Sis and I went to see Oliver Stone’s moving depicting the life and times of George W. yesterday for my birthday. We went to the matinee so as to save money and didn’t get anything from the concessionaire so to save even more.
I really enjoyed the movie, especially the actors portrayal of the characters they brought to the screen.
Josh Brolin had the President down pat as did Richard Dreyfuss as Cheney and I don’t think H.W. could have done himself any better than James Cromwell did.
Karl Rove was a tough character for Toby Jones but he did an admirable job even though Philip Seymour Hoffman would have looked more like the GOP kingmaker. I suspect Hoffman was too much for even the foreign producers’ budget
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It seems writer Stanley Weiser gleaned and obtained every quote W and Laura Bush ever stated and inserted them into the movie and for better or worse, it made the movie that much better.
The only drawback to the movie wasn’t about the movie.
Carmike Cinema, the monopoly chain in our neck of the woods decided a movie 2 hours and 11 minutes long needed 27 minutes of trailers in addition to the 20-plus minutes of “entertainment news” prior to the actual beginning. I was tired of sitting on the broken-down seats before the opening credits.
I’ll be glad when the purportedly new theater opens in our fair city soon.
Back to the movie, IMDB says it’s a biography, a comedy and a drama. And it was – depending on whether you’re an English major or a history buff (like me) or a Democrat or a Republican.
Sis may have the right take on it, when she said as we were leaving that Stone showed that Bush was “like we all suspected he was though we really hoped he wasn’t”.
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I liked the movie Cabin Boy.
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