Posted on 09/13/2006 6:23:28 AM PDT by presidio9
"Also on hand was one of the film's producers, James Carville"
Nuff said, we're done here : )
Reminds me of Dukakis wearing a pith helmet : )
MORE political films? HA! MORONS!
This is really gonna hurt Dubya's re-election chances.
"Attended Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California (studied Auto Mechanics and Speech)."
- "Attended", but apparently never graduated. So if Penn isn't even qualified to change the oil in your car, why should we take him seriously when he tries to get his mind around international politics?
"In troubled times you get the best films, and God knows we're in troubled times now."
This movie has been on the shelf for over a year, which means it's pretty much guaranteed to suck. This is the kind of flick you release at oscar time, not dump in September.
I'd forgotten about Sean Penn's butt-kissing visit to Iran. He's such a giant tool.
Not that it's relevant or anything, but All the King's Men was written about a democrat. New Orleans is run by a democrat. In fact, all of Louisiana is run by a democrat. So it only follows that they made it all.about.Bush.
Beelzebub...He keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means. My first reaction wasn't to care that he was bashing Bush, but that he shouldn't be using a proper noun as a common noun. I'm so pathetic. Anyway, thirty bucks says he only knows the word from listening to Bohemian Rhapsody.
Casting Couch Alumnist PING!
Hollywood will rave, the film will bomb, the film will not make its investors one cent. These people are nuts!!!
He came there "to help", but came loaded with a "bullet-proof" vest and an "unloaded" shotgun.
What a douche.
Anybody who would listen to a guy, who'd select a strumpet like Madonna for a wife, speak on ANYTHING needs their brains rotor-rootered.
"...one of the year’s most profound disappointments." - David Poland, Movie City News
"Overstuffed and fatally miscast, All The King's Men never comes to life." Penn's performance consists of "...ceaseless arm-waving and gesticulating,..." - Todd McCarthy, Variety
"...it's a misfire from the opening frames." Sean Penn "...seems like a mad huckster from the outset; his performance is so odd that it hardly seems he will make an active descent into evil -- since he acts like he's already there." - Tim Ryan, Variety reviewer writing for RottenTomatoes.com
"One suspects, however, that Zaillian and a vast team of producers and executive producers that includes political consultant and pundit James Carville believe they are making a serious commentary on American politics. It comes closer to kitsch." - Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter
"...the film turns out to be a lot less than was hyped." - Hap Erstein, The Palm Beach Post
What can you expect from a movie that has James Carville as it's prime mover and lists him as an "executive producer"? I wouldn't see it for that reason alone. Add the brain-dead Sean Penn as the lead actor and you have a surefire stinker that Red-State America will not go to see.
("Once upon a time, politics was the organization of things to benefit the people." )
He should have continued: ...when we were in charge. Typical socialist who has faith in the government to work to the benefit of "the people". People like Penn have faith in that government, even if his kind of people cause the death of thousands, as long as they say that they're working for "the people".
Smart move Goober, auto mechanics and speech, when your brain dead pals get tired of your speech making you can always make a buck fixing flats.
Yes, I guess he and natalie maines are at it again. I guess they can always count on getting headlines that way.
I actually used to like sean as an actor. Now I won't go to any of his movies.
Good move -- idiots!!
Besides, isn't he the clown bailing out the boat with a little dixie cup?? Who's a dope, sean???? hahahahahaha!!!
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