Hollywood's White House
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What Spielberg and Katzenberg should know is that a film can have an expensive and superb marketing campaign, an A-list star, tremendous special effects, and a big-time budget, but still flop spectacularly if it does not tell a compelling story. All of Hollywood’s script doctoring cannot rescue this particular tale of a failed presidency—the story of how a young, ambitious, liberal Democratic senator promised a dispirited American people a new era of bipartisan reform, and then handed the controls of government to hard-knuckle lefty partisans such as Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, Barney Frank, and Harry Reid. No amount of glitz and glam can mask a four-year decrease in per capita disposable personal income and household wealth, decelerating economic growth, rising health care costs, and financial downgrades.
The result is an over-budget, half-baked mess of a film, with a premise that overpromises but under-delivers, and a leading man who grows more annoying by the hour. Obama for America 2012 may appeal to niche audiences, but it is underperforming its 2008 box office, and may be limited to select theaters in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Some critics may enjoy the lavish but ultimately rather pathetic spectacle. I am waiting for The Dark Knight Rises.
What Spielberg and Katzenberg should know is that a film can have an expensive and superb marketing campaign, an A-list star, tremendous special effects, and a big-time budget, but still flop spectacularly if it does not tell a compelling story. All of Hollywood’s script doctoring cannot rescue this particular tale of a failed presidency—the story of how a young, ambitious, liberal Democratic senator promised a dispirited American people a new era of bipartisan reform, and then handed the controls of government to hard-knuckle lefty partisans such as Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, Barney Frank, and Harry Reid. No amount of glitz and glam can mask a four-year decrease in per capita disposable personal income and household wealth, decelerating economic growth, rising health care costs, and financial downgrades.
The result is an over-budget, half-baked mess of a film, with a premise that overpromises but under-delivers, and a leading man who grows more annoying by the hour. Obama for America 2012 may appeal to niche audiences, but it is underperforming its 2008 box office, and may be limited to select theaters in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Some critics may enjoy the lavish but ultimately rather pathetic spectacle. I am waiting for The Dark Knight Rises.
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