This is going to be he YOOOOOGEST FPP that this country has ever seen.

February 10, 2016 7:20 AM

Funny or Die Made a Trump Biopic, Starring Johnny Depp [NYT]. The 50-minute comedy is streaming now at Funny or Die. (Head's up: NYT link has spoilers!)
posted by Room 641-A (20 comments total)

So can we presume that Johnny Depp's penchant for wigs and silly voices is finally being harnessed for good?
posted by Strange Interlude at 7:29 AM on February 10, 2016 [3 favorites]

Well, I tried watching it, but wow it's a tough slog. The opening song though, is DYNAMITE!
posted by blue_beetle at 7:42 AM on February 10, 2016 [1 favorite]

This looks like a high quality movie with high quality actors. Very high quality.
posted by lagomorphius at 7:47 AM on February 10, 2016 [6 favorites]

Trump was so far ahead of us all--he knew that someday 16:9 would be the dominant aspect ratio.
posted by goatdog at 7:50 AM on February 10, 2016 [1 favorite]

Since I'm at work, I won't be able to watch until I get home tonight. On the standard Depp scale of Lone Ranger to Mortdecai (I'll let you decide individually which end is which) where should we place this?
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:12 AM on February 10, 2016

It's so, so long.
posted by interrobang at 8:15 AM on February 10, 2016 [1 favorite]

The opening song though, is DYNAMITE!

I gotta say, Kenny Loggins is a really good sport.
posted by Room 641-A at 8:20 AM on February 10, 2016

I'm going by Rotten Tomatoes, with films he starred in, so the scale is more between Ed Wood and Mortdecai. He can be quite good when everything works out.
posted by numaner at 8:38 AM on February 10, 2016

You're all losers - it's brilliant!
posted by photoslob at 8:44 AM on February 10, 2016

(I cannot think of Johhny Depp without, through the messy wetware in my head, sighing over Helena Bonham Carter in Room With a View, whose Lucy permanently burned herself into long-term memory as one of the world's most beautiful beings, what with me having been 18 in 1985...sorry, where was I? Anyway, he's alright in my book.)
posted by maxwelton at 9:08 AM on February 10, 2016

I would like to see Shatner as Trump.
posted by zippy at 9:11 AM on February 10, 2016 [5 favorites]

trumpdonald.org : The Movie.
posted by sapagan at 10:28 AM on February 10, 2016 [1 favorite]

Ron Howard's to-camera is eerily consistent [SLYT].
posted by specialbrew at 12:33 PM on February 10, 2016

Mr. Depp is no Don Knotts.
posted by landis at 1:40 PM on February 10, 2016

This is taking a long time to watch, because even with fake Trump there's only so much I can stand before I need a break.
posted by ckape at 2:35 PM on February 10, 2016 [1 favorite]

Yeah but Depp was great in it and some really good writing too. A more stringent edit would have made it perfect but thumbs up here.
posted by raider at 7:43 PM on February 10, 2016

Alfred Molina was my favorite. I enjoyed Johnny Depp's performance too. Thumbs up!
posted by isthmus at 11:23 PM on February 10, 2016

I'm sticking with the "uge" spelling.
posted by fairmettle at 3:35 AM on February 11, 2016 [1 favorite]

Thanks, Citizens United!
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 6:27 AM on February 11, 2016

Thanks, Citizens United!

Negative.

Section 203 of BCRA defined an "electioneering communication" as a broadcast, cable, or satellite communication that mentioned a candidate within 60 days of a general election or 30 days of a primary, and prohibited such expenditures by corporations and unions.

posted by tonycpsu at 7:58 AM on February 12, 2016