I mean it's no Bulworth, but, well, there can only be one Bulworth. The whole time I'm watching De Niro, Hoffman and Heche spin their way through this faux-war cover-up, I kept thinking to myself "hey it's like Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning from 30 Rock where they pre-recorded a celebrity benefit for a disaster that hadn't happened yet", only... it's not nearly as funny (though I have a hard time expecting much of any written material from any part of history to reach the heights of that episode of TV).
Wag the Dog is still a pretty pointed pitch-black satire about the Hollywood/Washington confluent stream — how they influence each other and then jointly the world — and the smarmy Mamet dialogue is rich on the ears. Showbiz/political satire with little in the way of nuance, save me. Save me, showbiz/political satire with little in the way of nuance.
I mean it's no Bulworth, but, well, there can only be one Bulworth. The whole time I'm watching De Niro, Hoffman and Heche spin their way through this faux-war cover-up, I kept thinking to myself "hey it's like Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning from 30 Rock where they pre-recorded a celebrity benefit for a disaster that hadn't happened yet", only... it's not nearly as funny (though I have a hard time expecting much of any written material from any part of history to reach the heights of that episode of TV).
Wag the Dog is still a pretty pointed pitch-black satire about the Hollywood/Washington confluent stream — how they influence each other and then jointly the world — and the smarmy Mamet dialogue is rich on the ears. Showbiz/political satire with little in the way of nuance, save me. Save me, showbiz/political satire with little in the way of nuance.
