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Regardless, I liked the movie for what it was, a fun action movie that has a decent plot.
Andrew, I hardly see how it can be a Neo-con fantasy, given that the plot circles around a Republican Senator who orders the massacre of a village of Africans in order to build an oil pipeline.
Plus, Wahlberg's character is a truther. And the bad CIA guy who does all the plotting is sitting in what looks like a shrine to Republican Presidents. There's no way a neo-con paying attention would like this movie.
[url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364961/]Really?[/url]
[quote]I'm also a little tired of our government and our military almost always being portrayed as the bad guys in these films. Can't we have a movie set in modern times where America and its military is a force for good in the world?[/quote]
How "modern" do you mean? We've had [i]We Were Soldiers[/i] (Vietnam War), [i]Behind Enemy Lines[/i] (Bosnia), [i]Saving Private Ryan[/i] (WWII), [i]The Great Raid [/i](WWII), the [i]Band of Brothers [/i]series...and of course, the ultimate war film, [i]Red Dawn[/i]. :)
But yeah, I know what you're saying. Bring back [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Relocation_(1942_film)]"Japanese Relocation"[/url]!
But what's your point? Are you saying that Hollywood doesn't have a suffocating liberal bias? That they don't take good books like Point of Impact and Runaway Jury and inject them with a pervasive liberal viewpoint that just didn't exist in the original story?
Are you really so retarded as to think that a handful of movies is proof that Hollywood isn't biased against our military and our government?
I think you are. Why don't you stick to your impassioned defense of bestiality, you unserious twat.
By the way, I enjoyed your comments on [i]The Assassination of Richard Nixon[/i]. Way to do your research, Rob!
Oh, and this:
[quote]good books like [i]Point of Impact [/i]and [i]Runaway Jury[/i][/quote] speaks for itself.
aint it great to sit and think and then write something with meaning and forethought so dipshits from some dorm room can crap on it with bushlied?
all about a movie where people are shooting each other.
its the war of the suttleaggressives!!
all this wealth, all this freedom. spread it? hell no! I'm going to use it to get my "point" across.
I think what Rob meant was that a lot of movies inject anti-Iraq war messages rather than actual movies about the Iraq war.
[quote]Oh, and this:
good books like Point of Impact and Runaway Jury
speaks for itself.[/quote]
Oh Davey. Ever the literary snob. What would we do if you weren't around to tell us how dumb our entertainment tastes are?
As for that Nixon movie, never saw it. [url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2004/RNIXO.php]Nor did anyone else, apparently.[/url] So, citing one obscure film about Nixon as evidence of Hollywood not having an anti-American, anti-military bias is...pretty dumb.
Andrew, what I meant was that Hollywood rarely portrays our modern military in any sort of positive light. It happens, but when it does its the exception and not the rule.
But it's more than just the military. When was the last time you saw a movie where the good-guy politician was Republican and the bad-guy politician who was greedy and corrupt and actually hated his/her constituents was a Democrat? I'm betting you probably haven't.
Nor, I bet, have you seen a film that champions something like private gun ownership. Or maybe Friedmanesque economics. They just don't exist, Davey's snobbish, condescending barbs to the contrary.
Or even name a recent movie or TV show where the hero is a gun owner. (Unless of course the hero is a government employee.)
Read them in that order and I am certain you will be mightily entertained.
And this should bring a screeching halt to the daveyism of this thread. This, and ignoring him.
And isn't it strange that the most [b]vitriolic [/b]portrayals of [b]right[/b]-wingers is by...[i]liberal[/i] actors? Alan Alda - the right wing murderer/ conspirator in [i]Murder at 1600[/i], Martin Sheen in [i]Wall Street[/i], Michael Douglas in [i]Falling Down[/i]...
You mean a fantasy by a bunch of formerly liberal Jews who have seen the light, and are now Conservatives?
Hardly.
I've also read a couple other books of his. I think it's the [i]Ultimate Sniper[/i] book set in WWII. I didn't care for the [i]Second Saladin.[/i]
I've also read his non fiction work American Gunfight which covers the Puerto Rican's attempt to assassinate President Truman which very nearly succeeded. He wrote this non fiction like an action novel which was very interesting.
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NO![/b][/u]
Hardly.[/quote]
I agree. I just found it funny that there were actually people complaining that it was too conservative.
I was somewhat surprised to see in Grindhouse one of the damsels in distress pull a piece and shoot a bad guy. "You know what happens to people who pull knives? They get shot."
Glover, Penn, Stone, et al, have made themselves famous and wealthy with their embrace of the "culture of violence" by making movies filled with death and destruction. Then they hop into their Suburbans and H3s and private jets, along with their armed security, and preach to us about how evil, greedy, lazy, and imperialistic all us filthy, uneducated peons are.
You can walk across the Mississippi River on all the hypocrisy oozing out of these scumbags.
My own thoughts about the movie and Hunter's outstanding novels are posted here:
http://bidinotto.journalspace.com/?entryid=525
This is not comparable to the evil conspiratorial machinations and plots hatched by Republicans in most of the films of the type this review covers.
I could name dozens of films that involve such high level conspiracy plots that are biased to the left.
All of the military men and women I deal with are first rate.
[quote]Secondly it wages some of the wars solely for economical reasons. [/quote]
First of all that's untrue. The US has not benefited economically by the wars of this century. Perhaps it could be said of the Mexican American War and the Spanish American War. However it worked out for the best for the people in the territory that we captured and it was pretty standard back then.
Secondly even if it were true it wouldn't be a reflection of the men and women of the military. The fault would lie with the political leaders.
[quote]Thirdly it is very bad organized (without it's air force the American army is almost powerless).[/quote]
Actually we're the only military that's able to project force across the globe in the manner it is. While our individual units are as good as anyones it's our system that makes us unbeatable. Sounds like you don't like the pounding your side is taking. Too bad, we're the just party and we're fighting to win, not make you feel good.
Do you still beat your women when you're not hiding behind them?