"W" trailer now online (Oliver Stone's Bush film)

[Captain Ryan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJh7Md5KuWc

This is leaked, so get it while you can ...


Hopefully we'll not have to move this thread to TNZ.

yea, it has been removed by YouTube because of copyright violations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEyJ2kdaaTQ

Get it while it's still hot.

Thanks

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

They really should have gotten Will Ferrell to play Bush Jr.

My first reaction was, no, I don't trust Ferrell to play it straight.

Then I thought, hell, given who's directing this, it's hardly going to treat Bush with anything other than satire anyway, so why not let Ferrell at it.

 

[Samurai8472]

I'm sorry, but there is not a single person in that lineup who looks like their real world counterpart. Cromwell as Bush Senior?

Zphram Cochrane as Bush

the near-fisticuffs between GHW and GW is pretty damn hilarious
Karl Rove? is he supposed to have down syndrome in the movie?

Scott Glenn with the squinty Rumsfeld look

It looks more like a parody

 

[Jack Bauer]

Looks lame.

 

[Messianni]

It looks interesting, I suppose. Everyone I've mentioned this film to hasn't had the greatest reaction (why would I see a movie about that asshole?) but I'll probably check it out simply out of curiosity. I've read the film a a dark comedy undertone to it, which certainly seems approriate considering the subject matter.

And yes, the makeup for Karl Rove looks ridiculous.

 

[bigdaddy]

Shouldn't they wait until Bush bombs Iran before making the movie.

 

[Messianni]

Oh no, you have to leave room for a sequel!

 

[Harvey]

I don't know. It seems a bit early to be tackling this topic. Stone waited until Nixon was nearly dead (and then added the funeral epilogue to the film when he was dead) when he made Nixon.

Speaking of which, from about 1985 to 1995, Stone could do no wrong. He directed something like ten films in that period which I find to be simply amazing. But since then, he hasn't made anything that's particularly interested me (or been very good). Alexander was terrible. World Trade Center wasn't anything special. What I've seen of Any Given Sunday hasn't impressed me. And the idea of U-Turn didn't attract my attention at all.

So, this brings up the question, given the negatvie reviews of the script I've read (Even Slate, which I love, but let's face it is left leaning as hell, beat up the hell out of the script), and the fact that Stone lost all his luster as a writer director nearly 15 years ago... what do I have to look forward to in this movie?

 

[Goliath]

And the idea of U-Turn didn't attract my attention at all.

If you haven't seen it, I would definitely recommend it. I thought it was a terrific neo-noir.

 

[Harvey]

And the idea of U-Turn didn't attract my attention at all.

If you haven't seen it, I would definitely recommend it. I thought it was a terrific neo-noir.

Really? I'll take a look at it then. You usually have excellent taste in movies.

 

[Squiggy]

I think that W the movie will suffer from the fact that a lot of times, moviegoers don't want to go see at the cinema what they can see on the news at home.

The past few movies regarding terrorism or Iraq have shown that to be the case.

 

[Samurai8472]

Oh no, you have to leave room for a sequel!

Bush- People are dying what would you have me do?

Cheney- Endure, you can be the outcast