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HBO has again produced a movie that needed to be made. Millions and millions of smart viewers (I don't really have stats, but it's a safe bet) have enjoyed 'Game Change'; the people who think the US is better served when lead by politicians of average intellect, poor education but a wealth of cute sounding clichés and religious sounding preaching, not so much. The ones who hated this movie the most are those who, of course, have not seen it, just as the ones who enjoyed it the most are those who will view it again.
Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson and Ed Harris were all excellent choices for their roles; I don't say this because I liked them all very much before this movie, but because they were outstanding in the performance of their respective roles. The makeup, hair stylists and costume people helped, in no small way, make the roles of Palin and McCain even more believable; the same can't be said for the character of Steve Schmidt, but Woody Harrelson needed little in that department to do just as well. Word of mouth should ensure reruns to be as anticipated as the first showing of the movie made for cable.
We see Palin praying to god for a win at her debate with Biden; no doubt, it was the same god who, in the current campaign, spoke to Congresswoman Bachmann, Governor Perry and former Senator Santorum telling them to run for the presidency (obviously hedging his bets). But if memory serves me right, Jesus Christ had an aversion to politicians, so perhaps in his later after life, Republicans have made him out to be a flip-flopper, much like the apparent party's soon to be nominee.
When Palin starts answering the Press questions, she reveals her ignorance based foreign policy positions, her elementary grade arithmetic's inspired economic solutions and her contradictory Christian values inspired social objectives; these still are all crowd pleasers kind of inspiration she invokes today as she promotes
What the hell is she promoting? Ah yes, herself, to the poor suckers who dish out money to buy her book, surely holy ghostwritten, and pay to attend her speaking engagements for a cause defined by attendees as
Sorry I can't keep track as there are so many definitions.
Senator McCain's campaign executives made a crucial decision, took enormous risk, by selecting Palin as a running mate; the movie illustrates how awful the handling of that process was. Her first proud moment, as the official V-P candidate, was when she referred to herself, by inference, as a pitbull; this remark showed a lack in judgement in my opinion, because female of the breed is not what you want to be known as (likely what her staff thought of her).
The previous Jay Roach directed politically related movie, also written by Danny Strong, the 2008 movie Recount, was one I also enjoyed and if the current campaign doesn't inspire them for another collaboration, I'd be very much surprised. I still feel sorry for McCain's situation in that 2008 campaign, but not nearly as much as I did for his 2000 party defeat to you know who. Had Palin not quit midway her term as Governor and not gone on to make a career of her political celebrity, I might also feel sorry for her; but she did, so if she is offended by the movie, good.
score 8/10
JohnRayPeterson 13 March 2012
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