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Boycott Brad Pitt In the movie "Troy"!
May 14, 2004 | John Arcari (JLAGray Fox)

Posted on 05/14/2004 5:55:00 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX

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To: MacDorcha

LOL! Yeah, I don't want to upset anyone's Friday.


61 posted on 05/14/2004 7:47:26 AM PDT by rabidralph (Vote, Republican; ask me how!)
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To: fortunecookie

ok, my geekness is coming out right here.

w00t!

im Scottish (as my name would hopefully lead you to think) and my dad and uncle both have the Sean Connery thing going on (older=better looking) and im looking forward to attracting my (future) wife when im 60! :) (my girlfriend is asian, so heh, shallow me isnt worried about her aging either)

and yes ladies, the Sean Connery effect applies to almost all Scotsmen. keep that in mind :)


62 posted on 05/14/2004 7:49:00 AM PDT by MacDorcha
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

This idiot bragged a few weeks ago that this movie will start a new fashion trend, where guys would wear skirts! He was dead serious. Some ego, huh? Idiot Savante!


63 posted on 05/14/2004 7:51:13 AM PDT by NYC Republican (How can Americans SERIOUSLY consider voting for an ADMITTED WAR CRIMINAL Scum like SKerry???)
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To: Irish Queen

it's a scottish gene, trust me (as my other most recent post points out) :)

sorry, but to get that, you need to jump an island west :)


64 posted on 05/14/2004 7:52:24 AM PDT by MacDorcha
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Has anyone else read any reviews for this movie in which the reviewer compares it to "this day and age?" "Some things never change?" "History repeats itself?"

My hometown lib paper just can't help itself- "we" (America, I guess) claim to have God on our side while the Trojans have the gods on their side, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. My hometown conservative paper doesn't make this comparison. (Thank God we have two papers in my hometown.)
Can't liberals just REVIEW A DAMN MOVIE?


65 posted on 05/14/2004 7:52:26 AM PDT by SpyktRose (WHAT media bias, you homophobic, anti-choice, religious, right-wing nut?)
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To: fortunecookie
Mel and Sean for sure. And I have to add Jude Law to the mix based on Cold Mountain.
66 posted on 05/14/2004 7:55:53 AM PDT by varina davis
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To: Landru

an alternate theory:

actors after a while begin to believe the make believe they create, thus turning them liberal. exceptions apply to the less-weakminded of them.


67 posted on 05/14/2004 7:57:07 AM PDT by MacDorcha
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To: varina davis
Jude Law was great in Enemy at the Gates. Didn't see Cold Mountain. I heard it was odd not to see any Blacks in the Civil War South.

Mmmm. Pierce Brosnan, too.

68 posted on 05/14/2004 8:06:19 AM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

I'll have to go see it. I can't help myself. It's a war movie, it has a hot chick in it, I like Ancient history & mythology. My views & the critic’s views don’t always agree. They did not like Terminator – I love Terminator. Heck I just like movies – even if I don’t like the star’s politics.

Tell you what – I’ll go to a matinee so they only get ½ price.


69 posted on 05/14/2004 8:19:07 AM PDT by handy
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Was already planning on boycotting it. That really isn't a hardship though, I just don't care for Brad Pitt's acting.


70 posted on 05/14/2004 8:40:35 AM PDT by MontanaBeth (Irritating a Democrat a day, since 1970)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Where do you get that Brad Pitt is a rabid Bush hater? I know that he is most definately liberal, but seems as if he's never been really outspoken. Seems as if he tried to avoid discussing it in some things I've seen. I do loathe his wife however with her vile "Bush is a f'ng idiot" comment though. She is a rabid Bush hater and truly a *itch. I still wouldn't go to see this garbage anyway. Hollyweird is full of liberal cooks with their own blacklists. They own the entertainment world and they are all trash. They don't make any more John Waynes, Jimmy Stewarts, Bob Hopes, Bing Crosbys, Robert Mitchums, Cary Grants anymore. They have no class and tow the anti-America line-that's why Kerry and Demonrats get so much support. All garbage.


71 posted on 05/14/2004 9:08:00 AM PDT by bushfamfan
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To: bushfamfan

He has bad mouthed the Bush girls big time! Not to worry though, he is a dim bulb from stem to stern!!!!


72 posted on 05/14/2004 9:10:21 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: handy

Deal!


73 posted on 05/14/2004 9:11:12 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: Austin Willard Wright

No! I went to see the Passion and I love Mel Gibson. Plus I loved Peter Ustinov. They have a right to have their own opinions, but are gentlemen with class. But, when a low life, braindead like Brad Pitt and his brainless "witch" wife take to bad mouthing the President and his daughters, I push back big time! See, I'm from New York, and I give as good as I get!


74 posted on 05/14/2004 9:21:27 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: bushfamfan

Pitt and Jen taunted the one Bush girl who had been caught drinking under the legal age. When they saw her they razed her saying something to the effect of "hey, you goin' out back to sneak a beer?"

Think these losers would have done that to Gore's kid? No they prolly would have asked him if he's got any good 'stuff'.


75 posted on 05/14/2004 9:26:46 AM PDT by subterfuge (Liberalism is, as liberalism does.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
The "Boston Herald" give it a lukewarm review (2 1/2 stars out of 4):

With Brad Pitt's slightly vacant, invincible-dude Achilles at its center, ``Troy'' is a Bronze Age ``Fight Club.'' The first child of ``Gladiator,'' this film, which establishes beachheads at theaters today, also is ``The McIliad'': a secularized and reduced version of Homer's 15,693-line epic poem ``The Iliad.''

And get this:

But Petersen, who sets up Virgil's ``Aeniad'' as the sequel to ``Troy'' instead of Homer's own ``Odyssey,'' plays down the ugliness by choosing not to show warriors stripping off the armor and desecrating the bodies of the slain (too evocative of Fallujah, perhaps?).

As she does in Homer's poem, Thetis states the film's theme succinctly when she observes that war is a mortal's means to immortality, even if ironically it comes at the cost of his life (too bad audiences of ``Troy'' won't get to hear what the tormented shade of Achilles has to say about being a dead Greek hero in Hades in ``The Odyssey'').

``Troy'' turns a blood-and-guts deluge and the sacking of Troy - during which noncombatants are raped and slaughtered off-camera - into something like the sanitized-if-not-glamorized-for-TV early news coverage of the war in Iraq, complete with triumphal score. It finally seems more interested in Pitt's abdominals and recouping its $200 million budget than in greatness.

76 posted on 05/14/2004 9:35:13 AM PDT by jordan8
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

There are a few people in hollywood and tv who are so activist and obnoxious I cannot enjoy their movies.

I don't boycott them, I just avoid them.

As for the rest, if they don't make too much of a deal about their leftist leanings and don't lecture me, I just ignore it.


77 posted on 05/14/2004 9:41:12 AM PDT by altura (Sometimes the ground rises up at me. I don't fall, but if I do, I have on a really cute outfit.)
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To: Explorer89

Me too...Sean/Mel/Jim Caveziel


78 posted on 05/14/2004 9:50:42 AM PDT by highlandbreeze (....that others may live.)
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To: rintense

I don't get what chicks see in that dirty hippy Pit. However, my wife has a crush on that Van Helsing dude (I can't really complain, because Mrs. Exile puts up with me drooling over Laurie Dhue).


79 posted on 05/14/2004 9:55:01 AM PDT by exile (Exile - Helen Thomas tried to lure me into her Gingerbread House.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

The movie will do well. Boycotting one movie will not stop 99% of Hollywood actors from supporting liberal causes.


80 posted on 05/14/2004 9:55:12 AM PDT by Hildy (...Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth. - Mark Twain)
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