What a waste of my time!!!

Boring, long, and too preachy.

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.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

I just watched the series in two sittings. I would have been totally lost if I'd watched one episode a week.Every one on the show is a liar. They lie to themselves, to their clients, to their work mates ... lying is what they do. They manufacture truth to fit the situation. They can get you what you want, no matter what that is.Friends lie to you as you lie to them. Enemies look like friends.Perhaps in the world of politics it is all a game and a job, pays well, gives you face time on TV and means nothing.The puppet master in his cave keeps it all going.

I may have a skewed perspective on "K Street" because I rented it from the local video store who had filed it as a documentary. I started watching it and immediately thought "West Wing" from a different point of view.The gritty and realistic surface aspects of this movie are engaging. The girl who is seduced by a lesbian woman and then dropped hard with no explanation and socked with a restraining order. The man whose father divorces his mother and re-marries with a prostitute what later sleeps with him (the son) and commits suicide in the motel room under FBU surveillance. The real life events of life in a lobbying agency on K street itself run by James Carville and Mary Matalin.This movie seemed to me to be marketing some inside view of the government, how it really is from people who know. Clooney's name was on it, lots of politicians were in it, and the surface drama of the participants was heavy and sort of realistic.Unfortunately, the whole movie revolved and resolved around the eccentricities of Elliot Gould's character who was a mad as any of them and whose main points where that he used to bring fake lottery tickets into his work and leave then around and then laugh when someone thought that they had won the lottery. So the whole plot revolved around hiding Bergstrom's/Gould's enjoyment of torturing the employees of his own company in Washington.Seems to me if there might be more direct ways to express that Washington and the world is run by capricious madmen and madwomen that forcing us to sit through all of this very slick realistic and engaging melodrama because in the end I just felt as engaging as it was it was only a highly polished turd. A waste of time with nothing to say from people who ought to have some responsibility to use their money, power and celebrity for some positive outcome.

**SPOILER** **SPOILER** **SPOILER** **SPOILER** **SPOILER** **SPOILER** Did anyone understand the ending? At first it seems simple enough: the firm was investigated by the authorities for a shady transaction and the firm's clients took off. This happens all the time and it's a pretty solid ending since it portrays adequately how many people are negatively effected by such a closing. But then there is a surprise ending in that Bergstrom shows up at the airport/train station and is picked up by a chauffeur. He is very well dressed and looks to be completely in control of his faculties (unlike before when he was dressed shabbily and watching old movies in his rundown Brooklyn apartment). Why was Bergstrom picked up at the airport under the name of Pierce? Was it a setup on his part to bring the firm down?Also, were all 10 episodes shown on HBO? Thanks, Ricky

The series has progressed to the point that the Carville-Matalin lobby firm has become the target of a Federal investigation. This story line brings immediate relevance to every show.D. C. has long been the home of investigations that also have a political component. Art and reality meld perfectly here.The form of the dialogue underlines the reality. The professional actors (and some real-world actors) speak as real people do every day ... stumbles, searching for the right word, umm, uh ....I don't know about the numbers of viewers necessary to be successful on cable, but HBO has an aesthetic and stylistic winner here. I agree that following Beltway events is a big plus for viewers, but I would bet that the realistic dialogue patterns alone produce a breakthrough.