comment #1

scooterzz says ...

o'reilly just said he'd be showing the stuff within the next thirty minutes......
he also just said...'apparently paul newman is dying...we'll be running our tribute in just a few minutes' ....
wtf?!?

comment #2

scooterzz says ...

sorry...i just played it back and he said...'may be dying'....but still......

comment #3

EOTW says ...

I've decided that Paul Newman should live forever. Who's with me????

comment #4

EOTW says ...

BTW, can we all just agree to hijack any of Wells' threads about Voight or this flick? Good. Why bother even running items about this? It's a waste of your time and ours.

comment #5

D.Z. says ...

"George Washington (Jon VoIght) takes Malone to St. Paul's Cathedral to lecture him on freedom of religion and 'freedom of speech, which you abuse.'"

Yes, because talk-radio and Intelligent Design aren't a sign of abusing the system. And using a guy from Catholicism as an advocate against abusing religion is hilarious in itself.

"Malone is grossed out by dust in the priest's box, so the doors open onto the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center. 'This is the dust of 3000 innocent human beings!' bellows Washington. Malone whimpers that he's just making movies. Washington won't have it. 'Is that what you plan to say on Judgment Day?'"

Now they're playing the Jack Chick card, huh? It's ironic that Moore is somehow considered responsible for a President who ignored warnings of a terrorist attack.
I also noticed the site has some moral problem with income taxes, even though most corporations haven't paid them in years. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_bi_ge/corporations_income_tax

comment #6

Teacher's Pets says ...

See, I think this is a huge miscalculation by the Right. Letting artists do their naturally more open, liberal, progressive thing allows conservatives to mock leftist Hollywood and the liberal media, a shtick out ofwhich they get valuable mileage.

By putting their own ideas out there for scrutiny and ridicule (the latter of which this movie will inspire plenty), they're negating one of their most effective talking points and setting themselves up to be smacked around,,,

comment #7

SmilingPolitely says ...

"Patton and his soldiers storm a courthouse that's about to remove the Ten Commandments and start opening fire on the people trying to stop them. "You can't shoot these people!" Malone says. "They're not people!" says Patton. "They're the ACLU!" At this point we see that the ACLU members are unkillable George Romero zombies."

I just can't wait to download this movie off Pirate Bay.

comment #8

BurmaShave says ...

There is no such thing as abuse of free speech, and if we get into a tit for tat about who has been abusing what, the terrorists (by which I mean Zucker and Voight) win.

comment #9

corey3rd says ...

O'Reilly is in it.

the film looks about as funny as Donnie and Marie variety show minus Paul Lynde

comment #10

Nicanor says ...

Comical all around. Wasn't it Washington who warned of getting entangled in foreign affairs? Hell, Washington may have been the only good president we ever had. Washington is at least better than all the other Georges who have occupied the office.

comment #11

Richardson says ...

I'm really hoping that either in the movie or during promotion for the movie, somebody gets Kelsey Grammer to call the Democrats elitist. That would make me so happy.

comment #12

The Winchester says ...

Well, at least I laughed more than the trailer for Disaster Movie.

What's up with Kelsey Grammer and Dennis Hopper together in movies? What's going on there?

comment #13

Amazing Larry says ...

It's a pure-dee shame that Mystery Science Theatre 3000 was cancelled a few years ago.

I've got a case of Omaha Steaks that says this gets some of the worst reviews of the year and tanks at the box office.

Frak it. I have to get my hands on a copy of this script. C'mon you mugs, give it over.

comment #14

EOTW says ...

I've got a case of Omaha Steaks that says this gets some of the worst reviews of the year and tanks at the box office.

Yeah, Larry, um, that's a given since 99.9% of the ritics are flaming libs (at least the good ones!).

comment #15

The Hoyk says ...

I'll bet it gets just as many good reviews and box office success as Vivendi's last politically-charged movie, Uwe Boll's POSTAL. In fact, I think they should be double-billed for a full night of single-minded-and-failed political satire.

comment #16

astrophore says ...

That's one hypnotic trailer. I feel like it steals a little of my soul each time I watch it.

But hey, if you are going to make an incoherent, terrible movie, go all the way. Don't wuss out and try to get all competent on us. Straight-to-DVD is so Larry The Cable Guy -- Trace Adkins earns you 2,000 theaters. Earns it.

(A CGI Jim Varney appearing as Ernest would get you 4,000 theaters, but let's not go all GOP and bust the budget for that.)

Zucker should have no problem getting those hard-working, God-fearing, real 'Mericans to fork over their $10 and see a dry, unfunny lecture from has-been (or never-were) actors. It worked for Burn, Hollywood, Burn, right?

When I see Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper and Jon Voight together like this, I can only think what a strong message it sends to the youth of today. Stay on drugs.

comment #17

vp19 says ...

Thirty years from now, film historians will regard this as Zucker's equivalent of Leo McCarey's "My Son John" -- late-career right-wing claptrap.

comment #18

dangovich says ...

Comical all around. Wasn't it Washington who warned of getting entangled in foreign affairs?

Yep. Washington and the other Founding Fathers also wished to avoid the creation of an all-powerful executive branch. That's why they created a separation of powers with a system of checks and balances. And this is what the neocons (Cheney in particular) have been doing their utmost to undermine (with Congress' help, in fairness). It's remarkable how many so-called conservatives turn a blind eye to this.

comment #19

swordandpen says ...

Even when David Zucker tackles political satire, there still needs to be multiple shots of people being hit in the head and the nuts.

Politics aside, this movie looks like a catastrophe. And everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves.

comment #20

tophertilson says ...

Can we assume Patricia Heaton will be playing Betsy Ross? Or Mrs. Cratchitt?

comment #21

mizerock says ...

Yeah, using George Washington doesn't ring true at all. It doesn't even have truthiness. If they are taking this seriously, if they really feel passionately about this topic, they should have used another ghost that actually shares their beliefs on some level. Ronald Reagan jumps to mind, but I'm sure there are others. Republican hero Lincoln, maybe?

comment #22

Bocephus says ...

In The Valley of Elah needed more nut shots.

comment #23

MovieBob says ...

If the trailers are being honest, it's going to be horrid and remembered by history as the right-wing equivalent to Myra Breckenridge or Zabriske Point. But you might as well get ready for it to be a "surprise hit."

The right-wing "counter-media" (altogether now: Fox News Talk Radio Blogosphere Megachurch Birthday Party Cheesecake Jellybean Boom) is VERY good at turning these projects into "movements," see: "The Passion." Most of these 2000 theaters will be in smallish communities, and Limbaugh/O'Reilly will talk it up for weeks and pastors will tell congregations to buy tickets opening weekend in order to inflate the sales for the purpose of putting a thumb in the eye of the "Liberal Media." Expect to see the blogosphere develop a sudden fascination with "per-screen averages" and to hear breathless commentary about how this making more money than the Iraq Movies "proves" something.

comment #24

ZayTonday says ...

It's too bad the Michael Moore jokes completely miss the mark.. Team America did a better job than this... Seriously, "I think America should be destroyed" and abolishing the 4th of July? SERIOUSLY?

comment #25

ZayTonday says ...

Also, Team America effectively poked fun at both sides and that's what makes the movie so ingenius... well that and the puppet sex lolz

comment #26

Bocephus says ...

Passion was a freak occurrence. The rightie noise machine hasn't been able to duplicate it since. This still might make money, though, because it looks insipid, and people seem to like that.

Otherwise Friedberg and Setzer would be out of work.

Speaking of F&S, I've been thinking a lot about their work. I think they might be playing a huge post-modern prank on all of us, and getting rich in the process.

Let's make a string of fast, cheap generic movies. Instead of jokes, we'll just paste in clips from other genre movies and bits where annoying pop-culture figures die from things falling on them. At any given moment in theaters, clueless moviegoers will see Scary Movie 8, or Epic Movie, or Teen Movie, and will pay to see them because they contain no surprises or challenge, and because at some point a cow falls on Miley Cyrus. After being disappointed by the lack of anything resembling a quality movie, these people will stop going to any film that isn't a tentpole sequel or TV remake.

In fact, it's not a harmless prank. Friedberg and Setzer are out to wreck overall box office grosses by poisoning what was once one of the biggest sources of income: the weekend moviegoers who go out every Friday and see whatever is new, just to go to the movies. They are more than just shitty movie-makers; they are anarchistic terrorists whose aim is to destroy the film industry. There. I said it.

comment #27

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