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Lions for Lambs

The reviews have been underwhelming.

Windbags of War--Columbus Dispatch
"Lions for Lambs plays like an off-off-Broadway workshop production assembled by a committed liberal troupe with more interest in expressing its agenda than in involving its audience in human drama."

Lions for Lambs will have you counting sheep--Joe Morgenstern, WSJ

Film Flim Flam--me

Dumpster Diving for Doves--me

And I haven't even seen it. Redford, Cruise and Streep--caricature, hot shot and media babe. How original. It's a no brainer for politics-on-the-left 101. That Redford says he made it "to get people to think," is almost laughable. People who support the mission don't think? Think his way, he means, and if you don't, you're a tool for big oil and that wealthy guy [whoever that is].

"I don’t know [how audience will react] but I think I know what will be pretty predictable–pathetically predictable–and that would be the people in charge of the Swift Boat stories or Sinclair Oil or that institute that wealthy guy has in Pittsburgh. You know where they are going to go and it will be predictable because they will have decided already–in fact, that has already happened on their blogs." Bitchslap

I wonder why reactions are so predictable? Couldn't be that it's a predictable, boring film. Isn't it predictable also that the left has appropriated "swift boat" as their own verb, when all the guys who served with Kerry called him a liar.