2 movies about Republicans.

[Enigma]

I had some interesting viewing tonight.

First I watched a documentary that followed the McCain campaign for the year 2008 and interviewed McCain voters.
Now, to avoid the notion that I'm suggesting this is how the bulk of the right operated, let me point out that the movie absolutely went out of it's way to find hard core fringe right wingers, who were basically nuts, and who used every word in the book for Obama, including racist comments that I won't repeat here or anywhere, compared him to Hitler, accused him of being a terrorist and even having personal links to Osama Bin Laden. It was nothing short of frightening. I mean bone chilling scary. I've never seen so many paranoid, maniacal, hateful, ill informed people commited to tape in one setting. Ugh, chills.

Now, while I hate that I have to fill threads like with this disclaimers, but such is life in this enviroment, ...yes, you could make the same movie about the fringe/crazy left.

Then, I watched Oliver Stone's "W."

It was crap.

i mean, it was really, really bad. It left me liking the real W. more than I did before. Never mind that it was incredibly innacurate, as all of Mr. Stones renditions of history are, (see JFK) ....I've made no secret about my dislike for Mr. Bush, but this movie was mean. It was just mean spirited, and it couldn't hide it. It reveled in Mr. Bush's suffering over dead American kids, it couldn't contain it's own joy at the failures in Iraq, and, equally distasteful at least to me, was that I think it stepped way over the line on it's no so subtle comments about Bush's personal relationship with his father.

*Spoiler* - But it ain't worth seeing anyway....

There is a dream sequence scene in which W. is sitting in a chair in the Oval, while his Father circles him telling him he has ruined the Bush name, he is a disgrace, he has thrown 200 years of family legacy down the toilet, etc, etc, etc.

Regardless of my own opinions on these matters, I found it hard to watch. I found it unneccesarily cruel. I think Oliver Stone should be ashamed of it, and himself. You could tell this story, and still be hyper critical of Bush if that is your stance, you could include all the failures, all the blunders, all the back ground, all the reasons that you feel W. was a disgrace, all the blood on the hands, without taking it to such a level in which it's obvious that the film maker takes pleasure in the suffering of the Bush family. I don't see the value in that. I think it's cheap. And I think these people, and all people, should take a lesson from the old school mafioso. Family is off limits. Anyone that takes pot shots at the Presidents wife, kids or parents because he or she disagrees with that Presidents policy has no place at the big boys table.

Off soap box.

The only good thing about W.? Dreyfuss absolutly nails the role of Dick Cheyney. It's almost scary....