AFAIK, the first couple of times he played Bush Sr. on SNL, Carvey was much more low-key. Definitely nowhere near the "not guuuhhh duuuhhh" schtick he got into in the later appearances.
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AFAIK, the first couple of times he played Bush Sr. on SNL, Carvey was much more low-key. Definitely nowhere near the "not guuuhhh duuuhhh" schtick he got into in the later appearances.
Good Will Riker
Admiral
Thandie Newton's performance was horrible in this film. She was slant-eyed, trying desperately to hide her British accent, while trying to look nervous, gapped toothed, slurred speech, sleepy-eyed, and actually almost derailed this entire film like the way Sofia Coppola did with The Godfather, Part III.
When Mission: Impossible-2 came out, man I was all over her and wanted to party with her and everything. Now, after seeing W., I wouldn't want to touch her with a ten-foot pole!
Personally, they should have gotten Penny Johnson-Jerald (TV's "24" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine")to reprise the role of Condoleezza Rice, because no one else nailed that role like she did in 2 TV productions.
Richard Dreyfuss made a scary Dick Cheney; always knew he was the true "man behind the curtain." Josh Brolin, while not that great of an actor since his Goonies days, did a good job in the role of George W. Bush.
When Mission: Impossible-2 came out, man I was all over her and wanted to party with her and everything. Now, after seeing W., I wouldn't want to touch her with a ten-foot pole!
Personally, they should have gotten Penny Johnson-Jerald (TV's "24" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine")to reprise the role of Condoleezza Rice, because no one else nailed that role like she did in 2 TV productions.
Richard Dreyfuss made a scary Dick Cheney; always knew he was the true "man behind the curtain." Josh Brolin, while not that great of an actor since his Goonies days, did a good job in the role of George W. Bush.
Good Will Riker
Admiral
^^^
Yes, I did.
And, I am allowed to re-quote myself verbatim when transplanting one answer from one W. thread to another, because it is the same exact answer that I am going to give on this matter.
Yes, I did.
And, I am allowed to re-quote myself verbatim when transplanting one answer from one W. thread to another, because it is the same exact answer that I am going to give on this matter.
Surprisingly sympathetic to TMIC.
Instead of exaggerating things to slant the POV, everything is just sort laid out there, clearly revealing the biggest blunders, corruption, incapabilities and power-mongering in recent White House history.
Well done. And I found Thandie Newton perfectly obnoxious as the uber-obnoxious Rice.
--Ted
Instead of exaggerating things to slant the POV, everything is just sort laid out there, clearly revealing the biggest blunders, corruption, incapabilities and power-mongering in recent White House history.
Well done. And I found Thandie Newton perfectly obnoxious as the uber-obnoxious Rice.
--Ted
trevanian
Rear Admiral
About 2.5 percent crap, but the rest was an amazing condensation/distillation of stuff that has been pretty well documented. It is probably one of the best-edited films I've ever seen, sort of NBK without the moronic excess.
Then again, I rewatch JFK and Se7en the way other people rewatch GODFATHER movies ...
EDIT ADDON: for anybody interested in the tech part of W., I did an article in ICG this month. The Stone interview is not online, but the cinematography part is, at http://www.icgmagazine.com/2008/oct/oct08.html
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And disproven as fact-challenged bullshit.
As to the movie at hand...I just came back from it. Pretty good...entertaining, insightful, made me feel for W. some. Plenty of stuff got good reactions from the audience in the small theater where I saw it...most especially the famous Bushisms that were sprinkled about. Colin Powell was portrayed in a very sympathetic light, as was Bush Sr.
I was disappointed that the flashbacks ended just prior to the 2000 election. First, how can you do the story of Bush's life without the landmark election that got him in office? Second, most of the blame for the failures of Bush's administration were laid at the feet of Bush and his advisors. I think Stone had the opportunity to turn it around on the audience and place some of the blame on them/us. We put W. in that position...or at least, those who didn't vote for Gore did. Not that they needed to turn Gore into a martyr or anything...just that they needed to emphasize how close we came, how that failed administration need never have come to pass.
That's landmark selection. Election had little to do with it.
Moving on ...
--Ted
trevanian
Rear Admiral
Only disproved by fact-challenged bullshitters.
That's landmark selection. Election had little to do with it.
Moving on ...
--Ted
Moving on means letting it go. Let shit like Florida in 2000 go unquestioned and it will keep on happening.
I see this farce of a movie dropped significantly in its 2nd weekend.
I guess all those with hate still in their veins saw it and since that was the target audience its over for this film.
Sadly it will break even due to its low production cost.
I guess all those with hate still in their veins saw it and since that was the target audience its over for this film.
Sadly it will break even due to its low production cost.
trevanian
Rear Admiral
Naahh, I haven't seen it yet.
Fixed that for you.
As it happens, I saw W this weekend, and liked it. Not Stone's best work, but a reasonably good biopic.
I thought Brolin's performance was very good, and that the film's portrayal of President Bush was quite sympathetic.
But I agree with the previous poster who said that its omission of the 2000 presidential election was a mistake. I think it would have added greatly to the movie.
I'm not sure which version of Dubya's life story I prefer....
You fixed nothing jackass. The facts are that the movie dropped. It is a farce and is not being played straight. It clearly plays as borderline satire, its only missing Tina Fey as Palin to push it there. Those with hate in their viens will love it.
Despite flaws of other Stone movies they were played straight.
What pun?
That's landmark selection. Election had little to do with it.
Moving on ...
--Ted
Moving on means letting it go. Let shit like Florida in 2000 go unquestioned and it will keep on happening.
Au contrare. I'm NEVER letting that go, and I'm watching Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania VERY closely this election as a result. Actually all 50 states.
Has the head of Diebold (maker of the ballot machines) made any "guarantees" this election like he's done in the past?
--Ted
