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"The Kingdom" Movie Review
self | 9/28/07 | LS

Posted on 09/28/2007 1:53:08 PM PDT by LS

Edited on 09/28/2007 2:36:32 PM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]

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To: LS
I just saw the movie tonight and I agree with your review. The initial attack in the movie reminded me of an actual attack on Western compounds in Riyahd in 2003.

Riyadh Compound Bombings

81 posted on 09/28/2007 10:48:14 PM PDT by Dan Cooper
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To: Domandred
"I don't see how Nixon won! I don't know ANYONE who voted for him."

Movie stars critics, is there anything they don't know?!!

82 posted on 09/29/2007 12:50:13 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: Borges

Ebert has been unhinged since Gene Siskel died. He has no shame anymore and Dopey Roeper only encourages him.


83 posted on 09/29/2007 12:59:01 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: discostu

Global Wahabism is the Saudi’s problem. They took care of THEIR problem with it by exporting it. They fund international Wahabism to stem the Wahabi attacks in Saudi Arabia.

The Saudis depend on us to protect them from their own internal agents that they pay off.

European governments have also been caught paying off terrorists to get hostages released.

And such as it was in the time of Thomas Jefferson.

This game cannot continue. The world must stand up and stomp it out.


84 posted on 09/29/2007 1:03:59 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: Phsstpok

I wonder if the book would not be better. It usually is.


85 posted on 09/29/2007 5:24:25 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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To: Milwaukee_Guy

It would be. A better way, though, without some of the issues I raised is the DVD “Obsession.” I also think “Flight 93” does a pretty good job. And there is a terrific Brit movie called “Dirty War” about a Muslim terrorist group that ignites a dirty bomb in London. VERY realistic, in terms of the damage, the response, and the motives.


86 posted on 09/29/2007 5:28:04 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: Talking_Mouse

I liked that movie.


87 posted on 09/29/2007 5:28:33 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: Talking_Mouse

One of the things that we as westerners MUST start to “get” is that these people LIVE their religion, as opposed to “practice” a few times a day. I’m reading Dinesh D’Souza’s “The Enemy At Home.” While I strongly disagree with his view that “we brought 9/11 on ourselves,” which, despite his many denials, comes through pretty strongly, he does provide a powerful insight into the view by radicalized Muslims that they see all of western culture as a threat to all of Islam. The sex, depravity, destruction of women’s roles and the family are all very real issues to them. Some of that comes through in “The Kingdom,” and the unanswered question is, how do those Muslims who want to “reform” or “modernize” Islam do so?


88 posted on 09/29/2007 5:31:36 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: RobbyS

Doo-dooo-dooo-dooo. Que Twilight Zone theme. Don tinfoil hats.


89 posted on 09/29/2007 5:32:28 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: Dan Cooper

You didn’t know whether to cry or to jump up and scream “M-—fers!” Right?


90 posted on 09/29/2007 5:33:04 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: Morgan in Denver

If there is a book, “The Kingdom,” it can’t possibly match the intensity of both the opening bomb scenes and the last 30 minutes.


91 posted on 09/29/2007 5:33:43 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: DaveLoneRanger

Yah, it’s blatant. There is a line where the National Security Director is consoling the guy who arrested this “peaceful” Arab-American, saying, “we got information that saved 7,000 lives yesterday in London. You did well.” Of course, the audience is meant to go, “NO! NO WE DIDN’T. LET ‘EM DIE SO THAT WE DON’T VIOLATE HIS CIVIL RIGHTS!”


92 posted on 09/29/2007 6:06:29 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: RobbyS

Which while true has zero relationship to my original discussion on this thread. The statement I was objecting to was that no one in Saudi cares about terrorism in a way that would help America, mathematically that’s pretty darn unlikely, there’s a lot of people in the country, at least one or two of them must like America or at least not like terrorists. And any condemnation of Saudi for a general lack of concern on the subject needs to recall our own general lack of concern on the same subject until 6 years ago.


93 posted on 09/29/2007 8:09:35 AM PDT by discostu (indecision may or may not be my biggest problem)
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To: weegee

The world is not going to rise up to stomp out a religious sect. It’s just not how things go anymore. Part of the problem with being civilized is deciding genocide is a bad thing. We’ll just have to find a way to ride it out. Eventually nut burger movements tend to burn themselves out, mostly because they have a complete inability to rule, the Wahabis and the similar nutty subsections of Islam can’t run a country. This has been proven in Palestine and other places, they’re just too driven by blood and not interested enough in the boring parts of being in charge like keeping the utilities going and fostering business relations. This will keep them from ever truly winning, if you can’t run a little bitty semi-country like Palestine you can’t rule the world. The only real question is how long will it take them to peter out and how annoying will they be until then. But nobody is going to repeat the destruction of the Catharists, even if we should it’s not going to happen.


94 posted on 09/29/2007 8:21:12 AM PDT by discostu (indecision may or may not be my biggest problem)
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To: weegee

He’s a bit better now that he doesn’t do the TV show and just writes his reviews away from Roeper. But yeah it’s a shame he didn’t hire another good film critic who would challenge him instead of a populist hack like Roeper.


95 posted on 09/29/2007 8:28:27 AM PDT by Borges
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To: LS
You didn’t know whether to cry or to jump up and scream “M-—fers!” Right?

That was my reaction when they were meeting with the US State Department weenies who were trying to keep the FBI team from going to Saudi.

96 posted on 09/29/2007 8:30:14 AM PDT by Dan Cooper
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Jamie Foxx even referred to Terrell Texas...

got a hell yeah from the audience here in Dallas......

98 posted on 09/29/2007 10:08:45 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance......)
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To: DaveLoneRanger

Yes. And they made the person who “saved” the 7,000 look horrible because the info was extracted with torture. It’s an anti-U.S., anti-military movie for sure, just like the Tommie Lee Jones movie that is out now, “In the Valley of . . . something or other”.


99 posted on 09/29/2007 10:24:11 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: LS

I was reading the reviews on Yahoo, and the more I read the more it sounded like this might be a good movie. The Boston Globe, and others like it all hated it, which of course made me suspect that it might actually be good. So... I came here to see what the rational people are saying, and now I think I’ll go catch the 4:00 showing.


100 posted on 09/29/2007 11:58:08 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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