Good For Him
Kevin Costner slammed the British made-for-television suff porn film Death of a President.
Movie fans reportedly sat in stunned silence at the end of Range's screening, which featured doctored images of Bush getting shot, and Costner, who wasn't in the audience, isn't happy with what he's heard about the film. He says, "It's awfully hard if you're his children, his wife, his mother, his dad; there's a certain thing we can't lose as human beings, which is empathy for maybe the hardest job in the world. "Whether we think it's being performed right or not we can't, like, wish… or think that's even cute."
Good for him for speaking out against this. Meanwhile, the distribution rights to the film in the US were acquired for a reported $1 million dollars by Newmarket Films. That's a pretty low figure by any standards these days. But then, it's a pretty low film.
Media, World news | Gaius Tuesday, 12 September , 2006
By Black Jack, Tuesday, 12 September , 2006 @ 11:34 am
We’ve already seen a movie of the murder on one American President. Abraham Zapruder filmed it in Dallas on November 22, 1963. It too was “stunning” but it really wasn’t very entertaining, not in the usual sense anyway.
And anyone who thinks this new movie might be just fine and dandy ought to take a look at Abraham Zapruder’s original version before they wax entheusatic for a sequel. I’m certainly not interested in a replay of that tragic day.
By Scott W. Somerville, Tuesday, 12 September , 2006 @ 11:54 am
I think the problem with this film is that it’s somewhat serious in its projection of the results of an assassination–if you’re the kind of person who would pay money for this film, you won’t enjoy it. It’s not “political pornography”–it’s one of those Army training films about why you don’t want a venereal disease.