W
Did anyone else find this film spectacularly bad? Because I did.
It seems to me that Oliver Stone lazily compiled a list of every soundbite from the Bush administration, cobbled them together in a simplistic narrative, and hoped for the best. The part of the film documenting Bush's young adulthood worked a little better, but still was so cliched and lame that it was a wonder why Stone even bothered.
I do believe that in the coming years, someone will make a good film about the Bush years; after all, the era was rife with intrigue. Yet W wasn't it. I'd like to give Stone the benefit of the doubt here and blame this film on its release during the actual Bush presidency, but I can't; it's just a lousy movie, and a waste of several good actors.
March 15th, 2009 - 00:10
I completely agree, but I don’t think the film was terrible. It was just unnecessary for anybody who has paid attention over the past 8 years. It might have worked 10 years from now when all of this isn’t so fresh in our minds.