American Dreamz

[Listener]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0465142/

If Weitz truly can recapture the magic of the first American Pie, this will be an excellent film to sit through.

[pumpkineye]

sounds like it could be fun.

[ReBurn]

If he tries to recapture the magic, then it'll never happen.  It'll be that movie that's like the first American Pie.

[Beefy]

It looks like it could be cute.  Quaid looks fun, but casting DeFoe as Cheney seems more than a bit odd to me.

[Listener]

I saw a preview/featurette on this today while waiting for V to start.  It looks more like a straight-up satire of American Idol and less a satire of "A-Idol Culture", but I'll still go see it.

[Gamplayerx]

Hugh Grant does a pretty good Simon.  At least in the commercials.

[Listener]

I saw a spot yesterday about how there's a political angle, where they use ADz to get people to vote for the next president.

That might not be a half-bad idea, if they could work out the logistics... or at least require everyone who votes for AI to be a registered voter.  At the very least the voter rolls would swell massively.

Like my wang.

(I had to say it before someone else did.)

[Listener]

It was pretty good.  I mostly liked it.

It was very satirical.  The commercials don't show the level of political satire (some of it more than a tad heavy-handed than necessary) that the film imparts.  There's a very strong implied connection between Dennis Quaid/Willem DaFoe and GWB/Karl Rove.  But Hugh Grant and Mandy Moore play off each other very well, and you really feel for Omer (the Arabic main character).

[SockmonkeyHolocaust]

what's that I smell in the air
the American dream
sweet as a new millionaire
the American dream
pre-packed, ready-to-wear
the American dream
fat, like a chocolate eclair
as you suck out the cream