Cheney in this clip is wearing a Rolex Day-Date, nicknamed 'the president' for being famously worn by many US presidents like LBJ, Nixon, Reagan and Trump. It's a symbolic touch representing who was the real power behind the White House.
@@Ss3gokus Tell us more about your fabulous wealth! If there's one thing everybody loves, its a bragger! I don't care if it's Lord Rothschild or the bum walking the street..................everyone is fascinated in hearing you boast about your material possessions. Tell us about the car and the house next!!!
@@ascendant95 lol everyone laughs at someone upset that others have There’s a reason there are people who have things and ppl who don’t Here’s a hint it has a lot to do it with intelligence. Don’t think about this too much though i know it’ll hurt your head.
@@Ss3gokus I could easily afford your stupid watch your bragging about, but I choose not to buy such things. I know lots of people like you. A real estate con artist who lives in a 6,000 square foot house but eats McDonalds and Arby's every day because he has no disposable cash. A white collar criminal who went to prison for running scams who was always bragging about the new big deal he's about to close. People like you who name drop and brag about what they have often reek of insecurity and need to show off because they know they are inferior. I don't know what you do or how you make your living. Maybe you're one of those incredibly lucky people who got a grant for a free down payment on a Days Inn or Super 8. I do know that your intellect and wealth are most certainly inferior to mine. You do have that Rolex though..................supposedly.
@@Ss3gokus It's hilarious to me that you think I'm "upset" about what you have. Even funnier that you think you can talk to me about intelligence. I think you need to eat a steak and STFU. You wish I was upset about what you have. I laugh at your insecurity and pathetic existence. If I ever need a $59 hotel room I'll keep you in mind.
Vice is a movie. Its made to entertain. There’s never been a movie featuring politics that is 100% accurate. However, there’s a lot of documented truth in it. The overall theme of Cheney being a Machiavellian manipulative prick, is very accurate. His own family would tell you that.
I saw it on my 60th birthday and now I am 63. My cousins treated me to the movie and some meals, etc. The movie will keep your attention for sure. I agree with Tim Johnson.
@@newaddress456 could you supply us with some additional details? What color socks were your cousins wearing? Was it raining the day you saw the movie? What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
I fucking loved this movie and I never understood why many didn't. I thought the manic editing was a great choice, it put you into Cheney's head with how he saw everything as this hyper-methodical chess game with billions of tiny moving parts, and yet he couldn't look far enough ahead to leave a positive legacy for the country or even in his family which was the real pseudo-Shakespearean tragedy of it all. Drunk on power is the phrase that comes to mind. And all carried by a 10/10 performance by Bale, he nailed the subtle mannerisms better than anyone could.
I am always amazed that ANY member of the Cheney family is able to show their face in public, or in politics. Honestly, Americans should ban together and oust the top 100 political families in this country.
The whole movie has a very meta feel about it, poking fun at biopic cliches and such, so it's possible they deliberately put that in, knowing that it serves no one but the audience.
@Jimmy Meridian Sometimes being meta or ironic is just an excuse for being clunky. It's like the old meme out there: >"Hey look how retard I am!" >"Man, that dude's a retard." >"Joke's on him, I was trolling!"
This is not a joke. This is more or less what happened, and most likely continues today with some new faces. An infernal pit of corruption and villainy.
Read the first 100 pages of the book “days of fire” it covers the first Bush term really well. Late in the first term Bush and Karl Rove actually took power away from Cheney. But the first term is pretty cool
I don't support either party. But I don't see any wars being pushed today, I don't have constant power blackouts and I can google anything I want to without fear or censorship. My point is, I don't see much more than a few first world problems going on in this country.
And, objectively, it was a positive. It gave permission for the ACTUAL Republicans to put Country over Party. Of course, this used to be the norm. Now, the Country is an afterthought at best.
Imcompetence so baffling it's hard to believe it's not intentional. I mean, what better way to turn off your progressive base than campaigning with a Cheney? The DNC succesfully lost again, which was their goal. Now they will throw up their hands and feign outrage as Trump gives more tax cuts to the rich, as if their rich donors didn't want that. It's a rigged game.
I know this movie is supposed to denounce abuse of power... but somehow I actually admire his political ability to control the strings of power through the use of personal connections.
they were out for themselves and wielded nearly unlimited power. in a lot of ways, they're *not* criminals by their own choosing; since they effectively ruled the united states as an oligarchy and basically controlled all the rules of the game (absolving themselves from almost anything normal people would call crime.)
Saw this in the theater, and I couldn't help but read this as a comedy. I just found his interpretation of Cheney SO funny - great acting, very nuanced and effective, but fundamentally hilarious. There was this one part where he's like "how are ya, ya salty son of a bitch!!!" and I basically died laughing.
@@polyseed12 Cheney ran D.C. even before he was VP which as the movie also portrays they need Cheneys pull with the Establishment to get Bush into the White House.
You shouldn't put too much stock in Vice, it isn't an accurate retelling of what actually transpired during the Bush presidency. It is a good movie nevertheless.
This is a political comedy, not a documentary. It's also very obviously liberal. If you want a more accurate take, read Peter Baker's excellent account of the Bush administration
This is why most don’t like trump and don’t want him back in office. He’s not part of the establishment and doesn’t play the game that’s played in Washington. Even Cheney doesn’t want trump in office. Go figure why.
You say "Cheney" - you mean "The System". For Dick, it's better to elect a rival, but a rival who's from the system, than a right-winger who is not accepted by the System at all.
How early is that scene? How have all these jobs been filled already? In fact...wait how do they not know this already? Senate Confirmation hearings already happened presumably so...I am confused. Wait are you not famous Canadian Conservative John James McCullough. I admire your perspicacity.
The Estate Tax was never eliminated. Although the limit was raised. For those that don't know, the rate is about 50% and applies to Gifts as well -- every dollar over a certain limit ($2m in the movie and around $11m today). Mostly, it screws over the bottom of the 1%. You don't really believe Bezos and Zuckerberg are going to be losing 50% of every dollar over the current $11 million limit when they die, do you? $11m is, what, 1/10,000th of Bezos' net worth? 1/20,000th? 50% is insane so it's no wonder the ultra-rich just find loopholes and workarounds for it.
It's not insane. it should be more like 75 to 90%. If not for Inherited Wealth, a complete loser and fraud like trump would NEVER have gotten within a mile of the White House much less become President. If he never got 400 million from his father and had to make his own way, the world would Never have heard of donald trump.
@@itslene It wouldn't be a youtube comment section if there wasn't some moronic fanboy claiming communism when somebody criticizes his supreme leader. I mean shit mate, have some dignity. Ironically Trump fits right in with North Korea: the cult of personality so entrenched in modern American conservatism, his dealings with big kim, the familial granting of power, the kleptocratic style of governance, it's just too perfect. Not perfect enough for you to see though, unfortunately.
I agree the government has no business taking 50% of your heritage, they describe 2 million as "ultra-rich", which is absurd. 2 million barely buys a normal house in some parts of the country
@@MrLTiger You didn't do squat to get your inheritance, it is just given to you by pure chance. If anything after the first few million you shouldn't see a penny. Inter-generational wealth is terrible for society, and is only going to get worse as the number of children that people have trends down.
5:56 IDK if he coined the term Climate Change, but if so it's kind of crazy he's that we are still using his framing 20 years later(even if it is a more accurate and scarier description than Global Warming).
That would be equally as inaccurate just in the opposite direction. It both warms and cools, the climate is in a constant state of change, hence the term Climate Change. Climate catastrophe predictions are a political tool. It's how unqualified politicians exploit the public's fear with dishonest interpretations of "The Science", to get themselves elected on empty promises and sell people fanciful green energy strategies that don't work.
@@wbbooth Except it isn't just politicians talking about the issue of Climate Change. You're right, the climate is in a constant state of change, the issue is that humans are accelerating said change by a significant margin.
@@mechanomics2649 It's not simply talking about it, but discussing what to DO about climate change that is the inherently political issue, because it will require nationwide policy enforcement AND global international cooperation that has never and most likely will never exist without world wide political reform a la Utopia. Until science develops some technological miracles that can cleanly replace the multiple global industries necessary for countries to function, discussing Climate Change outside pure analysis will forever be a political issue. Everyone knows humans impact the climate, but who is going to convince China, India, and Africa etc. to stop polluting and using fossil fuels, factory farming, and the myriad other technologies they depend on to survive? I just think the sky is not falling as quickly as the politicians would have us believe, every climate catastrophe doomsday prediction has been perpetually proven wrong since the inception of climate science. The only ones who want you to panic about it are politicians and the people that politicians have worked into hysteria for their own goals. Humans are impacting climate change by a significant margin, absolutely. But that change is not a simple "Good climate to bad climate" binary. Change is neither good nor bad, it's change, and no one has ever conceived of a scientifically proven "point of no return". It's my opinion that, given its track record of always doing so, the Earth will regulate it's own equilibrium, barring some insane global catastrophe the likes of which burning fossil fuels or not will have no impact, like a nuclear winter or some other dystopian scenario. The only man made alternative is essentially international fascism and/or global eugenics holocausts to quell the population, which is probably what the "global elites" have in mind already. Sorry for the long reply but I've never had the opportunity to express my thoughts on the subject I didn't want to waste the opportunity
Despite the fact this film was too weird for my taste. I would have prefer a more straightforward story on Cheney. The great thing of the movie is for me showing the acting chops of Christian Bale being able to literally transform into the character. You really believe he is Cheney and when he was Batman I do believe even though the Batman voice was not always as accurate. But this and even Ford V Ferrari show him to be able to blend into the role.
Bale is amazing in his transformation ... it's just so bizarre that he does this in a movie with a screenplay that has no connection to reality and wasn't even funny enough to justify its departure --mactually, cokmplete lack of interest infrom history
"Which, we'll actually be reading" Hilarious but also a terrible memory having lived through this ridiculous administration. The guy (W) wasn't reading his security briefings, this includes August 2001 when he was vacationing in Texas. Yeah, if that's frustrating to a post-9/11 citizenry, imagine how frustrating it is for someone who works with the guy.
Well the Republican party basically disowned her when she stood up to Trump so she probably doesn't have a chance, not right now when it's all still so fresh
@@bjehulk That's what all you trunpers say when a republican, or anyone for that matter, speaks the truth. Any decent republican who won't go along with the big lie of stop the steal is marginalized and primaried. What a crazy time we live in when you can't say the truth.
And now of course Cheney is a HERO OF LIBERALISM! for standing up to the newest Worsethanhitler, Donald Trump. Maybe Trump will also be rehabilitated some day.
It's actually not, in case you're curious. It's a bunch of nonsense Adam McKay made up to try to be funny and "important" at the same time. The movie actually admits in the opening titles that they just made stuff up, although they used the excuse that Cheney is allegedly super-secretive and that they "did their best." The hilarious thing of course is that no one involved in the film ever even attempted to interview any of the people depicted in any of the scenes. You know, to get like ... facts. Or aim for any kind of, like ... accuracy. Sorta convenient that they "had" to just make things up instead -- and magically it turned out to be a cliched, left-wing fantasy version of everything that nonetheless somehow "feels" like it could have true if you had certain political views. It's basically an SNL sketch, except one that indulges liberals' desire to pretend things they imagine actually happened, as if it's some kind of prestigious Oscar-bait biopic. Utterly delusional
@@ng2603Nope, this is actually how it works. Go read the Wikileaks published by Julian Assange. Obama literally receives all of his cabinet members on a list provided by Citibank and a few other very powerful financial industries. Timothy Geitner for example was assigned to Obama by one of those corporations.
@@ng2603 Obviously the world does not operate on the face value information presented to the public. If it did, we wouldn't discover horrific things 10 years later (as we always do). Thank you for demonstrating the naivety and the bias...who said I meant only Republicans? Power is ruthless, period
@@ng2603 Who said its just republicans? Or have you not noticed ten years later, horrific things that the government does is revealed? Or are you naive enough to believe people go into politics "to do good", as opposed to power?
@@ryanwarner5006 Oh yeah, he definitely was the man. He owns the record for the most number of Americans anyone has given PTSD to and gotten addicted to painkillers. He is the man! Hahaha. 🤣
that "Washington DC" board game is out there somewhere, it'll definitely turn up at some thrift shop or pawn shop one day and I'll pay top dollar to get my hands on it
You know this movie is fiction, a wry liberal political comedy, right? The number of Republicans condemning Trump and endorsing Kamala is real though, and unprecedented. His own VP won't endorse him, that's an American first. Republicans for Harris.
Carl Rove performed one, and very important function withing the Bush campaign, he had taken an idea from prior administrations, and ran it on steroids. As the election was getting closer and closer to a true dead heat ( soon to be the first of many in American Politics ) he contacted Conservative Christian leaders across the US and informed them, that should they support the Bush presidency, that their administration would focus upon cultural and social issues important to their group. Rove was the first to do this. This relationship between Conservative Christians and the Republican Party from that point forward became a long standing necessity to stay in power, and leading up to the Tea Party, the emergence of Alt Media, and the second election of Donald Trump. Many of the political, and social focusing created within the Rumsfeld-Cheney administration ( oops I mean the Bush Jr administration ) became part of the permanent play book for future Republican Party's philosophy, refocusing away from the post war Pax Americana of Open Seas, Controlled Immigration, Internationalism, Free Trade, and NATO, and became more and more focused upon issues farther to the political right, of Abortion, Tax Reductions, Anti-Multiculturalism, EPA and Climate Deregulation, Anti-Immigration, and Christian-Nationalism. Needless to say this was successful, even Ronald Regan and perhaps Dick Cheney himself, would not understand, or recognize the Republican Party of today, one which he helped create. How this was all accomplished was the recognition of an emerging Christian White Boomer Middle and Lower Middle Class socioeconomic group who felt left behind from the rapidly changing redefinition of Jobs, and altering American Culture around them, feeling strangers within their own land, elements within the Republican Party saw the tapping of this as a power bloc that could allow them into power, and reshape the direction of America.
Part of it is just because this movie assumes the audience would agree with its political opinions. It basically says stuff like, “Cheney and the Republicans contributed to the rise of Fox News and the oil industry, opposed the estate tax, and led to Trump’s presidency, and that’s bad.” Every instance that it uses the word “Republican” is supposed to trigger a disgust response, which wouldn’t be the case for everyone. Plus, it gives Cheney some sympathetic character moments, like pulling himself up out of alcoholism and poverty, being a loving father and husband, refusing to speak out against gay marriage for his daughter’s sake, and being vulnerable on his apparent deathbed.
Those few years in the 2010s where Steve Carrell tried to distance himself from Michael Scott by playing dramatic roles that required heavy prosthetics 😂
I enjoyed this movie. Entertaining. But their potrayal of Justice Scalia was bad. Scalia did so many interviews in his life that you can see for yourself how bad it is.
@@Paudyyy , justice Scalia is one of 5 reasons we went into the dark timeline in 2000. It's not bitterness so much as searing hatred for the man who is, at least partly, responsible for the murder of millions of American and non-Americans in the name of profits for war-contractors. If that comes off as bitter, so be it!
Ikr. There’s just as much shit you can bring up on the Democrats as you can on the Republicans. Sadly libs in Hollywood believe in blue no matter who, and it’s be the same if Republicans had Hollywood as well.
the disaster that was the illegal invasion of iraq and the subsequent economic crash,along with the election of a black man for president led to the tea party and eventually the big mean orange man. strange how the consequences of actions taken nearly 22 years ago still have an impact today.
I had a history teacher in HS that would talk politics with me knowing I was a conservative and when Bush was reelected in 04 he said “well 4 more years of Cheney running the world.”
"The Democrats have been defeated and the Iraqi rebellion has been foiled. Saddam Huessen's government will be hunted down and defeated! Any collaborators will suffer the same fate. The attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed but I assure you, my resolve has never been stronger! In order to ensure the security and continuing stability, the American Republic will be reorganized into the first American Empire, for safe and secure society!" - Dick Chaney addressing Congress, circa 2003
He's explaining it to US, the viewer. The Big Short movie did this a million times. Did you think the Goldman Sachs investment bankers really spoke to Dr. Burry in the boardroom like he was 12 years old? No. They're dumbing down the dialogue for the viewers. So we're in the loop. Not everyone works in finance.
That’s nice… now let’s see Paul Allen’s war on terror.
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Look at that subtle invasion.The tasteful drone strikes.Oh my God they even found WMDs.
@@Csetnikke you Sir, have won the internet 👏
Hahahahaha
It doesn't matter what they make Steve Carell look like, his voice can't be disguised.
@@mikeyreza You needed IMDB to confirm that? A fat suit and some fake gray hair goes a long way on you, man. Don't become a detective plz lol.
“That’s what she said!”😆
@@mikeyreza Sherlock Holmes over here
@@ifragpsn6431 So what if the guy didn't see it at first? You don't have to be a dick about it.
Steve carrel actually look and sound different in foxcatcher
Cheney in this clip is wearing a Rolex Day-Date, nicknamed 'the president' for being famously worn by many US presidents like LBJ, Nixon, Reagan and Trump. It's a symbolic touch representing who was the real power behind the White House.
Are you sure it’s the day date I heard it was called presidential Rolex I have a day date
And it was 25000
Presidential ones are 50k+ new
@@Ss3gokus Tell us more about your fabulous wealth! If there's one thing everybody loves, its a bragger! I don't care if it's Lord Rothschild or the bum walking the street..................everyone is fascinated in hearing you boast about your material possessions. Tell us about the car and the house next!!!
@@ascendant95 lol everyone laughs at someone upset that others have
There’s a reason there are people who have things and ppl who don’t
Here’s a hint it has a lot to do it with intelligence.
Don’t think about this too much though i know it’ll hurt your head.
@@Ss3gokus I could easily afford your stupid watch your bragging about, but I choose not to buy such things. I know lots of people like you. A real estate con artist who lives in a 6,000 square foot house but eats McDonalds and Arby's every day because he has no disposable cash. A white collar criminal who went to prison for running scams who was always bragging about the new big deal he's about to close. People like you who name drop and brag about what they have often reek of insecurity and need to show off because they know they are inferior. I don't know what you do or how you make your living. Maybe you're one of those incredibly lucky people who got a grant for a free down payment on a Days Inn or Super 8. I do know that your intellect and wealth are most certainly inferior to mine. You do have that Rolex though..................supposedly.
@@Ss3gokus It's hilarious to me that you think I'm "upset" about what you have. Even funnier that you think you can talk to me about intelligence. I think you need to eat a steak and STFU. You wish I was upset about what you have. I laugh at your insecurity and pathetic existence. If I ever need a $59 hotel room I'll keep you in mind.
“I’m the Vice President, I can do whatever I want.”
- Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney is homelander
Both Mr Bale & Mr Carell gave great performances as Cheney & Rumsfeld.
Who are you their fucking secutaries? Call them by their names like everyone else
Micheal Scott has really moved up in the world!
@Samthedude yeh
They were great in The Big Short too!
Don't forget about The Big short. Those 2 were amazing in this movie
Vice is a movie. Its made to entertain. There’s never been a movie featuring politics that is 100% accurate. However, there’s a lot of documented truth in it. The overall theme of Cheney being a Machiavellian manipulative prick, is very accurate. His own family would tell you that.
I saw it on my 60th birthday and now I am 63. My cousins treated me to the movie and some meals, etc. The movie will keep your attention for sure. I agree with Tim Johnson.
@@newaddress456 could you supply us with some additional details? What color socks were your cousins wearing? Was it raining the day you saw the movie? What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
@@brians9508 You need to answer those questions about YOURSELF. Now have a nice day, Brian. We all want that for you.
Very informative movie.
@@newaddress456 have a mice day!!!! how dare you!!! why would you make fun of my pet mice like that?
Patrick Bateman really did well for himself after his hedge fund years.
But he still can’t get a reservation at Dorsia.
He was early but not wrong
@@duffman7065 Not even the most powerful man in America lol
All while busy predicting the 2008 financial market crash
@@duffman7065 Doesn't need one. He owns the place
I fucking loved this movie and I never understood why many didn't. I thought the manic editing was a great choice, it put you into Cheney's head with how he saw everything as this hyper-methodical chess game with billions of tiny moving parts, and yet he couldn't look far enough ahead to leave a positive legacy for the country or even in his family which was the real pseudo-Shakespearean tragedy of it all. Drunk on power is the phrase that comes to mind. And all carried by a 10/10 performance by Bale, he nailed the subtle mannerisms better than anyone could.
I am always amazed that ANY member of the Cheney family is able to show their face in public, or in politics.
Honestly, Americans should ban together and oust the top 100 political families in this country.
Yeah this movie was excellent.
@@johnspurrier0001 Putin recently froze assets of some politicians and generals. I know Biden and Clinton were one of them idk about the others.
What is the movie name? Ty
@@IronMan-wz8dx "Vice"
Everytime I see Dick Cheney I always expect the "Imperial March" for Darth Vador to start playing in the background.
I know...
@randyjones3050 I was your hundredth like. Peace. 😳
Nothing says natural dialogue like "As you all know, I am Scooter Libby"
you haven’t been around enough fake people in the corporate world.
@Samthedude Yeah in front of a group of people you don’t know. It’s sounds so fucking stupid here in front of people he’s known for years and years
The whole movie has a very meta feel about it, poking fun at biopic cliches and such, so it's possible they deliberately put that in, knowing that it serves no one but the audience.
@Jimmy Meridian Sometimes being meta or ironic is just an excuse for being clunky.
It's like the old meme out there:
>"Hey look how retard I am!"
>"Man, that dude's a retard."
>"Joke's on him, I was trolling!"
As you know, Bob...
Kamala was honored to have this guys endorsement
Think of how dog shit you have to be for THIS guy to decide you're off the rails
Batman The Vice President
Seems more like Vice President Lex Luthor
Hes not wearing hockey pads.
Secretary of Defense Michael Scott
bateman the vice president
I have to return some WMDs
Christian Bale absolutely transformed himself into Cheney and i don’t just mean his weight. Phenomenal.
IMO hes one of the best actors ever, Dude is smooth AF
Democrats in 2024: "this is the guy we need to help us win, his endorsement is vital in persuading the American people we aren't conniving warmongers"
This is not a joke. This is more or less what happened, and most likely continues today with some new faces. An infernal pit of corruption and villainy.
most definitely continues today
Read the first 100 pages of the book “days of fire” it covers the first Bush term really well. Late in the first term Bush and Karl Rove actually took power away from Cheney. But the first term is pretty cool
@@voiceofreason2674 Actually Bush only took power from Cheney in the second term. From what i have heard
@@voiceofreason2674 I am reading it now. Fantastic book
I don't support either party. But I don't see any wars being pushed today, I don't have constant power blackouts and I can google anything I want to without fear or censorship. My point is, I don't see much more than a few first world problems going on in this country.
Remember when Kamala and Democrats touted being endorsed by these people as a positive?
And, objectively, it was a positive. It gave permission for the ACTUAL Republicans to put Country over Party. Of course, this used to be the norm. Now, the Country is an afterthought at best.
@@RobertBruce-j2y nobody on either side likes the cheney's
Lol. The tax cutters, Koch brothers, RNC etc are still on Trump's side
Imcompetence so baffling it's hard to believe it's not intentional. I mean, what better way to turn off your progressive base than campaigning with a Cheney? The DNC succesfully lost again, which was their goal. Now they will throw up their hands and feign outrage as Trump gives more tax cuts to the rich, as if their rich donors didn't want that. It's a rigged game.
@@RobertBruce-j2y the worst thing about MAGA is the historical revisionism other republicans are trying to pull. Neocons are still scum
I know this movie is supposed to denounce abuse of power... but somehow I actually admire his political ability to control the strings of power through the use of personal connections.
I was rooting for Cheney the whole movie. They did a terrible job of making him the bad guy.
@@isaacwykes636 well that’s what he was
I felt the same after reading a book about Stalin
@@camf111 Of course the _real_ Dick Cheney was a bad guy. But I too was rooting for fat Christian Bale the whole movie.
@@URProductions yeah his performance was great
This has the feel of a mafia movie. Probably because everyone portrayed here were HUGE criminals. 🤦♂️😂
You're only a criminal if you get judged guilty in a court of law
Worse than mafia, but there’s worse, believe me
All governing bodies are the biggest gangsters on the planet right now.
so only republicans are criminals. every fucking politician is a thieving evil bastard. and u idiots keep voting in the worst of them.
they were out for themselves and wielded nearly unlimited power.
in a lot of ways, they're *not* criminals by their own choosing; since they effectively ruled the united states as an oligarchy and basically controlled all the rules of the game (absolving themselves from almost anything normal people would call crime.)
Saw this in the theater, and I couldn't help but read this as a comedy. I just found his interpretation of Cheney SO funny - great acting, very nuanced and effective, but fundamentally hilarious. There was this one part where he's like "how are ya, ya salty son of a bitch!!!" and I basically died laughing.
Democrats love Cheney today. Love him.
Because he isn't hiding in a bunker but in a cabin in Wyoming.
No . Its because he endorsed the funny lady running for Pres.@@johndavis8669
@@johndavis8669 because he's anti Trump.
And MAGA Republicans loathe him and his daughter.
Times change.
I’m a liberal and I love him but nobody else I know on the left does.
Frank Underwood must have been inspired by this.
Yh
Frank Underwood was inspired by Francis Urquhart of the UK House of Cards, which predates Cheney's term as VP.
@@Hugh_Morris no
@@littledudefromacrossthestr5755 yes
Trump is inspired by dick cheney, Donald rosfeld, Karl rove, Putin, and all the other corruption.
Now Mitch McConnell has taken this mantle.
I loathe both, but Cheney at the very least had balls.
@@polyseed12 Cheney ran D.C. even before he was VP which as the movie also portrays they need Cheneys pull with the Establishment to get Bush into the White House.
Mitch doesn't nearly have the presence of Dick Cheney.
Turtle man sucks.
It’s not even close. Christian Bale is the best actor of this generation.
I was thinking Dwayne Rock Johnson 🤣
@@bman6065 I would have said Dwayne the Rock Johnson too....
... _IF_ he didn't stop making kick-ass action movies like The Rundown and Walking Tall.
Hands down best of this generation alongside Joaquin Phoenix
@@URProductions he's good at making corny great
And lost the Oscar to rami malak
(Same year this film came out)
Somehow Kamala wanted to make the American people believe that the endorsement of the Cheney’s was a wonderful thing lmao
that was really a blunder. The name Cheney is hated across the political spectrum.
Didnt know how much power Dick have until i watched this movie. He littlery run he country while Bush build lego in his office
Bush is too stupid to play Lego........beside he probably don't know he way to the oval office!
Agreed. I'm imagine if Cheney taught English.
...BET you believe aliens invaded last week.. there's a school for magic kids and zombies walk around in Georgia.
You shouldn't put too much stock in Vice, it isn't an accurate retelling of what actually transpired during the Bush presidency. It is a good movie nevertheless.
This is a political comedy, not a documentary. It's also very obviously liberal. If you want a more accurate take, read Peter Baker's excellent account of the Bush administration
This is why most don’t like trump and don’t want him back in office. He’s not part of the establishment and doesn’t play the game that’s played in Washington. Even Cheney doesn’t want trump in office. Go figure why.
You say "Cheney" - you mean "The System". For Dick, it's better to elect a rival, but a rival who's from the system, than a right-winger who is not accepted by the System at all.
Remember kids, this guy endorsed Kamala against Trump
Christian Bale is an acting God! How he was able to pull this role off at all let alone so perfectly is just a mystery.
I dunno why Chaney adjusting himself in the seat following the silence after Rumsfeld's quip just makes me laugh.
“Lobbyists , industry insiders , that we placed in the regulatory jobs“ most people probably missed to massive repercussions of that move ..
That bass hit at 3:35 is insane
“…industry insiders that we placed in the regulatory jobs.” Such realistic dialogue!
How early is that scene? How have all these jobs been filled already? In fact...wait how do they not know this already? Senate Confirmation hearings already happened presumably so...I am confused. Wait are you not famous Canadian Conservative John James McCullough. I admire your perspicacity.
JJ we have the same algorithm
The Estate Tax was never eliminated. Although the limit was raised. For those that don't know, the rate is about 50% and applies to Gifts as well -- every dollar over a certain limit ($2m in the movie and around $11m today). Mostly, it screws over the bottom of the 1%. You don't really believe Bezos and Zuckerberg are going to be losing 50% of every dollar over the current $11 million limit when they die, do you? $11m is, what, 1/10,000th of Bezos' net worth? 1/20,000th?
50% is insane so it's no wonder the ultra-rich just find loopholes and workarounds for it.
It's not insane. it should be more like 75 to 90%. If not for Inherited Wealth, a complete loser and fraud like trump would NEVER have gotten within a mile of the White House much less become President. If he never got 400 million from his father and had to make his own way, the world would Never have heard of donald trump.
@@AL13NM shut up you commie. go live in north korea loser, i'm sure they have 90% taxes there
@@itslene It wouldn't be a youtube comment section if there wasn't some moronic fanboy claiming communism when somebody criticizes his supreme leader. I mean shit mate, have some dignity.
Ironically Trump fits right in with North Korea: the cult of personality so entrenched in modern American conservatism, his dealings with big kim, the familial granting of power, the kleptocratic style of governance, it's just too perfect. Not perfect enough for you to see though, unfortunately.
I agree the government has no business taking 50% of your heritage, they describe 2 million as "ultra-rich", which is absurd. 2 million barely buys a normal house in some parts of the country
@@MrLTiger You didn't do squat to get your inheritance, it is just given to you by pure chance. If anything after the first few million you shouldn't see a penny.
Inter-generational wealth is terrible for society, and is only going to get worse as the number of children that people have trends down.
5:56 IDK if he coined the term Climate Change, but if so it's kind of crazy he's that we are still using his framing 20 years later(even if it is a more accurate and scarier description than Global Warming).
"Global Warming" was the political misnomer, which is why it was abandoned. It's an inaccurate description of legitimate climate science.
@@wbbooth so we should call it global cooling
That would be equally as inaccurate just in the opposite direction. It both warms and cools, the climate is in a constant state of change, hence the term Climate Change. Climate catastrophe predictions are a political tool. It's how unqualified politicians exploit the public's fear with dishonest interpretations of "The Science", to get themselves elected on empty promises and sell people fanciful green energy strategies that don't work.
@@wbbooth Except it isn't just politicians talking about the issue of Climate Change.
You're right, the climate is in a constant state of change, the issue is that humans are accelerating said change by a significant margin.
@@mechanomics2649 It's not simply talking about it, but discussing what to DO about climate change that is the inherently political issue, because it will require nationwide policy enforcement AND global international cooperation that has never and most likely will never exist without world wide political reform a la Utopia.
Until science develops some technological miracles that can cleanly replace the multiple global industries necessary for countries to function, discussing Climate Change outside pure analysis will forever be a political issue. Everyone knows humans impact the climate, but who is going to convince China, India, and Africa etc. to stop polluting and using fossil fuels, factory farming, and the myriad other technologies they depend on to survive?
I just think the sky is not falling as quickly as the politicians would have us believe, every climate catastrophe doomsday prediction has been perpetually proven wrong since the inception of climate science. The only ones who want you to panic about it are politicians and the people that politicians have worked into hysteria for their own goals. Humans are impacting climate change by a significant margin, absolutely. But that change is not a simple "Good climate to bad climate" binary. Change is neither good nor bad, it's change, and no one has ever conceived of a scientifically proven "point of no return". It's my opinion that, given its track record of always doing so, the Earth will regulate it's own equilibrium, barring some insane global catastrophe the likes of which burning fossil fuels or not will have no impact, like a nuclear winter or some other dystopian scenario. The only man made alternative is essentially international fascism and/or global eugenics holocausts to quell the population, which is probably what the "global elites" have in mind already.
Sorry for the long reply but I've never had the opportunity to express my thoughts on the subject I didn't want to waste the opportunity
Dick Cheney one heartless war monger!!
Despite the fact this film was too weird for my taste. I would have prefer a more straightforward story on Cheney. The great thing of the movie is for me showing the acting chops of Christian Bale being able to literally transform into the character. You really believe he is Cheney and when he was Batman I do believe even though the Batman voice was not always as accurate. But this and even Ford V Ferrari show him to be able to blend into the role.
Bale is amazing in his transformation ... it's just so bizarre that he does this in a movie with a screenplay that has no connection to reality and wasn't even funny enough to justify its departure --mactually, cokmplete lack of interest infrom history
And who knew Dick Cheney was so bad ass and awesome? So motivational My mission is clear: Imma try and be like..Dick.
Who's with me?!
@@ng2603 McKay and will Ferrell stumbled their script here
"Which, we'll actually be reading"
Hilarious but also a terrible memory having lived through this ridiculous administration. The guy (W) wasn't reading his security briefings, this includes August 2001 when he was vacationing in Texas. Yeah, if that's frustrating to a post-9/11 citizenry, imagine how frustrating it is for someone who works with the guy.
And now they’re all voting for Kamala, haha!
Only the ones that want to be able to vote again at all after the next 4 years...
as it turns out, not all of them.
@ yes the neocon scum like Cheney, his daughter and most of the Bush administration backed Harris.
If Liz Cheney has only 1% of her Father's ruthlessness & political savyness. I petty those who trifle with her.
Shell be gone in 2 years
@@bh1935 The only republican who is willing to be open and not lie about her dislike of trump and run with the big lie.
@@objectdefiance4027
She’s a sellout and a closeted globalist
Well the Republican party basically disowned her when she stood up to Trump so she probably doesn't have a chance, not right now when it's all still so fresh
@@bjehulk That's what all you trunpers say when a republican, or anyone for that matter, speaks the truth. Any decent republican who won't go along with the big lie of stop the steal is marginalized and primaried. What a crazy time we live in when you can't say the truth.
So, when does Cheney get his day at the ICC again? I want to tune in.
And now of course Cheney is a HERO OF LIBERALISM! for standing up to the newest Worsethanhitler, Donald Trump. Maybe Trump will also be rehabilitated some day.
I always thought Dick was a bad guy, then he endorsed Kamala.....boy was I wrong
Nope you were right. He's still evil and associating with him is part of why the Harris campaign failed
Yesterdays Republicans are todays Democrats
I didn't realize Michael Scott had a role in the Bush White House.
Steve Carrell’s character in Anchorman was said to have gone on to work for the Bush Administration
“that’s what she said!”
Wow, Jeryd Mencken was making waves already in the late 90's.
I'd like to see a presidential election featuring Cheney vs Underwood.
Christian bale is never the same in any of his movies. He always just shapeshifts into whatever movie he does
This guy would later become a Kamala simp. 😂
Better than having his tongue up Trump's crack like that comment suggests you do. Broken clock right twice a day.
He was also the one who convinced senile Joe to run in 2020.
And she lost 🤣
Do you cretins ever shut up about politics? Motherfuck man. Get some perspective
@@diogeneslantern18this movie is politics smarty pants
Everyone talks about Bale's Cheney but Carell's Rumsfeld is incredible.
Fair to say both parties are evil but a movie like this about democrats would never be made.
The ones it would be made on are either still in office or have very powerful friends still in power
Wasnt Lyndon B Johnson a democrat? I mean there is the whole JFK movie where Oliver Stone paints red all over him.
House of Cards?
Biden 2024: I’m the President?
Trump 2024: I'm the dictator
I really want to hear "I'm Batman" once.
Good to see Michael Scott and Patrick Bateman became business partners.
God, you are so very gay and uncreative.
The Cheneys love Kamala Harris.
This movie didn't age like Aaron Sorkin wanted it to.
Now he's backing Harris so I guess all is forgiven?? lol (To his credit McKay is sticking to his guns about how pernicious Cheney was)
Their first mistake was hiring Michael Scott to run the Pentagon.
This is probably a more accurate description of how American politics actually work, and probably was described KINDLY.
It's actually not, in case you're curious. It's a bunch of nonsense Adam McKay made up to try to be funny and "important" at the same time. The movie actually admits in the opening titles that they just made stuff up, although they used the excuse that Cheney is allegedly super-secretive and that they "did their best."
The hilarious thing of course is that no one involved in the film ever even attempted to interview any of the people depicted in any of the scenes. You know, to get like ... facts. Or aim for any kind of, like ... accuracy. Sorta convenient that they "had" to just make things up instead -- and magically it turned out to be a cliched, left-wing fantasy version of everything that nonetheless somehow "feels" like it could have true if you had certain political views.
It's basically an SNL sketch, except one that indulges liberals' desire to pretend things they imagine actually happened, as if it's some kind of prestigious Oscar-bait biopic. Utterly delusional
@@ng2603Nope, this is actually how it works.
Go read the Wikileaks published by Julian Assange. Obama literally receives all of his cabinet members on a list provided by Citibank and a few other very powerful financial industries.
Timothy Geitner for example was assigned to Obama by one of those corporations.
@@ng2603 Obviously the world does not operate on the face value information presented to the public. If it did, we wouldn't discover horrific things 10 years later (as we always do). Thank you for demonstrating the naivety and the bias...who said I meant only Republicans? Power is ruthless, period
@@ng2603 Who said its just republicans? Or have you not noticed ten years later, horrific things that the government does is revealed? Or are you naive enough to believe people go into politics "to do good", as opposed to power?
And the Cheneys now hate Trump and love Harris lol
Cheney - probably one of the most evil people of our generation.
Please. He was the man.
@@ryanwarner5006 Oh yeah, he definitely was the man. He owns the record for the most number of Americans anyone has given PTSD to and gotten addicted to painkillers. He is the man! Hahaha. 🤣
Bush Jr was such a joke. I can't believe people voted for him.
US would’ve been sooooooo much better under Al Gore
@@camf111 we would have, no endless war.
that "Washington DC" board game is out there somewhere, it'll definitely turn up at some thrift shop or pawn shop one day and I'll pay top dollar to get my hands on it
This is why the french revolution had a guillotine...
Everyone singing Hosannas to Lynn Cheney for standing up to Trump, remember who spawned her
Her standing up to Trump isn’t a good thing
@@haroldlawson8771 yes it is. That orange shit stain needed it.
@@haroldlawson8771 Trump is a fascist and you are a cult follower. Get yourself deprogrammed and detoxed cult follower :)
Liz Cheney. Lynn is his wife
Liz Chaney stood up to Trump. Not Lynn
And this is who endorsed Kamala Harris 😭
You know this movie is fiction, a wry liberal political comedy, right? The number of Republicans condemning Trump and endorsing Kamala is real though, and unprecedented. His own VP won't endorse him, that's an American first. Republicans for Harris.
Carl Rove performed one, and very important function withing the Bush campaign, he had taken an idea from prior administrations, and ran it on steroids. As the election was getting closer and closer to a true dead heat ( soon to be the first of many in American Politics ) he contacted Conservative Christian leaders across the US and informed them, that should they support the Bush presidency, that their administration would focus upon cultural and social issues important to their group. Rove was the first to do this. This relationship between Conservative Christians and the Republican Party from that point forward became a long standing necessity to stay in power, and leading up to the Tea Party, the emergence of Alt Media, and the second election of Donald Trump.
Many of the political, and social focusing created within the Rumsfeld-Cheney administration ( oops I mean the Bush Jr administration ) became part of the permanent play book for future Republican Party's philosophy, refocusing away from the post war Pax Americana of Open Seas, Controlled Immigration, Internationalism, Free Trade, and NATO, and became more and more focused upon issues farther to the political right, of Abortion, Tax Reductions, Anti-Multiculturalism, EPA and Climate Deregulation, Anti-Immigration, and Christian-Nationalism. Needless to say this was successful, even Ronald Regan and perhaps Dick Cheney himself, would not understand, or recognize the Republican Party of today, one which he helped create.
How this was all accomplished was the recognition of an emerging Christian White Boomer Middle and Lower Middle Class socioeconomic group who felt left behind from the rapidly changing redefinition of Jobs, and altering American Culture around them, feeling strangers within their own land, elements within the Republican Party saw the tapping of this as a power bloc that could allow them into power, and reshape the direction of America.
Yet, im supposed to be worried about Stormy Daniels 😂
Cheney is a cartoon villain... you could not pay me to flaunt his endorsement...
I straight up just guessed that McKay did this movie after seeing Big Short and Don't Look Up.
THATS WHAT SHE SAID
😆
LMAO Donald Rumsfeld
The film was more of a horror movie than any actual horror movie out there
Most sinister episode of The Office ever.
“that’s what she said!”
@0:01 The Oval Office as a miniature model?! Major props to the crew who made that. That is INCREDIBLE!!
With the name death tax he was just getting to the poing of what the inheritance tax really was…. A death tax.
You've literally just agreed with what the film portrays as a moron's view?
06:36 did Todd move into Walter White's house?
When he adjusts in chair it says so much without any dialogue
Even with access to Oval office, Pentagon, House , Senate , he couldn't get a reservation at Dorsia.
I kind of admire his Machiavellianism. The film-maker made it look cool, which I doubt was his intention.
Yeah, who knew Dick Cheney was so bad ass and awesome? So motivational My mission is clear: Imma try and be like..Dick.
Who's with me?!
@@Triumph2024. This was a sigma grindset video
@@AndreMonthy this really is a sigma grindset kinda movie
Part of it is just because this movie assumes the audience would agree with its political opinions. It basically says stuff like, “Cheney and the Republicans contributed to the rise of Fox News and the oil industry, opposed the estate tax, and led to Trump’s presidency, and that’s bad.” Every instance that it uses the word “Republican” is supposed to trigger a disgust response, which wouldn’t be the case for everyone.
Plus, it gives Cheney some sympathetic character moments, like pulling himself up out of alcoholism and poverty, being a loving father and husband, refusing to speak out against gay marriage for his daughter’s sake, and being vulnerable on his apparent deathbed.
Those few years in the 2010s where Steve Carrell tried to distance himself from Michael Scott by playing dramatic roles that required heavy prosthetics 😂
Wait that's Christian Bale? I didn't notice wth
Yeap. He played Dick Cheney in this movie.
Casually does a coup from his chair under the president and the country's nose.
I enjoyed this movie. Entertaining. But their potrayal of Justice Scalia was bad. Scalia did so many interviews in his life that you can see for yourself how bad it is.
Scalia doesn't deserve accurate representation. I'd cast him with Carrot Top.
Bitter take from a bitter person...
@@Paudyyy , justice Scalia is one of 5 reasons we went into the dark timeline in 2000. It's not bitterness so much as searing hatred for the man who is, at least partly, responsible for the murder of millions of American and non-Americans in the name of profits for war-contractors.
If that comes off as bitter, so be it!
@@IsaacBeImont you forgot your pussy hat
@@Tripp393 , I'd wear one if I thought I could pull it off.
Cheney should of been taken out years ago. Man almost single handedly destroyed the country
How exactly did he almost single-handedly destroy the United States? Specifically.
And who knew Dick Cheney was so bad ass and awesome? So motivational My mission is clear: Imma try and be like..Dick.
Who's with me?!
The world. Totally sinister, and now his so called daughter.
Hey Dan you really are sick. Glad to not know you.
Movies like this are important. It's a shame that Hollywood will only make them about one side, though
Ikr. There’s just as much shit you can bring up on the Democrats as you can on the Republicans. Sadly libs in Hollywood believe in blue no matter who, and it’s be the same if Republicans had Hollywood as well.
KBR and Halliburton the real money of the war 😂
Hard to believe how much the GOP changed from 2008 to 2016. To change that much, that fast, should have left us all with whiplash.
and thank god for that! The modern day GOP under Trump is what this country needs, NO MORE RINOS
@@johnadams1281you're the RINO
the disaster that was the illegal invasion of iraq and the subsequent economic crash,along with the election of a black man for president led to the tea party and eventually the big mean orange man.
strange how the consequences of actions taken nearly 22 years ago still have an impact today.
Does this movie mention AIPAC even once?
I had a history teacher in HS that would talk politics with me knowing I was a conservative and when Bush was reelected in 04 he said “well 4 more years of Cheney running the world.”
Just remember this is who the Democrats propped up during the 2024 election as a hero
Christian Bale just nailed this role.
Everyone’s going to need helmets when Cheney’s president.
😆
The best actor working today.
"The Democrats have been defeated and the Iraqi rebellion has been foiled. Saddam Huessen's government will be hunted down and defeated! Any collaborators will suffer the same fate. The attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed but I assure you, my resolve has never been stronger! In order to ensure the security and continuing stability, the American Republic will be reorganized into the first American Empire, for safe and secure society!"
- Dick Chaney addressing Congress, circa 2003
Very nice. Impressive
Now let’s see Biden’s pull-out of Afghanistan
Why is Scooter Libby talking like he's evil and explaining their roles in the admin like they don't already know that?
Cause it’s a movie
An average movie that sets the bar low
Because Scooter Libby ends up getting indicted
Because Republicans bad
He's explaining it to US, the viewer. The Big Short movie did this a million times. Did you think the Goldman Sachs investment bankers really spoke to Dr. Burry in the boardroom like he was 12 years old? No. They're dumbing down the dialogue for the viewers. So we're in the loop. Not everyone works in finance.
And now the Democrats love them all. The parties have completely flipped lol. Oh the irony.
Democrats still despise the Bush admin tf are you talking about.
@@tomkemp962 is that why kamala cozied up with the Cheneys?
Ah yes, Elon should take note from this 😂
From Scranton, PA to Washington DC. What a story.
“that’s what she said!”
Ah.. Denny Hastert.. who would up in jail for sexual abuse..
aaaaaaaand now democrats call cheney a good guy