Interesteg What makes it different from others?

2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

xredgarnetx This satiric and somewhat surreal Showtime comedy details Elvis Presley's historic meeting with Richard Nixon not long before Watergate and while the Vietnam War was still raging, and does so in an oddly affectionate manner. Rick Peters portrays the drug-taking, purple cape-wearing, Vegas-playing Elvis who had long ago been eclipsed by the Beatles. Elvis sadly finds out how far over the hill he is when he finds his albums in the oldies section of an L.A. record shop. Nixon of course was the paranoid, vindictive, petty tyrant we knew and hated, particularly bitter about the protests taking place over a war he tells everyone he didn't start. Bob Gunton, a wonderful character actor best known as the chief villain in THE GLIMMER MAN, nails Nixon cold. In fact, the entire cast, right down to the White House security guards, are spot-on. For instance, Richard Beymer playing H.R. Haldemann will give those who remember the real deal absolute chills. And keep a close eye on the very talented Canadian actor Gabriel Hogan as Bobby, Elvis' right-hand man. Some real-life folks, including Wayne Newton and Tony Curtis, whimsically portray themselves as they help narrate the story. In the end, this is a movie about two extraordinary and ill-fated men, each fighting his own particular demons, thrown together under highly unusual circumstances. Director Arkush does an exceptional job.

fedor8 Initially very amusing spoof of (primarily) Elvis. The bit where Elvis gives permission to his brown-noser "mafia" to go home for the holidays is hilarious. Also funny is the premise of Elvis being like a little child and totally out of touch - much like Michael Jackson now. I was refreshingly surprised to see Elvis spoofed in such an irreverent way.The funny Elvis situations do creep up in the second half as well, but left-wing politics ruins it; a good opportunity was wasted to make fun of hippies, as well. Instead, Elvis is shown as a silly person, while the hippies fought for their ideals. Had they made fun of Elvis's backwardness AND hippie naivety/hypocrisy this movie would have been damn good. There is even a political "message" this comedy tries to impose on us: a hippie argues to a WWII veteran that the Japanese attacked the U.S. but "what have the Vietnamese done to us?". They actually left this idiotic statement uncommented! It's obvious that the hippie was speaking the film-maker's mind. But hasn't anyone told these idiots that America didn't simply fight against the Vietnamese: they fought alongside the Vietnamese against the Communist ones. A-duh! I demand to see a movie ridiculing Hanoi Jane & her moron friends. Do we have to wait for Fonda to snuff it, too, before we see that, or will we never see it? Probably never.

gazzo-2 Boys was this lame. Now, I admit I am an Elvis fan, and kinda like Nixon the foreign policy guy-but also I enjoy the Johnny Bravo-style Elvis sendups and like-minded Tricky Dick satires you see( as in the Nixon-voice as commentator on Imus)-No problem here.But this...this was pretty poor as far as it went. They guy doing Nixon looked more like a bad Ed Sullivan, and the guy doing Elvis-was loads more like DON Johnson's stab at the King from that really bad '81 TV flick DJ did back when. Watching this was like seeing an over-extended Saturday Night Live skit on the meeting, stretched out to 90 minutes or more.Somehow I don't that Elvis was quite That cloddish, and Nixon, had a little more on the ball than THAT. Now, John and Yoko showing up at the white-house from their Bed-in for Peace days-now THAT woulda been funny...** outta ****, LAME.

caddy-56 for those of us who lived in the 50"s 60"s. Great humor, I can remember the growing pains of Elvis.. The viet nam war and that hippy stuff. voting for Nixon and living through the days of coming home to America after Nam..