Eight of our Experts and eight Editors predict HBO will continue its winning ways as the telefilm "Game Change" is expected to claim Best Movie/Miniseries.
The political drama is based on the book of the same name by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann about the 2008 presidential campaign, focusing primarily on the Republican ticket -- John McCain (Ed Harris) and Sarah Palin (Julianne Moore).
You know I think that almost ALL of us were predicting that this movie would be a shoo in for an Emmy this year, and it looks like we were probably fairly prescient in that determination.
You know I am actually a huge fan of the American Horror Story and normally might have been cheering for IT to win this category, but honestly Game Change was an amazing movie and certainly deserves to win this year.
Besides I'm sure it's about time for a certain refrigerator in Wasilla to get replaced anyhow, don't you think?
Ha Ha LOL will Sarah Palin be ignorant enough to think that she won the Emmy if Game Change wins the Emmy for the best movie or miniseries this year?
ReplyDeleteI am sure she will try to find a way to get some recognition or money for it.
DeleteAnd an unearthly, slighlt mechanical scream echoes across Lake Lucille...
ReplyDeleteThe movie was on HBO the other night and I watched it again for the second time. All the stars did such an outstanding job of acting. Especially liked Woody! I'm sure they and the movie will win awards.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin is shown to be what she is - liar, fraud and tempermental as hell!! She is a disgrace to women!
I've been losing some sure sales because I have the refrigerator repair service for her neighborhood. I'm kinda needing some new brakes on the old F150 so this will be good. By the way - I've done a few new fridge doors at Briskets - she doesn't have the fast ball down yet so her dents aren't quite so deep but they're still fatal to a fridge door.
ReplyDeleteYes I saw the Dents on her door...two of them!
DeleteOf course she told you Tripp did it?
Riiiiiiightttt!
I am looking forward to future series and films from other times in Palin's life. That "Wild Ride" would be a hoot. So many other great adventures!
ReplyDelete"Game Change" deserves a win! It opened some doors and it is a damn good film. I hope many people watch it again.
That WAS one of the scariest movies I'd seen in quite some time.
ReplyDeleteAnd Julianne Moore was spot-on as Sarah Palin.
I agree except for the voice. Nobody could replicate that Banshee screech.
DeleteAnother kick in the gut for Sarah. Hahahahahaha!
ReplyDeleteFor all her claims that the movie was a false portrayal of her, the Queen of Makes-Crap-Up-Istan should have sued for slander. It is destroying her brand and inflicting tremendous emotional pain to her. So why doesn't she sue? Why, indeed? And that is because anyone with half a brain cell knows it is factual. If Dipshit had ANY grounds for a lawsuit,she would have her rabid jackal Van Flea all over it.
ReplyDeleteHeHe! This is wonderful news! Keep it coming!
ReplyDeleteThe patients at the Asylum are saying that Baldy will be on Greta VanManFace tonight! Talking and spewing about whatever! She also has a screech on Saturday paid by one of her sugar daddies...the Koch brothers.
So gird your ears and place the proper filters over your TV screens...no telling what she's going to look like tonight! LOL!!
Lawrence O'Donnell beat Greta Van Suck-up the other night in the ratings. Let's hope he beats her again tonight. OTOH, we know that if Game Change wins any Emmys, Sarah will simply say that it's the librul media patting itself on the back for a hatchet job on her.
DeleteI watched Greta for a few minutes the other night and she said "also too" twice! Just like her BFF (Big F$$king Fake) $arah the QUitter.
DeleteI wonder if she is going to air her rebuttal movie for Game Change that she paid $19,000 for. I don't remember what she named it, but the cost is listed in her SarahPAC expenses filed with the FEC.
DeleteGreta Van Suck-up, her Scientology pals. She may get some good tips for Sarah on movie making and public relations. Is she working on the Sarah exercise and nutrition movie yet? Don't you think women want to know how she does it all?
DeleteJust for fun... "Very people are watching this" Sarah thinks it's the winner!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/bristol-palin-lifes-a-tripp-gino-vs-levi-johnston-video_n_1664344.html
Oh barf!
ReplyDelete“I like hanging out with Todd and Sarah a lot. They walked into my trailer, and obviously we disagree on some issues. I am a libertarian guy – socially liberal and an avid supporter of gay marriage, but I am pro-gun rights and pro-life, and we made off like regular people. I was teaching Todd how to shoot grenades, we were hanging from helicopters together 60 feet above the ground and we were swimming together with full gear on,” he enthused. “The thing that impressed me most is that Todd is a commercial fisherman in Alaska, he is pretty hardcore. He even won a challenge with a broken arm! He really earned my respect.”
McLaren also noted that even though his friends are shocked that he has become such good friends with the high-profile Republican couple, the portrayal of the Palins in the media is often vastly distorted.
“Todd and Sarah Palin are the nicest people I have ever met,” he said. “I love America and they love America. They may not agree with me on my stance on gay marriage, but that is their personal view and I respect that. That’s what is so great about being American
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/07/12/tars-earn-stripes-star-and-iraq-war-veteran-impressed-by-sarah-and-todd-palin/#ixzz20R9xelEA
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/07/12/tars-earn-stripes-star-and-iraq-war-veteran-impressed-by-sarah-and-todd-palin/
Playing nice for the media... gotta get those viewers!
DeleteThat fool, anybody knows Todd is not a Republican. It is no secret. They are not a Republican couple. Another failure. Why don't they get it right. Todd is an "independent" proud not to be Republican and Sarah likes his independent attitude. More AIP, but can't say that.
DeleteNOT A REPUBLICAN COUPLE.
Another hack, Andrew McLaren is their Track Palin replacement. She can't use Track so much, he vants to be left alone.
DeleteThe Koch event, July 14, Saturday at the Wayne County Fairgrounds in Belleville., is for military creditials. Promoting a quasi-military Toad image, the charitable tool looks good.
http://palinfail.com/2012/07/palins-army-blog-sarah-palin-will-speak-at-patriiots-in-the-park/
Patriots in the Park sounds like more Tea Party folks. Grassrootery. She is downhome like they are. People you want to hang with. All the bs the Kristy's yap about.
http://patriotsinthepark.eventbrite.com/
Ten bucks says Todd broke his arm when Screech missed the fridge and got him with a can
DeleteO/T but Baldy related...I think Baldy and Toad have found Beefy's next paid boytoy (or the Toads)!!
ReplyDelete"And while audiences might be blown away by the skills and danger exerted on the highly-anticipated program, McLaren was personally blown away by Todd and Sarah Palin, and admitted that he thinks of them very differently now than before they met.
“I like hanging out with Todd and Sarah a lot. They walked into my trailer, and obviously we disagree on some issues. I am a libertarian guy – socially liberal and an avid supporter of gay marriage, but I am pro-gun rights and pro-life, and we made off like regular people. I was teaching Todd how to shoot grenades, we were hanging from helicopters together 60 feet above the ground and we were swimming together with full gear on,” he enthused. “The thing that impressed me most is that Todd is a commercial fisherman in Alaska, he is pretty hardcore. He even won a challenge with a broken arm! He really earned my respect.”
McLaren also noted that even though his friends are shocked that he has become such good friends with the high-profile Republican couple, the portrayal of the Palins in the media is often vastly distorted.
“Todd and Sarah Palin are the nicest people I have ever met,” he said. “I love America and they love America. They may not agree with me on my stance on gay marriage, but that is their personal view and I respect that. That’s what is so great about being American.”
Here's just his picture if you don't want to go to FAKE News website...
http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Entertainment/McLaren.jpg
Well Gino...I guess this is the end of the line for ya partner! LOL!!!
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/07/12/tars-earn-stripes-star-and-iraq-war-veteran-impressed-by-sarah-and-todd-palin/#ixzz20RADCcOP
There should be warnings on pics!!
DeleteI want to vomit when I see pics of the braindead flex their tats like they think they're kewl. UGLY!!
I do hope Stars and Stripes does benefit Veterns. Too bad it has to have all the expense and promotions of a TV series. Lucky if it is 98% self indulgence for producers and stars and 2% help Veterns. It is still one of those things that glamorize warriors and promotes wars, like the one we were lied into and killed and maimed all the victims. Others were just destroyed mentally.
DeleteSuicide is a big deal in the military and with vets now. This is far more real and true to what is happening: 27-year-old national guardsman Abel Gutierrez
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Police-knew-CA-war-vet-had-guns-3410543.php
I guess American audiences want to watch the stupids glam up the tough soldier images and not really deal with reality.
I'm sure it pisses off Miss Quitty Pants to no end that she didn't make a dime off of this. LOVE IT!
ReplyDeleteAlso interesting: I went to the Emmy website http://www.emmyonline.tv/mediacenter/news_33rd_nominations.html pulled up the .pdf and apparently FOX received zero nominations.
ReplyDeleteCBS has 43, PBS has 37, NBC has 20... HBO has 15... CNN & CNNi have 9... shoot, even MSNBC has 2 nominations. FOX? Crickets.
Look for Fox News to trash the Emmy Awards.
The only thing disconcerting about Julianne Moore's amazing portrayal of SP is that Moore's voice is pitched much, much lower that SP's and thus lacks that screechy tone which is distinctly Palin. Maybe she (Moore)just couldn't bring herself to duplicate its unpleasantness.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I'm an Alaskan and I have heard Sarah speak in person many times and while I think that Julianne Moore's body language was spot on, the voice just wasn't quite right.
DeleteBTW, I recently read Game Change. The book was a fascinating read, much more about the election as a whole, a lot of insight into the Democratic nomination and a lot about Edwards that I found very interesting considering recent events.
I love how those who were actually there say that the movie was a very accurate portrayal of the Palin debacle.
ReplyDeleteIt was a good movie and it deserves to win.
One part of me says that's great
ReplyDeleteThe other part of me is disgusted in that it has to recognize the 'snake oil salesman' Mark Halperin. There are so many times when he speaks, I would like to be like the guy who shot his TV.
Anonymous11:22 AM
DeleteOh...so is Mark Halperin the new boogy man? What happened to Axelrod? LOL!!!
I love the book Game Change and, also, too the movie.
DeleteI have to say that I'm not much of a Halperin fan either. He's the guy who called President Obama a dick on Morning Joe. I think he might be a closet right winger and an evangelical. That's part of the reason I think Game Change is a factual piece. I really like John Heilemann, though.
There was a list of the 50 Worst political pundits. Mark Halperin was in the top 5.
Delete"Snake Oil Salesman"? Halpern?
DeleteHave you seen Billo, Seannyboy? Fox and Friends?
Oh, look who I'm asking? Duh!
Both the Massey Brothers and Steve Hands filed their lawsuits against Bristol's show before it aired. Despite the hefty retainer paid for her lawyer as noted in Sarah's PAC, I don't recall Sarah filing a lawsuit against HBO, nor the writers of the book on which it was based.
ReplyDeleteWhy is that Sarah?
DeleteLOL that's cause they would have to call WITNESSES! and that's all the quitter needs, is MORE confirmation that the movie was accurate. if this all took place in alasssska then they'd be blackmailing the witnesses to come forth and sing the praises of the quitter. bet it just burns. her. ass. that she can't resort to her normal tricks, lol.
DeleteGreat Point! Have you seen that Tom Cruise's lawyer "threatened" a lawsuit against the NE for doing a piece about their marriage being a scam??
DeleteIn the mean time, both are out in public, lips zipped, living their lives and reclaiming their privacy. Sarah's done neither, I wonder why?
Kudos to HBO, Moore and Harrelson! Gotta keep beating this drum - we dodged a bullet in '08. Sunlight is the best disinfectant and the paylump is a festering pustule.
ReplyDeletePaylump - that's a good one!
Delete$creech!
Okay, I have to go slightly OT for a minute... but to those of you who frequent the Crazies4Palin site... is that Brianus person real or a Liberal who's infiltrated their coven to make them look even more delusional?
ReplyDeleteSeriously, who writes offal like this (excerpt from their Open Thread):
"Finally, let us think of our Sarah for a moment. For me, and I suspect that millions upon more millions of Americans would consent and concur with me in this, for me, Sarah's scintillating smile is worth more than 10,000 words. Her brilliant, kind eyes are worth more than 10,000 words.
"Her tiniest gestures of kindness, of nobility, of humor, such as writing on her hand and humbly putting TV make-up on a Vietnam war hero, are worth more than 10,000 words. Her lingering and lingering for extra hours upon extra hours to greet her people along the '08 campaign trail is worth more than 10,000 words.
"Her signing and signing and signing of thousands upon more thousands of copies of GR during the course of her '09 book tour--an exercise that almost wore out her heroic right hand--this action too is worth more to me than 10,000 words.
"Sarah has indeed waxed mighty and moving in her oratorical splendor and eloquence these last couple of years, and never more so than on 3 September, 2008, the night of her deathless RNC speech. Eloquent she will be again when, as we ardently believe and hope shall come to pass, she accepts the GOP nomination for President in 2012, and then pronounces her Presidential Inaugural Address on 20 January, 2013.
"However, already, already, just as she and her family listened with joy and happiness to Todd's eloquence of deeds so many years ago, already has Sarah spoken to us in a language more eloquent than Shakespeare's English, than Cicero's Latin, than Plato's Greek..."
I thought the peepond banned the "Sarah 2012" rhetoric? Maybe not, maybe they just banned Exodus because she was SO outrageous and not down-to-earth like this dude.
It's got to be a joke! Put the waders on, folks.
DeleteThe dude made up an online moniker with first and last names each containing the word 'anus'.
DeleteHowever, there's no payoff for a liberal to go to such lengths to be undercover for so long. Perhaps, s/he just gets off on using flowery, delusional language and/or exploiting the gullible. Or???
I think Brianus is actually several people that take great perverse delight in writing the sappiest pile of drivel they can and seeing how those poor souls at the C4P hit the "like" button. I think it's all one big joke. If it's not, Brianus is one weird dude!
DeleteI think he's for real and is a good representative of the kooks that make up Palin's "posse". Have you ever heard or seen anyone sane say they support her? Nope.
DeleteUnfortunatley (or fortunately) Brian BigAnus is an actually real live person who lives in Berkley California!
DeleteI suspect he is a hoarder and hasn't left his teeny tiny apartment in a very lonnnng time! And when he does leave for his doctors appointment...he probably is ALWAYS mistaken for a homeless man! I pity the poor fool!
He was also one of the ones who defended EXXodus until she finally made her...uh...exodus.
I think you must be right - "heroic right hand?" WTF?
DeleteIt is a pretty good imitation of a crazy person, though. Maybe he'll win a Pullitzer... ;)
Brian lives in Berkley CA in a filthy apt. filled with old newspapers.
DeleteThat BriANUS dude is for real??!! No way!!! Naturally I surmised any turdwagon who signed things "Friends In Sarah," was just getting his jollies out of playing a long running joke on the Ponders!
DeleteGina, are you thinking what I'm thinking???
I think we've found the perfect blind date to lure SOMEONE out of her Sarah Sanctuary!
BriANUS and Kristy Pat-Bristol's-Ass can start their date by going to the tattoo parlor and getting matching "PALIN/PALIN 2016" bicep tats! (because of course nobody is special enough to run WITH Sarah, she will be Prez AND Veep in their feeble minds)
After matching Sarah tats, they can go to the bar in Wasilla where Sarah's ass-print remains on one of the barstools. Of course, one of them will have to be reprimanded by a bouncer for trying to steal it.
After a night of Saractivities, they can rent "Nailin' Palin" and each have fantasies that it's them doing the Nailin'.
They will have a whirlwind courtship and adopt several pets (no agency on earth would entrust those loons with a child) all named Sarah, of course.
Eventually Brian will catch Kristy pasting her own and Bristol's faces on lesbian porn and he will have to divorce her, but my what a WILD RIDE it will be until then.
Kristy, you can do your bridal registry at the local mental health facility and hit MANY birds with one stone!
The Canonical Gospels didn't expatiate on Jesus as enthusiastically as BriAnus does with Sarah.
DeleteIt's beyond bizarre; it's just plain creepy.
I think whoever BriAnus is, he/she/they are running a colossal joke at palin's expense. The C4pee crowd aren't very good at deciphering the over-the-top saccharine oozing-ladled faux praise as anything but a reflection of their own ridiculous worship of ScumPee.
DeleteNYAH!!! ROFLMAO!
DeleteNow THAT would make a good reality show!
Get outta that bed Krusty...and call up your man Girl! You know you got his digits!
LOL!!!
Amen, Gina, Amen!!! Now put on your sneakers and race Nyah to the patent office! ha!
DeleteAnita- I graciously concede this one to Gina; God knows she's paid her dues at the pond!
DeleteAnd the movie was soooo influential. NOT. It was talked about for 48 hours, then tossed in the purely for entertainment but now boring pile.
ReplyDeleteAdmit it. It was a bad dramatization. It wasn't even written well. I'm shocked the brilliant Tom Hanks was a part of it.
Though the actors were convincing in their caricatures. Too bad they were just that, bad depictions.
Anonymous11:51 AM
DeleteYep...you keep right on telling yourself that Baldy until the Emmy nominations are announced...then will you STFU?
yep, you keep thinking that.
DeleteYes. I agree with you 11:51. The depiction of Sarah was bad. It didn't quite capture the pure crazy of Palin. No one does crazy Palin as well as Palin.
DeleteI agree with 11:51 as well.
DeleteNow "The Undefeated", there's your Emmy-worthy film right there. All the dazzle of a bad LSD trip without the side effects. I heard the Army was making a 3D version to use for interrogating prisoners.
Agreed. "Bad Dramatization" and" Bad Depictions" are the perfect description------------------- for Bristoll Palinn, Life'ss aa Tripppp!
Deleteo/t but these are cute
ReplyDeletehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/82513708@N06/7557698426/
Anonymous11:51 AM
DeleteEven before I clicked on the link...I knew it was from your crazy stalker ass Krusty! LOL!
Thanks for confirming how creepy and obsessed your are with that blurry ass video of a kid in a blue coat and the Toad!
Did you make that video from your bed Krusty with a telephoto lens? Get some help Krazy!
Sarah was the techie diva for Right On Line. Her good little minions will be putting up more propaganda footage, like they are all so close and friendly with the wonderful family. They are still perpetuating the BIG LIE. It is merely the myth. None of it changes the facts they are cowards and run and hide from the slightest questions and photographic evidence. If she had nothing to hide she would confront matters like any decent person who loves the truth.
DeleteThey will all run from the following and keep dumping their chit on America:
Business Insider
http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/4e381ae169bedd746c000041-398-316/sarah-palin-baby-hoax.jpg
GinaM I didn't even CLICK b/c I just knew its Krazy Krusty again and who cares, unless she can show me a Birth certificate for at least ONE of the TriGS...
DeleteOr Prove that the Toad doesn't have a two-tone bi-racial 3 " dick...I'll pass.
More negative attention for the poor Palin's. But, if they didn't get negative attention, they wouldn't get any attention. They're just happy to get their name in the news and in public no matter how they can get it. At least this way it doesn't cost them anything.
ReplyDeleteGreat news! Although I am not surprised.... Game Change is a great movie! Now it will air again and garner more viewers who may have missed it the first time around.... More exposure for Sarah the Barracuda is a good thing.
ReplyDeleteYes that is a good thing for Sarah.
DeleteLike they say "Any news is good news"... except this one!
Sarah Palin!
ReplyDeleteThat woman is a FUCKING Idiot.
Gryphen,
ReplyDeleteGood job for making the site compatible with the iPhone but is there any way you can allow copying of text? I can't ever copy links people post in comments , since they aren't showing up a clickable hyperlinks.
I've watched the movie twice and replayed parts of it several times more. It's obvious that Moore worked hard to give a convincing performance and I think she deserves the Emmy.
ReplyDeleteAs history, the movie suffers from condensing the material into two hours and from the conscious efforts to conjure up some redeeming, sympathetic qualities for Palin (using material from Going Rogue as though it were factual) and to protect McCain's legacy. We still have not been told the whole truth about the campaign.
I was intrigued by John Heilemann's cameo:
Steve Schmidt (complaining to a group of reporters that he's been asked 'disgusting questions'): 'I’ve been asked when her amniotic fluid started to leak with regard to her last birth. It’s shameful.'
John Heilemann, New York Magazine, Game Change co-author: 'So when did it start to leak?'
There's got to be some significance here.
I've watched Game Change several times and I don't think there is one "throw-away" line in the entire movie. For those of us who have followed Sarah's "Career" these one-liners let me know, we are not alone in our suspicions.
DeleteHey Gryphen, I totally agree about American Horror Story - my favorite show this year next to Homeland.
ReplyDeleteBut you know, Game Change could easily have been titled "American Horror Story".
I am not a movie watcher and when Gryphen mentioned "American Horror Story", I really thought that was another name for "Game Change".
DeleteJulianne Moore says, "All of us had responsibility to these real people [they were playing]" whereas Sarah Palin is not a real person, and she has never taken responsibility of what she says or has said as a public figure.
ReplyDeleteBarack Obama, hell, even George W. Bush were more sympathetic and concerned about what this would do to a freshman unknown Governor of a smalley populated State.
ReplyDeleteSure, she's the type of woman that would press the red button without any pause (although, she and Bristol ask girls to 'pause' before they play?) but could she be a critical thinker? Worldly and responsible? No. She was a disgusting gamble and she sure made the players pay for giving her a platform and a notion that her political thoughts matter.
No better than Joe the Plumber in the think department, but much more malicious and dangerous.
Last night I watched "Air Force One" with Harrison Ford (the POTUS) and Glenn Close (the VPOTUS). Of course, it's Hollywood with tons of make-believe, but one can't help but imagine if Sarah was VP and making all those critical decisions that Glenn Close had to - on ANY national crisis. OMFG. Seriously... OMFG.
ReplyDeleteRegarding Game Change, Tom Hanks is no ordinary Hollywood schmuck producer/actor. He clearly saw the threat of SP and thus produced an excellent movie about how unqualified she was for VP - and truly, a heartbeat away from the Presidency. Simply alarming. I hope the cast and crew take home all the Emmys. They certainly deserve it.
Awesomely great news!
ReplyDeleteAnd from now until the last curtain falls, the Grand Alaskan Monkey Queen will be remembered as the only, common idiot, almost elected to one of the highest office of the land and potentially put the United States in the hands on a verifiably stupid human beyond the range of dangerous abandon to the realm of criminal. negligence.
ReplyDeleteIt will NEVER happen again...EVER.
O/T.I just read that one of Romney's sons was involved a few years ago in a ponzi scheme costing people millions of dollars,but Mitt got it buried. Has anyone else heard about this?
ReplyDeleteI'm still amazed at the job Julianne Moore did while playing "The Bimbo". She's a stunningly (natural) beautiful actress and she nailed the role, the only possible exception is "the voice". And Woody Harrelson, superb!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there's something else coming down the pike that may prove "dent worthy"?
OT. My daughter told me there's an "on second thought"...... post. One is that maybe she shouldn't have told manboy Paoletti about man Levi (allegedly) "Cheated" on her before the deer run, then maybe he wouldn't have been more "jealous"... Give em enough rope....