saw W last night. Laughed my arse off

[greenbriar]

what a dumb azz this nation was STUPID




Karl Rove is smart and a dangerous man


Colin Powell really sold out his principals

[amyrose2712]

1. Was it worth the 2 hours of nausea? nt

[greenbriar]

3. yea, it was

especially for those of us who have been paying attention

[Iwasthere]

2. reluctant to see it

Doesn't it hide a lot of his crimes and paint him in a relatively okay light?

[greenbriar]

4. not really

and there were several

uh huh moments

[napi21]

5. Thanks. I heard somebody on the radio say they saw it, and

felt Stone had removed a lot of the really bad things this admin. had done. He said it didn't protray W in a GOOD light, but wasn't nearly as bad as it should have been.

[greenbriar]

6. that could be true, but it was damaging enough

I had to have been in an audience of like minded people because we all laughed at the same time


and there were a few times were I heard dumbass and asshole and sold himself out

[midnight]

7. I too watched this movie last night.

Bush came accross in this movie as if he had checked out a while ago...Mentally speaking. His cabinet,manipulators, who never learned to share and or help. Such a bizzare group of people. Laura came accross as being sweet as pie. Hard to believe she ran down and killed her former boyfriend.

[greenbriar]

I took her portrayal as giving up herself for what she thought woudl be power

while she may be an idiot and a stepford wife, she does hold some kind of feelings for him


It mentioned the "aborted baby" the not finishing anything he started including the missed vietnam years

[arcadian]

8. I thought it was great too. ***SPOILER***

The part where they show Bush lying to Congress during the State of the Union speech and Bush is talking about the future, Stone pans to a real picture of McCain. It was fucking brilliant. Shines the McBush light on McCain very well.

[DebJ]

9. I found it depressing. And Stone didn't emphasize enough what

a total failure he was before he got into politics, in his multiple business disasters. Nor did he mention at all how terrible he was as a governor.

[greenbriar]

11. so many fuckups ... so little time

I thought what was highlighted was good

[litlady]

14. True, but there was still some missing

Surprised that they didn't include the business ventures or the cocaine. Surprised that some were portrayed no nicely (like Poppy). As mentioned in another post, the Condi character was really annoying. Also felt the religious part and the him being totally dumb and thus not really being responsible for his actions was not a great direction to go in.

[pretzel4gore]

10. it apparently defuses junyer bush as 'dino might'

probably Oliver Stone means well, but couple 'W' with his 911 movie (Flight 93) suggests he's trying to shore up the mythology that, the country was/is solid and it was taken advantage of by sneaky lil jerks who abused our innocence and trusting nature! We killed a million people in Iraq, but that was George bin Laden's fault, or Osama Bush's, whatever...not ours. enjoy
(btw, Karl rove exploited a longstanding american susceptiblity to hard rightwing fascism inherent in the society- a danger that was well known; after all, the US fought a civil war with a primitive reactionary ideology that still was able to nearly overcome it! Rove was remarkable only in that taking candy from a baby is easy...)

[Blue_In_AK]

12. I attended the movie last night with my friend Diane Benson

and a few other like-minded souls. The part that was hardest for us was when Bush was in the hospital talking to the soldier who had lost his legs, the comments about the new legs -- Diane's son also lost both his legs in Iraq in 2005 (after being stop-lossed) and when George Bush visited him in Walter Reed, he used the EXACT SAME WORDS. It's a set piece, it's what he says. The man has no real human feeling at all for the pain he has caused so many families, both American and Iraqi.

We thought the movie was good, although it didn't cover everything -- how could it? You'd need a movie eight years long to cover all the sins of this administration.

[greenbriar]

13. how about where he was shaking the thumb of that burned man

you could see that those soldiers wanted to tell him to STFU and leave them alone

you could see it in their eyes

[uppityperson]

15. Thanks for the review. One comment, I would say "is", not "was".

Looking forward to seeing it, at some point. Maybe after the election as I don't think I could stand it now.

[maddowfan]

16. I Really Didn't Want To See It

I thought it was going to be one of the worst ideas for a film so soon. The trailers however, really sold me on it. Now I have to see it.