And, it's posted on RINO Central - NRO!Here's more about the "PDS" opening, from Jim Geraghty at www.nationalreview.com:
...Before the screening, Bannon mentioned that I and other political reporters were about to watch the “X-rated version,” as opposed to a “XXX-rated version” that he envisions being released on DVD someday.Within the first four minutes, the reason for that cryptic remark was clear, and the X rating is well deserved:
The worst sneers, insults, and furious denunciations from Palin’s enemies are presented in their original language, sans any bleeps.What’s remarkable is that the acidic comments from comedians such as David Letterman, Joan Rivers, Rosie O’Donnell, and Tracey Morgan aren’t really jokes. There’s no punch line per se; calling Palin “slutty” or a “whore,” or offering some other (usually sexual) insult, apparently is supposed to be the punch line.(A version in theaters is likely to bleep out the worst ones.)
The F word and the C word make multiple appearances.
"I believe you have to grab the audience in the beginning," Bannon says.Perhaps he’s understated his grab.
Here's MORE great stuff from his piece at www.nationalreview.com:
...Once the film catches up to where most of America met Palin — when she joined John McCain on the campaign trail — it loses a bit of its narrative punch.For those who have followed the news, the story of the convention speech, the dramatic surge her selection provided to the McCain campaign, and the financial meltdown are familiar territory.
Palin’s decision to resign is given a better explanation and justification here than in her actual resignation speech.Tammy Bruce, Mark Levin, and Andrew Breitbart are featured heavily in this section, and with no disrespect intended to any of them, Palin’s story is more powerfully told through the voices of Alaskans obscure to most Americans than through the semi-familiar voices of conservative pundits.This is not to say this section doesn’t pack its punches, one of which is a particularly impassioned prosecutorial indictment of the Republican party establishment.
(Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, along with House leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor, might want to step out for popcorn at this point.)Breitbart in particular gets a memorable denunciation of “eunuchs” on the cultural right in Washington and New York City.There’s some extraneous commentary, but Levin does astutely note that the Palin campaign rallies in autumn 2008 can easily be seen as embryonic Tea Party rallies, and the film ably contends that Palin’s values and approach to governing experienced a vivid national vindication in the historic Republican wins in the 2010 midterms.
This appears to be why Bannon picked the title The Undefeated, already being mocked by the familiar chorus.One of the last comments from Breitbart is, "Thank God Sarah Palin refused to accept the premise of her own destruction."
Here's more about the "PDS" opening, from Jim Geraghty at www.nationalreview.com:You got THAT right!"I believe you have to grab the audience in the beginning," Bannon says.Perhaps he’s understated his grab...
Also from Matt Latimer [SPOILER ALERT!] at www.salon.com:
...I am just getting comfortable in my chair when the screen suddenly fills with a montage of attacks on the former governor by Mr. Damon and about a dozen other celebrities(John Cleese calls her "a nice-looking parrot," David Letterman says she dresses like a "slutty flight attendant," I forgot what Rosie O’Donnell said, but whatever it was, she didn’t look good saying it.)Then things take a truly vicious turn...-- snip --...As the movie goes on, the attacks on Palin seamlessly segue into lions stalking and feasting on a defenseless zebra; an arrow protruding from the neck of a slain medieval archer; the most horrific car crash I’ve ever seen on film; a bridge (to nowhere?) collapsing; a man literally choking someone to death; a nuclear explosion; a volcano eruption; and, yes, sand being thrown onto the face of a nearly buried corpse...