Oct 27 2008
W. - The only movie about a President that’s still in office (so far)
Oliver Stone’s down right crazy. Natural Born Killers gives me a headache each time I watch it just because the plot is everywhere, a lot’s going on and it’s really out there. Platoon was excellent, I liked it how he got to the nitty-gritty of Vietnam. Any Given Sunday was like a gigantic football commercial. The Doors didn’t cover what I’d expected from Jim Morrison. His film of the World Trade Center came way too early. But I gotta say, the film W. was a pretty ballzy move especially since it didn’t get much publicity.
This film starts off with a bang, there’s no back story and goes full force with the assumptions that you know what’s going on at the start. It starts off with our president having a meeting with every power in the white house discussing WMD’s (weapons of mass destruction) and I won’t throw any spoilers out.
The film jumps around, but it seems necessary for what’s going on; the flashbacks show of W. just being a spoiled rich kid with no direction, and all he wants to do is make “poppy” proud. His desire to be political is still a mystery to me.
This film didn’t really tell us stuff that we didn’t know, it just had a comedic viewpoint of what we thought went on. It really slammed Donald Rumsfeld because the film made it seem like it was entirely his idea to send the troops over to Iraq to bring democracy, and I had no sympathy for that; even if that was what happened.
Like Passion of the Christ, you are immediately supposed to know who’s who. There was hardly any introduction of most of the characters. It was incredibly easy to point out who Condolleeza Rice was… by the tone in her voice. Karl Rove was standing beside W. throughout the movie and was depicted as a jackass guardian angel.
But enough of the political slander, the film in itself had a rugged camera, it was all over the place when something was a scene of importance.
However, it had a bunch of funny moments; for it was meant to be seen as an SNL type of parody. Like I said earlier, this was not exactly a bio-pic but more of a comedic viewpoint as to what we think happened. However there weren’t enough Bushisms throughout the movie, and I think some actual quotes from Bush are downright hilarious.
“Like him or hate him, our current president has a fascinating story of how he started by being a nobody to then being our president and changed what America is.” claims Oliver Stone. I couldn’t agree more.
The economy is crap, we’re fighting for nothing in Iraq, we have a new American holiday, gas prices have sky-rocketed, we are the most hated country in the world, and we are more paranoid thanks to him. I don’t really like him for that. I’m pretty sure our founding fathers (especially George Washington) are rolling in their graves knowing of what he’s done to this great country.
But enough of that, I saved a special part here for a couple potshots at Josh Brolin. He did a marvelous job of displaying our president, he got the accent and the look down to a t. But on SNL, when he was making an appearance as a guest host, he slammed Bush verbally. I’m not supporting Bush in anyway but, to research someone fully and to basically spit in there face is completely unmoral. That’s just not cool.
Diane Lane is a goddess, she is married to Josh Brolin. She was in a lot of my favorite movies (RUMBLE FISH), and she is drop dead gorgeous as well as having a great acting skill. There was a report 4 years ago that Brolin in a drunken rage beat her. I am strongly against that shit, it pisses me off to hear stuff like that.
Why in the world would you hit somebody this pretty?
NO EXCUSES
But all in all: W was good, bravo you wife beating p.o.s.
4.0 out of 5
Catch ya on the flipside
