Julianne Moore IS Sarah Palin

Peter Suderman | 2.1.2012 11:44 AM

Ed Harris as John McCain! Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin! Woody Harrelson as that one guy (Steve Schmidt)! From the director of Meet the Fockers, Austin Powers in Goldmember, and Dinner for Schmucks: HBO's adaptation of Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's book on the 2008 presidential campaign, Game Change. This is what I imagine it would look like if someone took a bunch of Politico stories and smashed them together into a three act structure.

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SugarFree 13 years ago

They should have had Tina Fey play Palin and Palin play Fey playing Palin. Missed opportunities.
1. Tim 13 years ago
  
  A movie with an actress protraying an actress portraying a politician portrayed by an actress?
  1. SugarFree 13 years ago
    
    And all the rest of the characters are played by Eddie Murphy.
    1. el Commentariosa 13 years ago
      
      Or Adam Sandler
      1. Warty 13 years ago
        
        "Adam Sandler is, like, in love with a girl, but she's like, a golden retriever or something."
        
        "That's brilliant! We'll call it Puppy Love!"
        
        A.W.E.S.O.M - O 13 years ago
        
        "Um... How about this: Adam Sandler inherits like, a billion dollars, but first he has to become a boxer or something."
        
        DJF 13 years ago
        
        How about Adam Sandler playing a guy who is a movie actor and comedian and he is hired to do movies but he can't act and isn't funny.
        
        Rev. Blue Moon 13 years ago
        
        "You are an incredible robot, AWESOM-O. I was just wondering... are you by chance a...pleasure model?"
    2. JW 13 years ago
      
      Herc-u-les! Herc-u-les! Herc-u-les! Herc-u-les!
      1. lily 13 years ago
        
        Bi or want to find people having the same sexual orientation?---datebi*cO'm--- is a safe and free site for you.
  2. Bam! 13 years ago
    
    Tropic Thunder: Alaska!
2. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
  
  I assume Rule 34 has taken care of this. And probably also went ahead and changed the context of the word "play."
Tman 13 years ago

Based solely on the reviews I've read of the book, the facts gathered in the story are apparently a lot of "fake, but accurate" type tales.

I wonder if this backfires somehow, and it ends up making people more sympathetic to Palin. The way the left loses their fucking minds over this woman appears to have reached full retard.
1. Tony 13 years ago
  
  Um, if we lose our mind over her it's out of disbelief and horror that someone so monumentally stupid can be taken seriously as a national leader. Thankfully, most of the country does not anymore.
  1. Tman 13 years ago
    
    JOE FUCKING BIDEN.
    
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
    1. Tony 13 years ago
      
      Really?
      1. Tman 13 years ago
        
        Really what Tony?
        
        Are you seriously going to defend Joe Biden?
        
        Whatever dude. I'm not wasting my time with you today. You're not worth it.
        
        Tony 13 years ago
        
        Compared to Sarah Palin? Just how thick is that bubble you live in?
        
        Barely Suppressed Rage 13 years ago
        
        I don't recall Sarah Palin ever telling a paralyzed guy in a wheelchair to stand up.
        
        Joe Biden is the smartest guy he knows. And he's not afraid to make sure everyone else knows he's smarter than everyone else.
      2. obama 13 years ago
        
        Me! I am a fucking idiot...ever seen my college transcripts. Of course not.
        
        Tony 13 years ago
        
        This place is crawling with Drudge scum.
      3. Joe 13 years ago
        
        Really
        
        He's a plagarist. He's a known liar concerning his grades in college. He's a fricking tool.
    2. Zeb 13 years ago
      
      You know what. None of these people is stupid. It's just cheap and silly to call your political opponents stupid. They certainly all have major personality flaws and blind spots and are wrong about important things, but intelligent people disagree about important things all the time.
      1. cynical 13 years ago
        
        Sure, like whether an island can be tipped over by too much weight on one side.
        
        Congressholes are as dumb as they are corrupt.
        
        Zeb 13 years ago
        
        If he really thought that, then sure, he is an idiot. I am not convinced of that.
        
        Barely Suppressed Rage 13 years ago
        
        Have you seen the video? That idiot sure seemed to really believe that.
        
        And then there was the idiot congresswoman who asked the NASA dude if the probe we were sending to Mars would send back pictures of the flag the astronauts had left there in the `60s.
        
        AlmightyJB 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, it's that sort of stuff that's always had me scratching my head about the Palin meme. I understand you don't want her on your Trivia Pursuit team, she's not Steven Hawking, I get it, but good God, compared to the a**holes already running this country she's probably smarter than at least half of them. Watch Colberts' "Get to know a District" or C-Span sometime when one of them is up there rambling to a dark empty room and then tell me she's the dumbest politician ever. She's not even the dumbest VP candidate ever.
        
        SFC B 13 years ago
        
        She was arguably not the dumbest VP candidate in the last election.
        
        Mr. Quick Thinker 13 years ago
        
        My personal disgust with Palin stems from when she couldn't name something she read every day to keep informed, flubbed the question, got it repeated, flustered herself, and the third time it was asked, went into a rant about how Alaskans are people just like everywhere else.
        
        I might be flustered if someone asked me that question out of the blue, but this was a scheduled interview and she was running for the VP office and should have been glad to get such a softball question. She couldn't even say "The Anchorage Daily" or "New York Times".
        
        Anyone so easily confused and unready for such a simple question is not ready for prime time. She backed up that opinion with plenty of other examples too.
      2. ? 13 years ago
        
        Yeah, but...well...then what's the point of Hit & Run?
        
        Zeb 13 years ago
        
        Well, sure. Everyone likes to blow off some steam and rage about how stupid everyone else is. But every now and then one ought to step back and get a little perspective on things.
  2. WTF 13 years ago
    
    Trust us, Tony knows what it's like to be monumentally stupid.
  3. Jeff 13 years ago
    
    BARACK FUCKING OBAMA.
R C Dean 13 years ago

Barf.
1. barfman 13 years ago
  
  That's my line
  1. wylie 13 years ago
    
    chill, barfman, That was Tina Fey as Palin as RC Dean as you.
Tim 13 years ago

They spent a lot of money on this and timed it to hit right in the middle of primary season, too bad she chickened out of the running.
1. Alack 13 years ago
  
  But if she HAD run, then their film would have been protected by the Citizen's United decision. Can't have a left-leaning movie's existence justified by the infamous "CORPURASHINZ R PEEPOL" ruling, right?
  1. Tim 13 years ago
    
    I simply appreciate all the time and expense they went to with this. Just like their cock sucking production of "By The People: The Erection Of Barack Obama".
  2. Bam! 13 years ago
    
    Silly commenter, "corporations" is a euphemism for Republicans.
Danno 13 years ago

I may not agree with Sarah Palin on every issue, but anyone who the left hates so much can't be all bad.
1. Richard Headd 13 years ago
  
  Anyone the right likes that much can't be that good
  1. darius404 13 years ago
    
    And there we have it: you're BOTH right!
  2. SIV 13 years ago
    
    Much of the "right" hates Sarah Palin too.
Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago

Adapted by Jonathan from Buffy the Vampire Slayer? That spells gold.
1. Tim 13 years ago
  
  If she becomes a vampire in this, I will watch it.
  1. Fist of Etiquette 13 years ago
    
    I'll watch it if she says her campaign was commended as being strongly vaginal.
    1. Tim 13 years ago
      
      Johnson?
      1. Hugh Akston 13 years ago
        
        I was talking about my rug.
        
        Sarah Palin 13 years ago
        
        Are you here to fix the cable?
        
        Herman Cain 13 years ago
        
        Special Delivery! Did anyone order...extra sausage?!
WTF 13 years ago

From the director of Meet the Fockers, Austin Powers in Goldmember, and Dinner for Schmucks

Dear God, this is just guaranteed to suck ass.
1. jester 13 years ago
  
  'Dinner for Schmucks' has to be one of the most painful movies I have ever watched. It seriously needed laugh tracks or something. I needed to know when I was supposed to chuckle, guffaw, or fall on the floor.
  
  Maybe its not to late to insert laugh tracks in the Palin movie.
2. sage 13 years ago
  
  Hey I liked Goldmember.
  
  "Dr Evil, can I paint this yoo hoo gooooold?"
  
  "How bout no. You crazy dutch bastard!"
shrike 13 years ago

Who will play the evil villain Katie Couric?
1. Barely Suppressed Rage 13 years ago
  
  Remember that Down's Syndrome kid Corky from "Life Goes On"?
Tim 13 years ago

Also McCain had nothing to do with his fucked up losing campaign, it was all the VP's fault.
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  That was my thought, it's like a love letter to John McCain. McCain, who would have us all locked up in the name of security.
STEVE SMITH 13 years ago

STEVE LIKE RAPIST WOODY IN "WAG THE DOG", RAPE WOODY RAPE!
1. Julian Moore as Sara Palin 13 years ago
  
  Pay for those rape kits yourself, Sasquatch victims!
Warty 13 years ago

Lisa Ann did a better job.
1. Raston Bot 13 years ago
  
  Best. Palin. Ever.
  1. Warty 13 years ago
    
    I don't know why I like Lisa Ann. Her fake tits are all googly-eyed and spherical, and her creepy collagen lips weird me out. But I do like her for some reason.
    1. Bee Tagger 13 years ago
      
      I heard her interviewed on a local station here (Mark Madden, for the Pittsburgh folk). She was entertaining, quick-witted, and seemed capable of carrying a good conversation.
      1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        She may have a future in politics.
        
        R C Dean 13 years ago
        
        Because of her fake tits and duck lips? Possibly, possibly.
        
        Apogee 13 years ago
        
        No. She's too smart.
        
        Apogee 13 years ago
        
        And there's a lot of things that porn stars just simply won't do.
        
        Politicians, not so much.
    2. Dagny T. 13 years ago
      
      H&R prompts some of my most questionable Googles evar. Those are really weird looking implants (at least in the Wikipedia picture).
      1. Warty 13 years ago
        
        One points up, one points down. Wouldn't this be something most women would want to fix?
    3. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
      
      She's actually got a sexy voice and, the flaws of her plastic surgery aside, she really does look like what you'd want to see in a MILF-type.
      
      It's just a damn shame that she couldn't find a better plastic surgeon to give her a reasonable boob job.
  2. jacob 13 years ago
    
    Who has more cottage cheese - Lisa Ann or the real Palin?
2. turdburglar 13 years ago
  
  dude looks like a lady
RedDragon6009 13 years ago

All I want to know is will there be boobs?
1. RedDragon6009 13 years ago
  
  I mean other than Sarah Palin and John McCain.
  1. Tim 13 years ago
    
    This is an HBO show, so they could add a hot shower scene with Palin and a nubile hotel maid...
    1. Dominique Strauss-Kahn 13 years ago
      
      Change that to nubian hotel maid and you have yourself a winner.
2. xenia onatopp 13 years ago
  
  Don't know about boobs, but the presence of Julianne Moore used to guarantee at least one scene proving she's a natural redhead. Of course, to the best of my knowledge Palin's not a firecrotch, so they may decide to break with tradition here. That's actually the only thing related to this movie I'm even a little curious about, and with luck I won't have to bother with watching it in order to find out.
  1. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
    
    I'm amazed they were able to take that ginger and turn her into a person that somewhat resembled Palin.
Colonel_Angus 13 years ago

If this is real, sounds lame.
Franklin Harris 13 years ago

It's too bad Don LaFontaine is dead. This trailer could really use him.

"In a man's world, only one woman could steer the ship of state..."
1. Rev. Blue Moon 13 years ago
  
  Learn something new every day. I had no idea he was dead.
Barely Suppressed Rage 13 years ago

How many people are going to believe this is a factual documentary, rather than the fiction it almost certainly is?
1. darius404 13 years ago
  
  It's not a mockumentary?
  1. darius404 13 years ago
    
    Update: It's real!
    
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Change_(film)
    1. darius404 13 years ago
      
      Well that's lame, it doesn't recognize the last part of my link.
2. SIV 13 years ago
  
  All the people who think Palin said "I can see Russia from my house" .
Jayne Cobb 13 years ago

Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin?

...I'll be in my bunk.
Jayne Cobb 13 years ago

Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin?

...I'll be in my bunk.
1. Scruffy Nerfherder 13 years ago
  
  Come again?
jester 13 years ago

Q:Will Julianne Moore show her firecrotch like she did in 'Shortcuts'?
If she does, I am guessing that the wild Alaskan woman sculpts it like elegant topiary. So Julianne's going-commando scene should be a classic.
1. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
  
  I guess I know what I'll be googling when I get home from work.
  1. SFC B 13 years ago
    
    Smart phone FTW
? 13 years ago

Anyone the right likes that much can't be that good

You need to check out some mainstream-Republican commentary on Palin, maybe a Krauthammer or Kristol column, then a National Review or hotair.com comment thread?anywhere Romney fans are found. They hate Palin slightly more than the left does. The difference is they call her a retarded traitor/whore for making money from free-market activities (conservatives hate those!), not for the unsightly breeding she does that the left loses their shit at (conservatives repress their shit-losing at that).

The outrage they share is that she is/represents uppity po' folk. Lefties object to that as a matter of genetics (they are, indeed, Progressives), and the right as a matter of rank, rank resulting from "work." And everything but being a politician or "Wall Street" guy isn't really work, so Palin is basically an unperson con-man with no legitimate place in society and, really, fundamentally, no humanity.

Seriously, check 'em out. Learn about assholes.
1. Zeb 13 years ago
  
  I don't even care. I don't want to hear about her anymore from either side (or any side). My assessment of Palin: not an idiot (more than any other politician anyway), not interesting, not important.
  1. Dagny T. 13 years ago
    
    Same here. I watched that trailer this morning and thought: who the fuck cares anymore? Why would you want to relive 2008? Maybe 2008 is turning into what the 1950's are to conservatives, but for a certain kind of liberal: a nostalgic mythical time that didn't really happen like they want to remember it.
    1. ? 13 years ago
      
      I believe it's called "being behind the curve," Lillian. I mean Dagny.
    2. AlmightyJB 13 years ago
      
      College kids and the media will go see it. I don't know anyone including those of my friends who are lefties that would waste their time with it.
    3. Red Rocks Rockin 13 years ago
      
      So what you're saying is that it's going to be a SWPL version of Pleasantville?
2. Tony 13 years ago
  
  learn about assholes
  
  Present!
3. . 13 years ago
  
  The outrage they share is that she is/represents uppity po' folk.
  
  Bingo! Give that man a cigar.
Brandt Hardin 13 years ago

I don't know if HBO can Sell Sarah better than she sells herself. Just when we thought she her starlight was fading, this opportunistic movie may push Palin back into the spotlight depending on how she is portrayed. How does America's Top MILF do it? She's cut-throat when it comes to her money and you can see just how scandalous she'll get for the cash with The Ecstasy of Sarah Palin at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.....in_15.html
Xmas 13 years ago

I wonder if they'll run "Game Change" back-to-back with "Primary Colors".
Johann Romas 13 years ago

This makes a whole lot of sense when you think about it. WOw.

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1. Uh-huh 13 years ago
  
  WOw.
Johann Romas 13 years ago

This makes a whole lot of sense when you think about it. WOw.

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