How Cool Is That??? Makes me wish he really was running!

Well, if the movie is half as good as the trailer manipulates the footage to make it seem it is, then it should go a long way toward redeeming Robin Williams for so many of his recent career choices. Not hopeful, however.

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This looks really good. Now the ultimate meta-surealism would have John Stewart declaring his candidacy when Robin Williams comes on to plug the movie.

"Well, if the movie is half as good as the trailer manipulates the footage to make it seem it is,..."
...the trailer "manipulates" the footage?? The footage is contrived from the get-go, it's not a documentary. The entire thing, as all fiction, is a manipulation, a deception. And that's ok, that's what storytelling is.
IMHO it doesn't make sense to speak of "manipulation" in this context. It is a concept loaded with implications that do not seem to fit here. But the word itself has inflammatory qualities that can detract from meaningful discussion.
Just trying to understand, and to keep our use of language accurate. Again, this is all imho.

(this is nothing about therealblankman; I am at times (over)zealous in my self-appointed role of language observer.)

FFS- it's just a MOVIE, and looks to be a good one at that. If it doesn't work for you . . . you're out 20 bucks on a crap movie. If it DOES work for you, you get a great laugh. Is it worth the $20 to find out? If you can't spend 20 hard earn dollars to try to laugh, you need help.

I'm going to go see it, simply because I keep hoping someone gets elected that ISN'T a politician. This movie at least seems to fit the bill.

Have a Coke and a smile. :-p

if this leads to Ahhh-nahld running for Prez, i swear i'm moving to Australia.

looks like a great movie though.

I'm sorry, but this movie looks dreadful. Enron jokes? "Cabinet" jokes? Inhale jokes? Fart jokes?! This isn't Jon Stewart, this is stale oooold Jay Leno rejects in a movie that just screams "Pauly Shore".

(I still appreciate sfjocko posting the trailer.)

You pay $20 to go see a movie! Good lord that's expensive. Where do you live? Its $7.50 here.

And right now Arnold cannot run for president because he is not a natural born citizen. We'd have to change the constitution for that to happen. And that ain't gonna happen.
Cheers all!

Fateke: $20 bucks assumes a significant other and some munchies. I can go solo and cheaply for about $3 here.

sfjocko: my words were chosen very carefully, actually.

Movie trailers manipulate the footage of the very movies they promote, often presenting a very different perspective than is proferred in the finished movie.

My favourite example of this is "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels". The trailer was shot separately, and none of the footage or action from the trailer appears in the actual movie.

From IMDB: "An entire day was spent shooting the trailer, which does not appear in the film. The trailer shows Freddy and Lawrence walking along the boardwalk, politely moving out of the way of other people, etc, with a voice saying something like "There are numerous distinguished gentlemen in the world... refined, cultured gentlemen.... nice men....... but nice men finish last". As these last few lines are spoken, Freddy pushes an old lady into the water, and Lawrence shoves a kid's face into his cotton candy."

There are lots of other examples of this. Generally speaking, a movie's director rarely puts together their own trailers- they are the responsibility of the studio's promotions department, whose purpose is not necessarilly to present a true two-minute representation of the movie, but rather to manipulate the viewer into wanting to spend money to go see the movie. How many times have you seen a trailer and thought to yourself "Wow, that looks like a great movie, I'd like to see that!", only to be disappointed that the P.O.S. movie didn't come close to the level of expectation generated by the trailer?

As for the rest of your point about the movie itself being a manipulation of reality... well, yeah, it's a movie. Robin Williams is not playing the real person named Jon Stewart, he's playing a character who bears many similarities to Jon Stewart. Much as Orson Welles played a character named Charles Foster Kane, who bore many similarities to a real person named William Randolph Hearst, but was certainly NOT Hearst.

Awesome!!!

>> Movie trailers manipulate the footage of the very movies they promote

Yes.. the recent flurry of movie trailer remixes illustrate how the editing and music set the context for interpretation-

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=141
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=715

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