SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Lack of good storyline.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Aaron Sorkin is a genius. He borrows from himself a lot if you watch other shows, but you know what? He's allowed. That's what's floating around in his brain.Didn't watch this show the first time around, but when I found it on Netflix, I couldn't stop. Beautifully written, shot, and through The West Wing Weekly podcast, remembered.This show has a timeless quality to it, because it focuses on human interaction, and isn't flashy or gimmicky. Thanks to all who made this show happen.

I finally watched my fist episode of The West Wing a full decade after the last episodes aired. AS I look over the reviews here on IMDb it is heartening to see how this show was generally well thought of by many, many people and for good reason. When you compare it to anything on TV back in that era, especially on the big networks, it is infinitely superior. I can't think of any program that was or is more intelligent. Sorkin evolved and made even better TV with The Newsroom which is slicker and funnier than The West Wing but it doesn't top his earlier effort in intelligence.I have to chime in on a few things. First of all, the show is, at least at times, mercilessly corny. Some of Martin Sheen's down-homesy speeches were tough to watch but there were moments of brilliance in the show's sermonizing. Some of the women actors are dreadful in my opinion and the romances were childish and seemed positively pre-pubescent. And would it have been asking to much to kill off the daughter early on? She is just so awful.A friend of mine practically begged me to watch TWW during the nadir of the Bush administration. He said it's about the only thing that kept him sane, a fictitious account of a better America than the one we were inhabiting at the time. I somehow think that the Obama administration made the people on this enlightened program look average in comparison and an actual documentary of the Obama years would make great TV. Of course, as I write this we move into the surreal world of a Trump presidency and I shudder to think about the trolls that will fill his White House (or Trump Tower).To all those who complain of the liberal slant to TWW: get over it. You guys do talk radio with blowhards like Rush and others while liberal make entertaining and intelligent TV programs like this one.

The West Wing is the best politically based TV show to ever air. It triumphs over the award winning House of Cards in every way imaginable. The show centers around a base of political characters with few changes. We get to see the rise and maturity of characters right there, episode to episode. With outstanding performances from Martin Sheen and Bradley Whitford as Jed Bartlet and Josh Lymann the void left in season 7 by the untimely passing of John Spencer really carried the show over the finish line. The West Wing sets out to document two full presidential terms and does so with class and ease. Overcoming on screen and off screen trials and tribulation you're with the cast the whole way. If it's Jed Barlets MS or the very real passing of John Spencer you're there with the cast. You rise with them and you fall with them, the making of any good show is just that. The West Wing is a real masterclass. Despite the rise and fall of Aaron Sorkins personal life throughout the West Wing it never lost its charm, its class or its wit. It is one of the few consistently good TV shows with arguably no bad season.Sure, we would of all liked to see the next 8 years, the trials and tribulations of Josh Lymann, Donna Moss and President Santos but it ended perfectly. It was a happy ending for the characters, one that we were never sure was going to come.

Just because a show smothers the audience with layers of 'technical' dialogue doesn't mean it is particularly 'worthwhile'; it's only a form of 'shock tactics' where the political vernacular script-writing zooms over and past the viewer's heads as they sit there in dumb silence, the gullible ones thinking, "Gosh, this show is soooo good!".While many film-making errors abound, virtually none of the characters possess any semblance of charm. The president (boastfully played by Martin Sheen) is a bombastic know-it-all.... in other words, he's an annoying little sh*t. Flanking his constantly unprofessional demeanor is an ever-changing trio of arrogant blow-hards.This little TV item drips with Hollywood liberalism (what else is new?) while stocked to the high ceilings with an incessant stream of anti-Republican propaganda.... with no rebuttal, of course.View a couple of episodes, and when you decide it's for the democratic birds, you can tune out forever knowing that your interest shall not have died in vain.