09-20-2020, 06:45 AM
It was Political Fantasy Day at the Lair. I watched American President twice, mostly to hear Michael Douglass's speech at the end.
But the Netflix gods still have a few movies to watch in their DVD drawer and this movie by Jon Stewart was one of them. I could have watched it when it premiered on VOD but balked at the price.
A political campaign manager goes to the Heartland to run a small town's mayoral race to show that big time Democrat Washington Politics can show they care about the little guys. Steve Carrell stars as the high powered campaign manager. Chris Cooper is the Marine Colonel Carrell gets to run as a democrat for Mayor. There's a lot of fish out of water stuff. There's a lot of big town-little town comparisons.
The film takes a while to get going. Rather than pay attention to what was going on I was guessing which shots were scripted and which were ones Carrell was just riffing. But it does pick and becomes very engaging as a rival political operator played by Rose Byrne comes to town to defeat Carrelll's candidate. The movie is full of irony and sarcasm and pointed skewering of politics that Jon Stewart is so good at it.
It's really good. I laughed a lot. No swords fights. No fights at all really, except verbal. But if you are looking for some fake politics to take your mind off real politics this is your jam.
But the Netflix gods still have a few movies to watch in their DVD drawer and this movie by Jon Stewart was one of them. I could have watched it when it premiered on VOD but balked at the price.
A political campaign manager goes to the Heartland to run a small town's mayoral race to show that big time Democrat Washington Politics can show they care about the little guys. Steve Carrell stars as the high powered campaign manager. Chris Cooper is the Marine Colonel Carrell gets to run as a democrat for Mayor. There's a lot of fish out of water stuff. There's a lot of big town-little town comparisons.
The film takes a while to get going. Rather than pay attention to what was going on I was guessing which shots were scripted and which were ones Carrell was just riffing. But it does pick and becomes very engaging as a rival political operator played by Rose Byrne comes to town to defeat Carrelll's candidate. The movie is full of irony and sarcasm and pointed skewering of politics that Jon Stewart is so good at it.
It's really good. I laughed a lot. No swords fights. No fights at all really, except verbal. But if you are looking for some fake politics to take your mind off real politics this is your jam.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm