Comments on: Controversy Watch: The Bush assassination movie

By: lot

lot — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:14:11 +0000

Seems this film has drawn its potential audience, with some few exceptions you guys sound like a bunch of future past and present defectives.
Whoever made this film and whoever will taut it proudly at toronto film festival has as much taste creativity and artistic acumen as a foaming rabbid dog. LIberals have lost their last touch with reality, not that they ever had any morals or sence of reality or decency or dignity or backbone for that matter, but stuping this low is a new horizon. This only compares to their rabbid attempts to silence the path to 9 11, with all stalinistic might and fervor threats and coercions, while at the same time whining that their free speech is being trampled upon by the ‘right’. Thank god the Bush admin have enough intellect to stay away from openly critisizing DOAP, in fact thank god they dont even bother to notice such disgusting tripe.

By: lucid

lucid — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:19:04 +0000

I am extremely upset at the premise!!! Why couldn’t they take out Cheney and Rove as well? THAT would have been fantasizing. We all know Bush is just a stupid puppet anyway.
I hope I do get the chance to see this movie. It would be interesting to see the filmmakers’ perspective on what effect the assassination would have on the world.
All of you who are bellyaching and freaking out about ‘killing our president’, it is FICTION. Besides, if there has ever been a president that has taken the sanctity and honor out of world leadership it is this baffoon.
And before you tell me, ‘if I don’t like it leave’, I love this country specifically for what it is, a place that allows me to speak my mind!

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:22:19 +0000

Now Heidi, that was just silly. It is most likely that the people with concerns over depicting a murder of a real person in a movie are also concerned with ACTUAL deaths happening in the world. It is called respecting life. Scary that this has to be explained.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:17:29 +0000

Christopher, you are wiser than most who are beyond you in years. Agreed.

By: Christopher McCowan

Christopher McCowan — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 01:07:54 +0000

I am a Democrat, 16 years old. I believe that no man, or women no matter how disliked shouldn’t be put down in any way as to an assassination, President Kennedy is my favorite President I watched the Zapurder film many times and evertime is even more emotional, as I said no man or women should be put down in anyway.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:33:10 +0000

Thank you Heidi!!
I do not believe I would ever honestly advocate the actual killing of someone, but, this movie will provide an interesting point of discussion. If for nothing else than the reaction to it. And in reality, it is all a matter of perspective. While many may be outrage that someone would even discuss the possible assassination of our president, there are many people in this country hoping for the deaths of other unsavory leaders around the world.

By: kenny k

kenny k — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:57:00 +0000

Why is it that the Dixie Chicks continue to get slammed for a comment Natalie Maines made YEARS ago (and don’t tell me that their recent shutout at the CMA nominations despite a critically and commercially acclaimed CD wasn’t a cruel and deliberate act on the hick voters’ part), but a movie such as this not only be filmed, but shown to the public?
The mind boggles at the hyprocrisy and downright stupidity of the masses…
Sickening on all fronts.

By: heidi

heidi — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:23:46 +0000

WoW…. If everybody who is upset about this movie would show the same concern for”real, living people” ACTUALLY dying all over the world right now, we would live in a better world.

By: Tommy Marx

Tommy Marx — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:52:35 +0000

Wow! I’m more liberal than not, I think President Bush is the worst thing to happen to this country in decades, and even I am offended by this movie. There is a huge difference between freedom of speech and ugliness for profit. Making a movie that imagines the death of a living person, especially one who – regardless of how you feel about him – holds a position that should be respected, disgusts me.

By: california

california — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:25:39 +0000

Agree with Daisy. JFK was an illustration of real events. After all, that is what Aristotle defined drama as. It was historical fiction, and the part where he dies, isn’t supposed to entertain you. This movie is almost like an illustration of someone’s fantasy. I find it to be a stunt and frankly distracts from whatever the rest of the movie is trying to say about American politics. It should have been a thinly veiled other country with its own president, or America with a fictional president, so that we would focus on the movie’s overall themes and messages. I am a democrat and hate where Bush has taken us, but I would NEVER want to see him assassinated, and I hope to God that this film does not plant some crack pot idea in some weirdo’s head. (I’m also not too keen on the fact that this film is a foreign film … why dont you kill off your own frickin leader, A-hole!)