Posted on 11/19/2018 9:59:33 AM PST by rktman
Vice, a sprawling, star-studded $60 million gamble from Annapurna Pictures that will hit theaters Christmas Day (think 200 location shots and 200 speaking parts, including five-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney, newly minted Oscar winner Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush, Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld and Tyler Perry as Colin Powell).
Written by McKay, Vice chronicles the rise of Cheney from his days in the Nixon administration, where he made an alliance with a hawkish Rumsfeld, to his eight-year reign in the White House during which he ran a shadow government under Bush's nose. In typical McKay fashion, an absurdist element is woven into the more traditional dramatic narrative (Bale and Adams suddenly diving into a Shakespeare soliloquy in a bedroom scene). Everyone from Roger Ailes to the Koch brothers makes an appearance.
Against the backdrop of a polarized nation, McKay is resurrecting what he considers the most pivotal figure in modern politics, a man whose power far eclipsed the commander in chief he served ("He operated with just impunity," says the director. "There's a lot of presidents who never wielded that kind of power"), and the wife who orchestrated his ascent.
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Obama had a phone and a pen. But Cheney was like a totalitarian dictator? What?
Cheney = hitler, obxxx = ghandi See how easy that is?
What? No Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks or Matty Damon?
a 60 million dollar investment in political propaganda that is not subject to campaign finance laws
And just how is this not considered ‘conspiracy theory’?
60 million for what? My young adult kids don’t remember Dick Cheney and won’t be remotely interested. Not even my daughter who voted Democrat last election.
He's a neocon. I thought Freepers hated neocons.
I hope this movie is very successful especially in labeling Cheney as the criminal enterprise that he was.
I also hope that the creepy Poindexter makes an entrance and gets exposed for the nemesis he was.
Dick was viewed very favorably by the media just as Trump was BEFORE they ran for high office. I love both of them. I remember during Obama’s reign, every now and then Cheney would say something and the media would lose their cookies. He didn’t do it often but when he did it had considerable affect. He knew when to pick his moments.
We can argue about the value of the completion of the Iraq war but the war in Afghanistan was absolutely necessary.
The execution was twisted because bush wanted the Afghans to vote and show their purple finger{the same finger they used to clean their ass}.
17 years in this shithole, and we are finding out what every other nation that ever invaded Afghanistan discovered, the only way to win, is to kill every single one of them, including women and babies.
You could no more turn Afghanistan in to a democracy than turn Mecca into a haven for Orthodox Jews.
They are TRIBES, and will always be TRIBES, we need to MOAB the whole damn place and leave.
If we run out of MOABs, take congresscritter swallows advice and nuke'm.
Leave it smoking, molten, radiating glass for the next 10,000 years, F all of them.
I don’t know about killing all the inhabitants. Maybe if we could salt the soil so that they could no longer grow opium poppies that would get them to straighten out a bit.
No no no, don’t you remember?
Dick Cheney = Darth Vader
I didn’t like the ties to Haliburton. I’m sure he got rich off of that. That’s the biggest problem with our governments(fed/state/local). People more interested in enriching themselves than doing what’s right.
Anyway
Not My Hunting Partner
I’m waiting for the film about Algore. Hopefully it won’t be animated like the movies he’s put out.
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