sounds like another happy day in the DNC to me.
Posted on 11/29/2005 2:55:50 PM PST by kristinn
TURIN, ITALY "This is a horror story because most of the characters are Republicans," director Joe Dante announced before the November 13 world premiere of his latest movie, Homecoming, at the Turin Film Festival. Republicans, as it happens, will be the ones who find Homecoming's agitprop premise scariest: In an election year, dead veterans of the current conflict crawl out of their graves and stagger single-mindedly to voting booths so they can eject the president who sent them to fight a war sold on "horse(manure) and elbow grease."
The dizzying high point of Showtime's new Masters of Horror series, the hour-long Homecoming (which premieres December 2) is easily one of the most important political films of the Bush II era. With its only slightly caricatured right-wingers, the film nails the casual fraudulence and contortionist rhetoric that are the signatures of the Bush-Cheney administration. Its dutiful hero, presidential consultant David Murch (Jon Tenney), reports to a Karl Rove–like guru named Kurt Rand (Robert Picardo) and engages in kinky power (sex) with attack-bitch pundit Jane Cleaver (Thea Gill), a blonde, leggy Ann Coulter proxy with a "No Sex for All" tank top and "BSH BABE" license plates. Murch's glib, duplicitous condescension is apparently what triggers the zombie uprising: Confronting an angry mother of a dead soldier on a news talk show, he tells this Cindy Sheehan figure, "If I had one wish . . . I would wish for your son to come back," so he could assure the country of the importance of the war. The boy does return, along with legions of fallen combatants, and they all beg to differ.
How fitting that the most pungent artistic response to a regime famed for its crass fear-mongering would be a cheap horror movie. Jaw-dropping in its sheer directness, Homecoming is a righteous blast of liberal-left fury (it was greeted with a five-minute ovation in Turin, the most vocal appreciation seeming to come from the American filmmakers and writers in attendance).
At once galvanic and cathartic, Dante's film uncorks the rage that despondent progressives promptly suppressed after last year's election and that has only recently been allowed to color mainstream coverage of presidential untruths and debacles. For all its broad, bludgeoning satire, Homecoming is deadly accurate in skewering the callousness and hypocrisy of the Bush White House and the spin industry in its orbit.
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Though Bush is never named, Homecoming tailors its provocative scenario to accommodate a devastatingly specific checklist of accusations, from the underreporting of war casualties to last November's dubious Ohio count. As if in defiance of the Pentagon's policy to ban photographs of dead soldiers' coffins, Dante's film shows not just the flag-draped caskets at Dover Air Force Base but their irate occupants bursting out of them.
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They sink lower into the muck..
This movie pretends they come back from the dead, while in the real world, Democrats dig them up and drag their corpses through the street shouting "look what you did."
Or a moonbat mother sits in a Texas ditch using her's as a soapbox.
Dante made 'Small Soldiers' too.
Disgusting beyond words. But after all, dead democrats have been voting for years in most states...
That bastard! If it weren't for Phoebe Cates being in it, I'd never watch Gremlins again!
So much for subtlety. Politics aside, that sounds like a horrible plot for a movie.
Joe Dante is still alive? He hasn't had anything worth mentioning since Gremlins. What a scumbag.
He's made several terrific films since then actually (Matinee, Innerspace, Grenmlins 2). Just nothing popular.
Ah. Showtime. That means at least 112 people will see it...
heh...In the "real" world...the dead allways vote democrat....even this assclown knows it...
"I hope this movie bothers a lot of people that disagree with it—and that it makes them really pissed off, as pissed off as the rest of us are."
Don’t flatter yourself, Joe. Nobody cares about your stupid zombie movie.
How thoroughly obnoxious is this? Not to mention that Democrats are the ones who really have dead people vote.
Where Joe Dante's career deservedly is (and has been, for the past fifteen, twenty years):
Any questions...? :)
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