Ho-hum. Jeff and I saw it last night. With all the hype that's been going on ever since this movie was cast you'd think it would have packed more of a wallop. It didn't. I just got the feeling that Oliver Stone couldn't figure out which W he wanted us to see, so what we ended up with was a picture of a bumbling but sincere idiot. And Dubya ain't that. Well, maybe he is that, but he's so much more (or less). Why did Oliver Stone want us to like the guy?
Anyway, the whole thing fell flat. And the ending.... just ended. I hate movies that do that.
Afterward Jeff and I went for coffee and tea, which was much more interesting.
Another movie I saw recently also fell flat, but not as flatly. City of Ember was visually interesting, and Bill Murray was fun to watch, but mostly it was slow moving and not that interesting. So there ya go.
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Thanks. That's what the paper said, too. Have you seen "Religilous"?
I've seen Religilous. It was ok. He wandered around pissing people off which was sometimes funny and sometimes just cringe inducing. Nobody changed anybody's mind. The end was ham-handed; kind of "Let's not let the smoking gun of religion be a nuclear cloud."
I like Bill Maher sorta, but I think he has a couple of blind spots. The first is women and the second is his ego. Whenever he tells a joke that falls flat he blames the audience, like "Gee did that go over your heads?" It never occurs to him it just might not be a funny joke. And he confuses being quick with a quip with being thoughtful.
And he insists that agnostic is the reasonable way to be, which I don't get. How does reason triumph if you admit the possibility of any kind of sky fairy, old man with a long white beard or nebulous new-age energy blob?
Bill Maher is convinced he's an intellectual, but I'm agnostic on that subject.
-dean
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