Actually, not tempting at all.

Those are appropriate marketing sayings for this one

And straight up knew it would be a spectacular crash and burn….

Too interested in making Reagan look good to give an interesting story.

As one reviewer put it: "While Reagan the movie undoubtedly admires Reagan the man, its cloying and glossy rendering of history flattens the 40th U.S. President into caricature."

"“Reagan,” with Dennis Quaid as the President, is made by MJM Entertainment Group, which specializes in films with Christian themes. It exaggerates Reagan’s strengths and skips or minimizes his limits, mistakes, and failures."

From rotten tomatoes.

With his bare hands was a bit over the top.

To quote a Minnesotan from Minnesota.

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. . . And I freely admit that it is all based on hearsay and random observations. Definitely not admissible in a court of law.

I used to have a major crush on Dennis Quaid. Was rather dismayed when his marriage to Meg Ryan broke up. Though I had read somewhere that he cheated on his first wife, PJ. Soles, with his co-star from The Right Stuff, Pamela Reed.

Part of me thought, Hey, people make mistakes, and I was sort of weirdly pleased because Reed, while attractive, isn't the stereotypical knockout beauty. It was shallow and hypocritical of me, but I liked the idea that an ordinary gal could catch the eye of such a gorgeous guy.

After the tabloid dust cleared on the divorce, and the comic book version of the story wherein Ryan was the Bad Guy for cheating with Russell Crowe morphed into the more sophisticated novel version where both parties bore some blame, I read an article. Meg Ryan rather sorrowfully admitted that after the divorce, several friends confessed to her that they had known that DQ was cheating on her for a long time with a lot of women. So, yeah, Quaid's social stock went down in my eyes.

In the next year or so, I encountered a few gossipy stories about Quaid and his various "associations". (I swear that I wasn't deliberately seeking out this sort of trashy stuff and that I actually read other, more worthwhile content at this time. It's just that my dwindling crush sort of heightened my ability to notice if his name appeared when I flipped the pages of any magazine.)

A year or so later, Quaid remarries (a younger woman, natch) and has twins. Ah, well, good for him, I figured. He's made mistakes, but he's building a new life for himself, I thought. Also, around this time, he started talking about God. My hypocrisy meter started registering, but again, I do have another life besides following celebrity gossip, so I didn't give it a lot of thought.

A few years and a couple of marriages later, I hear him in an interview complaining about people being put off whenever God came into the conversation. My hypocrisy meter then went full throttle and the glass broke just as the steam escaped.

Dennis Quaid can go all in for God and so-called Right-Wing values because his hormones are no longer riding him hard. When he was young and horny, he f@cked who he wanted to f@ck* and he didn't make a lot of noise about God. Now, he's got some control over his sexual impulses, so he can get all preachy about "Liberal Hollywood" or whatever.

It's a very, very old story. His youthful indiscretions are understandable and God forgives him. But in the here and now, the rest of us are immoral for failing to live up to his current religious standards.

TLDR : Old age and a diminished libido are what "got into Quaid".


* Faking out the vulgarity here out of respect for Mr. Quaid's deep religious convictions.

I just hate seeing him doing the Atkins ads, and that weird gameshow. WTAF. But, when you start seeing "famous" people doing odd ads, you know they just can't find any decent acting jobs. Including that guy from Blue Bloods, with the weird mustache.

MAGAts are all bonered-up over the Reagan movie. But, Reagan's policies and Reagan Republicans would not fare well in today's MAGA party.

Probably to be at your nearest porn shop soon after.

...but I'm reluctant to say it out loud.

but just saw Nick Searcy from "Justified" is in it. Is he MAGA?

I was in the military before, during and after the Reagan presidency.

When I was assigned to a remote mountaintop radio site in Turkey from August 81 to August 82, the country was under martial law and there were frequent alerts about terrorist threats or activities. Our location was five buildings with 35 USAF men, a Turkish captain with two NCOs and 12 conscripts. You could have fit the whole radio site including the perimeter area in a small supermarket's parking lot.

In the Spring of 1982, we went through one 22-day period where we were not allowed to leave our site due to a terrorist threat by Carlos the Jackal to kill American troops in Turkey. We could only go on official missions to the air post office and telecommunications center at Balikesir Air Base, 150 miles away, and only then if the Turkish captain provide an armed guard. Wow, some protection--an 18 year old draftee who couldn't speak English holding a Sten gun and two clips of 10 bullets each! When some of us asked to be armed with the ten M-16s we had in a gun locker, we were told the American ambassador prohibited arming US troops.

Anyone with basic common sense can figure out that ambassador did not make that decision without prior approval of both the Secretary of State and the White House.

I haven't forgotten Reagan's failure to arm us during those 22 days of a severe terrorism threat. When I heard Reagan had died, I got up and walked immediately into the bathroom to urinate in salute to him. I stood with a bourbon and coke in my hand, drinking and screaming "F*** you, Reagan!" as the troops carried his casket to his grave.

I will never forget Reagan or his failure to arm us in 1982. May he burn in the deepest, hottest, noisiest place in Hell right next to Carlos the Jackal!

... and caused more problems than he ever solved. He brazenly violated the Logan Act, which ultimately resulted in a blood-soaked Central America because of the death squads he funded and trained in order to exact vengeance because those countries wouldn't bend the knee to greedy corporate interests. We're still paying the price for his malice with the problems at our southern border.
And then there was the closing of mental institutions by gutting their funding, which caused the homeless population to go supernova. And don't forget his selling out our manufacturing base by lifting restrictions on moving production facilities overseas so corporatists could slash costs and jack up prices. Remember the wholesale firing of air traffic controllers and hamstringing unions in the process? I could go on, but I've already exhausted my patience with that sonofabitch. And fuck Quaid's 3rd-rate puff piece and the horse he rode in on.
No, scratch that. The horse was an innocent gelding with no choice in his role. Quaid's another story.