"This movie ('W') would have to be 12 hours long to include every gaffe & catastrophe"

[pacalo]

is what I told an elderly black woman who asked my hubby & me what we thought about the movie. She was going to the next showing & she was very amused by our comments. Hubby said the movie was too sympathetic, although the music at the latter part implied tragedy.

The movie was too kind to poppy & Babs, although her character admitted that Junior had her short temper & big mouth. Poppy came off looking like an over-taxed saint who had his hands full correcting Junior's mistakes & doing whatever he could to try to set up the goofball for success.

As an admirer of the movies "JFK" & "Nixon", Stone could have done much, much better. Hubby thinks Stone was stifled from doing a more adequate job.

As another DUer said last week, save your money & wait until it comes on cable to see it. Shame, shame, Oliver Stone; you missed the mark bigtime on this tragedy-of-our-lifetime.

[live love laugh]

1. I don't want to see it--ever. I lived it. nt

[Mira]

2. It was a disappointment. I fell asleep twice. Unheard of for me

[newfie11]

3. I am glad to hear it was boring

Our movie theater here is owned by repugs and refuse to show it. They also didn't show Sicko.:mad:

[pacalo]

4. Not only was it a tad boring & tedious, it focused only on the Iraq chapter.

I believe I remember Stone saying during a p.r. interview that he focused only on Iraq because, having killed so many people, it was his most serious mistake.

Scrapping the Constitution here at home, as well as the Geneva Conventions, is worth just as much focus.

You didn't miss anything we haven't heard before, trust me. Stone laid a goose egg with this one.

One other thing: If Stone chose to have this movie focus on the dynamics between father/son & how it led to Junior's decision to go to Iraq, what would be Stone's psychological explanation for how the W-knows-best-what's-good-for-this-country attitude came about? How could a lifelong deadbeat/screw-up evolve into a stubborn know-it-all personality, despite each endeavor crashing into disaster?