Mad Atoms

Oliver Stone has gotta be the biggest hack working today. Maybe he's a close second to Joel Schumacher, but at least Shumacher doesn't try to make his movies about anything other than being gay. Stone, on the other hand, fancies himself some big thinker or something. He’s directed one good scene his whole career- the one where Michael Douglas says greed is good. Then he made a shitty vietnam movie (followed by an even shittier one) and a 6 hour movie that said that JFK was killed by LBJ or some shit like that.

Oh, and Alexander. Words cannot do justice to how utterly wretched that one was.

At least with W he's asking the right question- how George W. Bush went from drunken reprobate to leader of the free world. But we already know the answer to that one: God. The End. In other words, this is the kind of movie we all want  to be great, but is gonna be so bad that we’ll all be so disappointed and probably end up voting for McCain just to spite Oliver Stone.

Most of these guys look nothing like the people they’re playing- except for Condi Rice. (I hope that doesn’t make me  racist.) Karl Rove, played by the guy that played Truman Capote that wasn’t Phillip Seymour Hoffman looks like a muppet (too bad Mark David Chapman’s still in prison, he’d be great). Dick Cheney, played by Richard Dreyfuss, has crazy poofy eye brows. Donald Rumsfield seems appropriately wrinkled, but otherwise looks nothing like the real Rummy.

James Cromwell didn’t even wanna try to do the Bush  Sr. accent? There wasn’t a kid in my middle school who couldn’t do a passable “not gonna do it.” I suppose it’s beneath the star of Babe to try to use a different voice that’s not his. Litttle known fact: James Cromwell was born in the U.S. but talks like a European snob because he hates freedom.

One last thought on this trailer: wow, an ironic use of What a Wonderful World. Never seen that before.