Any ideas for movies to rent tomorrow night (during Bush's speech)?

George W. Bush is not my president. My president is named Jed Bartlett, and I really don't want to pretend like Bush is the real president. So I will not be watching his speech tomorrow night, and since I'm sure DU will be full of people broadcasting play by play snarky comments (thus giving Baby Bush even more attention, as if he was the real president), I will not be on DU either. So, any ideas for movie rentals?

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Thank God I am at work tomorrow so I don't have to hear his speech.And Jed Bartlett is my president too.It was nice to have the television The West Wing as an escape from the reality.

Or just blogging...it's more fun than watchin the traitor

Rent this magnificent cowboys-in-space musical:

http://www.americanastronaut.com/home.shtml

Or, if you need some comedy instead, go for "Head of State" with Chris Rock.

or Dr. Strangelove.

http://www.punishmentpark.co.uk/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067633/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376890/

Non-political films I've seen recently & rate - A Bittersweet Life, The Ordeal (Calvaire), Lollilove, Hustle & Flow and Ab-Normal Beauty.

I'd recommend it.

If you've already seen it, rewatch the last two episodes from Season Two, if not, watch anything from West Wing. Fantasize that your President is that smart and quick and that the people surrounding him really are that ethical.

or Syriana

or Fahrenheit 911

Are you into independent cinema? Thrillers? 1930s and 1940s classics? Do you want comedy?

If you are into classics, you might just want to switch to Turner Classic Movies (See the Classic Movies Group for tomorrow night's schedule).

Other classics to consider, both political and non-.

The Talk of the Town (An oft-overlooked classic, in my view)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Third Man
The Farmer's Daughter
Duck Soup
Paths of Glory
The Lion in Winter
Fury
You Only Live Once

Films about the blacklist/McCarthyism:

The Front
Goodnight, and Good Luck

A mixed bag of fairly recent titles, some of which you may have overlooked

Born Romantic
The Spanish Prisoner
The Secret Lives of Dentists
Bloody Sunday
Evelyn
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Vera Drake
The Imposters
Watch It
Shall We Dance? (The Japanese version)

Don't forget the popcorn.

I have a VHS version of the movie, which I have actually never seen. Maybe now is the time.

:D

the original one with gene and zero

with Amanda Pays and George Segal. Pretty creepy, with a message, although I'm not sure what it is.

"The Osterman Weekend", weird, and people get shot with cross-bows.

Political and apropos: "Enemy of the State"

Just weird and skeevy-- "Truth or Consequences, New Mexico" to see a pre-'24' coked up Keifer Sutherland, and one of my favorite lines ever from a movie: "Self defense is 'you hit me, I hit you', not 'you hit me, I kill you'...plus it's got Vincent Gallo. On the coke theme "Pulp Fiction" since both coke and fiction apply to Bush and speech. Yeah, make it a theme party!


"Kalifornia" with Brad Pitt before he met Angelina and wanted to save the world..but then you could just go all the way and rent "Fight Club" or "Natural Born Killers".

And something prep-schooly for geedubya like "School Ties" or even "The Lords of Discipline".

Speaking of his ex-roomate, Ashe, you could go for something uplifting, like "La Cage Aux Folles" or gannonesque like "Midnight Cowboy".

Wow, I guess I better stop, there's just a wealth of possibility here.

I just really like it, and it'll take your mind off * droning on the television. I would do it myself if it didn't start an hour-long fight about what "really" happened in the movie.

for animal films, either "March of the Penguins" (2005) or "The Yearling" (1946), both excellent.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

I am watching it right now.

Are you in Northwest New Jersey?

Trust me on this one. :evilgrin:

Just saw it for the first time this weekend, and it recalls a time when a leader (JFK) actually worked to avoid a disastrous conflict. Pretty thrilling flick.

1. Farenheit 9/11. No explanation needed.
2. Any season of "The West Wing". Just a glimpse of what might have been.
3. Either version of "The Manchurian Candidate". Too true?
4. Dr. Stranglove. Envision Karl Rove in the Slim Picken role.
5. Wag the Dog. Politics imitating art?