Posted on 08/07/2004 8:06:59 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
I saw "Bedtime for Bonzo."
I swear those pinko, commie, liberal hollywood types were making fun of Reagan's operation in Grenada!
Where was the brief sighting of the writer? I didn't catch that.
You're supposed to post a 'sarcasm' or 'just kidding' in there somewhere so that people know you're joking.
I assume you are joking--if not, you're nuckin' futz.
Those must have been the critics I've seen wearing tinfoil hats.
Absolutely agree. A political thought never entered my mind at any point in the movie. When we find anti-Bush messages in something like this, we look like a bunch of goobs.
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I saw the movie. It wasn't bashing Bush that I noticed...Perhaps I missed the nuance. It wasn't as good as this directors other movies, but it was ok.
Friday Night US Box Office -Bush Bashing 'The Village' Continues to Bomb for Disney..
Me thinks this headline is just an attention seeker !
I havent seen the movie but i did see the making of this movie on scifi and i cant see Mnight even remotly throwing politics into this movie
Hell they could hardly get him to talk and when he did it was clouded with occultism and fear of the unknown seems Mnight walks around in some kind of occultist haze !
Help! Help! Help!
Need help freeping online poll, on very obscure website, calling crazy, paranoid freepers "goobs!"
So far it is 3 "goobs" to my one non-goobs.
Help me freepers!!!!!!!!
Unbreakable was the worst movie I ever saw.
But I loved Signs and the Sixth Sense.
From the some of the quotes I’ve seen M. Nights seem to think he made a Bush bashing film.... You don’t see it because you don’t have this cartoon view of Bush and the right that these people do… see we are all living in a false paranoia created by the evil Bush and the right … it all lies...Bush’s lies...that the cause of the worlds problen
I agree 100%. I saw the movie and enjoyed it, actually.
The village, at least for me, is an icon of isolationism. Like France building the magonit(sp?) line in the 30s against Hitler, it represents repression for those who built the wall.
Bush is an activist President who has made this country the home of the brave, not willing to be mealy dictated to by outside events, and in fact is willing to face great risk to change the status-quo.
If Bush was the little redhead in the movie, he would have said TEAR DOWN THIS WALL.
Absolutely positively agree! No Bush bashing here, move on. The movie was about escape from the evils of human nature. It had the theme of parents' ill advised attempts at isolating their past to protect their children. The color red was a metaphor for violence. The color or yellow, muted of course, was used as a passive response to evil. In the scene with at the park station M. Knight holds newspaper describing two violent murders, one of a child and one of a mass murderer. The radio announcement of the Iraqi "ambush" also shows the violent nature of our society and the evils in which we face on a daily basis.
Any attempt at this point to link it to Bush bashing is paranoia.
Behind Liberal Lines wrote:
The twist:
The "Village" is actually a modern day commune started by a group of people disaffected with modern society.
In order to keep their children from leaving the commune, and hold onto their power, the Village leaders manufactured "monsters" in the woods. Some have speculated that this is a metaphor for Bush and the war on terror.
I take it this way: There is a group of people in this world that does not want any progress, wants to live in a middle ages type society, and sees those in the modern age as terrible and evil (great satan, infidels).
There is one group I know of like that now.
actually, there was a blurb in the movie about "30 more troops died in a convoy" or something to that affect on the radio in the security office...
I thought of it as this whole group of people trying to escape violence by recreating a perfect society of their own, when in fact, a violent crime does in fact take place within their perfect society. (the stabbing) Therefore, since we are human, you cannot escape it.
Now, was the crazy son the one carving up all the animals, which led to a progression to the guy?
>>>I take it this way: There is a group of people in this world that does not want any progress, wants to live in a middle ages type society, and sees those in the modern age as terrible and evil (great satan, infidels).
No way!
That's some pretty stupid speculation.
I don't mind having the movie ruined...I doubt I see it now with this dumb twist.
There are no monsters?
What's the point of watching then...
Calling The Village 'Bush Bashing' only serves to make our side look terminally unhip, suspicuous, hyper sensitive, and borderline delusional.
Thanks for the support!
I won't be seeing it since, as reported on this thread, the whole concept of there being monsters in the woods is one big honking lie.
I want to see a suspenseful, scary movie.
Not some idiotic film about people being scared of technology.
What a retarted film.
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