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'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' Review: Pro Edward Snowden, Pro Freedom
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Posted on 04/04/2014 3:48:53 AM PDT by Perdogg
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is first and foremost a rousing sequel, the kind that makes you giddy that the Marvel movie pipeline is working at full capacity.
It's also a film we're unlikely to see screened at the Obama White House thanks to its anti-NSA message.
The new film offers some political undercurrents not seen in most superhero epics, from fears of government spying to the need for unvarnished transparency. It's all fused to a Marvel-approved template starring actors who know precisely how to bring two-dimensional characters to the big screen.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: captainamerica; comics; disney; movie; wintersoldier
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To: 1010RD
Spiderman was done by a different production company than produces them now. I really enjoyed Ironman one and two. The Avengers was good also.
To: tanknetter
Great movie, a Conservative movie by any definition of the word I haven't seen the movie, but National Review has a piece on their site criticizing it as leftist propaganda.
To: Lurking Libertarian
I haven't seen the movie, but National Review has a piece on their site criticizing it as leftist propaganda.
You mean
This one?
People can stop reading at this line from the review:
Instead, the films subtitle recalls the 1972 documentary Winter Soldier, in which Vietnam veterans repented their battlefield violence.
The idiot reviewer really has no idea about the origins of the term "Winter Soldier" both as a term and in the context of the Captain America story. He runs straight (do not pass go, do not collect $200) to the appropriation of it by Vietnam Vets Against the War. Maybe we should all hate the Christian Cross too, because of how the Klan uses it?
Instead the reviewer champions "Man of Steel," where Superman helps lay waste to a major metropolitan area (killing, in a reasonable hypothetical estimate, around 180,000 people), but has a major emotional breakdown when forced to make the decision to kill the megalomaniacal fellow Kryptionian who, in the macro, tried to wipe out all human life on Earth and, in the micro, is about to incinerate a family using his heat-ray vision.
So the basic premise of the review (Marvel's characters are too conflicted, DC's aren't) is false. The details of the review (this is AMERICA, we pass on the LEFT) are wrong. The context assumed by the review ("Winter Soldier") is wrong.
Now, I didn't mind Man of Steel and the mass destruction as much as others did (I figure that's a lead in to the future Superman/Batman and Justice League movies). But I'll still take the guy who breaks into the frikkin' Smithsonian to steal his old WWII uniform because it's needed as a symbol of AMERICA for taking down the emerging surveillance/police state.
To: Perdogg
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posted on
04/04/2014 7:08:45 PM PDT
by
Altariel
("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
To: discostu
It was the lead in to the avengers, but the studio offered it in other countries without the Captain America title, just the subtitle.
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posted on
04/04/2014 9:17:47 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: Perdogg
Saw it tonight. Highly recommend!
It’s not a Lefty propaganda piece. It does show the dangers of a surveillance state.
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Well, thats what happens when reality sucks so much.
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posted on
04/05/2014 1:21:47 AM PDT
by
Vanders9
To: gaijin
go ga-ga:
a multi-national, multi-ethnic group, led by one willing to lay down own life for a murderous friend, in ongoing fight against wickedness in high places.
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posted on
04/05/2014 5:58:48 PM PDT
by
tgdunbar
To: circlecity
I agree. This one was repetitive and boring. And I loved the Cap in the first one.
To: Perdogg
Just saw it this evening. Pretty good, overall. Redford’s role was no stretch.
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posted on
04/05/2014 10:07:53 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: TomGuy
I only watch in in 2-D. Otherwise known as “MuggleVision.”
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posted on
04/05/2014 10:09:18 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Bender2
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posted on
04/05/2014 10:10:37 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BradyLS; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; shove_it; TrueKnightGalahad; Cincinatus' Wife; ...
Re:
She looks... catatonic Well, Brady, she's got that catty look because I am... like catnip to her--
Yeah, Bendy's got this way that just makes you... go all squishy inside!
We interrupt another of Bendy's shameless testimonials of his prowess with the fairer sex for this Breaking News from CNN Entertainment... Kent Brockmann reporting to get us back to the main subject of this thread--
While Captain America: The Winter Soldier took over the box office on Friday with a huge $37 million... it probably won't reach $100 million this weekend.
Here to give us the straight dope... Statler and Waldorf--
Waldorf, you got to love Captain America: The Winter Soldier for finally giving Robert Redford a chance to act in a film... that will make money at the box office.
I liked it, Statler, because Scarlett Johansson... slept with me to give it a favorable review--
She slept with me... too!
Here we are again, done in by another slutty Hollywood actress... back to you, Kent.
You can catch Statler and Waldorf... in their new film next week
Dan Rather has issued his review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier: "Fake... but accurate, Kent!"
This has been Kent Brockmann reporting for for this Breaking News from CNN Entertainment... now back to more of Bendy's shameless testimonials--
All you bitches back off! Bendy is mine... All mine and I'll shoot to kill!
You changed the channel!.. No, you changed the channel!
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posted on
04/06/2014 5:07:33 AM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: Bender2
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posted on
04/06/2014 9:17:00 AM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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