Posted on 01/11/2019 6:34:46 AM PST by Kaslin
Anyone catching the television ads for the Dick Cheney-trashing movie "Vice" found a heavy promotion of the surprising six Golden Globe nominations it received from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The affirmation also became the "news hook" for press interviews with the director and the actors to weaponize it politically.
Sadly for them, only actor Christian Bale won an award, for gaining 40 pounds and talking out of the side of his mouth like the Penguin in a Batman movie. This year's Golden Globes were refreshingly devoid of obnoxious left-wing fulminating -- except for Bale. He felt it appropriate to sneer as he accepted his award, "Thank you to Satan, for giving me inspiration on how to play this role." He also joked he will now portray a series of "charisma-free a--holes," possibly Sen. Mitch McConnell. At least it's amusing that Bale won the award for best actor in a musical or comedy. No one should be confused about whether this film is based in reality ... even though the commercials claim it is.
The Hollywood left has convinced itself that somehow Cheney is the lowest form of immoral human slime, a war criminal worse than Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden combined. "Vice" screenwriter and director Adam McKay, a self-described socialist whose filmmaking resume bursts with Will Ferrell comedies like "Anchorman," even placed Cheney above President Trump on the liberal Evil Meter. The death of every man, woman and child in the Iraq War was President George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's fault. "Don't get me wrong, Trump is dispiriting and upsetting and we've essentially shot a drunk orangutan into the office," McKay proclaimed to The Daily Beast. "But it's nowhere near the damage these guys did."
n a new "Six Questions" interview in the back of Time magazine, McKay proclaimed that Cheney became a danger to society, an international menace: "What intrigued me was that he wasn't a sociopathic monster in the beginning. ... Yet somehow that ambition, that American Dream, became something much darker." Time interviewer Eliza Berman raised no objection to this character assassination.
McKay's passionate loathing, alongside his arrogant belief in his own wicked sense of humor, resulted in a mess. Let's face it. This pile of Golden Globe nominations -- including one for best picture in a musical or comedy -- reeked more of political activism than it did artistic judgment. Time magazine's own film critic, Stephanie Zacharek, denounced it as faux art. "(I)f 'Vice'... really is aimed at adults, why does it treat its audience like idiots?" she asked. "McKay seems to think we can't be trusted to grasp what he sees as Cheney's Machiavellian villainy unless he spells it out in cartoon language. There are no actual cartoons in 'Vice,' but McKay packs in so much figurative Wile E. Coyote anvil dropping that there may as well be."
Who would waste their money on this, except leftists fully immersing themselves in 132 minutes of hate?
Zacharek wished for a movie that "could have been an awesome Christmas gift to Dick Cheney haters everywhere." The movie debuted on Christmas Day. What sicko celebrates the world-redeeming birth of Christ with a hate-Cheney movie?
The movie isn't a box-office flop, like Michael Moore's latest bombs. It has grossed over $30 million on 2,500 screens in its first two weeks, according to Box Office Mojo. But the left can stick a sock in the notion that it is the world's guardian of humanity, unity and love while it's subsidizing this socialist smear canister at the Cineplex.
Bale is mentally ill. What was the purpose of the movie? To make money off of liberal lunatics. That is their ‘base’. In fact, what is Hollywood’s mission? To entertain? No, to make money for their incredibly decadent lifestyles, whatever it takes.
I can’t wait until they do one of these on Obama. I can see the scene with him telling Reggie Love, “I wish I knew how to quite you.”
My husband really wanted to see this movie and I grudgingly went along. What a hate fest! Walking out when it was over, all I could say was ‘wow, I guess I didn’t realize that Cheney was responsible for everything vil done to the USA in the last 25 years’. The movie didn’t just trash Dick, but also really trashed Lynn and Liz. Of course, there was one bright light in this Hollywood bash movie, and as you might have guessed, it was Mary, the Cheney’s lesbian daughter. She was the only one portrayed with any humanity. And at the end, there was a line on the black screen that Mary and Liz aren’t talking anymore due to Liz’s lack of support for gay marriage. But the GG’s are only voted on by the Foreign press. Watch for Vice to get more awards at the Oscars as it will have much support from the Rightist hating actors.
Why did they decide to pick on the #2 man? Musta got tired of W, a decent man by any standard. Turned the other cheek way too often.
When even the movie trailers suck, you know it’s gonna be a dod. lol
dod = dog...........ruined the whole comment :^(
Dream on........
Call Me By Your Name on Brokeback Mountain, Reg.................
I thought it was ‘DUD’........LOL!....................
Weren't you around for 41's Presidency? Cheney was always the "adult in the room" giving all of the commands, and Dubya was the doofus figurehead.
He certainly got the Satan part right. He was inspired by Satan, and of course it was all lies.
There would be more money made if they turned their cameras towards Hillary bill Obama and the criminal rat party. Here is where the story really is
That too! :^)
AND a “pizza chit”.
i read it as dud... not dog...
didn’t ruin the whole comment, just about 73% of it.
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27%....I’lll take it. lol
Was talked into the movie.
I actually came out liking Cheney more.
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