Oct 13 2006
So.. what was all the fuss?
I got around to watching Gabriel Range’s drama ‘Death of a President‘ last night and my only real reaction to it is ‘this is what’s causing a controversy’?
Have those making a fuss actually seen it? Because honestly, all of this is probably helping it, particularly given the small caveat that it isn’t very good. I love a good fake documentary as much as the next person, but this is just rather dull. There’s nothing actually wrong with it, but it never really managed to grab me at any point. From the bait-and-switch opening of who actually carried out the crime to the oh so intellectual agruments about the event (”Bush was bad, it was inevitable” etc). Sure, the events leading up to the ‘assassination’ are handled well enough, as is the scene itself, but the rest is just a tired mystery that cuts away every now and then to a fake newsroom that looks like it’s straight out of an episode of Babylon 5. Boy did they love their fake newsrooms.
MP3 Okkervil River - The President’s Dead
You may be able to tell from the half assed nature of this post that this wasn’t something I intended to write about today, but I’m somewhat limited in what I can do given my mp3 hosting thing has been an absolute shit for the past few days. I really need to get some proper hosting sorted out, particularly given I’ve got a whole backlog of posts sitting here waiting to go up now. All packed full of awesome music goodness. Stupid ezarchive.
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