Posted on 11/18/2007 4:40:01 PM PST by infoguy
"It could be the worst movie I've ever seen" ... "[T]he out and out worst, most disgusting, most hateful, most incompetent, most revolting, most loathsome, most reprehensible cinematic work I have ever encountered." ... "It portrays the members of our Marine Corps in the most disgusting way imaginable." ... "This film is an atrocity. It is zero stars." ... "I honestly was close to vomiting when I saw the film." ... "It is a slander on the United States of America." ... "Everyone associated with this film ought to be ashamed." ... "Will it inspire future terrorists? Of course it will!"
That's prominent movie critic Michael Medved on the new film "Redacted." Lest anyone think that Bill O'Reilly's recent outrage over the film is an overreaction, Medved tells Bill, "It's worse than you think."
Johnny Dollar's Place has the must-hear audio.
The following is a partial transcript:
MEDVED: ... I am actually one of the few people in the country who has seen the new movie. It is called "Redacted" ... And let me just tell you, before I go to actually reviewing it: It could be the worst movie I've ever seen. I mean, the out and out worst, most disgusting, most hateful, most incompetent, most revolting, most loathsome, most reprehensible cinematic work I have ever encountered. This is having reviewing movies for more than 25 years. [It] covers a lot of disgusting ground, but none more disgusting than 'Redacted,' which portrays the Marine Corps, one of the finest organizations ever assembled by human beings, portrays the U.S. Marine Corps, as corrupt, vicious, racist killers and rapists ... (snip) ...
It portrays the members of our Marine Corps in the most disgusting way imaginable. They hang out in barracks, drunk or stoned, with Confederate flags all over the place. And the head Marine, who is the leading rapist and murderer, is a big fat guy, I mean, hugely out of shape, right - just the typical Marine (sarcastic) - Marines tend not to look like that - big fat guy, overhanging belly, cigar-chomping, loud-mouthed, sort of fair-complexion. His name is Rush. Nothing in movies is an accident. They're clearly trying to indict and smear Rush Limbaugh by saying that secretly he wants to rape and abuse 14-year old girls and murder them and then burn their bodies ... (snip) ...
The film is atrociously acted. It's incredibly badly done ... (snip) ...
Look, I never say this. I don't believe in boycotts. I don't. But I actually think Bill O'Reilly, I know has been going on about this movie even though he hasn't seen it. O.K. I've now seen it. Bill, Bill - hey. It's worse than you think.
This film is an atrocity. It is zero stars as far as I'm concerned. It's very much Rated R. I honestly was close to vomiting when I saw the film. I have seen a lot of unspeakable garbage in years and years of reviewing movies. Nothing quite like this. It is a slander on the United States of America. It is a slander on the Marine Corps. It is a slander on our troops. Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, paid for this entirely. Now he elsewhere has given money to support the troops. I know he has. He ought to be ashamed. Everyone associated with this film ought to be ashamed. I will never see a Brian De Palma film in the same way again. This is a veteran Hollywood director. What is he trying to do with this kind of thing? Will it inspire future terrorists? Of course it will! Because it portrays the United States troops in Iraq as sick, murderous, deviant losers.
Ugh. Do yourself a favor. Avoid De Palma and Cuban's piece of filth and trash. This Thanksgiving, go see "Bella." It's a nice, sweet film, and it's great.
LOL, it wouldn’t cross my mind in a million years to go see anything associated with a mouse like Mark Cuban.
ping to self
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It may well be that...
...the entire future of all Humankind hinges on, during this century,
...our finally freeing all the women of the world to be all that they already are in GOD’s Eyes...
...and all that they can be while here on the Earth.
4-SURE, 4-SURE.
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There fixed for me now.
mark
I heard Mullah Omar already is (to borrow someone's tagline).
Brian DePalma hasn't made anything decent since "BlowOut", and even that one was a bit tedious.
If the Marine Corps thinks you’re fat they put you on “weight control” where you PT, under supervision, until you’re within their guidelines again.....OR YOU’RE GONE, kicked out. Everyone who is familiar with the MC knows that!!!
Bad juju, baby.
Ebert has been an unrepentant lefty from the git-go. It’s annoying that he does know something about the movies, and infuriating that he really can write.
I had no idea DePalma did “Casualties of War.” Man...what a TERRIBLE movie! Penn was a cartoon character in that movie—easily one of the most pathetic, scenery-chewing roles I’ve ever seen. Way to go, DePalma.
Unfortunately, he’s also a pretty good director. The first “Mission: Impossible” was good, and the scene with Cruise sitting across from Voight, figuring out that Voight was the bad guy is one of my favorite scenes in any movie. Oh well.
“How is Cuban making money IN TEXAS!”
Cuban made his Billion by selling the domain name “business.com” during the dot-com craze.
Beyond that, he’s living off of investments. If you get 5% return every year from $1 billion, that’s a whole lot of money. This effort was funded by the equivalent of a trip to a NBA ball game for the average income.
Just in time for Oscar consideration, Redacted, Rendition, Lions for Lambs. Coming to the news in February.
(((Hugs)))Happy Thanksgiving Beautiful:)
“Cuban made his Billion by selling the domain name “business.com” during the dot-com craze.”
Cuban’s fortune came from creating broadcast.com which he sold to Yahoo for about $6 billion.
“Rush” - Doesn’t seem very nuanced...
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The radical left and other America-haters will be lining up to see it.
I pledge to never see another de palma (no capitalization out of disrespect) film. No great sacrafice. The only movie he made that I remotely liked was “Wise Guys”.
It was “broadcast.com”. Yahoo bought the domain name for 5.7 Billion in Yahoo stock. Now, Yahoo doesn’t even use the domain, lol. All that money for nothing.
Cuban is such as a$$hat.
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