![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
So recently I've decided I kind of hate Robin Williams. He's always in these annoying movies. He was stupid on the Bill Maher show a couple weeks ago (no, I mean really, he had nothing to say at all, he just twitched and grimaced). He seems to do the same schtick as he started thirty years ago except that neither he nor we believe in it anymore. And he's doing a tour with Chris Matthews -- how corrupt is that? And as Corpsy says, there's an ad for "Man of the Year" at the Drudge's site: which means that his apparatus is giving money to a known liar and manipulator. And if anybody has a say in what happens to the PR for his projects, it would have to be Robin WIlliams.
Well, I didn't promise Corpsy that I would boycott the movie, because of the difficulty in finding appropriate movies to take Gloria to, and so we went to it today (dog knows what I'm going to do tomorrow -- there's always something good at the art houses in Santa Cruz, but driving from Watsonville to Santa Cruz and back in the afternoon is not something I usually want to do, what with driving from Santa Cruz to Watsonville in the morning and back at night.
So the movie's pretty good. It's not what it looks like: it's actually a thriller. I guess to say what the mcguffin is would be too much of a spoiler. At first I was annoyed because this character everyone is saying is like Jon Stewart was really sort of dumb, like a Jay Leno or something, and his political analysis was idiotic. Later I realized this was a feature, not a bug, for reasons that develop towards the end of the movie. Lewis Black (or is he Louis? I forget) is way toned down from his real self, and it works, though there's this thing where you keep waiting for him to do his thing. Finally he does it a little, and it's a relief, but still. The movie does not say that a dumb-talking comedian makes a good president. It does deal with the problems of electronic voting without dealing with the fraud situation -- or maybe there is a fraud going on? There's an exchange late in the movie where it sounds like that is the case, but the rest of the movie says something else. Anyway, it's a fun movie, and more of an adventure than a comedy.
Well, I didn't promise Corpsy that I would boycott the movie, because of the difficulty in finding appropriate movies to take Gloria to, and so we went to it today (dog knows what I'm going to do tomorrow -- there's always something good at the art houses in Santa Cruz, but driving from Watsonville to Santa Cruz and back in the afternoon is not something I usually want to do, what with driving from Santa Cruz to Watsonville in the morning and back at night.
So the movie's pretty good. It's not what it looks like: it's actually a thriller. I guess to say what the mcguffin is would be too much of a spoiler. At first I was annoyed because this character everyone is saying is like Jon Stewart was really sort of dumb, like a Jay Leno or something, and his political analysis was idiotic. Later I realized this was a feature, not a bug, for reasons that develop towards the end of the movie. Lewis Black (or is he Louis? I forget) is way toned down from his real self, and it works, though there's this thing where you keep waiting for him to do his thing. Finally he does it a little, and it's a relief, but still. The movie does not say that a dumb-talking comedian makes a good president. It does deal with the problems of electronic voting without dealing with the fraud situation -- or maybe there is a fraud going on? There's an exchange late in the movie where it sounds like that is the case, but the rest of the movie says something else. Anyway, it's a fun movie, and more of an adventure than a comedy.
Tags: