W

Tuesday is gomer day at the dollar cinema, which means $2/each. We saw W.

I'm not and have never been a fan of Ollie Stone's work, and have avoided it pretty successfully since NBK, so that's been almost fifteen years.

Though subtlety and nuance will likely never find a place in his quiver, Ollie kept the W mellerdrama at a minimum. Only the Condi Rice portrayal seemed over the top. Josh Brolin's Geo was amazingly dead-on. The vocal tics, the shrugs, the goofy sincerity of 44 were all there. When he spake the famous "Is our children learning?" phrase, boy howdy.

From all I've read over the past 7 years 10 months, I think the movie captures the man and those who surround him really well. Highly recommended.