Trailer Park: 'W'
That's Dubya to you, that is, our current Commander in Chief. Oliver Stone has been hurriedly working on a biopic set to release before the election, marking the first time a president has been portrayed in film while he's still in office. In this teaser, Josh Brolin plays Dubya as a hard-partying Yalie reprimanded by George Sr. (James Cromwell, who makes no attempt whatsoever to look or sound like H.W., and therefore you think he's some college professor at first) about making something of himself. There's flashes of the supporting cast (Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush, Richard Dreyfuss as Dick Cheney, Jeffrey Wright as Colin Powell, etc.) With "What a Wonderful World" playing over the teaser, I wonder where Stone's going with this one. --Ellen
FredTownWard on July 28, 2008 at 02:09 PM
"Where Stone's going with this one" is to try and elect Barack Obama in November.
Fortunately, this is going to be both staggeringly obvious and about as fair and balanced a portrait as you'd get from the obsolete media,...
which probably means that it will backfire at the ballot box like Michael Moore's recent efforts have usually done.
With a Republican presidential nominee who doesn't exactly wow conservative voters, it isn't particularly smart for Obama supporters in Hollywood to poke a stick in their eyes right before the election...
so naturally that is what Hollywood is going to do.
Moreover, unless it is a MUCH better movie than things seem to indicate, it will probably join the parade of recent anti-American box office failures that Hollywood keeps failing to learn from.
Tumbleweed on July 28, 2008 at 05:09 PM
Please fix opt-out. C'mon, this is ridiculous.
DJD on July 28, 2008 at 05:27 PM
It is getting more and more irritating for Amazon to force blogs on its customers that the customers have not requested. Now they are trying to disable our ability to protest against this practice by directing comments away from Amazon.
This is way beyond a programming problem. It is forced advertising.
Please make it stop.