Jeb Bush calls 'W' movie 'Hooey'

The Washington Times ^ | October 17, 2008 | Scott Galupo

[kellynla]

Oliver Stone has proclaimed that his new feature film "W." aims to be an "empathetic" psychological portrait of President Bush.

The president's younger brother has a different impression.

At the heart of "W.," opening nationally in theaters Friday, is a psychological portrait of George W. Bush as living perpetually in the shadow of his father, former President George H.W. Bush, and driven to invade Iraq at least in part by a desire to prove he is as tough as the elder statesman.

"The Oedipal rivalry is high-grade, unadulterated hooey," former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told The Washington Times.

[kellynla]

Why anyone would pay good money to go see an Oliver Stone movie is a mystery to me. Stone has about as much credibility as a screen door on a submarine. LMAO

[Hildy]

Did you know that this movie, W, was funded with Communist Chinese money? It’s not a secret, but yet somehow it’s never mentioned.

[pillut48]

I hope this movie flops so bad it makes “Waterworld” and “Ishtar” look wonderful, LOL! :-)

Shame on Oliver Stone for pulling this crap just before the election! I thought maybe he’d turned the corner on America bashing with that great 9/11 movie he made with Nicolas Cage, but apparently he’s lost him mind again and succumbed to liberalalityism again (I just made up that word, like President Bush does! :-).

[raccoonradio]

No surprise—lib Jim Verniere of the allegedly conservative Boston Herald gives “W” an A minus.

[BallyBill]

The movie looks like a comedy. The "Sitting President" poster was hilarious.

Problem is, Oliver Stone is no W.C. Fields.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

Why didn't Stone wait until Bush leaves office. He must be kicking himself because he can't include material on the current economic crisis, which he could have morphed into moments of high comedy, with a new characters playing Paulson and Bernanke.

I think this movie will flop.

[feyler]

I met Oliver Stone way back in 1992 at a Theme Park in Florida . I don’t want to give great details because I still work in that kind of work. When stars come to the studio they are given a escort and VIP treatment. Later the girl who escorted him told us about what a pig he was. She was wearing a Tour Guide uniform and he said to her “ How come I can’t see your t**ts ? He said worse then that but you get the picture.

[kellynla]

Hey, the majority of the clowns in the movie/television/entertainment inudustry are a bunch of Commie/Socialists; so why shouldn’t the Chicoms fund it...thank you Mao-Mart shoppers for keeping our Comrades in China prosperous. LOL

[kellynla]

Hey, the majority of the clowns in the movie/television/entertainment inudustry are a bunch of Commie/Socialists; so why shouldn’t the Chicoms fund it...thank you Mao-Mart shoppers for keeping our Comrades in China prosperous. LOL

[kellynla]

Hey, the majority of the clowns in the movie/television/entertainment inudustry are a bunch of Commie/Socialists; so why shouldn’t the Chicoms fund it...thank you Mao-Mart shoppers for keeping our Comrades in China prosperous. LOL

[gwilhelm56]

Great .. a Psychological Drama produced by a PSYCHO.

Oliver..did you forget your MEDS again?

[Slapshot68]

“thank you Mao-Mart shoppers for keeping our Comrades in China prosperous.”

So I’m supposed to feel bad because I shop at Wal-Mart? Sorry, but their grocery section saves me $100/month. And Wal-Mart isn’t the only store that sells Chinese sourced goods.

By the way, do you walk or drive a car that uses gas refined from Middle Eastern crude?

[Melinda]

What a lowlife, representative of a bunch of other lowlifes in that industry.

[meandog]

Jeb Bush calls 'W' movie 'Hooey'
...there, fixed for the better brother who should have been the prez!

[Tublecane]

“Mr. Weiser told Reuters news agency earlier this year that he read 17 books about the president while researching the film”

WTF? I read a minimum of 30 books in preparing my senior thesis in college, all while I had three other classes. And I wasn’t paid. It’s just due dilligence.

[kellynla]

yea, yea, yea...

take your “save me $100/month” BS elsewhere...

Your “hooray for me, ‘f’ you & ‘f’ America” don't fly with this Marine....
if that's all your patriotism is worth, then it ain't worth much.

[dead]

They portray the evil Republican president as a borderline-retarded complete idiot, and then claim it's "balanced" because they make you feel slightly sorry that borderline-retarded idiot was abused by other Republicans, slightly less retarded and much more evil than him.

That's non-partisan, Hollywood style.

[Wiseghy]

Openly smearing a sitting president in a feature film just shows how far Hollywood has decended.

Clearly, this reflects the fact that Stone is a mean and small peron, with no respect for the nation which offered him wealth and opportunity.

I hope people see this mean spiritedness for what it is.

[Slapshot68]

Whatever. People in glass houses...

[agere_contra]

thank you Mao-Mart shoppers for keeping our Comrades in China prosperous

Why should Americans buy expensive Unionised crap on your say-so?