Reagan -- The Movie

No.

Are you "a part" of the team, mein Fuhrer?

Newp.

You couldn't pay me to see it. He is second only to Trump when it comes to my hatred.

Who knew Penelope Ann Miller is right wing trash?

The wardrobe/hair stylist should give us a call to color Reagan’s hair. (To be clear, it wasn’t our product that Guilianni used).

Not. Interested

C. Thomas Howell playing Caspar Weinberger.

He talks about working under Covid conditions. How long ab=go was this made?

It says at the end of the Howell interview the movie is "due to be released in 2022."

Who does Scott Baio play?

R5, it's possible she isn't and only took this role because she needs the money

Why is every movie these days shot in complete darkness?

The actor who plays young Reagan is hot in a that thin-lipped, white dude who definitely plays golf every weekend way. Too bad he's a Far Right Ultra-Conservative Catholic loon. If you need any further evidence, he's also recently made a film with Mel Gibson.

Jon Voight and Robert Davi as Russians.

This will be about as convincing as John Saxon playing an Arab oil baron on Dynasty.

The James Brolin / Judy Davis 2003 movie was good enough for me to know everything I didn't want to know about The Reagans, and it was barely entertaining.

What I recall most about the film was that CBS was set to air this as a 2 night / 4 hour miniseries in mid-November, 2003 for 'ratings sweep'. The GOP protested and pressured CBS not to air this at all as it was 'left wing media propaganda' . The Reagan family (and I believe the Bush family) issued statements saying the President deserved better.

So parent company Viacom caved and pulled it from their schedule and aired it on their subscriber-based Showtime channel, instead. They later issued a statement saying that they received a huge bump in subscribers solely because they were airing the movie.

I should have been cast as the Throat Goat.

Bitch stole my act.

R13 Except Reagan didn't have hair that dark when he was young.

No. Hated him then, hate him even more now because this fucked up nation is the direct result of his presidency. No need to relive the nightmare.

When kids tell me now that they have to pay extra for the extracurricular activities in school, I think of the Reagan administration cutting arts programs. Maybe it wasn't a direct result, but everything has gone to shit since then. There are still people questioning how we can possibly afford to give people anything good in this country. It all seemed to gain momentum in the Reagan years. Also, on a more person level, the Reagan Recession got my 60 year old dad laid off after working in the same place for 35 years.

*personal

He was openly hostile to minorities. Not unlike Trump is today - both of them had no shame.

Instead of watching this pointless piece of hagiography, watch the EXCELLENT Showtime docuseries. If the docuseries had aired on HBO or Netflix, it would have gotten so much more attention. It's meticulously researched and features probably the most candid interviews you've heard from Reagan-world insiders, including many of the surviving members of his cabinet and his children. Like history... the series is... not kind to Ron or Nancy.

Thanks, R23! The trailer looks interesting as well as biting. I think I'll watch that instead.

Watched parts 1 & 2 so far, R23 -- thanks again!

r24 - It's pretty fascinating, isn't it? Not just for the very candid insider commentary from some very powerful figures in American politics, but for the way in which the director threads the themes of the rise of American conservatism from Nixon's Southern strategy through to Reaganism and its terrible aftershocks we experience to this day. I wish there were more politically-themed docuseries like this. This stuff is like catnip for me.

Didn’t most of you live through those horrible years? One of the worst presidents of all time. He fucked us up economically.

But, if you watch that instead of the movie, somewhere, a has been actress (Penelope Ann Miller) may go to bed hungry!

No previews. Bad sign. I’ll have to pass. Rather, I’ll “Just Say “No””.

Scott Stapp as Sinatra - LOL

Trevor Donovan has disabled commenting on his Reagan movie posts on Instagram.

[quote] Didn’t most of you live through those horrible years? One of the worst presidents of all time. He fucked us up economically.

I'm not sure what your point is./ That in and of itself certainly doesn't mean it's a bad movie. There have been good movies about other bad presidents before ("Nixon," "W"), and there are even good movies about even worse world leaders ("Downfall," "The Death of Stalin"). No one has to admire a historical figure to admire a movie made about his or her life.

That being said, this movie looks like it's been made by conservatives who want to make a highly flattering and unrealistic portrait of Ronnie, so i think I'll pass on this one. If it looked to be more honest, I might see it.

It's mourning in America.

[quote]Who does Scott Baio play?

John Hinckley Jr.

Only because Philip Seymour Hoffman is dead.

Did Trev play Ron Reagan Jr?

You could post a million pictures of P-A Miller in this, and in a million years I wouldn't guess she was supposed to be Nancy "Casket Dance" Reagan.

SENILE- The Movie

R32, it's like the people from Hallmark want to branch out into biopics now.

It looks like something those faith-based studios put out. Or the people who brought you "The Sound of Freedom" or "My Son, Hunter".

The cast includes Dennis Quaid, Jon Voight, Kevin Sorbo, and Scott Stapp. Why is C. Thomas Howell involved? Is he a right-wing douchebag now, too? And why did it take so long for this turd to be released?

[quote] Dennis Quaid, Jon Voight

How far they’ve fallen.

r41 - that's an interesting one. Perhaps C. Thomas Howell was just desperate for work/hadn't saved well? I say that because on his Twitter (which he doesn't seem to update often), he's retweeted tweets from squad members like AOC and Ilhan Omar and Bernie Sanders. I don't think he's a MAGAT.

Howell was also in Democrat megadonor Rob Reiner's movie about LBJ.

Is Sorbo playing Rock Hudson?

Ok, hopefully Tommy Howell is just broke and needed a paycheck. I always liked him.

Films about politicians are always tricky. They either end up accused of being a hatchet job or a hagiography.

I haven't been following all that closely, but didn't it bomb at the box office on opening night (Friday 8-30) ?

I wouldn't be surprised, R48. Who exactly is the audience for this? Not Democrats, not MAGA. Those few country club Republicans left?

It sucks more than Nancy Davis did.

R49 I guess Liz and Dick Cheney had the whole cineplex to themselves the other night.

I watched the Reagan documentary on Showtime and that's all the Reagan I need to see.

Does Dennis Quaid show hole?

I'll wait until I hear whether or not there's an epilogue showing the Gipper roasting in Hell for how he handled the AIDS crisis.

R53 Quaid shows Reagan's hole. Don't miss it.

Reagan presents hole to Oliver North and there’s a “shipment of domestic weapons” atop the Resolute Desk.

I'm looking forward to snickering through it on Pluto TV six months from now.

Oliver North - where has he been hiding these days ? Is he a MAGA ?

The real thing was bad enough.

As long as it is truthful.

My very liberal son went to see it in DC with friends - they sat at the back of the theatre laughing all the way through, to the annoyance of the older people in the audience. He texted immediately after to tell me that it skips over AIDS, Iran-Contra, and all the other major scandals.

R53 yes, the whole movie is about an asshole

R43 It's all show. He moved to Tennessee and plays in some country band. He tries to appeal to that audience now. He even changed his accent.

Sad to see a black man become a MAGAt.