KEVIN COSTNER has waded into the debate about controversial new movie DEATH OF A PRESIDENT, insisting British director GABRIEL RANGE failed to consider how GEORGE W BUSH's family would react to scenes of the US President being assassinated. The DANCES WITH WOLVES star was caught up in the controversy at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada at the weekend (09-10SEP06), where he premiered his new film, THE GUARDIAN, alongside the screening of Death of A President. Movie fans reportedly sat in stunned silence at the end of Range's screening, which featured doctored images of Bush getting shot, and Costner, who wasn't in the audience, isn't happy with what he's heard about the film. He says, "It's awfully hard if you're his children, his wife, his mother, his dad; there's a certain thing we can't lose as human beings, which is empathy for maybe the hardest job in the world. "Whether we think it's being performed right or not we can't, like, wish... or think that's even cute."
:::>^..^<::: ~*~The Journey is more important than the end or the start~*~ :::>^..^<:::
Again, this production is from the land of the BBC and The Guardian. Not a surprise at all. I'm sure there will be a nice, big, fat, full-page ad for it in the latter.
"America is not what's wrong with the world. The struggle we are in is too important to have the luxury of returning to that old mentality of 'Blame America First.'" —Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
Leftist "intellectuals" in America now look to Europe—steeped for years in anti-American propaganda from the Soviet Union.
gaboman said this in post #3 : Keep it on topic, Curley. The thread wasn't about you disliking the English.
When was the last time Kevin Costner made a good movie? That being said, he's got a point (one that a lot of people have made, though).
3,000 miles to graceland, dragonfly--I really like both those movies.
Coster's right. And Curley isn't off topic at all. This movie is a disgrace to art as well as humanity. As long as that's the case we have a right to speculate who's funding this, why they want it to exist, and how disgusting it is.
Please pardon my pseudo-intellectuaphilisophicalismysiticality.
Sayzak said this in post #4 : Coster's right. And Curley isn't off topic at all. This movie is a disgrace to art as well as humanity. As long as that's the case we have a right to speculate who's funding this, why they want it to exist, and how disgusting it is.
Have you seen the film?
Don't you guys recognise a cheap publicitiy shot when you see it? Coster's released a new movie and he's now in the papers. I haven't seen the film and probably won't bother watching it. Is there a point to it, political or otherwise? Who knows? Anyone seen it?
Not the same thing really but the British media do get touchy sometimes when Hollywood takes a true war story for instance and changes the British soldiers/pilots/seamen etc who actually did the action and replace them with Americans - and then still insist to the audience that it's a true story.
Honestly, you liked Waterworld? That makes you the first person I met, to tell you the truth.
Postman, I remember, got the Razzie for worst screenplay. Probably worst picture and worst director too. Not sure.
All this said, and though what he said is what a lot of people are thinking, the only reason he's in the news is so they can put the lines "Costner, who's new movie blah blah blah comes out next week". It's kind of annoying how publicists think people can't see through that kind of crap (cause you know it was probably their publicist's idea).
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
3,000 miles to graceland, dragonfly--I really like both those movies.
Coster's right. And Curley isn't off topic at all. This movie is a disgrace to art as well as humanity. As long as that's the case we have a right to speculate who's funding this, why they want it to exist, and how disgusting it is.
Why is it a disgrace, because you might not agree with it? I've said it once and I'll say it again, unpopular speech has to be protected most of all.
And Costner can kiss my junk. He didn't take into account MY feelings when I had to sit through those pieces of crap "Waterworld" and "The Postman". That was torture.
P.O.T.U.S. said this in post #2 : Again, this production is from the land of the BBC and The Guardian. Not a surprise at all. I'm sure there will be a nice, big, fat, full-page ad for it in the latter.
Actually Curley, Newmarket Films, who has distributed Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, has bought the rights to distribute in the U.S.
Despite garnering largely negative reviews, Death of a President, by the British director Gabriel Range, was awarded the International Critics' Prize on Saturday.
Though his approval rating recently increased, President Bush is getting killed (or under fire) in internet games and on the big screen.
"Death of a President," a movie by British filmmakers, uses digital wizardry to make an assassination of the President look frighteningly real.
The movie is set to air on British television in October and may soon be shown in the states.
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You think the President's ratings are up now, wait 'til this thing hits U.S. theatres. Chip chip cheerio and all that spiffing stuff.
"America is not what's wrong with the world. The struggle we are in is too important to have the luxury of returning to that old mentality of 'Blame America First.'" —Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
Leftist "intellectuals" in America now look to Europe—steeped for years in anti-American propaganda from the Soviet Union.
P.O.T.U.S. said this in post #11 : You think the President's ratings are up now, wait 'til this thing hits U.S. theatres. Chip chip cheerio and all that spiffing stuff.
So does that make you for or against this movie?
When people get excited about their president's approval rating finally getting into the 40's, you've got to wonder what exactly's wrong with that picture.
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
gaboman said this in post #13 :
So does that make you for or against this movie?
When people get excited about their president's approval rating finally getting into the 40's, you've got to wonder what exactly's wrong with that picture.
Exactly. Talking about needing a Coke and a smile.
09-13-2006 10:47 PM
