Hilarious review of DC 9/11

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/09/05/DD87724.DTL

I've gotten pretty upset at the distortions in this movie, but whad'ya know, turns out it's crap! :)

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No, the real reason "DC 9/11" should be taken to task is that the movie is terrible. It's uncommonly bad, a film so stiff and unwilling to breathe that when it overreaches for drama -- as it does every couple of minutes -- it nearly snaps in half. There's no blood in this lifeless dud, and the ridiculous re-creation of Bush as, well, as Rudy Giuliani, is so oafishly stylized that the president himself should dismiss the film as a ploy by the Democrats to make him look stupid.

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Who, it should be asked, could be so insanely out of touch with dramatic structure as to include this hard-sell exchange in which Bush and Cheney agree that the response needs to be fast and furious?:

Bush: "We always knew it might come to this."

Cheney: "You always said that if it did, this is how we'd earn our pay."

Bush: "And we will. It's a war."

Oh, it's a war all right. A war of endurance.

Chetwynd may be coming under attack from the liberal media for making a highly politicized and dubious film, but someone should be looking into whether he switched parties recently and this is some cruel, satirical hit piece on the president's image. After all, he couldn't simply be trying to make a fictional, no-agenda film, could he? If so, "DC 9/11" is an even more spectacular failure.

How can any filmmaker be that stupid!?!

thanks for the thread....enjoyed the article immensely!

written:

sni> ""We're gonna kick the hell out of whoever did this!" Bush-Bottoms says. You half expect him to jump on a horse and head out to kill some Indians. In one scene, while on Air Force One, Bush-Bottoms looks out at fighter pilots off the wing and says, "Hey, they got our backs!"

Just when you think it can't possibly get any more gung-ho, Bush-Bottoms says, to those who would keep him safe on Air Force One instead of allowing him to go back to the White House: "If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell 'em to come and get me! I'll be home, waiting for the bastard!"

It is precisely at this point when "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis" becomes a full- blown comedy. In trying to spin furiously and make Bush out to be not only confident and nurturing but also unquestionably in command, the film pulls a muscle addressing "the Cheney myth," as one character calls it. In scene after scene we're shown Cheney meekly doing the president's bidding or nodding with awe at the commander-in-chief's macho posturing."



There's more, you have to read the whole thing, it's hilarious.

that alone is a screamer.

Of course, no matter how awful the film is, there will be many who swallow it hook, line, and stinker.

ugh

i'm REALLY hoping this will turn out to be a laugh-out-loud so-bad-it's-great event.

i envision midnight showings with props and audience lines like RHPS... (bring your own pretzels!)

Robert Bianco who used to be Pittsburgh's local TV critic.

History takes time. Telling it takes time, talent and perspective, none of which are on display in Showtime's abysmal DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (Sunday, 8 p.m. ET/PT).
Written by Lionel Chetwynd, Crisis purports to be an inside report on the Bush administration's response to the Sept. 11 attacks based on interviews with members of that administration. Never mind the obvious opportunities for self-serving twaddle, none of which are missed. How exactly did anyone at Showtime think this project was even possible?

Decades later, we're still struggling to understand the White House response to such national flashpoints as Pearl Harbor and the Cuban missile crisis. It's ridiculous to think you can get anywhere near an accurate picture after a mere two years, especially when the administration concerned is up for re-election. What you get is sheer propaganda — and, in Chetwynd's hands, artless propaganda at that.

Cheap, shoddy and badly cast, Crisis looks even worse compared with HBO's high-gloss And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself. Yes, I know: Showtime hates those comparisons. The way to avoid them is to make better movies.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/criticscorner/2003-09-04-critics-corner_x.htm

The scary thing is that * will probably pull a Reagan, and have to be 'reminded' that those actions of his that he 'remembers' really only happened in this, ahhhhh, dramatic interpretation.

The Village Voice, that paper in New Jersey, and now this. Hahahaha!