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To: Brumar89 who wrote (141891)	10/19/2008 8:52:58 PM
From: Land Shark	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

"W" is a low-budget Stone movie. He threw it together in 4 months. It was one of his worst efforts. Not worth watching IMO. Some of the actors were robot-like (e.g. the woman playing Condi Rice). It'll surely be gone in 2 weeks. Incidentally, Stone was extremely kind to GWB.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (141891)	10/19/2008 10:20:10 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

I couldn't be bothered to see anything by Stone....

To: Brumar89 who wrote (141891)	10/19/2008 11:40:10 PM
From: Nicholas Thompson	Respond to of 173976

i would not waste a dime going to see any movie about GWB.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (141891)	10/20/2008 12:11:17 AM
From: Kevin Rose	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

We just saw W tonight. It pretty apparent why it's not doing well; it apparently was marketed to the wrong people. It is neither the movie that people think it is, nor the one the left thinks should be made. It would probably appeal more to people on the right or middle, as it was quite sympathetic with W. It paints a picture of an insecure, troubled youth (not unlike Obama), attempting to please unsupportive parents, who eventually finds religion and purpose. However, it claims he was led astray in Iraq by the usual suspects: Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz. An interesting, if overly long movie, that probably should have been made 10 years from now. If you can't stand giving Stone your movie, definitely catch it when it eventually comes to cable. The Iraq portion was quite like the excellent 'Path to War', which details how LBJ was similarly bamboozled into Vietnam. Catch that one to see how Democrats can be just as stupid and gullible as Republicans when it comes to be suckered into war. Oddly, in that movie, Bruce McGill (who plays George Tenet in W) plays George Ball, who argued against escalation in Vietnam...