>> Hollywood makes a movie with the premise that Bush was a dummy and Cheney was an evil mastermind. Predicting the reaction of the critics was easily predictable. <<
" That was the vibe I was getting from the trailers too, and planned to skip the movie because I assumed it would paint Cheney as a Darth Sideous type figure who wants to murder millions of innocent widdle people to enrich Saudi oil buddies or something. But Impy saw the movie and says its actually pretty even handed and actually paints Cheney as a decent human being, just wrong about Iraq. I'm surprised and willing to check it out on video if that's the case.
Impy's review makes it sound a bit like Oliver Stone's W. Everyone assumed it would go into looney 9/11 conspricy theory and paint Bush as evil moron puppet of the corporations. But the movie actually paints Bush as a decent guy who was suffering from daddy issues (the movie wrongly portrays Papa Bush as some arrogant tough guy who W struggles to live up to). I'm not sure who the audience for "W" was. Leftists didn't like the movie because Bush comes across as sympathetic, and conservatives didn't like the movie because the portrayal of Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, etc. was terrible and daddy Bush was way off.
As a conservative who was kinda down on Cheney towards the end there, I came away with a better of opinion of him after this fairly accurate portrayal. To me it made him seem pretty cool.
Impy’s review makes it sound a bit like Oliver Stone’s W.
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Michael Medved talked about W one time...He said that the movie portrayed George W. Bush as some pathetic guy...Medved did not sound as if he liked that particular movie...
No, I never watched W...