White House Down

[drewtam]

I went to see the new Man of Steel yesterday with the wife. One of the commercials before the movie was for "White House Down". From what I can tell, its a feature length puff piece for Obama. The first movie I ever recall making the POTUS a live action hero.

I kid you not, this is a scene quote as I remember it...
<car chase/ moving gun fight scene>
"Mr President, I know you are a man of peace, but I need you to take this [pistol] and shoot while I drive us out of here."

The next movie commercial was something about corporate CEOs hiring spies, and killing anyone that gets in the way of corporate power.

Am I seeing partisanship where there is none?


Anyway, Man of Steel was meh. I went because my BIL played an extra and got a micro second of blurry screen time. I didn't notice anything overtly political in it, so at least it wasn't insulting.

[zxcvbob]

I went to see the new Man of Steel yesterday with the wife. One of the commercials before the movie was for "White House Down". From what I can tell, its a feature length puff piece for Obama. The first movie I ever recall making the POTUS a live action hero.

I thought Harrison Ford played a president that was kind of like Dubya reimagined as a warrior in a nice suit.  I can't recall the movie.

[SADShooter]

I thought Harrison Ford played a president that was kind of like Dubya reimagined as a warrior in a nice suit.  I can't recall the movie.

Air Force One.

Then there was Bill Pullman as the fighter jock President who took on alien invaders in Independence Day.

[TechMan]

I thought Harrison Ford played a president that was kind of like Dubya reimagined as a warrior in a nice suit.  I can't recall the movie.

Air Force One

[Perd Hapley]

Air Force One

That was pre-Dubya.

[TechMan]

Air Force One.

Then there was Bill Pullman as the fighter jock President who took on alien invaders in Independence Day.

Beat me to it by seconds.....

[HankB]

George Washington played an action hero, too . . . even if it was in a car commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqpJvey-7-s

And of course, more recently, there was Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.  

[Viking]

George Washington played an action hero, too . . . even if it was in a car commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqpJvey-7-s

And of course, more recently, there was Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.  

Far more believable than Obama as an action hero.

[SADShooter]

Far less believable than Obama as an inaction zero.

FTFY.

[drewtam]

Good points. I never saw AF1, completely forgot about it. Independence Day, I should have remembered that one.

[charby]

Here is Obamaman!

[roo_ster]

I went to see the new Man of Steel yesterday with the wife. One of the commercials before the movie was for "White House Down". From what I can tell, its a feature length puff piece for Obama. The first movie I ever recall making the POTUS a live action hero.

I kid you not, this is a scene quote as I remember it...
<car chase/ moving gun fight scene>
"Mr President, I know you are a man of peace, but I need you to take this [pistol] and shoot while I drive us out of here."

The next movie commercial was something about corporate CEOs hiring spies, and killing anyone that gets in the way of corporate power.

Am I seeing partisanship where there is none?


Anyway, Man of Steel was meh. I went because my BIL played an extra and got a micro second of blurry screen time. I didn't notice anything overtly political in it, so at least it wasn't insulting.

Funny thing is, they got is completely bass-ackwards.

[CNYCacher]

Was Obama himself in this movie? 

[Tallpine]

Was Obama himself in this movie? 

No, he was too busy playing golf so they had to hire a black actor.

[bedlamite]

Air Force One.

Then there was Bill Pullman as the fighter jock President who took on alien invaders in Independence Day.

I preferred Jack Nicholson in Mars Attacks!

[zxcvbob]

or Peter Sellers ("Merkin Muffley") in the war room.

[Regolith]

George Washington played an action hero, too . . . even if it was in a car commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqpJvey-7-s

He played one in real life too.

[erictank]

or Peter Sellers ("Merkin Muffley") in the war room.

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."

[Devonai]

Aren't you guys forgetting when President Palmer ran a specops team?

[Boomhauer]

It's Hollywierd. Who the *expletive deleted*ck in their right mind gives a *expletive deleted*it?

[Tallpine]

It's Hollywierd. Who the *expletive deleted* in their right mind gives a *expletive deleted*?

The trailer is an ad on you tube now.

So I'm trying to watch videos of the Black Forest fire ....

[AZRedhawk44]

24's presidents always creeped me out.

They all felt like they were conditioning the public for crappy presidents.  The weasely white president was clearly Bush, the black one was a premonition of Obama, and the woman from the last couple seasons was clearly Hillary.

And the whole lot of them made the choice to sacrifice liberty for safety, every damn time given the option to do so.  Horrible creatures.

[cordex]

Aren't you guys forgetting when President Palmer ran a specops team?

"Go for Blaine."
"Is that so?"
"How 'bout that?"

[zxcvbob]

24's presidents always creeped me out.

They all felt like they were conditioning the public for crappy presidents.  The weasely white president was clearly Bush, the black one was a premonition of Obama, and the woman from the last couple seasons was clearly Hillary.

And the whole lot of them made the choice to sacrifice liberty for safety, every damn time given the option to do so.  Horrible creatures.

I watched the first season of 24 and maybe one episode of the 2nd season.  When Jack murdered a sleazebag that was in FBI custody to get "street creds", shot him and then cut off his head with a pocketknife or something like that, I turned it off and never watched again.  It was supposed to be OK because he was accused of being a child molester (a long time ago, I don't recall the details)

The whole series is just propaganda for "the government can do *anything* it wants when we're dealing with terr'rists".  And who is a terr'rist?  It's whomever the government says it is.  The filming it in real time was a cool gimmick, I'll give 'em that.

[TommyGunn]

24's presidents always creeped me out.

They all felt like they were conditioning the public for crappy presidents.  The weasely white president was clearly Bush, the black one was a premonition of Obama, and the woman from the last couple seasons was clearly Hillary.

And the whole lot of them made the choice to sacrifice liberty for safety, every damn time given the option to do so.  Horrible creatures.

I did not get the idea that President Palmer was an "Obama wannabe," Palmer was actually competent, moreso than Obama.  The "weasely white" one was hardly Bush it was just a weaselly white guy who couldn't take a decision between chicken and fish for dinner let alone decisions that could cost lives.  

I watched the first season of 24 and maybe one episode of the 2nd season.  When Jack murdered a sleazebag that was in FBI custody to get "street creds", shot him and then cut off his head with a pocketknife or something like that, I turned it off and never watched again.  It was supposed to be OK because he was accused of being a child molester (a long time ago, I don't recall the details)

The whole series is just propaganda for "the government can do *anything* it wants when we're dealing with terr'rists".  And who is a terr'rist?  It's whomever the government says it is.  The filming it in real time was a cool gimmick, I'll give 'em that.

Meh.  It was a TV show.  The lesser evils were only "justifiable" insofar as they prevented a greater evil.  It bothered me when Jack was forced to murder a fellow agent in an early episode ... but it was only a TV show.

All in all it's like disliking Star Trek because superluminal velocities violate known laws of physics.  It's a TV show.