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Friday, June 13, 2008

Hollywood Hero of our Times

posted by on June 13 at 13:20 PM

John Cusack has made a movie that relentlessly attacks all that constitutes the insane age of Bush.
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Because the insanity has no bottom:

MESEBERG, Germany — President Bush on Wednesday raised the possibility of a military strike to thwart Tehran’s presumed nuclear weapons ambitions, speaking aggressively even as he admitted having been unwise to have done so previously about Iraq.
The insanity of War, Inc, Cusack’s new anti-war film, has no bottom or boundry.

This passage is from my interview with Cusack:

In America, we treat war like the weather and weather like the war. A tsunami can happen and everyone’s outraged. We say: What can we do? We need to do something. Let’s band together to fight the weather. A war happens and they go, Well, that’s just the way it is. Wars come and they go. No, they don’t.

This is what he has to say about McCain:

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if you play the moveon.org piece backwards, his sister joan appears in the background.

Posted by wonderment | June 13, 2008 1:39 PM
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I just saw the preview for this yesterday and I didn't think anything of what you just said. What I thought was, "ooh, look, it's Gross Point Blank II."

John Cusack plays a government assassin. Joan Cusack plays his bat-shit crazy assistant and now Dan Ackroyd is his boss instead of his rival. Really, they could have just used the same charactor names and saved time.

Posted by monkey | June 13, 2008 1:47 PM
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Keep these things coming until November. It doesn't sink in otherwise.

Posted by Vince | June 13, 2008 1:58 PM
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Maybe he should change that from "weather" to "natural disasters." Tsunamis are in no way related to the weather.

Posted by keshmeshi | June 13, 2008 2:03 PM
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Hooray, Charles finally posted something worth reading.

Posted by kat | June 13, 2008 2:15 PM
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I'm sorry, I just can't get past John Cusack's douchebaggy answers to the Proust Questionnaire in the June issue of Vanity Fair. It's ruined him for me forever.

Posted by jess | June 13, 2008 4:23 PM

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