How Dubya Met Laura, Stone-Style
Filed under: Politics, Trailers and Clips
There are girls swinging on a red swingset and piles of potluck food piled high on the tables, all nestled into a wood-fence-lined back yard. According to Oliver Stone's W., this is how George W. Bush met Laura Welch -- the girl who says: "I read. I smoke. I admire." No wonder the two ended up together!
The above is a clip about their meeting, which has popped up over at CNN. Now I know that the big question surrounding this film is whether people will go to see it, or ignore it, kind of like the proliferation of Iraq war films out there. I have to say, if W. tanks when it hits screens on October 17, it would be a waste. The film looks entertaining, it has a distinct life to it, and it would be a shame to miss how the killer cast takes on their roles -- Brolin, Banks, Cromwell, Burstyn, Newton, Dreyfuss, Wright, Glenn, Gruffudd, and Bradford.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-29-2008 @ 5:54PM
John B said...
If it's from Oliver Stone, then I'm sure that the accuracy is questionable at best. Look! Is that JFK in the background?
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8-29-2008 @ 5:59PM
malren said...
I doubt any moderate Dems care about this movie from a political standpoint, and most of any flavor of the right already know it will be purely for entertainment value...there's no chance it will be even close to a biopic. Just more of Stone's stoned delusions and popular netroots tropes brought to the screen. So the right won't waste their time or money and half of the left couldn't be bothered with Stone's paranoid fantasies. It has a severely limited potential audience from the start. Michael Moore fans and DailyKos readers aren't gonna cut it. I do think certain political groups will buy blocks of tickets in major cities to try to prop it up. Weirdly, the theaters will be physically empty for those same showings.
It'll have a long tail in rental though. I'll watch it someday if only for the performances and cinematography, which will probably be great. Stone makes entertaining fiction. JFK is complete hogwash but a hell of a movie. Same for the Doors, Nixon...the list goes on and on.
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8-29-2008 @ 8:27PM
tom said...
I love how he goes back for more chips. even if most this movie isn't true, it looks like great stuff anyways.
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8-31-2008 @ 4:05AM
EatingPie said...
"...even if most this movie isn't true, it looks like great stuff anyways."
Wait, you actually said "even if"?
Okay, c'mon, Stone has basically said he hates Bush, and/or the Bush presidency. So I completely expect to be told what a total bozo Bush is, from beginning to end... and really, why would I want that? What purpose does that serve?
OTOH, if I subscribed to the Daily Kos, Huffington Post, Think Progress, and George all at once... I bet I'd love this!
-Pie
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8-31-2008 @ 12:19PM
AJ Wiley said...
Okay, that was actually really good.
I have a love for outrageous political statements, and I don't think anyone is going to an Oliver Stone Bush movie looking for facts. But nevertheless, this is beginning to look like a legitimately great movie instead of the great bad movie I thought it would be.
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9-02-2008 @ 5:36PM
Boat said...
I totally agree. Another waste of money for such a pointless picture. W's story is pretty tame until he got into the White House. Another cheap shot by a lib like Stone at stirring up more controversy during an election year. The right won't care and the left won't watch, you summed it up.
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