Anyone catch the image in which diesel fuel costs $123/gallon? Whoa.
I mean… seriously?
Honestly, this has to be a joke. As if it’s the latest mocking Presidential sketch from Saturday Night Live (sans Dana Carvey, of course). Really, I just don’t understand why Oliver Stone thought it was a good idea to make W., a big-budget, high profile biopic on the man that is still in office, covering parts of his life leading up to as recent as the past few years. How about a little hindsight, first of all?
Secondly, besides curiosity about seeing Josh Brolin’s best Bush impression, a too good looking Elizabeth Banks as the Mrs., James Cromwell as daddy, Ellen Burstyn as mommy, and Thandie Newton as her political twin Condoleezza Rice - who ACTUALLY wants to see this thing because of the story? Three-fourths of Americans are sick of Bush, why would they want to go see a movie about him while he was still in office? And Stone says he is going to make an unbiased, honest portrayal of the man. Naturally, I don’t buy that for a minute. Truly though, the only reason people will see this is because they’ll be curious about the actors’ impersonations.
The EW cover there describes W. as being controversial. The only controversy I can think of is why Stone is wasting the time of everyone involved in this.
Stupid.
Source: /Film
I mean, didn’t Josh Brolin already do a Bush Impression in No Country For Old Men? Think about it: Steal the money, and stay the course no matter how many ridiculous obstacles keep piling up or zealots stalk the nation? Why stay the course, well because there is no exit strategy once you’ve dived in head first from greed.
I’m kidding of course.
Comment by Kurt Halfyard — May 8, 2008 @ 7:21 am
Yeah, this is stupid. Maybe the movie will end being awesome, but I’m pretty skeptical. That’s the first pic I’ve seen of Brolin as the commander in chief. I would never have recognized Brolin.. but he doesn’t really like Bush though either.
He looks like Billy Bob Thornton.
Comment by Andrew James — May 8, 2008 @ 8:28 am
The way this is cast is almost like the reverse of Southland Tales, but also in a bad way… Stone picked everyone seemingly based on appearances…
…its like if they had cast Glenn Danzig as Wolverine…
Comment by Goon — May 8, 2008 @ 8:30 am
Comment by Jonathan — May 8, 2008 @ 10:26 am
That there is Josh Brolin? Holy mother. I didn’t recognize him.
As for the film itself - if nothing else people will see it our of curiosity (that’s why I’d see it) but I’m not sure about it either. Doesn’t sound like much of a winner to me.
Comment by Marina Antunes — May 8, 2008 @ 11:49 am
I don’t want to know some of the crap our Commander in Chief partook in up until his presidency. This is precisely why you don’t tell a little kid that they can do anything when they grow up.
Comment by Andy — May 8, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to make an historically biopic about the times we’re living. Kind of a time capsule for future generations. I think it’s a cool project and I love the casting.
Comment by Rusty James — May 8, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
I have to agree with Kurt. Josh Brolin already played Shrub in No Country for Old Men. LOL. No, seriously, I don’t see the point in a movie about a man still in office and dealing with events so recent. I’m not sure such a film can be historically accurate. I mean, it takes a bit of distance to achieve some objectivity when it comes to historic events.
Comment by Mercurie — May 8, 2008 @ 5:15 pm
@Mercurie
Let me get this straight. It can’t be accurate because it’s about contemporary events? Distance adds “objectivity”?
I’m not sure many historians would agree with you.
Comment by Rusty James — May 8, 2008 @ 8:37 pm
Why didn’t they get the guy who played Bush on That’s My Bush. That guy also did a serious TV movie as Bush.
Or maybe the guy who’s Bush’s favorite Bush impersonator.
Fuck, Will Farrell did a great job as Bush on SNL. Brolin has such a gravely a deep voice, I don’t see him doing a good impersonation of his voice. But then we will have to wait and see.
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