DancePartyJulie’s Featured Awesomeness Installation 2: RECOUNT
If you don’t know what RECOUNT is, I would imagine that your eyes have been gauged out. HBO is pushing this film hard and with good reason. I read the script in November and Danny Strong’s retelling of what happened when the Bush administration stole the presidency is so compelling, I was surprised that this shit actually happened. Considering it is the story of how politics and politicians failed, there existed the extreme potential for this script to read like paste.  Honestly, I couldn’t put it down leading me to question if my own political perspective biased me to really like it and consider it a fair account. There is a lot of press about how different players and the parties are pissed about how they are portrayed. I am surprised that the left is just as loud as the right on this even though most of the source material came from court transcripts and interviews of the actual participants.  I obtained a screener and here are a few reasons why to watch it aside from the obvious timing and significance: LAURA DERN as Katherine Harris is fucking phenomenally hilarious right down to the make-up. The guy who wrote it is best known for his role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and is not quite 5 feet tall. The Hurricane jokes. Bush and Gore are surprisingly absent from the film. And finally you should see it for the obvious reasons.
Premieres on May 25th on HBO or at my house – whenever…
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dude. Just watched. Fucking brilliant yet so disappointing to be reminded how close we were from knowing a true count.
Oh well, I think most agree that its all worked out for the best.
I’ll have to ON-DEMAND it tonight.
I just watched this video. I love the haircuts they gave the Republicans.
This movie is really good, I suggest you get HBO and watch it. Makes you see how ridiculous the whole thing really was.
Flat Tops Rule.
BTW that was written in the script AND is how the guy looks.