Posted on 12/25/2012 11:05:34 AM PST by Starman417
I decided to go check out the movie for myself thanks to the ringing endorsement by Senators Feinstein, Levin, and McCain:
“I thought it was terrible,” said Feinstein, one of a handful of lawmakers to see the film ahead of its limited release this week. “It is a combination of fact, fiction and Hollywood in a very dangerous combination.”
Despite concerns on the right that the movie was serving as a political propaganda piece for Team Obama, in actuality, the movie is rather apolitical, playing it pretty much straight down the middle. The movie does its best to avoid political commentary.
Skookum reassured as much last year:
Kathryn Bigelow is scheduled to direct the Bin Laden Film. She directed The Hurt Locker, if you recall there was no political motive expressed in that movie. It portrayed the characters who defuse the bombs in Iraq and she portrayed them in a manner that left the viewer breathless during the intense drama of the action scenes; at least I was breathing hard and my hands were shaking during those scenes. She did it, she showed us the men who do an unsung job and portrayed them as heroes. She didn’t promote the BS like the typical Hollywood Liberal of the Meryl Streep, Robert Redwood tradition of hating everything about America but the money.In other words, she relied on artistic talent rather than Leftist rubbish to portray our heroes, a rare quality for our movie people.
She has a following and a name that can be developed. Do you really think she will jeopardize her future to make a propaganda movie for a failure like Obama.
A propaganda movie can also backfire on the Liberals and Obama leaving them shattered for decades. The world is not the naive place it was when Gore and Moore promoted their lies to the world.
I may be the only Conservative who feels this way, but I say let Bigelow make her movie. She, the Liberals, and Obama know the gamble of not portraying this mission accurately and the inevitable result of a propaganda movie becoming the laughingstock of the world.
There are many former service men and active military who will be watching this movie with the most critical eyes in the world. You aren’t going to fool these patriots. Let the cameras roll or should I say let the heads roll if you mess up.
And because we are given a movie that is evenhanded (were or were enhanced interrogation- oh, okay "torture"- not part of the narrative? It was, whether you agree they were effective or even necessary or not), those on the left are none too happy. I don't believe the movie really makes the case for a pro-EIT agenda. It presents the harshness of it (dramatized- I really have doubts about the portrayal as anything but dramatized rendering over realism). But because it doesn't follow the anti-EIT narrative in condemning "torture", the movie is a "dangerous combination of fact, fiction, and Hollywood". Was this ever said about purported documentaries like Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11?
I can understand concerns that the movie's recipe might be a "dangerous combination" should it offend the perpetually offended, triggering their Jihad gene. But that doesn't seem to be what Feinstein & company are really concerned about: It's the idea that "torture" might have actually played a role in leading us to bin Laden.
(excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
The McCains, Levins and Feinsteins along with their communist comrades love to tell us that “torture” does not work. That probably explains why it has been used since humans being started throwing rocks at one another.
Reminds me of when I saw The Deer Hunter, mainly because Jane Fonda called it “pentagon propaganda”.
Reminds me of when I saw The Deer Hunter, mainly because Jane Fonda called it “pentagon propaganda”.
Has NOT!!
You’re just parroting that crackpot ‘history’ stuff. Like I believe some crap written by old dead white guys. Obama said it does not work. What mart of that do you not understand?
Obama said so and so it is. 11th Commandment.
God...some people....
We all know if these people were briefed by the Obama administration; it was full of lies. Remember that Hitler guy. Sad.
They would not hesitate to use it if their lives were in danger.
Or it left the viewer scratching his head and scoffing at the intense lack of realism. Maybe that was just me...
A Lib would use it if their Obama phone was stolen.
I know Andrew Sullivan is collapsing hysterically on his fainting couch over this movie. I wonder if the movies pro USA leanings will prevent it from getting the best picture award. Most critics say politics aside it’s hands down
the best picture of the year.
Do you really trust the son of satan to tell the truth? I don't!
No, thanks, I do not wish to give Hollywood any of my money.
I would not be surprised to learn that the movie has some sort of subliminal anti-American messages built into it. After all, it was made by people who were given access to the WH.
Feinstein. Another allegedly Jewish senator showing her fascist colors.
“Dangerous combination.” Hasn’t she heard that movies don’t influence the views or actions of people?
Yep
But it always worked for Jack Bauer.
The latter seasons excluding the last were showing signs of political correctness. And the PSAs were excruciating.
About “playing it down the middle”:
The movie distinguishes the Bush years from the Obama years. That is just accurate, not really playing it down the middle.
When Obama is close to being elected, one character tells another Don’t be the last one holding the dog collar when the oversight committee arrives (something like that).
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