Michael Tae Sweeney: Reagan isn't interesting. A blind idiot God, an empty front-man for grifters and jesus freaks who've taken over of country. We need more Nixon movies.

Reagan isn't interesting. A blind idiot God, an empty front-man for grifters and jesus freaks who've taken over of country. We need more Nixon movies.

Have they made a bad Nixon movie? They have not. They are all good.

"What can I say about Nixon that hasn't already been said though" how about this? YOUNG NIXON. There, I just gave you an idea that will 100% earn an Oscar Best Actor nomination. Thank me later.

Didn't they make an Elvis/Nixon movie already or did I hallucinate that? bsky.app/profile/strn...

Nixon and Elvis roadtrip movie.

The only good angle anyone ever found on Reagan tbh bsky.app/profile/mark...

and much earlier, Phil Hartman playing Reagan as a mastermind feigning amiable idiocy in public succeeded because most contemporary viewers considered him a dunce this was in 1986, before he was elevated to sainthood by the right and mainstream political journalists

President Reagan, Mastermind - SNLwww.youtube.com President Reagan (Phil Hartman) acts hopeless and clueless in public, but in private he's an evil mastermind who knows every detail about everything happening in his administration. [Season 12, 1986] #SNL Subscribe to SNL: https://goo.gl/tUsXwM Get more SNL: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live Full Episodes: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-liv... Like SNL: https://www.facebook.com/snl Follow SNL: https://twitter.com/nbcsnl SNL Tumblr: http://nbcsnl.tumblr.com/ SNL Instagram: http://instagram.com/nbcsnl SNL Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/nbcsnl/

I posted this like 10 minutes ago and have already received 3 replies pitching different YOUNG NIXON concepts that would all make great movies. You can't go wrong with Dick! bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

"What can I say about Nixon that hasn't already been said though" how about this? YOUNG NIXON. There, I just gave you an idea that will 100% earn an Oscar Best Actor nomination. Thank me later.

We also need someone to do a movie version of the wacky conspiracy theory that the oil interests framed Nixon for Watergate because of his support for nuclear energy bsky.app/profile/erik...

He established the EPA! wtf

We're joking, but it's legitimately a great ensemble performance by Dan Hedaya & Co. I was kind of surprised because farce usually strikes me as juvenile, but I enjoyed Dick!

I want "Old Nixon" about his days being shunned by his neighbors in New Jersey.

hasn't been a good Quaker movie since Sergeant York

Young Nixon as in before he became Vice President, or elementary school Young Nixon?

Ghost Dick would be a winner too. More campy than Young Dick, but still fun.

Pitch: a rom-com called "Pat and Dick."

Can I just suggest one scene where YOUNG NIXON goes to the pound to get a new dog and as he's being told all the different breeds there he just turns to the camera and mugs "Shiba In-MEE??" (long walk for a bad reference 3 people will get)

If he’d picked that slogan he wouldn’t have needed to do Watergate.

The ＊only＊ one? Hartman wasn't done with that! youtu.be/k0ZBqUS-suM

President Reagan Gives Gorbachev a Tour of Washington D.C. - SNLyoutu.be President Reagan (Phil Hartman) gives Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (Danny Devito) a tour of D.C. from a limo, but his grasp of history is limited to old Hollywood stories about movies set in and inspired by Washington D.C. [Season 13, 1987] #SNL Subscribe to SNL: https://goo.gl/tUsXwM Get more SNL: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live Full Episodes: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-liv... Like SNL: https://www.facebook.com/snl Follow SNL: https://twitter.com/nbcsnl SNL Tumblr: http://nbcsnl.tumblr.com/ SNL Instagram: http://instagram.com/nbcsnl SNL Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/nbcsnl/

Hartman also did the most flattering version of Trump. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1gC...

Trump Divorce Cold Open - SNLwww.youtube.com Ivana Trump (Jan Hooks) visits Donald Trump (Phil Hartman) at work to discuss their settlement and their prenuptial agreement, which is obviously in Donald's favor. Aired 02/17/90 #SNL Subscribe to SNL: https://goo.gl/tUsXwM Get more SNL: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live Full Episodes: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-liv... Like SNL: https://www.facebook.com/snl Follow SNL: https://twitter.com/nbcsnl SNL Tumblr: http://nbcsnl.tumblr.com/ SNL Instagram: http://instagram.com/nbcsnl SNL Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/nbcsnl/

jello biafra had a good reagan angle

Wow - that was ‘86? Isn’t that around the time the Alzheimer’s rumors started?

Still really surprised SNL never updated that for Trump

That was a Drunk History episode

Yes, Jack Black was Elvis, Nixon might have been Bob Odenkirk? I think that was the two-Nixon episode

They did it’s excellent. Michael Shannon as Elvis

It's the Elvis/JFK movie (Bubba Ho-Tep) that feels like a hallucination.

No, there definitely was. Literally "Elvis & Nixon," 2016. Starring as Nixon... wait for it... waaaaaait fooor iiiittt: Kevin Spacey.

TWO! Lol

if they haven't... (opens up Final Draft)

(calls Michael Shannon) hey, do you want to play Elvis again? No, this time it's a road trip. Yes, you dance. Oh totally, they'll be shooting guns non-stop.

I would approve of three hours of continuously reminding everyone he is a Duke grad.

absolutely perfect match of man and university. gotta hand it to them

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i think this is the first time i've blessed bluesky with my nixon/hamilton mashup?

Feels like there's at least one last big Oscar bait Nixon movie to be had before all the boomer academy voters who remember Watergate die off

someday they're gonna remake ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN and its basically guaranteed to be one of the worst movies ever

They remade it as DICK and it rocked

that's not a remake, but I agree DICK is an amazing movie (and Hedaya is a really underrated Nixon portrayal and I'm bummed he never got to play Nixon in a drama)

It was the best! The uniformed secret service, "Did you bring the cookies?" 🤣

Million dollar idea - The LEGO Nixon Movie

Harry Styles as Woodward and Zac Efron as Bernstein who says no

Love it. Taking the already-inexplicable glowup of Bob Woodward being Robert Redford and then just leaning even harder into them being implausibly handsome

I'd go see Robert Altman's remake as an allegory for the Trump Administration.

I mean they sort of just did it twice, sans Nixon (GASLIT and WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS)

President the gay one before Lincoln: The Movie

Obvious candidate for a Muppet's version.

At Whittier College, Nixon was a star drama student. Did Shakespeare, everything. In my version, he’ll stop at nothing to secure the lead as Richard III. It’s called William Shakespeare’s “DICK”

Who plays the title role in "Young Nixon"? Zach Efron?

oh that's a great choice tbh

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