Posted on 10/07/2019 3:46:51 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
This movie is just raw evil from its foundation. It is about a female assassin traveling back in time to kill people whose ideology allegedly causes a civil war in the future in order to avert the conflict and wipe out it having every historically occurred. The primary thing wrong with the entire plot is that it is an action against supposed White Nationalist Extremism and gives such a group enough power to even start such a conflict (not true).
The distortion of facts about people who are trying to restore the United States to its former glory is obvious in the film. No mention is made of killing off the Pol Pots, Hitlers, Stalins, Muslims leaders, mass shooters, etc. who actually ruthlessly kill innocent people. Another major problem with this movie is the collateral damage of innocent people killed and injured while this woman is doing her work. This doesn't seem to bother Mickle as the goal must be accomplished, no matter what.
These people make themselves to be better than God, who doesn't go back in time to kill of those who cause wars and suffering even though He truly knows what is going to happen in the future and has consequences prepared for those who commit crimes. This is the most egregious sin of the movie in stating that MAN can pick and choose who gets to live and die in the past to formulate the future. This kind of stuff is frightening since it is written by the very liberals who keep accusing conservatives of inciting civil war when they themselves due to tyrannical thoughts such as this are the ones on the brink of starting a conflict right now.
I would say that the primary thing wrong with the premise is the ability to travel back in time but that's just me.
And no, I haven't seen the movie.
Sadly, I watched it. Like many movies nowadays it’s premise is that people on the right divide the nation. In this movie the solution is to kill them so there’s no more division. It’s pathetic and badly done.
I’ve asked people if they could would they go back in time and kill hitler as a child to prevent WWII. It seems so simple.
The problem is that we learned that Stalin killed more Jews than Hitler did, and for all we know, we could have ended up in a world war with the USSR. Instead, they were our ally, and they and Germany whittled each other down.
And then there is the meme in the movie that these “evil” people are just like you and me, and indistinguishable from everyone else. The pianist, the bus driver, and the nut in a dumpy house in the middle of nowhere.
Etc.
That all being said, it was a good story and kept you interested. It borrowed a theme from the science fiction book, “Hyperion”. It allowed me to figure out the “backwards in time” concept with the assassin.
The only thing I didn’t like about it was the link of the “bad guys” to our founding fathers. Other than that, it was a pretty good time travel science fiction movie.
I liked The 12 Monkeys too.
The movie is a leftist “woke” fantasy, nothing more.
That’s why I posted it.
It’s lame.
Next movie: transgender goes back in time, kills Trump while he is in high school, and returns to a future that is like the Garden of Eden.
Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.
Yeah, but in reality it’s ok to do that, as long as it doesn’t become a trend. The thing is, the movie didn’t get into what, exactly, our founders taught, that made this group go off the deep end. In the real world, a lot of people have done terrible things in the name or Christ, yet what they did is always specifically AGAINST anything he taught.
Anybody can distort the message of wise people to their own ends.
BTW, someone called the movie “playing God”. That’s a pretty common theme in a lot of science fiction. Most of it takes place in a universe without a God. And one could argue we do that a lot in the real world.
Hollywood expressing this type of blind hatred for traditional Americans (via a made-up BS concept of rampant white supremacy) is going to backfire on them with whites and blacks.
When I was young White Democrats in the South would use similar hate tactics against blacks. Today White Liberal Elites use these tactics against us. Every powerless person and group will ‘catch’ what they’re up to...
This thinly describe hatred will backfire on Hollywood.
I suffered through Airforce One the other night. At the end of the movie, it was announced that the president survived the crash of the plane and was safe. The press pool jumped up and cheered and I thought, “Wow! No way that would happen today!”
The reason the psychotically paranoid are dangerous--paranoid schizophrenics, for example--is because they actually believe that their delusions are real and will act accordingly, because they believe that they must defend themselves. They're fully capable of killing innocent people because of the delusion that they project onto the innocent, falsely believing that the innocent are a threat to them.
This is one of the most dangerous things about the mass psychosis that is "the left" ("progressives," "liberals"--the name keeps changing): Much of the delusional system is paranoid.
Another dangerous thing is that some of "the left" cynically exploit and encourage such paranoia to use to their advantage, knowing full well what they're doing, unconcerned and even sometimes sadistically energized by the possible consequences.
The only thing I didn’t like about it was the link of the “bad guys” to our founding fathers. Other than that, it was a pretty good time travel science fiction movie.
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but that is a foundational issue that exposes its evil.
It just reflects the modern culture. I was looking over the science fiction movies available in Amazon Prime a few months ago and was amazed by something: The sheer quantity of these movies that take place in a “post apocalyptic future” is staggering.
But like most “popularist” science fiction (i.e. stuff other than what the greats of sci-fi novels produce), it has plot holes you could drive a semi through.
One of the big ones is this: How do the “bad guys” push us into civil war in just a few years from today?
Well, actually there is an answer. The 2020 election is going to be a game and world changer, no matter who wins.
Aren’t the Obamas running the movies on Netflex?
Source Code (spoiler ahead!) had a good take: an agency tasked with investigating & fixing atrocities thru time travel succeeds, leaving a timeline where the agency has nothing to fix and thus faces closing for being merely a lunatic’s dream.
A. I despise scary movies.
B. I despise science fiction.
C. I despise time travel movies.
D. Visual can go straight to your soul and your brain through your eyes so you have to closely monitor what goes in.
E. Evil is real and is to be resisted, not embraced.
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