Horribly Miscast as Bush Sr.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — James Cromwell
acountis — 17 years ago(October 10, 2008 03:06 AM)
W. looks like a pretty interesting movie, but James Cromwell as Bush Senior is just goofy. Cromwell is an okay actor, but he doesn't have a lot of range. He's basically the same guy in every movie and I don't see how he can inhabit the role of a person people know so well.
It's going to be like Zefram Cochrane is W.'s father.
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caroms2051 — 15 years ago(April 22, 2010 07:21 PM)
Agree with CradleRounder, although this is not exactly a timely response. Now I see that James Cromwell is going to play the role of Lyndon Johnson as well. THAT might be a bit of a stretch because LBJ was so heavy set, except as a very young man. Randy Quaid was great as Lyndon Johnson, bt I forget the name of the movie/TV miniseries,etc
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honeypeanuts — 17 years ago(March 06, 2009 05:07 PM)
i dont think he was bad because of his acting ability i think he is a great actor its just hard to make this guy look and act like a bumbeling idiot like everbody in the bush family he is just too dammn serious and distuinguished for that
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bmodica — 16 years ago(January 27, 2010 02:58 AM)
Gee, Honey, you call the Bush family; a family with war heroes, House members, governors, and Presidents; "bumbeling idiots"? Your spelling, punctuation, and grammar show you to be the "bumbeling idiot", don't you think? Product of a liberal education, aren't you?
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ridgerunner72160-609-362419 — 14 years ago(June 09, 2011 08:01 PM)
Bush Sr. and Jr. weren't much as presidents, but I'll take them any day of the week over this pile of garbage who's squatting illegally in the White House now and doing his damndest to completely destroy the economy of this country.
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baran_erik — 9 years ago(August 27, 2016 10:30 PM)
Excuse me? The economy was teetering on the brink of a DEPRESSION thanks to the previous administration. Do you remember the republicans agenda during Obama's first term? McConnell said, and it's on tape, that the republican's top political priority was to make sure Obama was a one term president. And the obstruction that came from the right showed that to be the case. From record filibusters to 60+ attempts to repeal Romneycare, they've done whatever they could to hamstring the recovery in an attempt to discredit the left, regardless the damage to Americans and the country. Imagine where we'd be had the right worked with the left instead of against the country? Bush ran the country into the ground and Obama has cleaned up the mess.
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Humboldtdda — 16 years ago(July 03, 2009 01:44 AM)
Yes, they really need to rename this t1ebchread, because the consensus is that he was outstanding in the movie. Ironically one of the other threads is on that very topic. There are those who disagree with the portrait of Bush Senior in the movie, as being dis-approving of his elder son. Read Dr. Justin Frank's outstanding "Bush on the Couch" a psychiatrist's depiction of W. and his issues with his family. The scene that depicts W and Condaleeza Rice being upset over Brent Scowcroft's article in the Wall Street Journal is very real. The article was written. It was very negative about the prospects of the Iraq war, and given the close relationship of Scowcroft and Bush Sr. there was no way it would have been written without Bush Sr's. approval. All of those who did not like Cromwell, were just people who did not like the movie and its depiction of the Bush family. Cromwell's performance was outstanding, and I agree with those who said he was deprived of even an Oscar nomination. He deserved it.