W. - by pdenton
pdenton on 18/10/2008 at 04:12
Checked out the new Oliver Stone movie tonight. Thandie Newton's Condoleeza Rice was a joke, but the rest of the cast was pretty stellar. I was hoping for more of a bashing of Bush (most of the bite goes to Cheney, and rightfully so I suppose), but you really just leave just feeling sort of sad for Bush (you're left with the metaphor of an outfielder in baseball waiting for a ball that never comes, his moment in the spotlight never coming). I was definitely left wanting more from the film, have any of you seen it?
demagogue on 18/10/2008 at 04:58
(
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1779726#post1779726) Here is my review. It did what it said on the tin, but I agree it left a lot to be desired. My basic thinking is it was a little too ham-handedly a movie to release before an election, rather than a broader vision of who W is and what he did that could have been done in another 5 or 10 years from now, with more distance. But for what it was it did its job, and what points it did make were more or less on mark, and there were good portrayals for most of the cast -- Poppy, Rove, Laura -- though Powell was too softfoot, Cheney a little too caricatured, and Rice, like you say, an unconvincing hiccup.
Starrfall on 20/10/2008 at 07:15
See I've been watching this movie for like eight years and I don't think I like it very much
fett on 21/10/2008 at 03:57
Is this the one with Jim Carrey and Whoopi Goldberg?
