{"id":991,"date":"2017-09-13T08:02:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T08:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=991"},"modified":"2017-09-13T08:02:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T08:02:40","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-w-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: &#8220;W.&#8221; (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director <em>Oliver Stone<\/em> sets the tone with a baseball analogy dream sequence as cornball as a <em>Bush Administration<\/em> press release that recurs throughout the film to gear us for the visual punch-line summing up Dub-ya\u2019s legacy; a fly-ball lost in the heavens never to find its way back down into the befuddled president\u2019s outstretched mitt! Judging from the goofy ad campaign, I was looking forward to a <em>Mad Magazine<\/em> type farce but got a borderline sympathetic biopic instead (closest I came was a brief shot of <em>Alfred E. Neuman<\/em> as <em>George W. Bush<\/em> on a protestor\u2019s picket sign)! WTF are you doing humanizing this dumb-ass? The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2008 issue of The Montreal Mirror was \u201cSympathy For The Devil!\u201d As always; the original art\u2019s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-990 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W-659x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"974\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W-659x1024.jpg 659w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W-193x300.jpg 193w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W-768x1194.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"__DdeLink__6_584622441111111111\"><\/a> NOTE: If you like this original Motion Picture Purgatory artwork I have many, many more being offered as perks for sale on the crowdfunding page for my newest animated cartoon \u201cBuilding 108: Barnacle Bill the Tailor\u201d! Pick &amp; choose from the list provided in the campaign perks description section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/building-108-cartoon-animation#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FAB Press<\/a>. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Oliver Stone sets the tone with a baseball analogy dream sequence as cornball as a Bush Administration press release that recurs throughout the film to gear us for the visual punch-line summing up Dub-ya\u2019s legacy; a fly-ball lost in the heavens never to find its way back down into the befuddled president\u2019s outstretched mitt! 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