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'Lone Survivor' and How Film Critics Smear Navy SEALs (critics saying movie is racist)
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Posted on 01/16/2014 9:02:05 PM PST by chessplayer

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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Well written and expressed!


21 posted on 01/16/2014 9:50:55 PM PST by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: 444Flyer

Hard for them to watch it. I would guess it would be very uncomfortable or just incomprehensible or boring

They have to make sense out of its popularity. But some can go through their whole lives without striving for a virtue that doesn’t come to them naturally


22 posted on 01/16/2014 9:53:12 PM PST by stanne
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
You are absolutely right.....every American should see this maginificent, outstanding film

I'd like to take one of my daughters, but I don't know if she has the stomach for it. I don't think she could take "Private Ryan," for example. Do you think she could handle this?

23 posted on 01/16/2014 9:53:16 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: chessplayer

Marxists hate anything that makes America look good.

Pray America is Waking


24 posted on 01/16/2014 9:57:40 PM PST by bray (http://www.braylog.com/id47.html)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
I am seeing Lone Survivor tomorrow and I can’t wait to see it

Just don't text during the previews.

25 posted on 01/16/2014 9:58:58 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Drew68

I never do


26 posted on 01/16/2014 9:59:59 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
"I'd like to take one of my daughters, but I don't know if she has the stomach for it. I don't think she could take "Private Ryan," for example. Do you think she could handle this?"

It is a brutal and bloody film. It captures the essence of war in a way I've never witnessed. And it is not entertaining or exploitive. It is educational in that it attempts to recreate and bring you into the lives of these SEALs so you can now picture their sacrifice and brotherhood like never before. Private Ryan does come close in matching the battle scene brutalities. But in many ways, this film was more difficult to watch. So close in history and fresh on the memory might make it harder to view as well. Just things to keep in mind for the more squeamish.

27 posted on 01/16/2014 10:04:34 PM PST by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

excellent review !
Tell everyone you know to go see this movie

Thanks!


28 posted on 01/16/2014 10:06:39 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Perhaps. See it first

Private Ryan is not the same as this. Private Ryan, well, I’m the only one who despises it, is gratuitous and focuses on horror, and takes away from the important theme, virtue in action

Band of Brothers, we see regularly, and this movie is like that. The violence is just part of it. And it’s not about the sadness of death nor running away from it, but as part of their job, sad as it is

Just see it first

I’ve seen it twice, I’ll see it again tomorrow


29 posted on 01/16/2014 10:07:25 PM PST by stanne
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To: chessplayer

So them losers, numbering over 100, got jacked up by 4 Americans

Pretty much proves it sucks if you aren’t American.

FOAD


30 posted on 01/16/2014 10:17:13 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Drew68

“Battleship” was one of the supidest POC movies ever and I mustve watched it 10, 11 or 12 times

It sucked badly and I can’t figure why I like watching it.


31 posted on 01/16/2014 10:21:29 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: stanne

32 posted on 01/16/2014 10:22:02 PM PST by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: cincinnati65

L.A. Weekly:

“These four men were heroes. But these heroes were also men. As the film portrays them, their attitudes to the incredibly complex War on Terror, fought hillside by bloody hillside in the Afghan frontier with both U.S. and Taliban forces contributing to an unconscionably high civilian body count, were simple: Brown people bad, American people good.”


33 posted on 01/16/2014 10:23:52 PM PST by chessplayer
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Sadly, I tried watching it but, passed out.

This operation, which doesn’t seem like it would be a big deal, has sacked me hard.

I’m gonna try again this weekend.

I didn’t even the popcorn

Mu friend said I sat down and zonked.


34 posted on 01/16/2014 10:25:09 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome

Because of the USS Missouri, that’s why!


35 posted on 01/16/2014 10:32:21 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: chessplayer

“Lone Survivor” is being called a piece of “racist” and “jingoistic” war propaganda in certain quarters.

Of course it is. The question though is who gives a rats ass? I have never gone to see a movie or not gone to see a movie based on what “film critcs” said. There will always be a group that opposes any film that portrays the islamist as they really are......


36 posted on 01/16/2014 11:09:37 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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To: chessplayer

Who gives a flying flip what the zipper-heads incapable of making a movie that tells the Truth as Lone Survivor does say about a movie that has told the Truth.Jealousy is a green eyed whore.


37 posted on 01/17/2014 12:56:04 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: Gene Eric

BOOM!!! SHAKA LAKA .... BOOM!!!

That thing is friggin awesome!!!

One day, when I have god money, I’m buy it, so I can play ....


38 posted on 01/17/2014 1:01:56 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: chessplayer

Regressives are idiots, blinded by skin color. “Sand People” are Caucasian. Yep. People adapt to their region. Indians (from India) are also Caucasian. Caucasians come in alabaster to deep cocoa. Our cultures and religions are varied, according to our ancestry, usually. Tell all that to a Regressive. They refuse to accept hard science, even though they claim it as their “god”. It is fun to watch their veins pop when you confront them with these facts.

Regressives have made up a bunch of “races” that are ancestries- Mexican (Asian), Native American (Asian), Spanish (Caucasian)... Maybe they think they are gods? They are arrogant enough.

Debbi


39 posted on 01/17/2014 2:53:25 AM PST by hearthwench (Mom, NaNa, always ornery)
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To: headstamp 2

Bigelow was given the oscar for The Hurt Locker, because it was a woman’s “ time.” Zero Dark Thirty was so good it deserved the oscar.


40 posted on 01/17/2014 3:00:34 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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