Defamer has the right idea: A script this lousy has to be an April Fool's joke, right?
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Andrew whines: "The Bush-Bashing crowd should be ashamed at the vacuity of their supporters in Hollywood." The Bush-slurping crowd should be ashamed by the vacuity of the asshole in the White House. But they're not. "The right is going to gobble this up as evidence of how out of touch some liberal loons are." The right sure does a lot of gobbling. From a quick look at the article it looks like Stone has captured the Mayberry-on-booze essence of the Dipshit-In-Chief perfectly. If you're making a movie about an idiot some of the dialogue will be idiotic. With Dumbya, you can just quote him verbatim and it will work out that way. 
Quoted from a different forum- "So... is that really the movie they're making? This total slapstick wacky satire? You anti-Bush types, wouldn't that kind of movie make you feel worse? Something that portrays all the stuff that went wrong the last few years in the same tone as an Adam Sandler movie?"
"You anti-Bush types, wouldn't that kind of movie make you feel worse? Something that portrays all the stuff that went wrong the last few years in the same tone as an Adam Sandler movie?" What, you don't think Sandler has the range to play a war criminal?
Yee hah! I'm unbanned!
So who will Stone get to play David Frum ... I mean, "Chief Speechwriter"? Stuart Pankin? Jason Alexander with a bad rug?
Please have this be a 'one-man show' with Sean Penn in every role.
A script this lousy With a presidency this lousy, what did you expect?
There's already an outlet for this sort of Bushwacking, and it's actually funny sometimes: Comedy Central's animated series "Lil' Bush". Or, I should say, it's as funny as the leftwing sensibilities of its writers will allow. For example, it was funny when Lil' Bush hired an illegal alien to do his chores because he was lazy; when the illegal alien announced that he had been a chemical engineer back in Mexico, the political correctness-motivated absurdity of that detracted from the comedy of the situation.
Fred writes: "There's already an outlet for this sort of Bushwacking, and it's actually funny sometimes: Comedy Central's animated series "Lil' Bush". " Terrible show. "Or, I should say, it's as funny as the leftwing sensibilities of its writers will allow." While right-wing comedy leads to shit like "Mallard Fillmore" and the Corpse Formerly Known As Dennis Miller. Color me impressed.
Considering what he have seen of Mr Bush (an inept, intelectually deficient, morally misguised human being), what is lousy about Stones script?
What do you think of libertarian comedy, MLAJ? The South Park boys were behind "That's My Bush", after all. Considering what he have seen of Mr Bush (an inept, intelectually deficient, morally misguised human being), what is lousy about Stones script? Nothing, if he was trying to create an installment for the low-budget low-humor to the "Movie" series (as in Epic, Date, Scary, Scary 5, etc.). I assume that the Wayan brothers will be playing Colin and Condi.
Quietus asks: "What do you think of libertarian comedy, MLAJ? The South Park boys were behind "That's My Bush", after all." I think those guys are genuinely brilliant, and I'm sure they know Dumbya has been a massively incompetent fuckup. And I've got more libertarian leanings than most conservatives do, that's for sure.
Wait wait wait wait-- it's unprofessional for historians to start judging a presidency before it's over, but it's fine for you to judge a movie that hasn't shot a single frame yet?
Script : Movie :: Campaign Platform : Presidency
Brolins playing Republican presidents. A sure recipe for ratings/ box-office success. What, Will Ferrell and Timothy Bottoms booked out?
The thing is four pages in; he's already written up three fictitious characters, the pledge & two
And a scene where Dr Rice stuffs incriminating national archives documents down her underpants, then donates them (the underpants, that is) to charity and claims it as a tax deduction.
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Wow, sounds like it'll be a cliche-a-minute affair. The Bush-Bashing crowd should be ashamed at the vacuity of their supporters in Hollywood. Is Stone trying to present the left's arguments as a wafer thin straw man? The right is going to gobble this up as evidence of how out of touch some liberal loons are.
Posted by Andrew | April 8, 2008 12:09 PM