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“W” – Catch the crazy antics of Junior, Laura, Babs and Poppy! When it comes to family squabbling, this black sheep son is anything but sheepish! Sundays on the Lifetime Network. (8 PM, 7 PM Central)
[youtube keeps shredding the trailer, but then it re-generates like a lizard's tail. You can find it in HD on Moviefone too.]
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1 Feb 2012
It takes a lot to shake the tree of discontent where the Oscars are concerned. Most film critics and media writers feel it’s borderline irresponsible to even care about such a silly contest, let alone write about it. The Oscars are then left to the hardcore fans of the Oscars, …
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29 Jan 2012
THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES Best Male Actor in a Leading Role ★ Jean Dujardin, The Artist Best Female Actor in a Leading Role ★ Viola Davis, The Help Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role ★ Christopher Plummer, Beginners Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role ★ Octavia Spencer, The Help …
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29 Jan 2012
Right about now, Harvey Weinstein is looking like the King of the World. For the second year in a row, he’s carried a Best Picture winner through to victory. The first film required more work, as The Social Network was creaming The King’s Speech at every major critics award in …
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28 Jan 2012
There were many different directions the Oscar race for 2011 could have gone but didn’t. They could have honored Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which is better than at least five of the current Best Picture nominees, and the darkest of its long and fruitful series. They could have …
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27 Jan 2012
The actors will chime in with their favorites this Sunday when the Screen Actors Guild awards unfurl. We can expect little surprises, I’m guessing, as the buzz for some contenders simply overwhelms the competition. It feels like a natural progression towards Oscar, this. And much will be decided. For …
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26 Jan 2012
It’s really hard, isn’t it, to defend, spend time on, invest any emotion on an institution that could continually, and repeatedly, up to and including this year, make such ridiculous choices when the better films are staring them right in the face. Blame the public too, blame the critics especially, …
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25 Jan 2012
If I could call back All those days of yesteryear I would never grow old And I’d never be poor But darlin, those days are gone. Stop dreaming And live on in the future But darling, don’t look back And so it was with this that the 2011 Oscar race …
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25 Jan 2012
Major props must go out to Anne Thompson for sticking hard to Tree of Life and never wavering. Thompson knew that the passionate support for the film (boomer nostalgia cum familial masterpiece) would drive it over when it was all about the number one votes. My biggest mistake was assuming …
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22 Jan 2012
Back in 1999, when Oscarwatch.com first began, the highest of priorities was to correctly predict the Oscar race. There was only one other site, for the most part, that predicted the Oscars – Tom O’Neil’s GoldDerby.com. Tom’s site collected mostly film critics who lined up to give their Oscar …
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20 Jan 2012
There are few movies that feel like they could give The Artist some heat: Hugo and The Descendants. Perhaps, as many a Tweeter will tell you, “it’s been The Artist since Cannes.” And okay, fine. Maybe. What makes The Artist such a threat? It is loved by many, hated by …
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Looks like a rejected pilot for Nobody Loves Dubya to me, but maybe you guys have a better title.
Or maybe I’m wrong and it’ll turn out to be more than a Parade of Prosthetic Noses.
Maybe this reflects poorly upon me, but I actually thought that was a pretty good trailer.
Is the “shot-with-a-handycam” look supposed to enhance the home-movie verisimilitude? (oh, I get it: that’s the Barney-cam.)
At least now we know how Thandie Newton would’ve looked if Matt Dillon had left her face-down in the puddle of gasoline.
Why does Tony Blair have metrosexual eyebrows?…
That’s Tony Bair? I thought it was the mayor of Gotham City.
I was skeptical of this project at first because, quite unlike Richard Nixon, Bush isn’t a very interesting character. He’s just some Bible-thumping trust fund baby. That said, this trailer is enjoyable. The one thing you can count on with Stone is that he usually pulls together an impeccable cast. Here, we have Brolin, Cromwell, Dreyfuss, Jones (underrated), and Wright. That’s pretty solid.
It’s up for an Oscar for Makeup for 2 reasons. 1. He does not look like Josh Brolin. 2. He does not look like Batman.
but why does he look like Martin Landau?
I’m counting James Cromwell for Best Support.
Yup. Toby Jones was awesome in that other Capote movie—Infamous.
It doesn’t look that bad. It actually does look like they will try to make an objective look at his life instead of just making fun of him. One thing that bothers me is the Ioan Gruffudd casting as Tony Blair. Michael Sheen was amazing in The Queen and has played the role twice. Why attempt to fix what already works.
Totally agree about Blair. Gruffudd (who I really enjoyed in “Amazing Grace” by the way) seems woefully miscast. But Ryan, I totally dig Thandie’s turn as Rice. So inexplicably “Mommie Dearest.”
Hope you’re right RichardA.
[penciling in Heath Ledger vs James Cromwell in the first bracket... Heath automatically advances to next round.]
I learned a lot from the trailer already.
Yale sweatshirt, check.
Drunk driving, check.
Domineering daddy, check.
Dialogue exposition bullet points: tail-chasing, failed oil rigs, Air National Guard, one-second mentions, check.
John Adams is lucky it’s not competing against this level of historical insight.
GW41: Want an ass-whooping?
GW43: Try it, old man.
mathematical probability of such an exchange ever taking place = approx. infinitesimal
I don’t know if people would be able to buy Martin Sheen as Blair in yet another movie with James Cromwell as a public figure who is currently still alive. People would probably sit through the film wondering when the hell Helen Mirren was going to show up.
“People would probably sit through the film wondering when the hell Helen Mirren was going to show up.”
If only, Saltire Flower. Stone probably jealous as hell that Stephen Frears swiped his thunder as the Andrew Morton of bio-flicks.
I guess my problem with having such a distinguished cast involved is because with 30 minutes of GWB gambling and chasing tail, and another 30 minutes of oedipal daddy-son stuff, that leaves about 50 minutes for the other 10 stars to divide between them. 5 minute cameos are not my idea of meaty roles.
But hey, maybe you guys have noticed that my excitement over this movie is inversely proportional to my enthusiasm for that other Bush movie (TDK), so I’ll just hush.
Pop psychology reduced to Poppy psychology. Zzzzz.
“You’re a Bush! Act like one!”
I cringed when I heard that line. This just looks terrible. It looks just like that TV movie about the Reagans a couple years back, only this doesn’t have the excuse of being made-for-TV. I’ll wait until I see it to make a final diagnosis (who knows, W. could surprise me) but after the flop of Alexander and the Lifetime movie-of-the-week that was World Trade Center I’m this close to declaring Oliver Stone a complete has-been hack.
the W. trailer is also currently featured at The Oscar hut Blog as well for those who feel like watching it again
http://www.theoscarhut.blogspot.com
ha, Dorothy! Now there’s a movie!
Rice: Did you scrub the yellowcake intelligence today? DID YOU?
Bush: Yes, Condi.
Rice: Yes, Condi what?
Bush: Yes, Condi Dearest.
Rice: When I told you to call me that, I wanted you to mean it.
All it needs is a laugh track.
Come on, this looks awesome!
THIS CANNOT BE REAL.
IT JUST CAN’T.
Eh.
I hope the movie doesn’t introduce the characters with the names like that.
I’d like to think there’s a method to this madness, but as of now it’s looking like “Nixon” taken to middle school.
NIXON is one of the ten best films of the 1990s, so we can only hope.
What, no one brought up Dreyfuss with his hundred pounds of make-up on him?
Scary
BTW, Don’t count a movie out when SCOTT goddman GLENN is Don Rumsfeld. Seriously, why hate on the lead of THE KEEP?*
*=Your random movie reference of the day!
I started reading the first few pages of the script today, mind wide open. I had to stop by page 10 or so because it was turning my stomach. Not from anything overtly gruesome (other than the gross lack of subtlety, artistry, accuracy, drama or effective comedy), just because the writing was really, really bad. I’m determined to get through it, but I’m kind of dreading going back to it. So far, it’s most resembling some sort of weird hybrid between a bad SNL skit and an early 80′s movie of the week. Maybe it gets better. But I’ve got a real bad feeling about this one.
Re “Condi Dearest,” trust Ryan to improve on a joke ten-fold. You owe me another keyboard.
It’s definitely one of my favorites from the ’90s, Marshall, and my #1 film of 1995.
I love Stone’s Nixon and consider it his masterwork.
It would make sense to dumb things down to a certain extent considering the subject here… Bush is certainly not the tragic figure Nixon is, and that’s why this project seems more like Ashby’s Being There than the epic tragedy of Stone’s last look at an American president.
I’m sorry, but I want another trailer. this didn’t do it for me.
All I can think about now is MADtv…
- Too early for a Bush film. But you know what? The trailer is OK, and me feelings are teeling that, this might be good.
- “Holly Cow”. I noticed only after RRA choked remember: that Richard Dreyfuss as Cheeney!
That trailer blew my mind. Too much and too soon.
If “W” is not an unqualified hit, maybe the Pentagon could loop this trailer for Middle East detainees who’ve been renditioned — an updated version of what U.S. forces did in the ’80s: unending gale-force blasts of rock-’n-roll into the compound of disfavored Panamanian president Manuel Noriega.
“We’re sorry, this video is no longer available”
fail.
I really think this looks interesting. Why is people so set on this movie being ridiculous? I don’t get it. Stone has proved that he is capable of making biographical films. So why not about this guy?
haha, Tufas!
Maybe the suckification of that trailer dawned on somebody. Sorry you missed it. I’ll look for another source.
[ok, found a link to another one. Watch fast before whoever censored the last one eats this one too.]
Dreyfuss’ Cheney from that one shot looks horrendously as a case of too-much-makeup this side of Laurence Olivier as Douglas MacArthur in INCHON.
Or maybe I’m being just a little bitch today, but considering all things, that trailer wasn’t really that BAD guys.
Movie may still be a train wreck, but once again, why hate a movie where Jeffrey Wright is Colin Powell? Shit, Powell was never as cool as Wright.
Then again, neither was Rumsfeld against Glenn.
I thought this trailer looked very interesting….although, I’m a Canadian looking at from a different perspective….we knew way longer than 8 years ago, that this guy was going to drive your country into the ground….I think the cast is amazing and my interest is definitely piqued.
Beside my political perceptions, I also think the trailer looks like a Limetime-TV-Film. Maybe I could wrong, after all, Nixon is one of the ten best Films in 1995.
I think the ultimate problem is that when you have a villian in a film, if it’s balanced, a director trys to dig down and see what happened to make an individual evolve into whatever demon they have become, aka. Hannible Lector, Eckhart in Your Friends and Neighbors and the list goes on.
The problem here is that Bush unfortunately is just stupid. Sorry if you love him-he may be a “likable guy,” but he’s ignorant and so intellectually unequiped, that there’s no other reasoning behind how he has basically dismantled our foreign policy, destroyed the economy, given the gas company free reign to gouge us and cheapened and prostituted the constitution.
There is no story-he was a spoiled, drunk, failure as a son to George H. That’s it.
That’s the problem everyone is having, I mean, actually what do you do with that? We already have the Jim Carrey comedies. That’s more than enough.
No Ryan,
An examination of the collective Consciousness of the 47 % of the voting public who may still not feel the shame of placing this parade of prosthetic humanoids into executive power, twice. Hurray for Hollywood!
Alexander, Nixon, JFK, Platoon..all epics…..
Oh, but by the way please ask Mr. Stone…..
I thought “W” is for Waylon & Willie, not Jr. Shithead!!
Actually, I thought that teaser was pretty good. I’m looking forward to this one. I’m glad Stone seems to be going for a dark comedy.