"W" trailer now online (Oliver Stone's Bush film)

[Twilight]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJh7Md5KuWc

This is leaked, so get it while you can ...


Hopefully we'll not have to move this thread to TNZ.

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

Looks interesting, surprisingly good in fact. I had no interest in this movie until i started hearing about how it focused on the relationship between W and HW, which is pretty much the only part of W Bush's story that intrigues me. I like the last shot of him jogging, looking around like he's paranoid. Though he probably shoulda waited until W was gone from office just to divorce it a little from current politics.

I didn't see Oliver Stone's 9/11 firefighter movie so I don't really know what he is up to these days or if he's still any good.

 

[Aragorn]

The movie didn't even start shooting until this spring. Politics is exactly why the studio is rushing it out. Stone said it would cost quite a lot of extra money to hurry up the film for a 2008 release, so there you go.

 

[TheBrew]

That looked better than expected, but I still think that it's a bad idea.

 

[Twilight]

I completely don't buy James Cromwell as H. W. Bush.

I betcha Dreyfuss can pull a dead-on Cheney, though. And Thandie Newton didn't look too off as Rice.

 

[Tom Servo]

Was that Dreyfuss as Cheney? It looked it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

That looked better than expected, but I still think that it's a bad idea.

An Oliver Stone movie about Bush...yeah, you know *that's* gonna be fair.

 

[Aragorn]

Richard Dreyfuss is as left-winged as they come. So when he played a Republican in The American President, he was doing the mustache-twirling, mwuh-ha-ha-ha routine to the bone. Was the worst thing in an otherwise awesome movie. I wonder if he'll actually try to act this time around.

 

[MikeGainer]

http://filmonic.com/ - has the trailer posted. Get it while its still hot.

 

[JacksonArcher]

I don't buy the leads (Josh Brolin and James Cromwell). I'm sure they'll deliver fine performances, but they could have done a lot more to make them look like their offscreen counterparts.

 

[Goliath]

Looks interesting--especially if it really does focus on President Bush's early career, and how he became president, rather than on his presidency itself.

I think an interesting place to stop would be with the president sitting in that classroom on 9/11, reading "My Pet Goat" with those kids, before the news arrived.

 

[Gepard]

I'm sorry, but there is not a single person in that lineup who looks like their real world counterpart. Cromwell as Bush Senior?

 

[Frontier]

Why didn't they get that guy from Leno who looks EXACTLY like Bush to play him? I mean, really? Lots of good look-a-likes out there. True, they likely can't act...

 

[The Nth Doctor]

They really should have gotten Will Ferrell to play Bush Jr.

Seriously, I have a lot of doubts about this movie and I'm no supporter of him.

 

[ParticleMan]

I think that W the movie will suffer from the fact that a lot of times, moviegoers don't want to go see at the cinema what they can see on the news at home. If 80% of the public disapproves of Bush, why would they want to go plunk down the dough to watch a movie about him, regardless of the political slant of said movie? I think the general feel right now is that people are just ready to move Bush off the political scene (much like people tend to feel about any 2nd term president) and won't go sit for 2 hours watching people pretend to be him and his administration.

Had Stone waited 10 years, maybe then, but I just don't see it being wildly popular right now.

 

[TheMasterOfOrion]

I don't buy the leads (Josh Brolin and James Cromwell). I'm sure they'll deliver fine performances, but they could have done a lot more to make them look like their offscreen counterparts.

I don't know, I kind of get a bit tired of the rule where the guy playing the President in a movie almost has to look exactly like the guy. Acting ability is more important IMHO

 

[Captain Ryan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJh7Md5KuWc

This is leaked, so get it while you can ...


Hopefully we'll not have to move this thread to TNZ.

yea, it has been removed by YouTube because of copyright violations

 

[Aragorn]

Surprised that Anthony Hopkins isn't play George H.W. Bush and Gary Sinise George W. Bush since they've played everyone else in human history already.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Why didn't they get that guy from Leno who looks EXACTLY like Bush to play him? I mean, really? Lots of good look-a-likes out there.

Such as Timothy Bottoms, who has played W twice before - once in a comedy (That's My Bush!) and also in a drama (DC 9/11: Time of Crisis).

 

[ManOnTheWave]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJh7Md5KuWc

This is leaked, so get it while you can ...


Hopefully we'll not have to move this thread to TNZ.

yea, it has been removed by YouTube because of copyright violations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEyJ2kdaaTQ

Get it while it's still hot.