Posted on 11/02/2007 9:27:27 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage
I agree with you that that particular message was right on (although Clooney would no doubt disapprove of the obvious conclusion - we should have crushed Hussein then and there) but the depiction of our soldiers was very insulting.
Leni’s films were beautiful. She may have backed the evil side, but she did it with style. You couldn’t help but feel the attraction to what she painted with film.
This new stuff is tripe. Boring and asinine. Sitting thru such dreck would be worse that being in Guantanamo. We couldn’t even make the enemy sit thru it as it would be considered a war crime.
These loons think the media were cheerleading for Bush prior to the war? In their dreams. Meanwhile the American people supported the war. Every poll showed big majorities supported taking out Saddam. Most of the Dems in Congress supported this move. The bipartisan, unified feeling was far greater than it was with the first gulf war. Somehow though the propagandists thin no one has a memory. If there is now doubt and division over Iraq, they are the ones who created it, not Mr Bush.
That will be true in the US, but these days Hollywood is counting on overseas sales, and most likely, the Euro-weenies and all of the other assorted anti-American regions of the world will eat this stuff up.
Maybe these anti-american, overrated, overpaid, semi-has beens, want to play to the overseas audience anyway.
Leni did have a sharp director`s eye plus the Germans had good tailors. Minus the ideology,those uniforms looked spiffy.
The after-war partying was spot-on. Otherwise, some good, some bad. Being willing to risk yourself to help others was pretty flattering.
Don’t you mean Meryl Streep. Although she and Glenn do look similar now.
During World War Two, Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich dedicated his Seventh Symphony to the people of Leningrad, who were under siege at the time. The music was extremely popular in the Soviet Union and the Western Allies throughout the war, but once the fighting was over, it was labeled as propaganda trash and discarded.
Something I read said Close, but they interchangeable, regardless.
You and me both. a few years back I had the enormous good luck of seeing a screening of "Team America" on the campus of Texas A&M University. What a hoot!
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