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First 'W.' Teaser Paints All-Star Portrait of Happy-Go-Lucky Megalomaniac
Posted by STV at 3:50 AM on July 29, 2008
"You're a Bush! Act like one!" So begins the heartwarming teaser for W., Oliver Stone's lighting-round satire of George W. Bush's trajectory from hard-partying Texas schlub to dynastic political ringleader. And if we ever doubted the likelihood this would be a satire, one run through the casting roll call — a montage of furrowed brows and hammy smiles clearly drawing from the influential opening credits of Benson — all but confirms the variety-show flavor of the administration's antics. From Truman Capote as Karl Rove to Thandie Newton making her best law-circumventing face as Condoleezza Rice, this is shaping up to as the shrewdest political comedy of the season. NB: If our make-up looked as half-assed as Jeffrey Wright's does here as Colin Powell, we probably would have overturned the wrap party, too. Go easy on him, Shreveport. [via First Showing]
"You're a Bush! Act like one!" So begins the heartwarming teaser for W., Oliver Stone's
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LoveHandles
Posted 4:41 AM 29/7/08
@WGARefugee: both were good films. If high.
LoveHandles
jerebo
Posted 4:40 AM 29/7/08
@Breadbowl: that's not Parker Posey. It's Elizabeth Banks.
jerebo
WGARefugee
Posted 4:40 AM 29/7/08
@metroville: Hmm, good point. I admit to forgetting all about Bringing Out the Dead whereas the hackneyed stain of The Aviator seems almost indelible.
WGARefugee
IamXenu!
Posted 4:39 AM 29/7/08
BENSON would make a better movie.
IamXenu!
metroville
Posted 4:36 AM 29/7/08
@WGARefugee: I suggest you visit your Netflix queue and throw in a little piece of something called Bringing Out the Dead.
metroville
WGARefugee
Posted 4:29 AM 29/7/08
Lookalike actors notwithstanding, this looks about as incisive as The Aviator, which, not coincidentally, was the worst film Scorcese has yet made.
WGARefugee
Losin_it
Posted 4:27 AM 29/7/08
Why do I feel there will be no Oliver Stone production about President Obama. Probably because sheer and never ending perfection makes for very poor drama.
Losin_it
Huge Tracts of Land
Posted 4:19 AM 29/7/08
Booze, funnels and our president! I've never been so proud.
Huge Tracts of Land
Breadbowl
Posted 4:18 AM 29/7/08
I think they're gonna need Bruce Vilanch to punch this one up a little bit. I'm crossing my fingers that Parker Posey plays Laura as a gum chompin' trailer park queen bee...
Breadbowl
NoWireHangers
Posted 4:18 AM 29/7/08
I don't know if this movie has the ability to shock or frighten. The day-to-day reality of W's presidency is horrific enough. I've long grown numb to it, especially since it doesn't seem he will ever be held accountable for any of the havoc he has wreaked.
NoWireHangers
Breadbowl
Posted 5:08 AM 29/7/08
@jerebo Thanks Jerebo...I like the idea of Parker Posey as Laura Bush. Is that Sally Field as Babs Bush?
Breadbowl
Huge Tracts of Land
Posted 4:56 AM 29/7/08
Great, now I can't get the damn Benson theme out of my head.
Huge Tracts of Land
Victor Ward
Posted 4:56 AM 29/7/08
I would be offended were I asked to play Barbara Bush without the requirement of prosthetics.
Victor Ward
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 5:22 AM 29/7/08
Come November, I think I'm gonna be in exactly the right mood for this.
Has a bio-pic ever been made about a sitting president before?
Sweet Panda Love
Cam/ron
Posted 5:40 AM 29/7/08
A promising B-movie is to be expected. But then again, the entire Bush presidency has been an eight-year long B-movie on par with the work of Roger Corman, George Romero, and possibly Russ Meyer.
Cam/ron
gwendolyn
Posted 6:10 AM 29/7/08
@Sweet Panda Love: If you want to count 'PT-109" with Cliff Robertson, which shows to be a 1963 production in IMDB.
I saw the 'leaked' trailer for 'W' on a lefty blog earlier and my first reaction was 'Shit! This is a real movie after all', then fascination that the trailer ends with the song 'What a Wonderful World', the Nat King Cole song, which always makes me feel like slashing my wrists and bleeding out in a cheap motel room.
The only hope for this thing, for me at least, is if Oliver Stone required Josh Brolin to do the nude bar top dance that W is alleged to have performed at a frat party many, many years ago...
gwendolyn
sassypants
Posted 6:01 AM 29/7/08
"You're a Bush! Act like one!" sounds like a more likely scenario as to why he started the current war than that whole "we're looking for WMDs," nonsense.
sassypants
kylo4
Posted 6:36 AM 29/7/08
The movie looks really bad based off of this trailer, though I've never been a fan of Oliver Stone, sharing the same distaste for him that Quentin Tarantino does.
kylo4
lalaland13
Posted 6:33 AM 29/7/08
The trailer looks like a bad SNL skit extended to movie length. It just looks badly acted and written. And I'm sick of Bush. I sure as heck don't want to watch a movie about him.
lalaland13
lalaland13
Posted 6:51 AM 29/7/08
@Sweet Panda Love: Touche. And now that I think about it, the whole Bush presidency was poorly acted and badly written.
lalaland13
Cam/ron
Posted 6:47 AM 29/7/08
@Sweet Panda Love: Yeah,it's basically a goodnight kiss to one strange presidency.
Cam/ron
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 6:39 AM 29/7/08
@lalaland13: @kylo4: It doesn't need to be good to be deliciously cathartic.
Sweet Panda Love
LLH
Posted 6:59 AM 29/7/08
this stuff just seems to write itself....
- (the mind of oliver stone)
just thinking what i'm thinking he was thinking.
LLH
WGARefugee
Posted 8:11 AM 29/7/08
@lalaland13: The script looked good in New York--must have turned to shit over Denver.
WGARefugee
Omelas
Posted 1:30 PM 30/7/08
This reminds me of a recent interview where Gary Oldman says that Oliver Stone won't cast him anymore because Stone thinks Oldman is "losing [his] edge".
Pot, kettle?
Omelas