Or Beowulf if you like a little blood and gore. (ok a lot of blood and gore)
yikes if it makes “Santa Claus Conques the Martians” look good then De Palma is not just jumped the shark, he has jumped the whole aquarium.
I went to Beowolf at a 3d IMAX theatre and it was pretty good. Kind of souped up Shrek graphics and very violent and some icky stuff and a CGI Angelia Jolie very naked. Not for kids. Good action and acceptable story.
while we’re at it,
beowulf
sux.
Considering this is from the author of the Golden Turkey Awards, that’s saying a lot.
".."Having lived through Vietnam," De Palma observes, "you just can't believe America would get into this kind of situation again. It's inconceivable. And the architects of this war all worked in some phase of the government during Vietnam and yet here they are and it's all happening all over again. You just go, `How can this be?'"
For De Palma, the truly terrifying thing is the repetition, the fact America seems doomed to be living out its worst nightmares all over again, and that the lessons of history can go so perilously unheeded.
"I told that story in Casualties of War," he reminds you. "But when it happened again, I had to tell it again, because for me it's like a metaphor for these types of invasions and occupations we get ourselves into. You to go war under made-up pretences that you find out don't make any sense when you get there. You're in an extremely hostile environment that's nothing like you've seen back home. You're surrounded by a people who are speaking a different language and are so alien to your culture you can't get a handle on it. The only sense you can make out of it is, `I protect my brother's back and he protects mine.' You band together and that's the only sense you can make. You've got orders and you protect your brother soldiers."
For De Palma, this is a recipe for atrocity, especially when you stir in inexperienced kids who have enlisted out of poverty, ignorance or a misplaced sense of patriotic duty..."
The above is from the Toronto 'Red' Star. DePalma's other atrocity film, "Casualties of War" was another vile anti-American, anti-Military polemic starring Sean Penn. He hasn't improved with age. De Palma deserves much worse than a bad review, but nothing much happens to these people, probably because of all those kids with, "a misplaced sense of patriotic duty."
What he should have said: "I will never see a Brian De Palma film again."
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
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!!!
Just in time for Oscar consideration, Redacted, Rendition, Lions for Lambs. Coming to the news in February.
bump
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”.
Where are the Joseph McCarthy’s when we need them? Why is there no longer a House Un-American Committee? Why is there only an ACLU? Why? Why? Why?
Another movie bashing our military, how cutting edge!
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
If I’m correct, this mess got some critical acclaim overseas.