I didn’t see another thread so I thought I’d start it. Saw it earlier today, didn’t like it.
It wasn’t a comedy but it wasn’t a suspense either. Not sure how I feel about it. I think they skiped over a bunch of stuff they could have used to make it better or atleast stayed within the range of logical limits for some of those things.
How the hell does BB trump GG trump LL in a situation of ALPHABETICAL ORDER WHEN D IS BEFORE K IS BEFORE M. Jesus. Its so dumb, to get a program to run like that, it would have to be programmed strictly for that and in no way count the vote. And even so, it would never work because every state would have returned a 100 percent winning votes for the candidate with the highest alphabetical name. Jesus
I also didn’t like how it started
Just kinda jumped right into the campaign and didn’t hardly cover his before campaign character. Thats what makes a character good, DEVELOPMENT!
I saw it this afternoon. I thought the basic idea of a novelty candidate accidentally being elected by way of an electronic voting glitch was somewhat interesting, as was the dilemma of a person finding himself in a situation where he has to choose between blowing the whistle on himself or saying nothing and becoming POTUS.
Nothing was particularly well executed though. The “thriller” stuff didn’t really fit with the comedy. It was like The Insider crossed with an Adam Sandler movie. Robin Wiliams’ wasn’t really very credible as someone who would connect with the public. His jokes weren’t that funny, his observations were cliched and obvious and I cringed during the debate scene.
Also, some of the dramatic devices were irritating. I always get really annoyed when one character has something important to tell another character but then they stall and hem and haw and dance around the issue for two thirds of the movie. There were three or four scenes when Laura Linney was face to face with Robin Williams but would NOT just come out with the big secret.
On the plus side, I think the underlying message about trusting voting machines with no paper trails [cough] Dibold [/cough] was a good one.
It wasn’t a completely terrible movie. It was moderately watchable, but it was neither particularly funny nor particularly insightful, IMO.
Having only seen the trailer (about a thousand times BTW), I can’t imagine this movie is any good, because trailers usually highlight a movie’s best scenes, and this trailer is horrible.
Actually, this is a case where the trailers are rather misleading. From the ads you would get the idea that it’s a light-hearted satire about the host of a political comedy show running for president. That aspect really only takes up about the first half hour, then it turns into conspiracy-thriller kind of thing. It’s not really even a comedy…not that it’s really any better than the trailers, it’s just bad in a different way than the trailers would suggest.