This is only shocking in a 'loud fat tourist at a solemn religious site' manner, but it did strike me that it's the President of the United States acting the part of the weird fat tourist.
I saw this movie last night. It's simplistic, boring, and presents a trite psychodrama between a slightly overbearing father and a good hearted son trying to live up to his Dad's expectations. Actually, it's worse. Every character is one-dimensional, from a flat and vaguely menacing Dick Cheney to a boringly lionized Colin Powell to a creepy Karl Rove to a stylized Condi.
It was just awful in every way. And I don't think it captured anything interesting about Bush and who he is. Blech.
... The reason I wanted to see it was because I don't think SNL or mainstream pop culture has really captured who Bush is, the needling cunning bully with the mind of a proudly ignorant suburban entitled Texan brat and his gang of legalistic greedy ideologues. I had hoped a gifted storyteller would provide a penetrating fictional portrayal of this guy and his world. Nope.
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