Salon.com > the weinsteins http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:55:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “SEAL Team Six”: Harvey Weinstein’s dull Obama endorsement http://www.salon.com/2012/11/04/seal_team_six_starring_beefcakes_in_uniforms_a_poor_mans_carrie_mathison_%e2%80%94_and_obama/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/04/seal_team_six_starring_beefcakes_in_uniforms_a_poor_mans_carrie_mathison_%e2%80%94_and_obama/#comments Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13061913 “SEAL Team Six,” a shallow TV movie about the raid to kill Osama Bin Laden, stars a bevy of beefcakes in Navy SEAL costumes -- and Barack Obama. Real audio and video footage of the president has been threaded into a fictional, melodramatic account of the attack on Abbottabad. Couple this with the film’s air date, tonight on National Geographic, just three days before the election, and “SEAL Team Six” has been accused of being Democratic propaganda, burnishing Obama's accomplishments, though its creators  — director John Stockwell and producers the Weinstein brothers — have said they included Obama only to increase verisimilitude. But as either propaganda or realist fiction “SEAL Team Six” is ineffective. It’s on the level of those “The army is just like a character-building video game!” enlistment ads you see before movies, simple-minded and, at most, superficially rousing. Barack Obama probably isn't wild about help this dim.

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