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Get Ready for Hollywood Propaganda
September 11, 2007 | Vanity

Posted on 09/11/2007 1:49:17 PM PDT by yetidog

"Valley of Elah," Lions for Lambs", "Redacted"...Sheesh. Doesn't anybody make movies anymore?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bella; boycotthollywood; enemedia; lionsforlambs; propaganda; redacted; shutupandsing; valleyofelah

1 posted on 09/11/2007 1:49:19 PM PDT by yetidog
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To: yetidog
Valley of Elah: When model soldier Mike Deerfield (Jonathan Tucker) mysteriously goes AWOL, shortly after returning to the U.S. from the front lines in Iraq, his career officer father Hank (Tommy Lee Jones), enlists the aid of police detective Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron) in the search for his son. His wife Joan (Susan Sarandon) also joins them to uncover the truth of his disappearance. Written and directed by Paul Haggis ("Crash").

Let's see.... Haggis and Sarandon? PASS!

Redacted:Haven't heard anything about it other than the director Brian de Palma is strongly oposed to the war. PASS!

Lions for Lambs:Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian (Derek Luke) and Ernest (Michael Pena), follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley (Robert Redford), and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student (Andrew Garfield) who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise), is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist (Meryl Streep) that may affect Arian and Ernest's fates.

Let's see.... Redford, who has said some extremely vile things about the President,and the sofa-jumping Cruise....PASS!

2 posted on 09/11/2007 2:04:41 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: yetidog

And don’t forget Murtha’s slander is coming to the silverscreen with “The Battle for Haditha”.


3 posted on 09/11/2007 2:05:25 PM PDT by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.com)
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To: yetidog
The only movie I saw in theaters this year was LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD.....
4 posted on 09/11/2007 2:05:49 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan

The only movie I want to see is “Katyn” when it’s released here in the states.


5 posted on 09/11/2007 2:08:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: Rummyfan
Hollywood produces the movies that further the cause of their Democrat idols in election years. The fools who make up their voterbase pay to see them, and the money just keeps on flowin'.....

We are really in a sad state of the Union, folks.....

Treason in wartime, "aiding and abetting", Congressman on foreign soil denouncing American occupation, etc., etc.

6 posted on 09/11/2007 2:14:03 PM PDT by traditional1 ( Fred Thompson-The ONLY electable Republican Candidate)
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To: Rummyfan
Not to defend his movie (which I haven’t seen) but what do you have against Haggis? Crash at least broached some non-PC aspects of racism even if it did so in facile ways.
7 posted on 09/11/2007 2:22:52 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Rummyfan; All

Go see “3:10 to Yuma” with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. It’s terrific entertainment. The best western since “Unforgiven.”


8 posted on 09/11/2007 3:08:37 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Borges
Haggis is a scientologist. I thought "Crash" was blatantly reactionary.

FAMOUS SCIENTOLOGISTS

Go see "3:10 to Yuma." It's great movie-making; very layered. One of the few movies I've seen in years that resonates with you long after you leave the theater.

9 posted on 09/11/2007 3:15:14 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Didn’t know he was a Scientologist. What do you mean by reactionary? Saw Yuma this weekend. Refreshingly free of self awareness and ‘Myth of the West’ revisionism. Mostly just a straight up Western.
10 posted on 09/11/2007 3:18:04 PM PDT by Borges
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To: yetidog
Sheesh. Doesn't anybody make movies anymore?

Hollyweird has got so bad and so in need of something to make a movie out of, that they are having to do remakes of old movies or making movies out of TV shows. They have no brains any more for the great old movies. I seriously doubt you will ever, EVER, see any more movies such as: Ben Hurr, Gone With The Wind, Stagecoach, The Greatest Story Ever Told, etc. Hollyweird just does not HAVE the people to make such movies, nor the actors to make them. All the greats are gone. John Wayne, Montgomery Cliff, Miss Scarlett, Eric Flynn, Gary Cooper, they are all gone. We are stuck with CRAP for the rest of time. As long as Hollyweird stays stinking, sickening, homosexual loving liberal as it is now, no conservatives, that would make the good movies for us, will never happen. The few conservatives out there are on the black lists and don't get the rolls.

11 posted on 09/11/2007 3:20:52 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (It is time to go to war to defend the Republic! Time to get off your butts and defeat the Marxists.)
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To: Borges
I hated the scene in "Crash" where the cops were undressing the black woman in front of her husband. It may have been good theater, but I don't see that as reality today. Not in L.A., at least.

I though "3:10 to Yuma" was a good story about redemption. Some of it was far-fetched, certainly, but overall, I liked where it went.

12 posted on 09/11/2007 3:24:11 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: yetidog; NYer; narses; Salvation; Mrs. Don-o

Only “must see movie” for this year is Bella. Don’t miss it!

http://www.bellathemovie.com/


13 posted on 09/11/2007 3:31:20 PM PDT by Frank Sheed (Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)
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To: RetiredArmy
There were actually a lot more remakes in the 1930s and 1940s than now. Multiple versions of The Maltese Falcon, Stella Dallas and so forth. And ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told’? An interminable ordeal. And a commercial flop at the time.
14 posted on 09/11/2007 3:35:56 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Frank Sheed

Did you see “Bella”? I got to see it several times last year, and I love it!


15 posted on 09/11/2007 3:36:48 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
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To: Rummyfan

Is it worth buying?


16 posted on 09/11/2007 10:46:23 PM PDT by lara
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To: traditional1
Treason in wartime, "aiding and abetting", Congressman on foreign soil denouncing American occupation, etc., etc.

AND NO PROSECUTION FOR IT.

There was a caller on Phil Hendree(?) last night (I don't normally listen but they changed the schedule and I still check the station to see if Mark Levin or someone is being aired).

Phil was railing against it, calling it treason, aid and comfort etc. The caller said, they should be tried and lined up against a wall and shot. Phil said, "whoa, I wouldn't go that far!"

WHAT should the punishment be for traitors to this nation? Used to be enemies of the state were not tolerated. Now there is nothing but tolerance for the poisoned minds that openly speak sedition and do their darnest to take this nation down and see that we lose (Jane Fonda was quite open about being pro-Communist and pro-North Vietnamese).

Axis Sally got something like a decade in prison. Lord Haw Haw was hanged (in England). The punishment is known. The will does not exist anymore to carry it out.

17 posted on 09/12/2007 10:32:19 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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