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Those who claim Hollywood is an ant’s nest of Democratic and liberal activism are already riled up over Saturday’s debut of HBO’s Sarah Palin pic Game Change. Now they will have more reason to shake a fist at the entertainment community with today’s unveiling of the 2-minute trailer for The Road We’ve Traveled, a new campaign video for President Obama’s re-election effort. Narrated by Oscar-winner Tom Hanks at his most passionate and directed by Davis Guggenheim (director of Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth), the 17-minute film will be released March 17. The trailer, which debuted this morning on social media sites like Facebook, features comments from Vice President Joe Biden, former Chief of Staff (and current mayor of Chicago) Rahm Emanuel, former economic advisor Austan Goolsbee and others. Republicans are already foaming at the mouth over the trailer, while the Obama faithful are waiting anxiously for the remaining 15 minutes. Such is life in the 2012 election season.
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I’m in.
For another four years of growing unemployment, hyper inflation, higher taxes for the individuals who actually work for a living due to Obamacare, allowing Iran to go nuclear and making a majority of the country become a permanent welfare state who take and take and give nothing back to the country?! And no: I’m not a Republican! Wake up!
Unemployment has been dropping. There is no inflation. Taxes are lower than when Obama took office. No one is “allowing” Iran to do anything. If you want to complain about the policies that you want to call a welfare state, build a time machine and go back to stop W. Bush.
I know that paying attention to the facts is hard — and that most people can’t remember anything beyond the last three months of their lives — but that’s no reason for me to allow folks to simply deny the reality in front of them.
By the way, the contemporary Republican Party that Karl Rove built on the back resentments, anger, and an indulgence of a mythical past that never exists, is tearing itself apart. It’ll be Obama.
Since this country *does* depend on a Republican Party that can engage with reality, I’m hoping the hit they’re going to be taken sobers ‘em all up and we stop the shrill-crazy from the right.
Thank you.
Wow can you say delusional…Obama is the master spin Doctor. Hollywood is clueless and Tom Hanks should understand that he can now cross conservatives off for ticket sales and liberals will just keep downloading movies from sites in the UK onto their jail broken devices.
I’m in too. Absolutely.
Yep, me too!
No thanks. I’m out. Way out!
Bring back some sanity, please.
The only way to eliminate this debt is to cut spending. Yet, our current President lacks even the basic required level of understanding of economics to understand or effectuate this.
I agree that many of the GOP’s candidates are laughable, but Ron Paul is a viable alternative who has been consistent and rational in his views.
The wars are ridiculous, IRS is a joke, sovereign debt is almost unbelievable. Without a radical change (a real one this time), this country (minus the Hollywood elite) will experience the kind of hardship that our parents and grandparents sought to escape in coming here.
Forget the personality of electing a President- forget the sparkles and shine of an advetisment and look at the policies with pure rationality and objectivity.
All that said, I still like Hanks.
Well, Ron Paul isn’t going to get elected.
The front runner from the GOP is Romney, and he himself has admitted his budget plan can’t be scored. He also can’t run on the whole, “Obama doesn’t understand the basics of economics,” since the the economy is on the upswing after a near-Depression Crash just before Obama took office.
But, as I always say, when Republicans want to get of the shrill-panic about Obama, take some time to drink a good cup of coffee and sober up, I can’t wait to talk to them again.
Nice try, but this little film should really be called “Three Years on the Gerbil Wheel.”
A one BILLION dollar campaign….People gushing with joy over “history” being made….The look on all of their faces win they lose on 11-6-2012….PRICELESS.
Haha, regardless of how many people aren’t happy with Obama, the Republican candidates are possibly the most inept, ignorant, and unqualified bunch and there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell one of them will get elected. Even looking at it from the perspective of picking the lesser of two evils, Obama takes this one easily.
-Winding down Iraq and Afghanistan.
-Passing hate crimes legislation.
-Ending “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”
-Passing Universal Healthcare (not perfect by any means, but it’s a start, and it WILL be tweaked in the years to come.)
-Passing Fair Pay legislation.
-Preventing nuclear proliferation.
-Killing terrorists left and right (I.e. American born radical Al-Alawki sp.)
-Saving the American auto industry from extinction.
-Getting unemployment back to 2008 numbers.
-Protecting a woman’s right to contraception and being pro-choice.
-Killing Bin Laden.
And many more accomplishments from his first term is the reason why we should vote for Obama. And that is why I will.
I’m out.
Fortunately, Obama’s stuff only works in LA, SF and NY. The rest of the country? Nope.
Tom Hanks should save his time. $16 trillion in debt, gas prices spiraling out of control and unemployment once again over 9% – Obama is doomed. But Hanks is just another fawning leftist whose happiness is determined by election results.
Kind of sad.
“Fortunately, Obama’s stuff only works in LA, SF and NY. The rest of the country? Nope.”
Really? Detroit and the Mid-West are part of Fortunately, LA, SF and NY?
I understand lots of people have no idea about the geography of the rest of the world… but that so many people spout off about this country without, apparently, any understand of our own geography, is just sad.
Oh, and unemployment is down again.
But that would be reality. You’ll have to decide if you want to engage with it.
Unemployment is 8.3% today (not “over 9%”). Gas prices are relatively high, but still lower than June 2008. stupid math.
Seattle loves Obama. And Tom Hanks for that matter.
As a political junkie and a fan of the book GAME CHANGE, I find it telling that the producers jettisoned half the book to feature SOLELY on the McCain campaign. There was plenty of good material in the book to do a more balanced film (both sides had their share of doozies) but clearly “balance” isn’t what the network had in mind. I’m sure they’re holding onto the other half for a sequel, right? That MUST be the reason.
Are you serious? The movie is about ENTERTAINMENT.
So, of course, they’re going to go for the “Cinderella” story. What could be more appealing than a story about an intellectually challenged female governor from a state that nobody pays attention being thrust into the national spotlight and failing miserably on a political level, but soaring as a celebrity?
THAT’S drama. And that’s why they chose that part of the book to dramatize.
You’re absolutely right Joe. Obama was a shoe in from the start and his campaign wasn’t entertaining at all. And his certainly wasn’t a Cinderella story. I mean, a young African-American born in Hawaii, one term senator with such a common name? Didn’t really have to overcome much as his opposition really loved him deep down and wanted him to win anyway. No nasty mudslinging, etc. that you usually see in political campaigns. Plus, his story is so similar to so many presidents that came before him. He was a bit of a good off too, so no drama there.
Then all that boring stuff about Hillary that was in the book! Nothing ironic about her taking Obama under her wing when he arrived in the senate and actually introducing him to many of the powers that be. No conflict there. Oh except when they both run for president. And then her being appointed to Secretary of State after all that nasty fighting? Totally so that coming.
Finally, even if you wanted to do something that was just plain exploitative and sensational, Palin was a much better bet than that snore inducing “scandal” that was going on with John Edwards that was also in covered in the book.
Yep. Pretty much a snoozer of a book all the way around with not much that’s entertaining to draw from at all. With the exception of the Palin parts of course.
All kidding aside, I see where you’re coming from Joe as the Palin story framed the way you state is a great story, but the choice to leave out all the other stuff and just focus on the Palin stuff doesn’t just look tremendously “one sided” – it’s a missed opportunity. (And I’m a democrat. I know people care little about when the GOP gets up in arms, but in this case I think they have a point.) It’s a fantastic book with so many rich stories. It’s a shame they just dealt with one part of it – But maybe skeptical voter is right. Maybe they’ll do a sequel.
But enough about GAME CHANGE. I’m voting for Obama again, but this “commercial” seems a little much. Then again, who knows how ugly this campaign is going to get down the road. If it’s really ugly maybe they’ll write a CAME CHANGE II.
Sou you think there would be no drama, or entertainment, if they had filmed also the other part of the book… you know, the one which deals with the possibility of the first woman president or the first african-american president…
… Both of them, by the way, are now in power, and not the (your words) «intellectually challenged female governor from a state that nobody pays attention».
Well Hollywood is overwhelmingly liberal. I would say it’s an open secret, but it’s not a secret. There are often political discussions (ha) in my office that feature name calling and bad mouthing of Republicans that would get someone fired in the non-Hollywood world. But, I sit there and keep silent because I don’t want to get fired by the tolerant party over my political opinions. Oh well, nothing you can do about it.
As for this video, it’s quite hilarious, but my favorite part is the title. We’ve certainly traveled a road with Obama, that road just cost $2 trillion to build and still isn’t paved.
Davis is a fine director and a good choice, but big mistake — not just in anticipation of the expected antipathy from the right, but as a simple distraction from the message — to have Hanks narrate. His voice is too familiar, too suffused with Hollywood associations. Doesn’t help the cause. Yes, he represents (often liberal boomer) American folklore — Apollo 13, his generation’s Jimmy Stewart, etc., but that’s not of this time. Familiar or not, a younger voice, or at least a non-actor (anyone from David McCullough to David Cone) — could have communicated a different kind of gravitas, as well as relevance — while not distracting.
The road I am traveling costs me $5 a gallon, not the $2 his first day in office.
Better than the $9 a gallon that europe is paying
The Blame Game is Over.
Republicans are “foaming at the mouth” about this? It’s generalized, insulting characterizations like that that keep this country divided–on both sides. As a Republican, I may not agree with your politics, but I’m a human being, just like you. I don’t “foam at the mouth” over contrary views. And if we could talk with each other, you might be surprised at how much we have in common.
I’m sooo in. Best man for the job and one who will go down in history as one of the greatest presidents this nation’s ever had.
What a waste of time. How can anyone not know whether or not they’ll vote for Obama again by now. Some overemoting by Tom Hanks is going to change minds?
It’s funny — this is a “Hollywood Industry Publication,” with the requisite supposedly liberal readership, and yet…in the majority of — overnight — comments here. Obama is the devil. Proves that right-wing cranks stay up all night with nothing better to do than crank on.
Clearly out-of-touch with his audience, Mr. Hanks gives us another reason to avoid him like the plague. Davis Guggenheim on the other hand has proven he is a master at convincing a bunch of imbeciles that “An Inconvenient Truth” was science.
This President has accomplished much in the past 3+ years and saw most of his policies pushed through the Democrat-controlled congress in the first two years of his administration. Unfortunately for the American people, the result is an absolute DISASTER.
PREDICTION: It’ll be a nasty campaign but it will be a landslide Republican victory much like 1980 when Ronald Reagan swept Jimmy Carter out the door and into the trash bin of failed Presidents.
Talk about out of touch. You do realize that Obama is going to be elected to a second term, don’t you? Any other scenario is complete fantasy. I’d suggest you get used to the idea.
When the GOP finds another Reagan, get back to me.
President Obama can’t control spending under his watch.
That is all I need to know.
They left out the part when Obama marshaled all the armies in the world to repel the Decepticons.
Haha. That was the BEST part of his presidency!
Every comment on this board is from the 80% of the country who have already decided. The question is, who among the 20% who haven’t will see this film and be swayed by it? It is a piece designed the Obama campaign get rolling and create momentum. I don’t think the creators would deny that. The question is … will it work? I think it probably will. Oh, and I’m okay with that…