Is Oliver Stone's movie any different, except it's for the Cialis crowd?
I ask this as a serious question, would anybody but a Baby Boomer go see this? And perhaps the question needs refining, because not all Baby Boomers have no lives. Some of them have moved on and done something productive. Ergo;
Would any NON-burnt out hippie-loser-recreate-1968 Baby Boomer see this movie?
I've heard of Oliver Stone, I know he made some movies, but you know, the best movie I've seen in a while has been Hitman, and since then, Die Hard. Oliver Stone directed neither. And while I know those in control in Hollywood are the old guard of burnt out blunts, and somehow think this is a great film (or at least worth pissing away millions in advertising) couldn't you burn outs just have forwarded a couple e-mails to tell the other 250 '68 Re-enactor nerds that there was this really cool movie coming out and instead spent the millions on a charitable cause or create a college fund or something?
Just throwing it out there.
Seriously, what compelled anybody to think this was a movie? This shows you just how out of touch people are in Hollywood where "W" is somehow considered a viable movie. GW isn't even out of office yet. GW, aside from invading Iraq, is in reality a really milquetoast president. He is not Teddy Roosevelt. He is not George Washington. He is not a compelling figure. Ergo, the fact a movie was made about him was more a testament to those who wanted to make/watch a movie about him, which is frankly pathetic.
Seriously, it's like a generational version of a family forcing guests to sit down and watch home videos of a family's trip somewhere or another that nobody cares to watch. Worse still is the host doesn't realize nobody gives a damn but them or about the stupid movie.
Regardless, though I disagree with practically everything Obama stands for, if there is one shred of silver lining about the Obama campaign is that it does signal "change" in that the old guard of crappy 70's. 80's, 90's and 00's Boomer dramas is beginning to end. That Oliver Stone's movies will soon be relegated to being shown in nursing homes.
In the meantime the rest of the conscious world will be watching Iron Man or Hitman or the latest James Bond flick.
You're exactly right. Bush is nowhere near the most conservative president we've ever had. He's no Reagan and he's no Gingrich.
ReplyDeleteHe's been downright conciliatory toward liberals. As they attacked him relentlessly for eight years, he stood there and took it, never fighting back which is part of the reason for his unpopularity. He's the kid who's always losing his lunch money to the bullies.
When your approval rating is less than 30%, it's because liberals hate you, moderates don't think you're too good, and conservatives wish you would belly up to the damned bar already!
Bush isn't very smart, but he's not a "village idiot" either.
Bush isn't a great president, not even a very good president, perhaps even below average, but he's not a bad president. He's no Jimmy Carter!
The best thing that can be said of him is that he stuck to his principles no matter how bleak the outlook. When all his friends and allies abandoned him out of political expediency, he remained resolute against evil.
Bush's tax cuts brought us out of the Clinton Recession, but continuing Clinton's National Housing Policy is putting us back into another one.
If Iraq ever becomes a peaceful democracy, they will celebrate his birthday and historians will be kinder to him.
Now we have to deal with his damned prescription drug benefit for Medicare!
You would seriously consider Ironman one of Hollywoods better efforts?? LOL.
ReplyDeleteYeah, pro American, fight the bad guy, super hero, no weird ass Cohen Brothers ending, with hot chicks and sweet cars, all the while the guy is an old school American capitalist genius.
ReplyDeleteHell yeah, that was a great freaking movie.
Yeah, Ironman was awesome. I also lover Tony Starks appearance at the end of the new Hulk movie - it's suggestive of a sequel.
ReplyDeleteAs for "W" ... as far as I can tell from the commercials, it's supposed to be a comedy. It's as if Stone took one of those lists of "Bushisms" and made a movie out of it. I won't be wasting my time or money on it.
It doesn’t matter what the subject is, I refuse to see an Oliver Stone piece of trash.
ReplyDeleteAs for Bush, I can’t understand his strategy of failing to engage those who attacked him repeatedly and failing to defend.
Unforutnately, we’re seeing the same thing with McCain. Only recently has he started attacking the lies and bullshit of the Obama-media.
It doesn’t matter what the subject is, I refuse to see an Oliver Stone piece of trash.
ReplyDeleteAs for Bush, I can’t understand his strategy of failing to engage those who attacked him repeatedly and failing to defend.
Unforutnately, we’re seeing the same thing with McCain. Only recently has he started attacking the lies and bullshit of the Obama-media.
So my fiancé was standing up in a wedding this last weekend, and when he and the groom and the other groomsman were going to be sitting around doing man things and bonding, the groomsman's wife and I decided to go see a movie.
ReplyDeleteWe actually briefly considered W, because (a) there was nothing we were interested in seeing that fit our time frame, and (b) I was vaguely curious as to how wildly Stone had stretched the truth in this one. But I refused to spent $11 (even $11 Canadian) to see it.
So we went to another theater and saw Passchendaele. Which was much less of a waste of time - nice combination of giant mortar explosions, a not-too-wretched love story, and a modicum of actual historical accuracy. Woohoo!
You're quite wrong in your take on Hollywood, you know. They'll never stop making these type of movies, because they can turn out movies along the lines of "Iron Man" or whatever the latest female-oriented movie this past weekend was ("The Secret Sisterhood Of Ants"? Something like that.) which allows them to then make these politically-left themed movies to stay "in" with the Movement, even perpetuating it with their monies.
ReplyDeleteIt's really quite a nice little racket. You go see "Iron Man", which decries the "military-industrial complex" (if you noticed?), they use the profits to finance Oliver Stone or Michael Moore or Morgan Spurlock Movies.