Posted on 03/08/2006 7:18:00 AM PST by goldstategop
I've seen this book before. I can't get past the ridiculous concept. Too funny.
I don't know for certain as I haven't seen the movie yet, and taking into account total hatred much of hollywierd has for this country, I don't suppose the movie could be viewed in the context of the excerpted thoughts below?
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
Just a thought, having not yet seen the movie, nor read the graphic novels.
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Maybe because she is a self-loathing moron?
Bingo!
Okay, then I decide that V is not (necessarily) garbage based on its premise. I choose to go see it. Maybe it will be entertaining. Maybe it will just raise my blood pressure. I see nothing naive about that.
$9.50 X 1,000,000 = $9,500,000
$9.50 X 10,000,000 = $95,000,000
Now we're talking REAL money...
Impossible! Everything is politics.
Nice encomium to RR on your FReeper page, BTW.
(Shrug) I can't control other peoples' decisions whether or not to see a movie. So, this movie will be a hit or a flop regardless of whether I go see it or not.
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Why would Natalie Portman appear in a proterrorist movie? Whatever else, she is pro-Israel and wrote politically correct editorials when she was in college.
Goodness, this is one of the worse movies ever made. I defy any Conservative on this board to sit through all 3.5 to 4 hours of this monstrosity and then tell me the Iraqis at Abu Grahib suffered more than you just did having just watched the entire movie.
I'll wager most of us can't make it through the movie.
It's just code for how Hollywood and their ilk would like to treat faithful Christians...not counting those that politicize against the War on Terror from their "puplits," of course.
I automatically assumed that anything that resembled this Administration would be considered fascist in this movie. I guess I was right.
I'm a bit confused about why conservatives think this has a liberal agenda, outside of it being produced in Hollywood.
The premise of the movie is that Hitler and the Germans won WWII and spread Nazism/Facism to Britain (and, presumably continental Europe). An unfortunate fact about Hitler's regime is that Catholicism or Lutheranism were pretty much the only permitted religions in Germany. Hitler himself was a baptized Catholic (with an unmarried mistress, which doesn't say much about his practice of the religion). The regime in the movie has permitted a famine that has killed scores of Britons (North Korea, anyone?). It runs concentration camps where "undesirables" such as German concentration camps and Soviet gulags housed them (and I would imagine that they are places where black, brown, and Jewish "foriegners" and dissedents are housed and/or killed), and have run horrific scientific experiments (ala Jozef Mengele).
Can someone please explain why this plot has an anti-American agenda? This is what the U.S. completely stands against and has fought against. Maybe we should hold our stones to see the evidence before we throw them?
This review has saved me some $$$.
Some of these folks seem to believe that one should willingly submit to totalinarianism and not resist.
Nice first post. Good luck in life, dopey.
Well of course. It prevents them from having to think for themselves as well.
What;s your problem, man?
He raises some very valid points. I thought conservatives would be willing to fight totalitarianism, not embrace it.
The way many of you are carrying on here, claiming that this is a "Bush-Bash" movie, I'm surprised that some of you aren't knocked unconscious from your knees jerking so hard that they hit you in the head.
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