If you still haven’t had enough goodies from Comic-Con, feel free to check out the bootlegged clip of the new traiiler for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Personally, I’m ready to move on, and so here’s a look at another superhero story: Oliver Stone’s W. Or, as I like to call it, U.S.-President Origins: George W. Bush.
It looks a little more serious than I anticipated. For all we’ve read and heard about the campiness of the script, the thing is now at least being marketed as a drama about a clash between father and son. Even the roll call of characters (captioned as such, rather than crediting the players) makes each part look less like caricatures than I’d expected.
Kudos to the editors for allowing Richard Dreyfuss as Dick Cheney be the money shot. His casting was the most surprising, and it’s good to see that it’s not actually the most ill-fitting. Meanwhile, Ellen Burstyn somehow suddenly seems wrong as Barbara Bush.
I’ll continue to say, however, that a movie about the relationship between Bush 1 and Bush 2 just doesn’t seem too appealing after the past eight years. And, again, I note that the paternal issues are dealt with just perfectly and hilariously in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Sorry to repeat myself, but even though this movie doesn’t look as bad as I’d feared, the teaser doesn’t exactly offer any new hopes, either.
Just watched the trailer. There’s nothing inherently terrible about it, yet I couldn’t stop chortling. Maybe it’s the surrealism of seeing recent history and current events already digested into biopic format. Hell, even Heln Mirren’s The Queen felt bizarre to me at first.