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W. Gets Misunderestimated With New Posters in Denver

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 14, 2008

Today continues to be our day for reader emails, as the continue to stream in. And while many of them are related to the release of Tropic Thunder, we did get a sweet little scoop from George in Denver, Colorado on another movie that seems to be drawing some attention.

George sent over the above picture, which was taken in downtown Denver. It is a brand new set of posters found outside of a construction site for the upcoming Oliver Stone pic W. At his desk sits Josh Brolin as George W. Bush, with the title of the film and the simple subtitle “A Life Misunderestimated” above him.

Of course, it seems almost too obvious to point out that Denver will play host to the Democratic National Convention on August 25-28. Coincidence? That’s up to you to decide.

What do you think of the new posters for Oliver Stone’s W.?

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Stanky says:
August 15th, 2008 at 12:26 am

They’re being far too kind in the posters. I expect this film to be huge overseas, and to be derided as hate speech by the minority political party here in the United States.

Homero says:
August 15th, 2008 at 12:55 am

After the trailer, I don’t care in the slightest how the posters look, I’m going to see this film opening day no matter what. They look decent, I like that they’re staying neutral, it’ll keep from offending anyone and maintain the highest possible amount of interest.

GlenTheDancingMan says:
August 15th, 2008 at 4:41 am

I don’t think Republicans would deride it as “hate speech”. That particular attack on freedom of speech is a uniquely Democratic one. What I do imagine Repubs doing is misinterpreting the movie as a pro-GOP film, like they did with Jurassic Park 3.

Aleric says:
August 15th, 2008 at 9:59 am

You really believe Oliver Stone is going to give a true factual account of the Bush Presidency?? Then I suppose you also believe that Platoon was factual and not a mess of a picture with historical inaccuracies abounding.

I won’t give Oliver Stone a penny of my money, he rates up there with Michael Moore.

TRO says:
August 15th, 2008 at 10:13 am

Please, conservatives will simply ignore this movie. It’s only liberals who love to through around the term “hate speech. ” I predict it will be a loser as even liberals will find it boring.

Troy says:
August 15th, 2008 at 10:13 am

*agrees with aleric*

David123456 says:
August 15th, 2008 at 10:21 am

It’s clear the movie is just more of the same Leftwing propaganda we’ve all come to expect and love from liberal Hollywood. Though I doubt there’s a single Republican who’s ever used (or will ever use) the term “hate speech.” It’s not part of our vocabulary, unless we’re using it to mock and ridicule Leftists who cry ‘hate speech’ to shut down people they disagree with.

Rickey Henderson says:
August 15th, 2008 at 10:30 am

Rickey absolutely cannot wait for this. Good find cupcake.

shunha7878 says:
August 15th, 2008 at 10:43 am

You ask “No hate speech allowed.” Can you tell me just what is hate speech? I don’t want to use no “hate speech.” so if you could give me a list of words please.
As far as the movie, it will be as good as any other Oliver Stone’s movies and no, I will not waste my money seeing it but neither will many other people. When was the last time Oliver Stone made money on a movie?
It will win a lot of awards though.

Dan says:
August 15th, 2008 at 10:57 am

Will this movie turn out to be a legitimate tongue-in-cheek look at Dubbya’s presidency, or will it be Stone’s platform to belittle and make fun of the government? Does anyone else secretly think this is a comedy? From the pictures we have seen of Brolin as Dubbya, it gives off an almost comical tone to his whole portrayal.

Thoughts?

Troy says:
August 15th, 2008 at 11:24 am

Brolin’s just a funny looking guy. I laugh no matter when I see him.

mogulus says:
August 18th, 2008 at 1:32 am

oliver stone has the required credibility to make this movie? you’re…serious? this is funnier than nominating hillary clinton as an actual candidate.

i dont’ know about the rest of america, but i’m ready and aching to stick it to hollywood and pull the republican lever this year. yes, i’m looking forward to voting for someone with actual integrity come election time.

we have a seperation of church and state in this country…how about a seperation of entertainment and state since movies dictate how people remember history better than holy books these days and since it seems entertainers in general can’t seem to keep their freaking mouths shut and…you know…entertain us instead of preaching to us about politics more than preachers preach to us about religion.

movies like this are dangerous. you poor weak willed people. only we, the few elitists, who refuse to capitalize words while making comments on web sites stand a chance in this new media age of free thought.

enjoy your labotomy and castration, white america, when obama wins…i’ll vote for the war veteran, as i don’t really see anything i’d like to “change” about the world.

look back. Bush did this country wonders. verily, he did wonders for the entire world. if you’re too shortsighted to see this, don’t worry. you were in the minority who didn’t vote for him anyway and i’ll never convince you. But that’s also ok because you have failed, after 8 years of bitching and complaining about how you supposedly won the election that you can’t remember as well as i can, to pursuade me that George W. Bush is hitler reincarnated and looking to eat my young.

CoM says:
August 19th, 2008 at 3:32 am

“look back. Bush did this country wonders. verily, he did wonders for the entire world.”

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHA

Waitaminute. Oh, man. Whew. I, uh….

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAAAHA

Tyler Durden says:
August 19th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

mogulus you missed your calling - stand up comedy is calling you.

arbie says:
August 26th, 2008 at 5:11 am

Oliver Stone directed the insufferably long and wrong Nixon, a film that even a nation full of people who hated the president felt was poorly made. Accusations and sympathies both missed the mark, but Stone is an opportunist and a salesman, driven by the same motives and employing the same artless tactics as commercial European directors:copy what’s new or popular, pitch it on ticket sales over story, get the check and be working on the next copy and pitch before the poor press hurts your employability.

World Trade Center is a classic case. Easy to pitch (but only to profiteers) and easier to shrug off when it doesn’t “take” — any number of excuses will free the director from blame. But where Stone can’t seize on immediate events, he picks the most controversial ticket-sellers he can. JFK was this. Platoon was this — and I take particular offense at Platoon for being the last in a string of period war films at that time, meaning his pitch was either so bad that producers wouldn’t sign off until they’d seen promised return on every other war film of the decade, or more likely he jumped on the bandwagon and cited those films and their profits as support his own project. (See Alexander for the same, at the tail end of the ‘90-’00s period war rash.) That Platoon won awards has only given him reason to plunder the Vietnam well each time he’s out of ideas — Born on the 4th, Heaven and Earth, and hey! Remember what he was working on before the Writer’s Strike?

Even Natural Born Killers, one of Stone’s “greats”, was marketed as a Tarantino-ain’t-got-nothing “new school” copycat simultaneously attempting to discredit the style, the sort of cheap entertainment usually reserved for bottom-rung wrestlers and street rappers.

It’s funny Stone talks about Network in pitching W. — I believe he’s played that card before, in 1988, to seize the rights to the popular and proven book/play moneymaker, Talk Radio. The reality is that W. is a quick written exploit, consistent with Stone’s practices of picking money-maker controversies before they deserve to be filmed, and having the next project ready before the last one’s corpse is cold.

He scripted W. himself when the writer’s guild wasn’t writing anymore — and no surprise that until then, his project was the My Lai massacre — going back to suckle the Vietnam tit again, are we Oliver? After Alexander and World Trade Center couldn’t turn a profit, must be scary going into those lunch meetings.

Salesman. Not filmmaker.

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