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Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Josh Brolin, Richard Dreyfuss, James Cromwell, Elizabeth Banks, Toby Jones & Ellen Burstyn
Genre: Docudrama
Rated: PG-13
Tag line: Get Ready
Amazon Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
My Rating: 3 stars
Plot: The life of George W. Bush: from his "struggles" growing up and living his father's disproving shadow to his quagmire of a war in Iraq.
Review: It's no secret that former president and war-criminal George W. Bush had no business in politics. His eight-year term went from low approval ratings to high approval ratings to really low approval ratings. Nothing this man ever said amounted to anything other than horse crap. So why didn't I like this movie more? Because Oliver Stone is an opportunist. Knowing that Americans had enough of President Bush's antics, he set out to make a movie, released during an election year in order to remind people what we just went through, as if a reminder needed to be issued. I'm a far cry from being a Bush supporter - I was in high school, but I was stupid in high school (I live in Texas for kristsake) - but this movie was entirely unnecessary.
With that in mind Josh Brolin's portrayal of George W. Bush was more of a caricature of what the man was and is, which plays on our emotions because most of us wish we could undo the last eight years of our history. (On a side note, however, I should add how my girlfriend first thought the movie was a comedy rather than a drama, figuring it was just another spoof movie during an election year.) However, not all the acting was so bad. You have to give it up to Richard Dreyfuss's immortalizing of Dick Cheney - he really did hit on the button. Don't forget James Cromwell's George H. W. Bush, the ever disappointed father of his good-for-nothing son who cops out in the end in order to save face in the Bush name.
The movie was tailor made for a nation who is still mourning the lost of its power - meaning, the power to think for ourselves, as you can see we are very well stocked with war muscle. I suppose if it weren't for the fact that the movie was made too soon, it may have done a better job of recreating a historical blunder.
Review: It's no secret that former president and war-criminal George W. Bush had no business in politics. His eight-year term went from low approval ratings to high approval ratings to really low approval ratings. Nothing this man ever said amounted to anything other than horse crap. So why didn't I like this movie more? Because Oliver Stone is an opportunist. Knowing that Americans had enough of President Bush's antics, he set out to make a movie, released during an election year in order to remind people what we just went through, as if a reminder needed to be issued. I'm a far cry from being a Bush supporter - I was in high school, but I was stupid in high school (I live in Texas for kristsake) - but this movie was entirely unnecessary.
With that in mind Josh Brolin's portrayal of George W. Bush was more of a caricature of what the man was and is, which plays on our emotions because most of us wish we could undo the last eight years of our history. (On a side note, however, I should add how my girlfriend first thought the movie was a comedy rather than a drama, figuring it was just another spoof movie during an election year.) However, not all the acting was so bad. You have to give it up to Richard Dreyfuss's immortalizing of Dick Cheney - he really did hit on the button. Don't forget James Cromwell's George H. W. Bush, the ever disappointed father of his good-for-nothing son who cops out in the end in order to save face in the Bush name.
The movie was tailor made for a nation who is still mourning the lost of its power - meaning, the power to think for ourselves, as you can see we are very well stocked with war muscle. I suppose if it weren't for the fact that the movie was made too soon, it may have done a better job of recreating a historical blunder.
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