The content is great, but the camera work is crap. It's an hour and a half of continual six second screen changes, interspersed with shaky camera shots. I felt sea sick for over a day after watching it.
Good job...Who is Crystal?
by giving free houses to Crystal and her part-time pimp.
My wife and I went to see 2016 at 4pm on Labor day afternoon. The theater was packed, with many families in attendance.
If you care about the future of America, go see this movie. I already knew 99% of what was portrayed, but we went to support the film and hopefully contribute to keeping it at the box office for another month.
The movie was OK. It didn't contain anything I didn't know; but it was eye-opening for my wife. I think D'Souza hammered the "anti-colonialism" angle too much. I would have liked to have heard more about his communist mentors. He barely mentioned Professor Derrick Bell, and could have gone into more depth about "black liberation theology" from Rev. Wright.
Great job in describing the movie....my daughter also mentioned how simply amazing it is to be getting away with what he’s doing...where are the checks and balances?
So in this sense a person could surmise that some of these senarios could not possibly be true...especially here in America. Yet sadly this is exactly what is happening. I’ve been railing against obama even before he was elected..however it was an eye-opening event for my daughter.
Just emailed your blog to my daughter...! Thanks.
[ I thought, silly me, that we had some sort of system of power checking going on in this country and yet here we have one guy single-handedly destroying the country. ]
No, he’s had plenty of help from the Democrat party (especially that corrupt bastard Harry Reid), and the hyper-partisan media hacks who have provided cover.
I’ll never forgive John Roberts, the traitor, for joining with Obama and the Rats and upholding unConstitutional Obamacare. He failed his country when it needed him most. He is a coward and perhaps a self-serving one.
Sadly, it was not just the Dims, but all of us, fishtalk. All of us who sat on our behinds and our wallets ignoring the fiscal errors of W and moral errors of Billy-Jeff because times were good and the Day of Reckoning could barely be seen on the horizon. All of us who have allowed our schools to ignore the rich, good, and exceptional history of this country and focus on perceived flaws and the Lib agenda instead. All of us who allowed our representatives to keep kicking the can down the road until the road became filled with pot holes and ends at the precipice of a cliff. Like Pogo, we have met the enemy, and he is us. Thank heavens for the Tea Party and a few leaders like Ryan and Coburn and Demint and Palin and Walker and Inhofe and the few other voices of sanity crying in the wilderness. We better listen and act now. Time to start crawling over broken glass again...
Good analysis, Fishtalk. I saw it this weekend as well. Thought the camerawork was excellent.
The revelations about the mother’s influence stood out to me as well.....the part where she was upset when her husband became successful working for an oil company, and she was expected to essentially act like a corporate wife....was eye-opening. Seems like she felt more comfortable identifying with the third world citizens vs. Americans.
I have wondered the same thing about Congress. Where are they while obama is busily writing or rewriting laws that Congress has passed? obama has consolidated so much power in the executive branch, he needs Congress less and less.
I left the movie, frightened, knowing if we don’t get him out of office, the US as we know it, is toast.
I wonder how many people will see this movie, and it will change their mind about voting for obama. I doubt few obama voters will see it.
This movie is a mirror.
When he rightly complains of our government's failure, we must remember the government is made up of us, who were put there by us and monitored or not by us.
So, when this movie shows us something that is or should be absolutely terrifying, it is showing us the reflection of ourselves and what we ourselves have created and become.
If you don't like what you see in the mirror, then it is up to YOU to change it into something better.
What the movie reveals is how far to the left Obama’s family was. He is ultra left. America is a center-right country and after Obama comes Karl Marx.
I did not know that his mother divorced Soetoro because he was becoming too westernized once he began working for a major oil company! She thought that action was a betrayal and kicked the family’s father out of the house! That to me was very telling, that these people are such devoted and dedicated communists - that they will even deny children their father for the sake of advancing communism and anti-Amricanism. His grandparents were worse, bringing Obama to Frank Marshall, a severe communist who hated America, and having him mentor Obama. That’s helpful, turn your teenage grandson over to a rabid, anti-American hater to help in his development? How about that for the beginnings of rage? To grow up in that environment clearly had an impact and it is more shocking to think it was never really covered in the media. No one asked the question. At least Dinesh did.
I saw the movie last week. It was in the cineplex’s smallest theater, but it was 80% full.
I thought the movie gave Obama too much credit for actually having a thorough ideology. Obama was simply an average kid, with average intelligence, who was raised by a typically leftist America-hating mother and grandparents. He smoked a lot of weed in high-school and college, and he didn’t question his mother’s ideology, didn’t think about it things too much, and most of the time seemed to just muddle through.
Somewhere after High School though, he discovered that his name, skin color and background were the ticket he needed to game the system. This, combined with the fact he could regurgitate the standard leftist cliches, meant the PC apparatchiks in academia and local government loved him.
His policy choices as President are exactly that - regurgitating the same old leftist fantasies. His politics show no signs of being new, different or having any deep thought applied. They are simply the same old leftist pablum and fantasy we have seen from Jimmy Carter onward. Obama has simply added some devious Chicago-style political calculation to go with it.
I saw it yesterday in Southwestern SC. At 12:05 pm the theater was also packed. I haven’t seen a packed theater since my last Gene Autry film.
This line:
“Not only did the movie end leaving me scared and a bit depressed, I left knowing that it wasn’t just Obama that allowed so much to change to this country’s detriment. I left with the sinking feeling that our country’s vaunted separation of powers failed us when we needed it most”
couldn’t be more true.
If I wanted to take over a country, the first thing I would do is destroy or take control of the energy infrastructure, including mines, wells, power plants, and all of the transmission and distribution systems involved. Next would be food, taking away the ability of individuals to grow, hunt, and remove their ability to live off of the land. Next would be access to clean water, because everything living requires it to stay alive. The final assault would be the remove the ability of people to defend themselves, by preventing them access to weapons, thus disarming a populace who may rebel against the regime.
Everything that I lsted above is coming to pass here in the US, by word and deed. The current government is not willing to relinqiush control, and are willing to do anything to maintain that control, consequences be damned.
I came away with two thoughts - D’Souza drinks a lot of coffee and we had a very well dressed Comptroller who doesn’t like bagels. He left a whole basket alone while he talked.