Movie Preview: Swing Vote

So my review of Dark Knight seems a little lackluster, very cliche and nothing interesting, I gotta stand out from the crowd so here it is. Today I am basically previewing a movie based entirely on the trailer for the movie Swing Vote.

My basic idea of the plot of this movie is this. In a presidential election between Frasier Crane and the Carl Sagan-esque guy from The Core, the election has come down to a dead heat tie, and the only man who can decided the out come is Robin Hood himself, Kevin Costner. Why Robin Hood, you might ask? Simple, his vote-o-matic was way out of date to run Microsoft Election 'o8. Apparently he was using the 2300 series, whereas the rest of the nation was running the new 3200 series (much better for voting). So seeing as nothing went wrong with the other 303, 948, 170 votes, each candidate received 151,974,85 votes (these numbers are completely made up by the way.) Oh noes, a pure 50-50 Tie! clearly any vote for a third party candidate was either throw out or a number that kept both of those men in the majority but still 50-50. wow this is sounding less and less plausible even as I write this. So the electoral college had a wild party and sorta lost their votes, damn drunks(!), so anyway thanks to one man's stubborn refusal to upgrade he know gets to decide the election. seems like both Frasier and that other guy seem to want to impress this guy, and probably spend half the movie taking him to NASCAR events and tractor pulls, and such. Now is it just me, or does it seem like Costner's character could easily have been replaced by a 1999 New Jersey quarter (heads is Frasier, tales is Carl Sagan). Hell, any number of ways would be better, I personally am partial to a foot race. I'm just trying to save some time an money here.

So clearly Swing Vote takes an immense amount of liberties with our electoral system. The only redeeming qualities it could have is it could make some poignant observations on partisan politics and how they divid our country, or it could just fail and die. I guess we find out on the 1st. Also on the 1st, Mummy 3, gotta check that one out!