Game Change (2012)

It IS Game Change!

Sarah Palin was a great Julianne Moore

Haven’t we discussed this enough.

Sarah Paulson portrayed Nicolle Wallace. One of those rare occurrences where the actress playing the real-life person was actually less attractive.

I thought they really glossed over her malice and dishonesty. It was mostly a movie about how stupid Sarah Palin is.

There's a lovely moment in it when, before the televised debate with Biden, Palin tries to get her youngest daughter (Bristol?) to pray with her that she will win, and the child refuses because God isn't supposed to grant wishes like that. But they pray to God anyway for his grace.

I finally watched this about two months ago. The story and script were great. So were the actors.

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It was fine, didn’t really tell you anything you didn’t already know. But it was a great way to shit all over Sarah Megacunt Palin, so I liked it.

Julianne Moore did an amazing job as Palin. She got the dialect, the physicality - especially the walk! - and nailed Palin's indifference and ignorance towards a national audience. She bored easily.

In both the book and the movie, they mention that John McCain refused to say anything bad about Palin.

That girl who played My Fat Daughter was far too slim.

They should have cast the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters, or maybe Roseanne Barr in a fat suit.

I felt more sympathy for Sarah Palin watching this film than I ever have watching an interview with the actual woman.

That was my problem with it, r14. It's entertaining but they really portray her as an idiot who is in over her head, not a liar and hatemonger which is what she is in reality.

R15 I think she is both.

The book also covered the Democratic primary: thr battle between Clinton and Obama as well as the John Edwards pregnancy scandal. The movie ignored all of this. I wish these issues had been included. A miniseries would have been better than a 2 hour movie.

I saw a documentary that covered the John Edwards pregnancy scandal. The mistress was 43 and she says she got pregnant on accident. Then she decided to keep the baby because it was her last chance to become a parent. After a tabloid broke the story, Edwards admitted to an affair but denied being the father of the child Wikipedia gives some sordid details: One of his campaign aids publicly claimed to be the father...after Edwards begged him to. According to the campaign aid, Edwards promised his mistress that after his wife--who was ill from cancer--died, he would marry the mistress in a rooftop ceremony in New York, and that he'd get the Dave Matthews Band to appear at the wedding. Two years after the kid was born, Edwards admitted paternity, just a couple of weeks before the campaign aid published a book abut the affair. Later a judge ruled that Edwards and his mistress' sex tape must be destroyed.

Four years before the mistress gave birth, Edwards' wife had been diagnosed with cancer. He was cheating on his sick wife with a campaign staffer. Also, he had a small kid at home because his wife had undergone fertility treatments to give him another son (their fourth child) at 50 years old, a few years after their first son had died. Maybe the fertility treatment caused the breast cancer a few years later. In Elizabeth Edwards' bio, she called the mistress a "parasitic groupie" and "pathetic".

The mistress later wrote her own book about the affair. Later he also faced legal repercussions from the federal government from using campaign money to cover up the affair.

The sordid lives of heterosexuals.

The John McCain campaign reportedly faced a scandal related to an alleged extramarital affair. But the story was killed off quickly.

I read the book but haven’t seen the movie.

The movie focuses on Palin.

She was fighting with the McCain people. Julianne Moore was surprisingly good in it.

I miss when Sarah Palin was the scariest republican

OP Kween of Au Courant.

I preferred this adaptation.

I miss the original crazy Republican women of that time as well R21. Give me the crazy eyes of Michelle Bachmann and her gay as a goose corn dog eating husband Marcus instead of Pipebomb Marge or Laura Looney.

R24 Michelle Bachmann wasn't a crazy though. She was a tax attorney who understood tax and economic policy. Although I disagree with her on issues, I admit she was competent and capable.

Palin, on the other hand, didn't know anything. She was a pretty actor who read lines.