Episode 9 - The American President

With today being Election Day, we considered covering a movie
about the Apocalypse, but instead decided to tear apart a movie
about a U.S. president. So we went with the 1995 so-called
romantic comedy "The American President." It's the movie
responsible for subjecting the world to seven seasons of "The
West Wing."


Michael Douglas plays Andrew Shepherd, a widower president who
instantly falls in love with an environmental lobbyist, Sydney
Ellen Wade (Annette Bening) as his re-election is creeping up.
And he has to decide whether the cost of following his heart
outweighs the potential consequences blah, blah, blah, etc, etc,
etc. Oh, it's a painful one.


We break down Aaron Sorkin's entire formula and annoying
dialogue, we wonder why the president's daughter needs a
permission slip when she's constantly followed around by the
Secret Service, and we try to figure out whether it's
prostitution for a lobbyist to date the president or just simply
a total lack of ethics. But mainly, we're just enraged that a
movie this bad is so popular. No wonder this election is between
those two awful candidates.


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