Bob Roberts

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Summary: soundtrack?
Review: Does anyone know where i can find the soundtrack to this movie??

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Summary: The best political satire ever!
Review: A brilliant, funny, enraging movie - hands down the best political satire/drama since the Manchurian Candidate. Accurately skewers the miserable process of cooptation by the conservative neocons in the US. Fabulous songs, too!

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Summary: ultimate election night party DVD
Review: This is a great DVD to watch with friends during an election year. We had a group of 15 people howling with laughter. You have to love a politician who closes a letter to a 7-year-old Vermont girl with the admonition "Don't do crack; it's a ghetto drug."

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Summary: This movie was profound when it was released
Review: Now it is almost as if this movie was a warning about what our country would look like in 2004. A relevant look at how easily people can be manipulated in the political process and how easily we are divided into us and them.

Bob Roberts, a son of a hippy couple rebels against that world view and uses music as a means of spreading conservative propaganda. Marketing hate and intolerance in the flag, this movie frighteningly shows in fiction what is being done in reality today.

I think Bob Roberts will be a movie that historians will study 200 years ago and see it relevant for discussion of the United States around the turn of the millenium.

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Summary: We're all a bunch of suckers.
Review: I once read a review of 1984 by George Orwell that basically said that anyone who sees the book as a diatribe against Communism is intellectually dim. I feel the same way about those who see Bob Roberts as nothing more than a stab at the Right. That's what Tim Robbins intended, for sure, but it's not all that we should take away from it. Look at how the character used catchy songs and the right buzzwords to manipulate his followers and the media. It's what all of our major candidates (Dem. and Rep.) are guilty of. The major theme of this movie is thus: If we want better candidates, we have to pay better attention. The movie definately more than makes the case for that.

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Summary: truer today than when it first came out
Review: I saw this film when it first came out in '92, and thought it was okay, but rewatching it during the 2004 election season I was appalled by how many of the absurdities depicted had come true, with cynical pandering and manipulation at every turn. The only thing it's missing are voting machines that count backward! The title character, played by Tim Robbins (who also wrote and directed), is a right-wing folk singer pursuing a senate seat, running against an incumbent played by Gore Vidal. The songs and album covers are very funny, and there are many cameo appearances.

DVD extras include three commentary tracks, 22 minutes of deleted scenes, stills, 3 music videos, cast notes, production notes, a trailer and tv spots.

Worthwhile viewing, good extras.

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Summary: More relevant everyday...
Review: A magnificent film. Not really a satire exactly - more like a thoroughly accurate documentary about conservative fanaticism and religious hypocrisy, focusing on a US Senate candidate who is fictitious in name only. From a technical standpoint, Robbins masterfully imitates the documentary filmmaking style, with its hasty cinematography and incomplete coverage. But the most important element of this film is what it says about the increasingly militaristic American political landscape, and the pious pinheads who cast votes on the basis of the most superficial issues. All the more timely a decade later, now that Bob Roberts is in the White House.

The Bushies, the war lovers, the neo-nazi neo-cons, the empty-headed right-wing bigots won't like this movie. I don't think Tim Robbins is shedding a tear over that.


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Summary: Tim Robbins / Bob Roberts IS THE TRUTH!!!!
Review: If you really want an idea of how ugly right-wing politicians, the media, and their followers can be you OWE it to yourself to watch this, as timely a treatise on evil, corrupt Nazipublicans as you will find. Robbins drives a nail through the skulls of the slick, demonic snakes of the Right. Not only that, but it succeeds as wicked satire. Don't be surprised if you find yourself singing the creatively written songs throughout the film, sickening as they are.

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Summary: ultimate election night party DVD
Review: This is a great DVD to watch with friends during an election year. We had a group of 15 people howling with laughter. You have to love a politician who closes a letter to a 7-year-old Vermont girl with the admonition "Don't do crack; it's a ghetto drug."

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Summary: PULLEASE
Review: "Bob Roberts" was Tim Robbins first foray into political filmmaking. He draws on his family experience as traveling folk singers and fashions a story of a conservative, religious political candidate who sings family songs on the campaign trail. The film itself is good stuff, well acted and produced, but the message is clear: White conservative Christians are just frauds and cannot be trusted. One watches it and wonders what a truthful depiction of Jesse Jackson would look like. Or an inside look at Joseph P. Kennedy pulling the strings in Jack's Congressional and Senate campaigns? Or the inside deals that kept Teddy Kennedy in office after Mary Jo Kopechne was killed? How about Al Sharpton and the Tawana Brawley incident? "Bob Roberts" is one of those movies that you just watch and shake your head.