I'm sorry but what I saw in this film was a pandering to a sickly patriotic ideal. The storyline was diabolical, I found it horribly acted and generally a horrificly sugar coated idea of politics. "Wag the Dog" presents a much more insightful funny and disturbing look at what politics is really like, be it America or on my side of the pond, Britain.
shareThank you, Mr. Potter.
shareSentimentalist, yes. Idealistic, yes. Rubbish, I don't think so. This is the kind of 'rubbish' that got this country through the Great Depression and WWII. This is the kind of 'rubbish' which has held this country together during the worst of times.
There are no heroes anymore. They all died in Dallas, Memphis, L.A., Kent State, and the jungles of Vietnam. Dreams die hard. That doesn't render them meaningless. You my friend, are a cynic.
I almost forgot. Peace...
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Interesting. Mister Potter used virtually the same line, and Jimmy Stewart told him off in that movie.
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I think it is important to remember the time period in which this film was made. To compare it to Wag the Dog is silly, Brit.
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if you never open your mind for sentimental movie, you will never learn which one a good sentimental movie and which one is oversentimental.
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