Posted on 07/29/2015 6:52:00 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Action movie mogul Michael Bays latest bid for critical respectability may come at Hillary Clintons expense.
Bay, who has been the brains behind blockbuster franchises including Transformers and Bad Boys has turned the tragic 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi into a big budget thriller. And if its first trailer is any indication, it wont depict the former secretary of states handling of the incident in a flattering light.
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi which is based on a non-partisan, non-fiction book by Mitchell Zuckoff aims to be a ripped-from-the-headlines portrayal of the behind-the-scenes action within the national security apparatus, like Kathryn Bigelows acclaimed hit film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty. However, some of the trailers viewers have noted that the films seemingly jingoistic tone could point to a more overtly political agenda.
Voxs Max Fisher, for example, refers to the trailers pronounced portrayal of bureaucrats ostensibly taking orders from the State Department stymieing the efforts of the films heroic soldiers who are attempting to rescue imperiled Americans.
Americans care about what really happened in Benghazi, and they should: it was a significant event for U.S. foreign policy and U.S. politics. But its been confused by three years of partisan spin, mud-fights, and conspiracy theories. Americans have to sort through a lot of noise to get to the truth, writes Max Fisher for Vox. That is an important issue, and Michael Bays plan to convert it into popcorn sales seems unlikely to help the public understand what really happened. Indeed, the trailer alone manages to be a source of dangerously misleading misinformation on Benghazi.
The trailer also advances a long-refuted claim that Clinton sent an order to troops to stand down amid the siege. . .
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Long denied is not 'long refuted'.
MSNBC. Hilarious.
Yep. Hillary would stop at nothing to prevent our troops or anyone else from discovering that Benghazi was nothing more than a PLOT masterminded by Hillary & Morsi TO GET AMBASSADOR STEVENS KIDNAPPED SO HE COULD BE USED BY MORSI AS A HOSTAGE TO BE TRADED FOR THE BLIND SHEIK IN U.S. CUSTODY. KING ODUNGO WAS PROBABLY IN ON IT TOO, AND THIS IS WHY HE PREVENTED THE FBI FROM DOING A CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION FOR OVER 3 WEEKS. IN THE MEANTIME, LOCALS AND CNN REPORTERS DESTROYED OR TOOK HILLARY'S CABLES AND OTHER EVIDENCE SHOWING HER COMPLICITY IN THIS SINISTER PLOT THAT BACKFIRED WHEN TWO SEALS SHOWED UP, ALSO AGAINST ORDERS NOT TO DO SO!!!!
Saw the trailer, looked good.
Thanks for the link. Movie looks good.
I don’t get it — there’s nothing in the trailer about the spontaneous protest to an internet video.
I hope this movie doesn’t kitty-cat out, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
Leni
20 GIFs Ruined by Michael Bay
http://mashable.com/2014/09/08/michael-bay-gifs/
Hollywood couldn’t come up with a logical and believable way to show a bunch of “peaceful protesters” showing up at the embassy protest with their own mortar teams.
What is a five-letter word for kitty-cat?
and this fall, they release a movie based on The Martian, about an astronaut accidentally stranded on Mars. At the end of the novel, the other astronauts disobey orders and go back to rescue him.
sounds like even Hollywood is starting to get it.
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