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"Will this year’s presidential election be determined by which candidate is more hip? Barack Obama is younger, listens to Jay-Z and Kanye West and is something of a trendy choice among college students. McCain, on the other hand, is older and (now) less athletic but is still considered to be hip in a cool grandpa kind of way. Like the grandpa who has exciting war stories to share. Have you seen the video footage of him jumping from an explosion during the USS Forrestal fire? That’s pretty cool. So, the outcome of the race may depend on what the majority of Americans think is cool. Charisma or Muscle. It reminds me of an election for high school class president. Who is more popular, the preppy basketball player or the more jockish captain of the wrestling team? But do we really want a cool president? Let’s take a look at some of the coolest fictional presidents from the movies and decide if it’s truly a good idea to base our vote on which candidate we’d prefer to hang with.
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"Entertaining, but the whole analysis of TV as opiate of the masses has been done better in the likes of "Network." "
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"By Tricia Olszewski Do you think American Idol is ridiculous? How about our president? American Dreamz is hoping that, in its own words, both make you “want to projectile-vomit.” Well, maybe you don’t have to feel that strongly about the TV show. After all, even if you believe AI is the epitome of the cookie-cutter mediocrity our screwed-up culture seems to embrace, you still watch it, right? If you didn’t, you wouldn’t get any of Weitz’s jokes. Writer-director Paul Weitz, who brought us 2002’s About a Boy and 2004’s In Good Company, does a fine job drawing up Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant), a transparently Simon Cowell–ish television personality who lords it over a familiar-looking show called American Dreamz. After heartfelt performances, Tweed says things to Dreamz contestants—many of whom mimic former Idol players—such as “Cindy, I’ve felt this way before. And it was just before I wanted to kill myself.& ... "
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"Director: Paul WeitzReleased: April 21, 2006 *****Six years too late and too smarmy for it's own good, American Dreamz tells the story of an American Idol-type singing competition in conjunction with a parody of President Bush, mixed together with moments from the Iraq War in a final product so heinous and broadly pandering it's nearly unwatchable. Hugh Grant and Mandy Moore star as producer/host Martin Tweed and Kelly Clarkson-clone Sally Kendoo, respectively. As Sally catches the eye of "Tweedy," her army boyfriend returns to America after a laughable injury. Meanwhile, terrorists try to kill the president (Dennis Quaid) by planting a contestant on the show...and the president figures out he needs to think and not simply be a puppet.What a dismal piece of crap. The script seems to want to poke fun at any number of American foibles: Bush, Cheney, Iraq, terrorism, television production, American Idol...even film "logic" (looking through keyholes, for instance) with no real rhym ... "
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