Go see this movie! Life of David Gale

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[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

"The Life of David Gale" is the best movie I have seen in the last two years. It is about the death penalty and its opponents, and is VERY politically incorrect. I can't say more without giving away the plot. It got zero (0) stars from Ebert because he didn't agree with its politics! I was glued to my seat for two hours. Fellow Freepers will love this movie, and the time just rushes by.

[Hildy]

WOW...So what I'm getting from this movie is that this movie is so bad, that both liberals and conservatives will hate it? That's kinda funny.

[NovemberCharlie]

The Houston Chronicle panned it. Basically they accused the producers of doing an anti death-penalty movie and not bothering to dress up the message with a reasonable plot.

I have to admit I'm more intrigued by the movie now after having read that.

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

Wrong interpretation. The lousy lines you quoted are in the mouths of characters who turn out to be not so great...undercutting the lines with irony.

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

This movie or "Gods and Generals"? It was also panned by Ebert

[RushLake]

Politically incorrect and panned by Ebert--that settles it. I'm there. Thanks for helping with the decision.

Ebert also panned "Gods and Generals"--I didn't get all the way thru the hitpiece, but when he got to the part about how the poor oppressed africanhyphenamericans (I'm paraphrasing) didn't get attention in the movie for an hour and a half, that was it.

[eat it, gore]

I understand your point. But what are the chances that 90 percent of the brain-numbed movie-going population will see the irony?

The effect of this movie for shallow-thinking libs is this: right-wingers are blood-thirsty mongrels who love to see the lower-class members of society executed. That's the exact kind of message that Hollywood and the rest of the liberal elite love to spread -- y'know, the "Republicans want to deny school children their lunches and starve the elderly and burn down all trees" mantra. Say it often enough, and sheep will believe it. And plenty of sheep will walk out of that movie thinking, "Man, those right-wingers *are* scum!" and "Wow, those liberals sure believe in their causes! What courage!"

[dighton]

Are we allowed to post complete articles from the Chicago Sun-Times? Aren't they a Tribune company?

The Sun-Times is part of Hollinger International, which is not connected to the Tribune / LA Times / Washington Post.

[dighton]

But while Texas continues to warehouse condemned men with a system involving lawyers who are drunk, asleep or absent; confessions that are beaten out of the helpless, and juries that overwhelmingly prefer to execute black defendants instead of white ones, you can't make this movie.

Have a look, Roger, if you know how to count.

[Hessian]

Duh.

Ignore the goob behind the curtain.

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

The audience may be dumb, so you can't make subtle movies?

[BluH2o]

Just returned from seeing the movie with my wife. Excellent ... and riveting. Tricky ending ...

[eat it, gore]

Just because you saw irony (and I saw it as well) doesn't mean it was intended by the writer/producer/director.

I doubt that they were attempting to do anything subtle. This was an anti-capital punishment/anti-conservative movie, pure and simple. They bashed conservatives every chance they got, even comparing the Republican governor from Texas to Hitler. (Hmmm ... interesting that they chose a Republican governor from Texas to compare to Hitler ... was *that* supposed to be subtle?)

The fact that they accidently produced some irony via overjealous characters was just that: ironic. They tried to take the moral high ground and yet, because they were thinking with their emotions instead of their brains, ended up crashing and burning.

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

See post #71

[steve-b]

Tricky ending

According to the spoiler review I ran into, it's the one I saw coming a mile away the first time I saw the preview.

[eleni121]

Saw it - loved it. can't believe it got past the leftist Hollywood machine.

Discrinminating audiences (like some here at Freerepublic) need to be patient with the left wing cliches and mumbo jumbo at various ponts in the film - once past that, you will relish the joys of what happens.

I especially enjoyed the part where the liberal university elites are frolicking by the pool - and then a few scenes later the Hispanic kids playing in the mud of an empty, broken down one.

One more: the scene where the university administrator tells the Spacey character that he cannot teach any more becuase he is not politically correct enough! Priceless!

Thanks to Parker the director and esp.the screewriter. I cannot believe they got his past the left wing KGB censors...

[L.A.Justice]

Michael Medved gave this film one and 1/2 stars...I have to agree with him.
I found myself annoyed frequently during the film...Other poster already mentioned some anti-GOP comments made by Kate Winslet's assistant. Spacey character also states that William Bennett's BOOK OF VIRTUES was so boring that he fell asleep reading...
This film was anti-death penalty...You heard all the standard liberal arguments against death penalty in the film. Supporters of death penalty were not portrayed positively at all...
I just wonder why State of Texas cooperated with the filmmakers...(Look at the credits at the end.)

Watching this film was a miserable experience...

[eleni121]

I understand and I agree about being annoyed with the idiotic statements made by the goofy assistant. But as it turn out - he is a goofy assistant - everything he believed proved to be wrong. His statements about life and politics are so over the top silly that the audience laughs and distrusts him.

And in the end - the ending destroys and undermines the leftist positions. It mocks their hypocritical beliefs about the death penalty, criminality, Texas politics etc.

[dead]

Let me guess, Spacey plays a smarmy detached guy.

Usually, one must attend a Michael Douglas movie marathon to see such an utterly unimpressive range of thespian skills.

[Glenn]

Usually, one must attend a Michael Douglas movie marathon to see such an utterly unimpressive range of thespian skills.

Throw a rock, hit a critic.

[dead]

LOL! All the world's a stage.