Game Change - The HBO Movie - Is It Supposed To Make Sarah Palin........

[global1]

look good? pathetic? or sympathetic?

Will people who watch come out liking her more or realizing that she is a complete idiot?

What is the message that this movie is trying to convey to us?

I can't believe all the good reviews it has gotten from the likes of MSNBC and CNN commentators. Tweety is really touting it.

[tabbycat31]

1. I read the book

And the authors really made her look like an idiot.

I'd love to see the movie but I don't get HBO so it will have to wait.

The book chronicles the 2008 election cycle beginning in early 2007 when the candidates kicked off their campaigns. Sarah is really only in the last 3 or so chapters of the book. I wonder if the movie will be the whole book or just the last few chapters after she comes onto the scene.

Good book BTW, it's probably the only political book I've read that reads like a novel.

[LynneSin]

8. I don't think the authors had to try that hard to make her look like an idiot

I think they just reported what they say and the rest was all Sarah.

[Suich]

19. I read the book, too,

and I thought most of the stuff about Palin was already common knowledge. The thing that surprised me the most about the book was the portrayal of Elizabeth Edwards.

Like you, I usually stay away from political books but Game Change was a gift and it DID read like a novel.

I've gotten the impression the movie is mostly about Palin.

[LanternWaste]

2. When HBO aired Path to War some years ago

When HBO aired Path to War some years ago, LBJ fans decried it as casting him in a negative light. LBJ critics announced it was designed to rehabilitate his image and make him more palatable to the unsuspecting viewer.

I watched it with a most favored disinterest in neither the deification nor the vilification of the man, and was impressed by the film-- a movie, I thought, designed merely to entertain me, and fill in some holes I may not have otherwise had the opportunity or the inclination to notice myself.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. There was a similar reaction to the recent Kennedy miniseries.....

Some said it cast the Kennedys in a negative light. But after seeing it, I would have to say it was pretty neutral to JFK and actually portrayed RFK rather favorably. The only who was portrayed negatively was Joseph Kennedy.

[polichick]

3. It's hard to see Julianne Moore as Palin...

...but maybe that's just me.

[SomethingFishy]

4. There is a picture of her in makeup on IMDB

and man they did a good job. Nailed it. If she gets the accent right she'll pull it off easily.

[EOTE]

5. They did a crazy good job with the likeness.

In the clips I've seen of her as Palin, I've honestly forgot I was looking at Moore for a while. I think she looks more uncannily like Palin than even Tina Fey.

[Rosco T.]

7. I think she NAILS it....

[polichick]

12. Thanks for the clip - I don't think she looks enough like palin...

...and she doesn't give me the creeps. lol

[LynneSin]

10. She rivals Tina Fey for pulling off the Sarah Palin impersonation

But as much as I adore Ed Harris, Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson - all very progressive people. I can't watch the movie.

BTW, Julianne Moore regularly speaks on behalf of Planned Parenthood!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. She actually comes out looking quite like the real thing.

Unlike the recent HBO movie about Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, where Dennis Quaid played Clinton. Quaid looked nothing like Clinton; it was like watching Dennis Quaid do an impression of Clinton's voice while wearing a gray wig.

[polichick]

15. imo it's better to use lesser known actors for characters...

...who are so familiar to people.

[blm]

6. It's Mark Halperin - of course he wants to help Palin rehab. Guaranteed he sympathizes with her

as much as possible in the book, even as he is reporting the disdain from others.

[Motown_Johnny]

9. Listening to the talking heads who have seen it, my impression

is that where you sit is where you will stand.

I don't expect it to change anyone's mind about her either way.

[nanabugg]

11. I think it was supposed to make her look as she actually was and is. nt

[UTUSN]

16. Yip, they're hyping how the trailer is the worst of the negatives, rest sympathetic

That the trailer hits most of the strident stuff but the movie shows how empathetic she supposedly was with Downs kids in crowds with the parents really touched and grateful, and today (who was it?) somebody saying that it shows "all the pressures she was under," how she had been focused on "the price at the gas pump" and didn't realize she would be quizzed about school stuff like continents and stuff.

That HALPERIN is "our (MSNBC) colleague" and the one who called the President a genital says something. I suspect the whole product is a lot more sympathetic than the advertising.

[TheWraith]

17. Maybe you should actually do some research before assuming you know what it's about?

Because the picture you seem to have drawn couldn't be farther from the truth.

[CTyankee]

18. Joe Scarborough was starting the Palin Rehabilitation today...saying all these nice things about her

How she drove all the crowds to the MCain/Palin events, how she "connected" so well with people, how she didn't know stuff because she was "busy" working on gas issues and figuring out how to help create jobs for the people of Alaska.

I had to chuckle to myself...it was SO obvious what he was trying to do!

You ain't subtle, Joey!

[loyalsister]

20. An interview I saw led me to believe that it's more about the politics than Palin herself

As much as I dislike her, I think it's true that she was a victim of political miscalculation.
They didn't vet her properly and didn't give her the necessary background and prep to handle herself with the press and among mainstream crowds.
There is a legitimate case to be made that there was no way for her to adapt coming from such a small homogeneous area, and that she was both too naive and ego driven to care.
The fact that the campaign didn't consider the whole package because they felt like they needed a history making candidate on the ticket is not necessarily her fault. In the end all she got was pathetically infamous notoriety.

LBJ could get away with his social ineptitude before youtube and social media, but it's hard to imagine him getting elected in a world where most of his obnoxious comments were widely reported.
Imagine how many dalliances and inappropriate behaviors would have been reported on facebook with photos and youtube during Clinton's campaigns.
We could certainly endlessly question whether or not W would have been elected or re-elected.

If we look at it objectively, it worked out well for us and ultimately pretty unfortunate for her.