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I throw some movie-related red meat to the lefties, and then to the righties.

I've got to tell you, I laughed like mad at the trailer for the new Michael Moore movie "Capitalism: A Love Story":

I will definitely see this movie. Annoying as I've found Michael Moore at times in the past, I love the light but stinging touch. Quite charming, if the trailer is accurate.

Okay, see? Sometimes I throw out red meat for the liberals.

Now, here's red meat for you righties. In the trailer at 1:40, we hear and then see George W. Bush and ? even though I was in a theater in the lefty hotbed of Madison, Wisconsin ? I leaned over to my seatmate (the estimable Meade) and said (loud enough to be heard): "I miss that guy."

The movie we were seeing was ? as the previous post hints ? "Inglourious Basterds." In "Chapter 2" of that film, when Brad Pitt first appeared, Meade now says ? if he hadn't needed to maintain Hoosierly etiquette ? he wanted to lean over to me and whisper "George W."

And it's true. Brad Pitt is kind of doing a George Bush impersonation. (Meade points to 0:30 in this trailer, when the character says "killin' Nazis.") Now, it's an awful accent, really. And I don't think it's a Tennessee accent, which is what we're told it is. Oddly, later in the movie, there's a whole thing about speaking Italian with a bad accent, and Pitt's is the worst of the bad accents, so maybe there ? and throughout the movie ? Quentin Tarantino intended to treat us to layer upon layer of joking.

Full post as published by Althouse on September 12, 2009 (boomark / email).