W. (Fullscreen Edition)
by Oliver Stone
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Actor: Colin Hanks, Elizabeth Banks, Ioan Gruffudd, Josh Brolin, Toby JonesDirector: Oliver Stone
Brand: Lions Gate
Producer: Albert Yeung
Producer: Bill Block
Producer: Christopher Mapp
Producer: David Whealy
Producer: Elliot Ferwerda
Producer: Eric Kopeloff
Writer: Stanley Weiser
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 129 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-10
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of W. (Fullscreen Edition)
Movie Review: solid film, makes you feel sorry for George W. Bush
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm an Oliver Stone fan, and i had some questions regarding his Bio-picture of George Bush while Bush was still in office. The film overall was fantastic.
W. was a great movie. Josh Brolin was excellent as our 43th president, getting many of his manerisms down. The film overall revolves around the times and life of Bush, from his fraternity days, to his days working on an oil rig, to owning the Texas Rangers, becoming a christian, declaring "jesus day" in Texas as the Gov, and his 1st campaign run.
You really see from the film the pressure that Bush felt with never living up to his father's standards, which Jeb Bush did. Bush wasn't the smartest man in the world, let alone in the family, but he was sincerce, honest, and incredibly loyal to his father, who consistently reminds him that he's disappointed in him.
Throughout the film, it is made clear that Bush loves baseball, and if he had a say so, he would have been MLB commish instead of President of the United States. He is shown several times throughout the movie at the baseball stadium playing center fielder and getting a standing ovation to an empty stadium. It was his dream, a dream that never happened.
Instead, Bush went on to help his father run for President in 1988, and again in 1992. Following his loss to Clinton, Bush become agitated that his father didn't attack and go after Clinton the way he would have, and this sets up Bush's run at the governor's spot in Texas and eventually his run for the President. It was all to avenge his father and try a bit to live up to this standards.
The film has a very interesting exchange with Bush and his cabinet regarding the upcoming war in Iraq and the possiblity of setting up an American Empire (to ensure that the USA would never be messed with again).
finally, the film delves into the missing weapons of mass destruction. Bush, under the advise of his cabinet that despite proof, but rather based on possiblity, there was a chance that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Once it was discovered that nothing was found, Bush had no choice but to tell the people what they didn't want to hear, that he went on the advice of his people and that the Congress voted on the same evidence (or lack of) that he had.
Overall, the film is interesting and solid. Once again, Oliver Stone has assembled an all-star cast, and none disappoint in the film.
Summary of W. (Fullscreen Edition)
W - DVD MovieOliver Stone?s W. is similar to his other movies about American presidents (JFK, Nixon), which is to say these films are much more about Stone?s imagined versions of reported events than they are alleged reenactments. As such, W. is Stone?s case for what he sees as the absurdity of George W. Bush?s ascendance to the White House and especially the arrogant blunder of the Iraq War. Josh Brolin is very good as the miscreant son of George H. W. Bush (James Cromwell), Vice President to Ronald Reagan and 41st president of the United States. Adrift in a sea of booze and squandered opportunities, the younger Bush is largely driven by a need for his disapproving father?s love and respect, which never truly arrives. Becoming a hatchet man for Bush Sr.?s administration, ?W? (as his wife, Laura--played by Elizabeth Banks--call him) meets Karl Rove (Toby Jones) and heads toward the Texas governorship, despite his father?s preference that the more golden son, Jeb, get all the family?s support in his Florida gubernatorial bid.
Told in broken chronology, W. focuses on Bush?s post-9/11 path to waging a ?preventive war? in Iraq despite no hard evidence of weapons of mass destruction to justify it. The major players in W?s administration--Rove, Colin Powell (Jeffrey Wright), Condoleeza Rice (Thandie Newton), and especially Dick Cheney (Richard Dreyfuss)--all participate in closed meetings that look and sound like every investigative account by the New York Times or Bob Woodward about the administration?s inner workings leading up to the war. Much of this is quite fascinating if a little weird (Newton?s performance is indeed strange), but the drama is often powerful, particularly around Powell?s resistance to the rising tide for a supposedly slam-dunk war. A number of the film?s key performances, besides Brolin?s, are very strong, especially Cromwell, Jones, Wright, Dreyfuss and Bruce McGill as George Tenet. --Tom Keogh
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 Family of Secrets the book |  W. the Soundtrack |  W. the Original Motion Picture Score |
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