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Oliver Stone's "W"

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080713/D91SN5C02.html

"Stone has said the film, which will focus on the life and presidency of Bush, won't be an anti-Bush polemic, but, as he told Daily Variety, "a fair, true portrait of the man. How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?"

This ought to be good. Anybody here interested in seeing this?
 
LOL. Actors arrested in bar fight. No doubt they were preparing for their roles.
 
Babbylonian said:
I just hope that it's as well researched and objective as 'JFK.'
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Nominated.

By the time this film comes out, it will be in the "Kicking a Dead Horse" category.
And IMHO Stone has pretty much jumped the shark for a number of years now.
And how many versions of Alexander has he now released rather then just admit it was a huge bomb and move on.
 
applecorped said:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080713/D91SN5C02.html

"Stone has said the film, which will focus on the life and presidency of Bush, won't be an anti-Bush polemic, but, as he told Daily Variety, "a fair, true portrait of the man. How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?"

This ought to be good. Anybody here interested in seeing this?
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Well he was very non political in his 911 movie and, as a Bush supporter and Texan, GW was without a doubt a real hell raiser in his younger years. It took Laura to civilize him.
 
dudalb said:
Nominated.

By the time this film comes out, it will be in the "Kicking a Dead Horse" category.
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Not just that, but he's shooting it as a wacky "Meet the Spartans" slapstick. Seriously; the script has been floating around since March, Stone has a wacky scene with Bush practicing parachuting in the white house swimming pool, and an equally wacky version of the pretzel choking incident.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Vote2008/story?id=4563558&page=1

(No, it's not an April Fool's joke).

Seriously, you people who really, really hate Bush.. won't this make you feel worse instead of better? Do you really want to see the whole thing played for comedy? It just seems like such a bizarre choice for the subject matter.
 
If we're going to make a comedic W biopic, I'd rather have them make Bush a mad genius who uses his public persona of poor public speaking and a purposely hated Veep to cover the fact that Bush is the real puppetmaster preparing us for some sort of NWO takeover.

I mean, otherwise, it loses all sense of verisimilitude.
 
David Wong said:
Seriously, you people who really, really hate Bush.. won't this make you feel worse instead of better? Do you really want to see the whole thing played for comedy? It just seems like such a bizarre choice for the subject matter.
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I love it. On a higher level reviewing the Bush v2.0 era as a comedic farce would be far more truthful than any serious treatment would be. Sort of a Hunter S. Thompson approach.

Can I be the first with the "Trey Parker and Matt Stone totally ripped of Oliver Stone" comment?
 
applecorped said:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080713/D91SN5C02.html

"Stone has said the film, which will focus on the life and presidency of Bush, won't be an anti-Bush polemic, but, as he told Daily Variety, "a fair, true portrait of the man. How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?"
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This is the part the right wing nuts are protesting. They are deathly afraid that it will be an accurate portrayal.
 
Then the right-wing is even more deluded than normal. And they're normally pretty deluded.
 
Why hasn't Stone made a film about his idol JFK's 1000 days in office? Not that anyone would expect that film to be any less a sci-fi version than his assassination movie. JFK's polices resulted in 58,000 dead American solders/sailors/marines. So far, Bush 43's polices have resulted in 4000+ dead American soldiers/sailors/marines
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
This is the part the right wing nuts are protesting. They are deathly afraid that it will be an accurate portrayal.
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You're not a "nut" if you protest claiming a satirical, slapstick farce is truthful and fair.

There is also a point where you stop being an honest critic of someone and start being a childish, slanderous, irrational ignoramus. It happens right around the point when the things you say in critique of someone begin to have no connection to reality or factual support. "W" sounds like it's going to take that to the next level. Congrats, Oliver.

Suddenly said:
Isn't that part of Bush's trip? The whole "but for the grace of the baby Jesus I'd be sleeping somewhere with my head on a curb... of course I come from money so the curb would be in Monaco..." deal?
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If he was ever homeless and alcoholic, it's partially objective. If he was not and only said that he might be, then it's not. Do you think it would be objective for me to say that John McCain was running against a crackhead?
 
Bush's struggle against alcholism is one of the few things I admire about him.
And I remember a couple of years ago there were rumors...including here....that Bush was drinking again and had been drunk in the White House several times. Of course there was no real evidence of this.
The problem with the more extreme Bush haters is they will beleive ANYTHING negative about him. That way lies madness in the form of the 9/11 Truth movement.
I have a feeling that some of the Bush haters will actually miss the fool; they get a lot of pleasure out of hating him and it's nice to have a single person you can blame everything that is wrong in the world on.
 
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