Here's more about the "PDS" opening, from Jim Geraghty at www.nationalreview.com:You got THAT right!"I believe you have to grab the audience in the beginning," Bannon says.Perhaps he’s understated his grab...
Also from Matt Latimer [SPOILER ALERT!] at www.salon.com:
...I am just getting comfortable in my chair when the screen suddenly fills with a montage of attacks on the former governor by Mr. Damon and about a dozen other celebrities(John Cleese calls her "a nice-looking parrot," David Letterman says she dresses like a "slutty flight attendant," I forgot what Rosie O’Donnell said, but whatever it was, she didn’t look good saying it.)Then things take a truly vicious turn...-- snip --...As the movie goes on, the attacks on Palin seamlessly segue into lions stalking and feasting on a defenseless zebra; an arrow protruding from the neck of a slain medieval archer; the most horrific car crash I’ve ever seen on film; a bridge (to nowhere?) collapsing; a man literally choking someone to death; a nuclear explosion; a volcano eruption; and, yes, sand being thrown onto the face of a nearly buried corpse...
Surely we never expected anything coming out of Salon to be nice.