Reply #47: Free Showtime weekend-WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!! [View All]

As long as we're talking sci-fi, there is a movie on Showtime tonight by Joe Dante where dead soldiers from the 'current" war rise out of their graves on election day to vote the "current" president out of office. There's also an "Ann Coulter" like character and a "KKKarl Rove" like one, and a "Fox-like" news station. It sounds awesome. There was another thread about this that I kicked, but there is no interest. Read this article-it sounds GREAT! Showtime supposedly is having a promotion this weekend and just about anyone with cable/satellite can get it.

(snip)In an election year, dead veterans of the current conflict crawl out of their graves and stagger single-mindedly to voting booths so they can eject the president who sent them to fight a war sold on "horseshit and elbow grease."
The dizzying high point of Showtime's new Masters of Horror series, the hour-long Homecoming (which premieres December 2) is easily one of the most important political films of the Bush II era. With its only slightly caricatured right-wingers, the film nails the casual fraudulence and contortionist rhetoric that are the signatures of the Bush-Cheney administration. Its dutiful hero, presidential consultant David Murch (Jon Tenney), reports to a Karl Rove–like guru named Kurt Rand (Robert Picardo) and engages in kinky power fucks with attack-bitch pundit Jane Cleaver (Thea Gill), a blonde, leggy Ann Coulter proxy with a "No Sex for All" tank top and "BSH BABE" license plates. Murch's glib, duplicitous condescension is apparently what triggers the zombie uprising: Confronting an angry mother of a dead soldier on a news talk show, he tells this Cindy Sheehan figure, "If I had one wish . . . I would wish for your son to come back," so he could assure the country of the importance of the war. The boy does return, along with legions of fallen combatants, and they all beg to differ.
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