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Summary: Clever and entertaining
Review: This is a very funny satire which was criminally overlooked on its initial release in cinemas. Actually, upon watching it, it might perhaps be the subversive nature of the script which could explain its failure in America, because it damns politics and the media within that country, and never panders to the audience, delivering the ending it ultimately deserves. Of course, Mamet is a first-class writer, and beyond all the clever barbed swipes and witty asides, this is very funny story-telling which rather perversely does make you feel happy afterwards, if only because it at least shows that not all writers these days have to resort to jokes centred around bodily parts. the commentary from Hoffman and Levinson is informative but not very captivating (hear the worst De Niro impression ever from Hoffman), and the essays and other such notes are extensive but quite dull. The trailer also rather stupidly summarises the entire film in a couple of minutes, so leave that until after the film, but the moving menus are nice with some great guitar music from Mark Knopfler acompanying them (he did the score for the film too). All in all, a worthy yet bland package for a great film whose title is cleverer than a lot of movies' entire scripts.
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Summary: Truth About Gover. Cover Up
Review: Wag the Dog was a great movie. It shows how the american people are so easily manipulated by propaganda. People who dont think this is possible then they bought what the goverment is selling which is ignorance. Not my americans are aware how much they goverment knows and does. The goverment as been covering things up for years. This movie shows how easily issues can be covered up. Hoffman and De Nero are great as they usaully are. The only thing is the songs are kinda cheesey which I guess fit in alright. A must watch.
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Summary: Truly great, clever SATIRE!
Review: Wag the Dog is an extremely clever satirical look at the manipulation of the media in contemporary times. Those reviews which suggest it is a film which is brainless and far-fetched need look no further than Bosnia and the bombings in Africa during the Monica Lewinsky saga to see that in fact, life imitates art.Another aspect which was touched upon in Mamet's brilliant screenplay was the subtext of the film producer's (Hoffman) role (the role of ego). Within a film production ego and credit might be standard practice, but transposing these values onto a highly classified, sensitive goverment "production" is impossible - perfectly counterpointed by Robert De Niro's character. This is definitely a film for lovers of ironic and cerebral humour - those with a literal sense of humour need not bother...
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Summary: Totally improbable. Leave your brain on the shelf.
Review: Ripped from today's headlines! Timely yet timeless! A great story with great performances! Ooops, that's what I WISH I could say about this movie. Yes, there are very good performances from all the stars (although Dustin Hoffman is his usual annoying self). However, the basic premise of the move is SO unbelievable, that I wanted to turn off the VCR (I didn't, because I needed to see how ridiculous it could get), and tune in a grizzly news story about real war atrocities. Do yourself a favor and watch this to see how a bad concept can waste millions of dollars.
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Summary: So funny for an American film
Review: How can anyone not "get this" - perhaps the humour is too British for US audiences (judging by below). Heche and Hoffman are hilarious. From an overseas perspective it demonstrates well our percieved gullibility of the US who are fed a constant stream of media soundbites and take everything they see on TV at face value. BUY IT.
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Summary: The movie was good, but the DVD is lousy.
Review: No comments on the movie here, enough has already been said. My advice is to buy the VHS version if you want to own it. The DVD version is full of compression artifacts: blocky, wavy background colors, pixelation, and other annoying symptoms of digitalitis.
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Summary: How the Mass Communications Media Can Falsify Realtiy
Review: Wag the Dog was a thrill ride from beginning to end, as well as being gut-busting funny A film of extremley high quality. It shows how the media is beholden to "official sorurces" for its information, and how the "official sources" could very well be feeding the media fantastic falsehoods that the media reports as the "honest scoop". I have no doubt that this is an accurate portryal of how those who depend on the news media are manipulated into believing things that are not true. A first class production that will be a grand source of entertament to anyone ever involved with film or theatre. It was Dustin Hoffman's greatest performance ever, and the Fad King is one of the most magnificent characters ever brought to the screen. Rober DiNero was superb, as well as being totally believable.. The only reason I don't give it five stars is because, as always, the bad language was not necessary. It could have been a fabulous film without it, despite the vapid arguments for "realism".
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Summary: If you love the war circus, you won't like this movie
Review: There is a lot of people who love live transmissions of bombings and refugees, and they have turned war into a very good business for the media. Of course, they won't like this movie as it treats them like stupids. But if you think war (and politics) became a real circus, you'll enjoy this movie. It's so satiric! By the way, the spanish subtitles do not translate everything.
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Summary: YAWN!
Review: What was the point? Who cares? Yes yes yes, by now we all know that "truth is stranger than fiction" that lots of "dirty politics exist". Why bore us with it? Dustin and Robert must have made a lot of money for this one, they certainly didn't do it for the great screenplay. Worth watching if you have nothing better to do. Did I mention: "WHO CARES"???
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Summary: Good old shoe...
Review: It took me a while to like this one, but in the end I like this one quite a bit. I wouldn't watch this one expecting Shakespearean performances, but as a light comedy this film is really funny. Its fun to watch De Niro and Hoffman slum while brainstorming a fake war.
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