Wild in the Streets (1968)

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10 Coolest Film Presidents
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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. [More]

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"When I watched Wild in the Streets a long time ago, I really liked it. But watching it again was more entertaining than I remembered. It turns out that it is a lot funnier than I remembered. But not intentionally funny. The movie was intended as a warning to the country about what would happen if the voting age was ever lowered to 18. Christopher Jones plays Max Frost a politically-active version of Jim Morrison. Once the voting age gets lowered he gets one of his band members elected to congress and introduces a bill to get the age to hold all offices in the United States lowered to 14. Once he becomes president he spends his time staggering around the White House spouting cliché-ridden, hippie-speak and has the rest of the kids round up everyone over 35 and sends them to LSD fueled Happy concentration camps. Shelly Winters is great as his harpy mother who drives her son out of the house with her henpecking. (A great touch in retrospect is that the young Max is played by B ... " [More]

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