And Oliver Stone, my god, it's a recipe for a disaster of biblical proportions. I'll probably go see it with the same type of curiosity I reserve for car accidents. Strange times. Strange fucking times.

This'll be a hoot watching the film crash and burn. :)

much less a 2.5 star project...

Once we get someone in office who is going to clean up the mess, and air out the smell of death from the White House. Then we can have a realistic bio movie. While casting Elizabeth Banks could mean that this could be a comedy (i just don't see her doing drama that well (check The Heights if you nay say), but Josh the only good thing about No Country Brolin? WAY too straight, dour of and actor to play the Yakko of presidents. Seriously Lil'Bush is a dumb show but its fucking funny, just fucking make that animated Bush the lead role. It is the only way to properly portray Walter.

Oh, please don't choke on your panties, liberal friends. I'm just responding to the ignorant HATE BUSH rhetoric out there that spews from the low IQed masses who bow their knees to liberalism.

Then Klingons using the portal from City on the Edge of Forever, go back in time and kill him. This creates an alternate timeline wherein our government is now far more militaristic than it would have been (i know, right?) as we gear up for what is clearly a major intergalactic war about to drop on our footsteps. Simon Pegg will play Jeb Bush, and there's rumored to be a cameo from George Herber Walker Bush, but he swears he's never even met with Stone. I think its all a trick and he'll be in it at the end as a gift to the fans.

"Hollywood is a nest of vipers that routinely supports the overthrow of this government and the destruction of the United States Military!!!", then storms out of the room.

Genealogist Christopher Child said that while the candidates often focus on pointing out differences between them, their ancestry shows they are more alike than they think.

"It shows that lots of different people can be related, people you wouldn't necessarily expect," Child said.

Obama has a prolific presidential lineage that features Democrats and Republicans. His distant cousins include President George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman and James Madison. Other Obama cousins include Vice President Dick Cheney, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Civil War General Robert E. Lee.

Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins, linked by Edwin Hickman, who died in Virginia in 1769.

Oliver Stone? Pass. I dunno what happened. Maybe the excessive cocaine? He snorted his talent away. A George Bush biopic? Pass pass pass.

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Heh.

ccchhhrrriiisssm, on the other hand, is stuck in a hamster wheel of political thinking, there are only Liberals (who stand for everything 'bad') and Conservatives (who naturally stand for everything 'good'). If I thought for a second that he actually believes this simplistic view, I'd pity him, and offer him a cookie, and gently ask him where his caregiver has gone off to, since he's obviously on the internet unsupervised. However, He's got at least a 6th grade education, judging by his vocabulary and spelling, so I assume he's intelligent enough to understand that such a simple, narrow view of politics (or indeed, any part of the human experience) is inaccurate, to say the least.

So, why promote such a demonstrably false premise? He thinks he's clever. He says this stuff to be divisive, to start shit, to be an agent provocateur, stirring up agitprop for the AICN masses. He's a toady, a flunky of the right wing, bootlicker, ass-kisser, stooge. Pay no mind to the little man with the incendiary words, he does not represent the conservative voice here, or anywhere else, for that matter.

Seriously, the emphasis will have to be on who ever he choses as a running mate - a vote for McCain will be a vote for whoever inherits the office from him.

Less seriously, McCain for prexy with John McClane as VP and McBain as Secretary of State. Give the people what they want.

Gotham_Night: I'd like to see Casey Wilson, the "new girl" on SNL, as Monica. That blowjob I'd pay to watch.

Series7, if I give you a dollar would you go out and play on the freeway jackass?

Unfortunately, Rove probably won't be featured in this movie. I doubt Stone has the mind for including a complicated player like Rove in his (inevitably) simpleminded movie. I'm sure that according to Stone, everything will be Bush's idea.

I can imagine a scene in Stone's "W"

Scene- aircraft carrier-platform BUSH- (after landing an f-14 and disembarking to the tarmac) "Well, that was one tough bitch of a job, but praise Jesus, it's all over."

ROVE: "Boss! Boss! You're alive! Did you do it? Is it over? Did you ACCOMPLISH your MISSION?"

BUSH:" Well hello there, Turdblossom! (ruffles Rove's 12 remaining hairs) ACCOMPLISH my MISSION, huh? Well now, that there gives me an ideer."

Pan to hundreds of cheering sailors, and them upward camera sweep to the "Mission Accomplished" banner. Credits roll.

This is Oliver Stone first and foremost, who was once fearless in pursuing ugly truths. Now that the game is nearly over for Dubya, it's time to examine the origins of this 8-year descent into madness. Some say we need some time to reflect on his legacy. Nope. Now is the time. We live in an age of instant information. We have enough to examine the consequences of Bush & Co's actions now. We're already reeling in many ways from them.

Josh Brolin. His mother-in-law is none other than Barbra Streisand, hero of the Left. Despite his talents, I think there was some ulterior motive for casting him.

Is a hollywood oscar vehicle really the best we can hope for, in terms of an appropriate context for examining the last 8 years and what went so wrong? I don't see movies as the first choice for a platform of social/cultural self examination, at least not at first. I think of movies as the side effect to real examination.

Also, It seems you think much more highly of Stone than I do, as a filmmaker. I consider him overbearing, obvious, and too dumb for his chosen subject matter. I thought Natural Born Killers was an obscene joke, Alexander was an overripe piece of shit, and the Doors was a tragic shame. I don't even like the band the Doors, and I still felt personally insulted by the movie. I think Stone is a hack of the highest order, so considering that he's the guy in the driver's seat on this one makes me cringe so hard I collapse in on myself and cease to exist.

*blink*

About Stone ... I'm more a fan of his earlier movies, though I never saw NBK. I don't know how you feel about JFK, but here's my take. It's one of my most admired movies. I've seen it (and Wall Street) more times than I can possibly count. It's one of those movies I can just have on and let it sink into my subconscious. It's a barrage of theories and confusing as hell. But it's intelligent, and it presents lots and lots of questions. And that, to me, is what Stone strives to do. To question everything. I think it's even more worthwhile to listen to his commentary track on that movie too, to get a feel for where he's coming from and what his values and goals are in his filmmaking.

I used the word "fearless" before. I think, maybe hope, he is still fearless at his core. I haven't been crazy about his late works, but JFK and Wall Street (especially the part with Martin Sheen) solidified my respect for Stone, and his attempts at holding a mirror or magnifying glass to our society.

Stone doesn't need to have the answers. But he does seek them out, and given that this is a movie about Bush's formative political years, I'm confident he will have the best resources to understand his subject. In this case, I'm hoping he enlists James Moore and Wayne Slater among his consultants. If that be the case, this movie will find me first on line to see it.

I guess I'm just pissed that this movie is happening at all. Like I said earlier, it won't, it can't please anyone. Stone isn't going to portray what this presidency has really been about (to be fair, no one would be able to do that), partly because no one knows the real truth about most of what's gone on, the stuff we think we know is diluted with misinformation and half-truths, and besides, truth is stranger than fiction. I'm sure that even if Stone made his most 'fearless', controversial, 'speaking-truth-to-power' film ever, it still wouldn't hold a candle to the real shit. Hell, 45 years later and we still have no idea who killed Kennedy, or even the finer details of the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Republicans will hate this movie for being too hard on the man, and Democrats will hate it for being too soft. Stone can't win with this one.

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1. A (Tatsuya Mori, 1998) 2. A (Darren Almond, 2002) 3. B (Daniel Vázquez Salles, 1996) (short) 4. D (Nobuya Okabe, 1998) (mini) 5. 'E' (Bretislav Pojar, 1981) (short) 6. F (Janja Glogovac, 2000) 7. G (Staffan Hildebrand, 1983) 8. G. (Rolf Gibbs, 2000) (short) 9. G (Christopher Scott Cherot, 2002) 10. H (Darrell Wasyk, 1990) 11. H (Daniel Simpson, 1995) (short) 12. H (Jong-hyuk Lee, 2002) 13. I... (Stan Brakhage, 1995) (short) 14. i (Stuart Sperling, 1998) (short) 15. J (Fred Cavayé, 2000) (short) 16. K (Alexandre Arcady, 1997) 17. K (Shoja Azari, 2002) 18. K. (Frédérique Devaux, 2003) 19. L (Stasa Stanojevic, 1961) (short) 20. L (Georges Pauly, 2001) 21. M (Fritz Lang, 1931) 22. M (Joseph Losey, 1951) 23. M (Christoph Janetzko, 1986) (short) 24. O (Tim Blake Nelson, 2001) 25. O (Gabriel Grieco, 2002) (short) 26. P (Jan Keja, 1964) (short) 27. Q (Larry Cohen, 1982) 28. Q (Oliver Husain, 2002) (short) 29. Q (2002) (short) 30. S. (Guido Henderickx, 1998) 31. S (Espen Sørensen, 2001) (short) 32. S (Athanasios Karanikolas, 2002) (short) 33. U (Yuri A., 2003) (short) 34. U (Jolene Gallant/Adam Herbeson/Phillip MacGilivary/Nik Mills & Heather Young, 2003) 35. V (Kenneth Johnson, 1983) (TV) 36. V (Alexander Oey, 2000) (TV) 37. V (Don Schubert, 2003) (short)

38. W (Richard Quine, 1974) 39. W (Taru Mäkelä, 1983) 40. W (Luc Feit, 2003) (short)

41. X (Roger Corman, 1963) 42. X (C. Walsh, 1970) 43. X (Myeong-jung Ha, 1983) 44. X (Oddvar Einarson, 1986) 45. X (Rintaro, 1996) 46. X (Stefan Quercy, 2001) (short) 47. X (Luis Marías, 2002) 48. Y (Paola Panero, 1992) 49. Y (Zoe Margolis, 2000) (short) 50. Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)

Face, it, using the words festive or homosexual to mean hackneyed or disabled is just illiterate.

And, hockingite, getting your semantic ass kicked in a talk-back about a movie based on a Broadway show featuring music by a '70s disco vocal band and then slinking off to other talkbacks to complain about it is teh ghey. Totally.