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Director Michael Bay releases first trailer for ‘Benghazi’ movie
MSNBC ^ | July 29, 2015 | By Adam Howard

Posted on 07/29/2015 6:52:00 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

Action movie mogul Michael Bay’s latest bid for critical respectability may come at Hillary Clinton’s 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 won’t depict the former secretary of state’s 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 Bigelow’s acclaimed hit film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, “Zero Dark Thirty.” However, some of the trailer’s viewers have noted that the film’s seemingly jingoistic tone could point to a more overtly political agenda.

Vox’s Max Fisher, for example, refers to the trailer’s pronounced portrayal of bureaucrats – ostensibly taking orders from the State Department – stymieing the efforts of the film’s 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 it’s 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 Bay’s 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. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: benghazi; hollywood; moviereview

1 posted on 07/29/2015 6:52:00 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee
"Long refuted claim" ROTFL.

Long denied is not 'long refuted'.

MSNBC. Hilarious.

2 posted on 07/29/2015 6:58:18 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Brad from Tennessee
"The trailer also advances a long-refuted claim that Clinton sent an order to troops to “stand down” amid the siege. . ."

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!!!!

3 posted on 07/29/2015 7:03:59 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Brad from Tennessee
13 Hours Trailer
4 posted on 07/29/2015 7:04:21 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Michael Bay on Making Movies
5 posted on 07/29/2015 7:04:46 PM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Saw the trailer, looked good.


6 posted on 07/29/2015 7:05:14 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Flick Lives

Thanks for the link. Movie looks good.


7 posted on 07/29/2015 7:09:56 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I don’t get it — there’s nothing in the trailer about the spontaneous protest to an internet video.


8 posted on 07/29/2015 7:17:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I hope this movie doesn’t kitty-cat out, but I wouldn’t bet on it.


9 posted on 07/29/2015 8:38:03 PM PDT by karnage
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To: karnage
What does "kitty-cat out" mean?

Leni

10 posted on 07/29/2015 8:42:23 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Brad from Tennessee

20 GIFs Ruined by Michael Bay
http://mashable.com/2014/09/08/michael-bay-gifs/


11 posted on 07/29/2015 8:56:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

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.


12 posted on 07/29/2015 9:55:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America Matters!)
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To: MinuteGal

What is a five-letter word for kitty-cat?


13 posted on 07/29/2015 10:57:19 PM PDT by karnage
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To: Brad from Tennessee
In the preview, the boss tells them not to go. They go anyway,

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.

14 posted on 07/30/2015 12:06:54 AM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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