I've never been a Bush fan. I was rooting for Gore in 2000 and voted for Kerry in '04, and even I think that some people are going a little overboard with their criticisms of Bush. He made some poor decisions while in office, but I think it falls back on the citizens for making the poor decision of electing him...twice!
Anyway...W. was alright. I've never been a big Oliver Stone fan. JFK was great, parts of Natural Born Killers is good, he did one in the late '80s with Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, and John C. McGinley called Talk Radio that was pretty good. Anyway, I thought that W. was well written and some of the actors were phenomenal. Josh Brolin has had good performances in a few films lately, Richard Dreyfus was awesome as Cheney, and I really liked Jeffrey Wright as Colin Powell. They just sort of glazed over some topics that I expected to be integral parts of the film, though. It's really the story of a son trying to get his father's attention and connect with him. I thought it was very Field of Dreams with all of the baseball inserts, and I never got into those sort of stories.
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