"Death of a President "

[stormtruth]

Sounds like they made it to be controversial and to upset people. MTV's Celebrity Death Match also kills off living people (primarily celebrities) in horrible brutal ways.
http://www.mtv.com/onair/deathmatch/

I don't think they killed off presidents. I liked Celebrity Death Match, especially with annoying celebrities getting plastered. I wonder if they still show it today?

Yup, they kill politicians on DeathMatch. Clay versions of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have been killed on that show. The videos are still on YouTube. Just search for DeathMatch Bush or DeathMatch Clinton. I'm not sure if they are still making the show or not.

[Ptarmigan]

Yup, they kill politicians on DeathMatch. Clay versions of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have been killed on that show. The videos are still on YouTube. Just search for DeathMatch Bush or DeathMatch Clinton. I'm not sure if they are still making the show or not.

I never knew that. Death Match is clay so it can get away with it. Anyways, MTV sucks because they don't air Beavis and Butt-Head and rock and heavy metal music video. All they show is reality shows and pop music videos.

[stormtruth]

Yup, they kill politicians on DeathMatch. Clay versions of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush have been killed on that show. The videos are still on YouTube. Just search for DeathMatch Bush or DeathMatch Clinton. I'm not sure if they are still making the show or not.

I never knew that. Death Match is clay so it can get away with it. Anyways, MTV sucks because they don't air Beavis and Butt-Head and rock and heavy metal music video. All they show is reality shows and pop music videos.

I agree. Clay is not as bad using someone's real digital likeness like this docudrama apparently does. Also agree that MTV has gone down the tubes with too much reality tv and hip hop!

[Ptarmigan]

I agree. Clay is not as bad using someone's real digital likeness like this docudrama apparently does. Also agree that MTV has gone down the tubes with too much reality tv and hip hop!

Also, it was Bush and Clinton duking it out and not real looking and had no political overtone. MTV sold its soul. Hip hop has its place at BET. MTV is too much teenyboppers. Frankly, rap of today is not what it used to be like in the 1980s to early 90s. Rap back then was cool and had a positive message.

[all_we_know_is_FALLING]

I don't watch MTV for music. That's what FUSE is for.. plus you can buy songs off iTunes and download the videos from YouTube just as easily.

[Ptarmigan]

I don't watch MTV for music. That's what FUSE is for.. plus you can buy songs off iTunes and download the videos from YouTube just as easily.

There is The Tube, which is often a sub channel for digital TV. It is mostly on WB, soon to be CW affialiated stations.

[Windswept]

It is a movie.
Distasteful? Probably.
Provactive? Maybe
Will I be forced to watch it? No.
Will I watch it? Oddly, until now I didn't think so, but now I'm curious..so maybe.

Isn't it odd - even negative advertisement can be effective.

[Stephanie]

It might be distasteful, but it's a free country. Cliche, but true.

And don't bash me for saying that. It's my opinion.

No one is disputing the cliche, and certainly no bashing. The fact is that in exercising OUR right to an opinion--we are expressing it.

A2K

Wait.. huh? I didn't say anything about your opinion, lol.

I'm confused.

A2K was just making a statement about all of us exercising our rights to our opinions. I don't know what's so confusing about that.

Anyway, JFK's assasination is a history lesson, this is borish and unacceptable to say the least. They were making a political statement with this one. It had nothing to do with a critique of "US society". If they wanted to do that, did they need to add the assasination of our President?? C'mon! They could've made any movie using a fictitious President with that type of outcome.

[JQ Public]

This is despicable.

[sunny]

COSTNER BLASTS BUSH ASSASSINATION FILM

KEVIN COSTNER has waded into the debate about controversial new movie DEATH OF A PRESIDENT, insisting British director GABRIEL RANGE failed to consider how GEORGE W BUSH's family would react to scenes of the US President being assassinated. The DANCES WITH WOLVES star was caught up in the controversy at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada at the weekend (09-10SEP06), where he premiered his new film, THE GUARDIAN, alongside the screening of Death of A President. Movie fans reportedly sat in stunned silence at the end of Range's screening, which featured doctored images of Bush getting shot, and Costner, who wasn't in the audience, isn't happy with what he's heard about the film. He says, "It's awfully hard if you're his children, his wife, his mother, his dad; there's a certain thing we can't lose as human beings, which is empathy for maybe the hardest job in the world. "Whether we think it's being performed right or not we can't, like, wish... or think that's even cute."

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