sorry to be grumpy, but these were my thoughts:
I am stunned that there are people on this board who found this anything other than even more of a rehash than the book was.
There was ONE SINGLE THING that was interesting and new to me in the movie - I didn't know that/didn't recall that Nicole Wallace didn't vote. That was interesting in a "human interest" sort of way.
Otherwise, is this movie really going to be anything other than a political Rorschach test? Pretty much any of the Tina Fey skits were more incisive than this movie about a bunch of shit we already knew.
This movie seems to hit a real sweet spot of political self-indulgence - I find it hard to believe that any part of the public that hasn't realized Palin is an unqualified horror show is not going to be convinced by this film. And for those of us already convinced, is this really much more than two hours of skillful impersonations?
Mostly, I feel much the same as I felt about the book - the campaign - from the first primary to election night - was fascinating - I can't believe they couldn't wring more excitement out of such an amazing story. The campaign - even without elaboration - unfolded like a great work of fiction, with a cast of singular characters, self-contained chapters, as a period of weeks with one narrative would yield to the next, an enormously rich backdrop, as landmark external events played out over the course of 2008, and a series of dramatic moments that you simply couldn't top if you were making the stuff up.
I know that what I lived was way more exciting, harrowing, hilarious, frustrating and poignant than either the book or the film. And my experiences amounted to a tiny slice of the campaign.
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