Liberal or Conservative, There's a Movie For You This Fall.................
As we get closer to Election Day - only 34 days away now - we have an influx of movies coming out of Hollywood to try and influence your vote. Yes, just like they dump a slew of Christmas movie every December, Hollywood wants to sway how you vote in November....
Now, while John McCain and Barack Obama are the ones running for the Presidency, they are not the targets of the attack movies coming out. No doubt whoever wins will soon have the bullseye on them soon enough. Nope, the guy running is offlimits for now, so they are hitting on two other targets - George W. Bush and Michael Moore. Sounds like they're about 4 years too late.. John Kerry surely must think so.....
The two movies coming out are from different sides, and different genres too. One is a comedy - if it ends up being funny, the other a drama that might end up being a comedy if it sucks enough.
This week, "An American Carol" will be in theatres nationwide. It's a Michael Moore meets Ebenezer Scrooge film, where a chubby filmmaker decides to push a ban on the 4th of July, only to be visited by the spirits of George Washington, Gen. Patton and the Angel of Death..... Moore is played by Kevin Farley, who is Chris Farley's brother. You probably have seen him on the Hertz ads, where he acts A LOT like his brother... Is it funny? Here's the trailer for your viewing...
The second one coming out is Oliver Stone's 'W" - his almost personal attack on George W. Bush, where he oversees his transformation from Yale Frat Boy to the Presidency...... It seems like this movie was just shot a couple months ago, but Stone's has worked overtime to get this into theaters before the Election. John McCain probably doesn't appreciate it, but movies that get rushed like this generally end up sucking. That's why they pay movies editors and cinematograhpers so much money.
Even though I disagree politically with him, I like most of Stone's movies. JFK and Wall Street are two of my favorites, although I don't know what Nixon had to do with JFK's assassination and Vietnam.... The Doors was pretty good too. How will it turn out? We'll see, but here's the trailer for it too....It hits theaters October 17th..
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2 comments:
An American Carol they showed at the RNC Convention several times to the Delegates around town
Seems like time to do a Michael Moore style film on Ollie Stone...
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