What movie captures the true spirit of the Romney campaign?

[shanen]

Or can you use "true" in such proximity to "Romney"?

My first candidate movie is "Peter Pan", because it wants you to believe in fairies, and Mormons like Romney hate fairies.

Next we have "The Wizard of Oz", but there are so many thematic elements that it's hard to pick. For example, the Yellow Brick Road will never lead any peasants (from the 47% or 99%) back to any of Romney's homes. Also, Romney is heartless and cowardly, but the heros in the movie earned theirs, unlike Romney. On the brain category, Romney already has the fancy paper, but seems to be losing his brains now. Or should we take the element of the melting of the Wicked Witch, like the melting of Romney's campaign? But let me leave you with the image of Toto on the top of Romney's car after Dorothy surrenders!

Perhaps "The Sting" would be the obvious movie for Romney? Full of lies, and we can put the voters in the roles of the various victims of the various scams.

Obviously I don't see too many movies these days, or maybe I lack the mappings from minor league movie fantasies to Romney's big league of lies. Maybe it should be the movie where that guy is murdered with the explosive light bulb that sets him on fire? Kind of the extreme extension of Romney's pants-on-fire policies?

What movies do you nominate? Why? Any ideas for poisonous anti-Romney movie-related memes for Twitter? I've been dabbling with the #neoGOPfilm tag there...

[barnabas63]

1. Hedy Lamar in Blazing Saddles.

That's Hedly!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

17. Thats Headly! lol

One of the beat ever.

[shanen]

20. Are there any famous movies about Teddy Roosevelt?

That comment reminds me of how so many neo-GOP fanatics want to destroy their opponents and talk about permanent majorities, which then reminds me of the last time the GOP came close to doing that, which was probably stopped only by Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose campaign. In relationship to this thread, that raises the question of movies about TR.

I think that one of the biggest differences between the parties is that I can't recall any of President Obama's supporters saying the Republican Party should be destroyed or outlawed, though a lot of them have said the neo-GOP extremists are not real Republicans. I even agree and that's a big reason I regard them as fake conservatives.

[flowomo]

2. Zelig...

somewhat -- the human chameleon.

[aletier_v]

3. The Dead Zone

Romney gets elected and Game Over!!!

[brewens]

7. I commented on FB when a friend posted that pic with Romney and the screaming baby,

that the secret service had just warned him of a suspicious person in the crowd and he snatched up the kid to use as a shield!

[aletier_v]

64. The Dead Zone - "The people speak through me, not you!"

I was thinking more along the lines of this

[brewens]

4. That was Caretaker I think from The Longest Yard that was burned badly with the lightbulb.

Maybe he died, I don't remember. I never have seen the remake. Maybe that scene is in there too.

[shanen]

44. Was that the first time?

Yes, now I remember seeing that, but I think the same scene was used in an earlier movie where the victim was an arm's dealer. Actually, now I wonder if Bain was directly involved in any military deals, in contrast to the big dick Cheney's companies and that company James Baker was involved in.

[leftyohiolib]

5. liar, liar

[ProudProgressiveNow]

18. +1 nt

[GoCubsGo]

22. "Liar Liar" meets "Dumb and Dumber"

[grantcart]

6. "Its a Wonderful Life", with the alternative story line that shows what would have happened if

George Bailey had never lived. The USA evolving into Potterville.

[Budgies Revenge]

8. Memento

I rest my case.....

[jodarr]

9. The Boy in the Bubble

you would have to Ann in there with him

[RBInMaine]

10. WALL STREET: "Greed is good."

[TeamPooka]

59. +1

[MatthewStLouis]

78. Definitely. /nt

[Life Long Dem]

11. When you throw Meatloaf into it

I'd have to say, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

[Faith9326]

15. LMAO

Tears in my eyes. Hahahaha.



"GO AHEAD, NOW BROTHA!"

[BainsBane]

43. :)

[aletier_v]

62. OMG. Most disturbing video I've seen since Team America blow job

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

12. "Tin Men" or "Elmer Gantry"

Both movies are about dishonest people trying to fool the public.

[mysuzuki2]

13. Plan 9 from Outer Space

Here's an idea for a movie -I'd love to see a remake of Orgazmo starring Mitt and Ann. Paul Ryan can play Putaboy or whatever his name was.

[Iceberg Louie]

52. I ALWAYS felt Paul Ryan reminded me a bit of Dian "Choda Boy" Bachar

[dimbear]

14. "The Great White Nope" n/t

[shanen]

16. How about Dracula, since he can't stand the sunlight?

A number of interesting candidates mentioned so far. I think "Blazing Saddles" is highly relevant, but it has me locked on the badges theme... "We don't need no stinking badges!" However, if we consider Romney as a foul-tempered badger, then maybe it should be that movie with "We don't need no stinking badgers!"

I should have thought of "Plan 9 from Outer Space", but actually that reminded me of "Ed Wood", perhaps with Romney in the title role... Or perhaps not. Johnny Depp is sincere in every role he plays, and Romney is like Nixon and looks untrustworthy almost all of the time, even if he's telling you the sun is shining at noon.

However, the title I wanted to add now is "Dracula", because he couldn't stand the sunlight, and Romney's lies are also allergic to reality. I haven't been following these recent vampire films, but my understanding is that the new vampires can tolerate some sunshine. Are they using suntan oils with high protection ratings?

[dchill]

19. "The Grapes of Wrath."

[shanen]

51. A movie about an alcoholic Mormon called the Wrath of Grapes?

I feel like apologizing for the bad pun, but I couldn't help myself.

However that made me think about adding Romney's "holier than thou" Mormon attitude to the long list of things I dislike about him. I don't want to go down the entire list, but I'll just start by saying that #1 is his lies, #2 is his cowardice, and #3 is his greed. The last two are close together, but I really hate liars.

Did they ever make a movie from the Sherlock Holmes story that made the Mormons look so bad? I can't remember the title, but it was one the first ones. Or maybe there are some other movies about Mormons.

[dchill]

57. A Study In Scarlet.

Sherlock didn't care for the Latter Day Saints. (I just finished re-reading The Complete Sherlock Holmes.)

[ejbr]

21. The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas n/t

[TBF]

23. The Music Man -

better known as a musical but it was also a film.

[andym]

53. Robert Preston as a con man selling musical instruments to a town's kids

and then skipping town before the town realizes he can't teach them how to play.
Takes place in Iowa too!

Not a bad analogy at all....

[andym]

61. You can almost hear Romney sing "We got trouble-- right here (in America)"

talking down the economy, and working people into a frenzy against imagined problems (like "we built that," the President not calling the Libyan attack a terrorist attack, or chrysler moving a jeep factory to China).

And then comes the fake solution to America's problems, not a boys' band, but an empty five point plan.

[TBF]

72. The girl in every county touches nicely on the polygamy aspect -

and for some reason "Pickalittle" reminds me of Paul Ryan. Ha! It's a good show.

[JB126]

24. Titanic

Because in the end, he's going down.

[shanen]

45. How about Waterworld?

Wasn't that the movie that lost the most money? "Titanic" was quite profitable, and that's the only thing that really matters to Romney. I think a movie that lost a lot of money will be more relevant to Romney if he loses, assuming we can ever find out about the secret dark money under his campaign...

[Faith9326]

25. Hmmm

'Catch Me If You Can' maybe?

[rug]

26. Alive

[Sunlei]

27. The Rise of Evil

Ed Gernon, the executive producer had said President George W. Bush should be looked at “through the prism of Germany’s psychopath.”

It basically boils down to an entire nation gripped by fear, who ultimately chose to give up their civil rights and plunged the whole world into war. I can’t think of a better time to examine this history than now.—Ed Gernon

[crunch60]

28. "All the Kings Men." "Citizen Kane" would be another

but a movie especially for Romney_ "Big Bird goes to Washington"

[Vietnameravet]

29. What a coincidence that you should ask this...Boogieman: The Lee Atwater story

I just finished watching Boogieman: The Lee Atwater story..

It is a documentary about this man and the really nasty things he did which changed the modern Republican party into the vicious bunch they are today..well worth watching..

One thing that struck me was seeing the same cast of characters including Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, John Sununu and Ann Coulter. It struck me how long these hateful people have been associated with the party and how much they have influenced it.


You can see a younger Tom Delay and Strom Thurmond and hear Thurmond talk about the "N** race and watch the Willie Horton spot.

The attacks on Mike Dukakas and Bob Dole are straight out of the current Republican playbook..and are exactly like what we see today against Obama..

Reagan comes off as a liar and a criminal but no one tops the Bush family for straight out lying and viciousness..


In the end Atwater lost everything ..money..power and health and was shown as he was dying of cancer of the brain.

He apologized for what he did but the damage has been done..and somehow i dont buy his apology and call me heartless but I have not a shred of sympathy for him even at the end.

[LeftInTX]

63. That movie gives me the creeps

The story behind the Reagan, Bushes, Karl Rove, Tom Delay.....

CasinoJack is another one that comes to mind. (Jack Abramhoff)

Creepy stuff. It's still out there.

[Overseas]

65. That is excellent. Well said about how his influence lives on.

[ChiciB1]

30. Just Because It Was A Movie That Really

scared me way back then and does so even today!
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS!
All grown up now, but that movie still gives me the hee-bee-jeebies! Just like Romney & Ryan do!

[Bjorn Against]

31. Idiocracy

[Faith9326]

32. True spirit of Republicans in this election

I wish I were joking(I'm talking about the song not the movie)

[Dman292]

35. Do you mean

"The lying King"

[shanen]

49. The Lying King (suggested by Dman292)

Just a reply to make your suggested title more visible. That's really a worthwhile contribution, though my mind is boggled by the possibilities. How can you possibly pick which lie to focus on?

Actually, I've still been looking for an ad that features a pastiche video of Romney seeming to say the only truth he really believes and that he would never say: "Vote for me so that government of the corporations, by the lawyers, for the richest 0.1% of Americans, shall rule the earth."

Perhaps it's already happened, but it should be contrasted with what Lincoln actually said, "so that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." I just checked the text and I see I got one word wrong. The "so" should be "and".

[gottavote]

33. Gone With the Wind

Let's see, attitude on rape the same, last stand of the old South, Civil War and "Frankly me dear, I don't give a damn."

[Dman292]

34. One flew over the cuckoos nest

He would be Harding

[abumbyanyothername]

36. The Truman Show

[link:]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/[/link]



Not a movie but the campaign itself remind me of Bagdad Bob.

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[mzteaze]

37. Beavis and Butt-Head

Closely followed by the Jackass series.

[Ace Rothstein]

38. Big Fat Liar

[NCLefty]

39. Avatar, or really any movie that shows man's unchecked greed and what it leads to.

[ailsagirl]

40. Night of the Living Dead

I dunno-- I thought of all those weirdos and it seemed to fit.

[pnwmom]

69. +1

[ailsagirl]

73. Thanks for the +1

Actually the film is more representative of the whole nauseating repuke party!!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

41. Definitely the Willard of Oz

[shanen]

50. Reminds of the rat move Willard, but Willard of Oz is better

Another one that deserves reuse over on Twitter. This is a heist, Rosa!

However, that reminded me of "Willard", and I've always wondered if that (bad) movie had anything to do with his dropping of his actual name. I don't much like mine, but I've been brave enough to put up with it for my entire life... I think that running from his first name is just another form of Willard the Mitt Romney's cowardice in all things.

Hmm... How about the Jesse James movie? Romney could play the dirty little coward that shot Mr Howard?

[andym]

55. The wizard of oz is very appropriate.

Wizard pretends to have great powers with great stage effects to convince the naive, but is really quite ordinary. Almost gets Dorothy and her friends killed before he tries to make it up to them.

[BainsBane]

42. Being There

Romney is the Peter Sellers character without the humanity.

[blazeKing]

46. American Psycho

[BainsBane]

47. Josh Romney

bears an uncanny resemblance to Jason Bateman.

[One of the 99]

48. Goldfinger

Someone willing to destroy the U.S. economy to enrich himself.

[TexasBushwhacker]

54. Bob Roberts or A Face In The Crowd n/t

[Sognefjord]

56. The Ox Bow Incident

[OldDem2012]

58. The character of Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny".

[Rowdyboy]

60. Deliverance....A Clockwork Orange...The Last House on the Left....

[BainsBane]

66. The Manchurian Candidate n/t

[Vidar]

67. "The Mouse that Roared"

Earlier generation :"Battleship Potemkin".

[ncav53]

68. Flipper

[shanen]

70. I see your Flipper and raise you Gilligan's Island

Obviously with Romney in the role as a much more malignant Thurston Howell. However, I'm afraid that might put President Obama in the lead role... Actually, I don't see too many parallels here. The Professor is a hard reach for anyone involved in contemporary American politics.

As I think about this one, I'm more and more inclined against. Thurston Howell was fundamentally a nice guy, and that that is NOT Romney.

[JohnnyBoots]

71. American Psycho

and Wall Street.

[bemildred]

74. Bulworth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulworth

[spiderpig]

75. V for Vendetta

Almost time to cue it up on the DVD for November 5.

[shanen]

76. Fox propaganda film called "The Day After Tomorrow"

At least I think that was the name of that piece of garbage, but it comes back to mind because of this big storm interfering with the election. However, I think the point of the idiotic movie was to overhype climate change and claim it was just a bunch of liberal malarkey--this coming from the masters of malarkey at Fox.

[Larry in KC]

77. "One Million Years B.C."

Except, wait, the world is only 6,000 years old...

[Third Doctor]

79. The Titanic (the end)

[shanen]

81. Titanic and Wall Street came up several times

However, my real comment is that reality has exceeded our imaginations again.

Hurricane Sandy.

Maybe we're influencing reality by creating weird extreme ideas, and Mother Nature resents the challenge and has to one-up us?

[Brigid]

80. "Inside Job."

If you haven't seen it, rent it, buy it, borrow it, stream it-whatever. But do not miss it.

[budkin]

82. Beavis and Butthead Do America

Kewl