to make up a story... get an original script, completely fiction, and produce that instead. I mean, I may have been in the 1% of the audience who saw "Troy" and had actually read the old Homeric epics, for example... but I was like what?! Agamemnon died when he returned home! And Achilles brought his beloved "cousin" to war with him? Oh my god, I know why they changed that, but that's ghetto! I was having a little paroxysm. Hahaha.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Lemur, you make it sound as though Hollywood is full of historically accurate, factual accounts of real world events and this will be the deviation. ;) I can't even go see movies about so called "history" because they are so full of made up things and forced-in love stories superimposed over the events that I become ill. (Pearl Harbor anyone?)

It bugs me even when it is distant history and/or has few "hard source" accounts to base it on. I always feel like, if you're just going to make up a story... get an original script, completely fiction, and produce that instead. I mean, I may have been in the 1% of the audience who saw "Troy" and had actually read the old Homeric epics, for example... but I was like what?! Agamemnon died when he returned home! And Achilles brought his beloved "cousin" to war with him? Oh my god, I know why they changed that, but that's ghetto! I was having a little paroxysm. Hahaha.

Yeah, too right! Like when I went to see that Shakespeare dude, boy was that rubbish history! Richard III was a hunchback would you believe, and don't get me started on Cymbeline. I felt so cheated that he made that stuff up.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

In other words, authors have always used historical events as a basis for their work. By all means criticise a film for being awful, but not that it is historically inaccurate.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Meh, I'm not a fan of Stone. He takes himself much too seriously. He has very specific ideas about his historical subjects, which he then builds an entire movie around. Usually, I find the idea rather uninteresting, or worse, and the movie eminently unwatchable. (JFK, Alexander)

The guy should just start a blog for his conspiracy theories political ideas and use his not inconsiderable cinematic talent to make non-biographical movies.


My choice for actor to portray W would be Leslie Nielsen.

[InsaneApache]

My choice for actor to portray W would be Leslie Nielsen.

Nah mate, Rowan Atkinson. Sorry hang on, I've heard he's pencilled in to do Brown in the 'The Way of the Clunking Fist'.

In that case Lee Evans. He's got the hair and the ears already.

[KukriKhan]

Nah mate, Rowan Atkinson. Sorry hang on, I've heard he's pencilled in to do Brown in the 'The Way of the Clunking Fist'.

In that case Lee Evans. He's got the hair and the ears already.

He could certainly do the job; slap a faux-Texas accent on 'im. God, does he ever breathe?

[CountArach]

There is only one man worthy of this role:

THE SHAT

They both talk equally slowly and neither of them really makes sense...

[KukriKhan]

Funny, eh? All the folks nominated here to portray W = non-americans (Neilsen & Shatner = Canadian, Evans = Brit). You all may be right: it'll be a few years before an american can "get" Bush right.

[yesdachi]

IMO it is too early for this movie. From what I have seen it looks like there is a lot about his time as an adult but before becoming president. I don’t know much about this time and I am guessing not many people do so it will be easy for most of the mouth-breathers to take it as fact. I will watch it as a rental.

[drone]

Nah mate, Rowan Atkinson. Sorry hang on, I've heard he's pencilled in to do Brown in the 'The Way of the Clunking Fist'.

In that case Lee Evans. He's got the hair and the ears already.

He might be able to pull it off. His American accent in Something About Mary was pretty good (the directors thought his English accent was fake!), but I'm not sure he could slow it down enough for Bush's pacing. He would definitely have to lay off the cocaine...

[Koga No Goshi]

Yeah, too right! Like when I went to see that Shakespeare dude, boy was that rubbish history! Richard III was a hunchback would you believe, and don't get me started on Cymbeline. I felt so cheated that he made that stuff up.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

In other words, authors have always used historical events as a basis for their work. By all means criticise a film for being awful, but not that it is historically inaccurate.

Why not? You know what "based on" is? That's like the new Battlestar Galactica saying it was heavily influenced by the 9/11 attacks. (The opening attack sequences simulate the same feelings Americans had of just being totally blindsided.) Or saying that Tolkein wrote LOTR from his impressions of World War. Of course authors have always been inspired by grand historical events, and used them as the basis for things in works of fiction.

I just fail to see why you want to make a "historical" movie, with "historical" figures and "historical battles", if you're then going to fictionalize everything. I promise you, there are thousands upon thousands of fiction scripts sitting unread in studios, where companies bought the rights but haven't bothered sifting through. Then some jerk comes along and says LET'S MAKE A DISNEY MOVIE ABOUT PEARL HARBOR!!!!!!!! OMG WITH BEN AFFLECK!

[Xiahou]

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[CountArach]

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ROFL @ the last one. Smooth George