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MEDVED: "WE WERE SOLDIERS" deserves Best Picture Oscar Nomination
MICHAEL MEDVED, Film Critic/Talk Radio Show Host ^
| 12/27/2002
| ALOHA RONNIE
Posted on 12/27/2002 11:48:10 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE
NEVER FORGET
...December 27, 2002 =
...A Day like all Days except...
...Film Critic and National Talk Radio Show Host MICHAEL MEDVED stated that MEL GIBSON's...
.."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. -&- .."SIGNS"..
...along with...
.."THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The 2 Towers"..
...deserve to be nominated for Best Picture Oscars for next year's Academy Award World TV Event to again be hosted by Comedian Extraordinaire STEVE MARTIN in the Hollywood KODAK Theater.
...MICHAEL MEDVED went on to say that both .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. -&- .."SIGNS".. were extraordinary films about the Realities of LOVE and HATE in this World.
AMEN.
For more on .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. and our 7th Cavalry Battle in the Valley of Death known as the IA DRANG Valley of 1965 it so very well depicts see...
http://www.WeWereSoldiers.com
http://www.lzxray.com
as well as the many .."WE WERE SOLDIERS" / Battle of IA DRANG-1965 / IA DRANG-Sept. 11th Hero RICK RESCORLA.. Freerepublic.com Threads that I have bookmarked, simply by hitting the .."ALOHA RONNIE".. on this Post.
...And then, mark your Ballots, Academy Members.
Signed:
ALOHA RONNIE Guyer / Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 / Landing Zone Falcon / Former Radioman to Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE (MEL GIBSON) / Former High School Classmate to STEVE MARTIN
T'was ALL IN GOD's Plan, perhaps...?
NEVER FORGET
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2003; academyawards; clinton; communism; corrupt; evil; hillary; michaelmedved; oscar; weweresoldiers
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To: river rat
NEVER FORGET
...When recenly asked on TV about the...
.. www.Newsmax.com ..
...TAPE RECORDING of BILL CLINTON publically admitting to a New York Businessmens' Luncheon last February that he DID in fact deny the Sudan's 3 Free Offers for extradicting OSAMA bin LADEN for trial for his terrorist actions against America during the 1990's...
...HILLARY RODHAM stated that...
.."Oh my, EVERYTHING changed for all the Presidents after September 11, 2001."
...Actualy NOTHING changed since she and BILL CLINTON still did deny us 3 Free Shots at getting OSAMA bin LADEN here before he could unleash the Attacks of Sept. 11th on US.
HILLARY RODHAM knows well what Communist JOSEPH STALIN knew =
BLACK is WHITE, WHITE is BLACK =
The Communist Dialectic is like a Rock ..that KILLS.
STALIN ended up killing over 40 Million of his own people in the last Century.
How many will it be in this one for HILLARY RODHAM as the new Head of the Democrat Party that's just thomping at the bit to take us over in a new -Time of War- in a new Century with an Enemy that is now just around the corner and up our street...?
To: kstewskis
Yep, or something. That alien eventually came back to "haunt" him too!Ah! That was a sign too...
To: river rat
...The Communist Dialectic is like a Rock that KILLS =
...Just ask RICK RESCORLA and his loving Widow SUSAN.
To: ALOHA RONNIE
To: ALOHA RONNIE
To: habs4ever; river rat; Lexington Green; Clinton Is Scum; goldilucky; Joy Angela; miss print; ...
To: Rocko
I agree with you on SIGNS. So disappointing. But I also was not crazy about SOLDIERS.
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posted on
12/28/2002 1:48:34 PM PST
by
Hildy
To: Tijeras_Slim
...Here's a RICK RESCORLA Ping to U, Sir...
To: ALOHA RONNIE
By the way I highly recommend the buying the DVD version, I saw it in the movie theater but got the DVD for Christmas. I enjoyed watching the scenes that were cut from the movie. Especially the LAKE SCENE. It's hillarious, and Sam Elliot was a Great Top Kick.
To: ALOHA RONNIE
...Actually, Diana Rose, I've been telling folks ever since my seeing .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. that it was more a Woman's Movie than a Man's... Now I have to see it!
My cousin served in Vietnam, and now his brother's son is going to IRAQ as part of ground troops (reported in today's papers...Ground Troops Ordered to Gulf)
May God bring him safely home.
To: ALOHA RONNIE
...it was really RICK RESCORLA and his lifelong Army Buddy and Terrorism Expert DAN HILL that infiltrated New Jersey Mosques to track down that Blind Moslem Cleric in the Brookly Mosque and then turn him over to Authorities... ...NOT the lying Enemy Within CLINTONS...!!!
Barbara Olson and Rick Rescorla.
September 11, 2001
No wonder Hillary was BEAMING on that day...
To: Hildy
I can't really argue.
52
posted on
12/28/2002 2:40:06 PM PST
by
Rocko
To: river rat
maybe he's a newbie...
to the planet ;-)
53
posted on
12/28/2002 2:56:37 PM PST
by
evad
To: agincourt1415
...May I also suggest looking into ...Director/Screenwriter RANDALL WALLACE's outstanding book...
.."WE WERE SOLDIERS" - The Screenplay..
...that's accesible thru a link on the Home Page of our Battle of IA DRANG-1965 Webstite...
http://www.lzxray.com
GARRY OWEN, Sir (7th Cav CUSTER Salute)
To: patriciaruth; HairOfTheDog
The trailers make it seem like three hours of dark and violent battles, which is what I didn't like about LOTR. Good heavens, if that is all you got out of FOTR, then please DON'T GO!!!
Dan
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posted on
12/28/2002 3:59:01 PM PST
by
BibChr
To: ALOHA RONNIE
I've read about 5 books on Custer and I met one of his relatives in the Air Force, G.A.Custer III, he acted like he was tired of talking about the History, I never tire of reading about it for some reason. Also recommend the Scene "Briefing Westmoreland and Secy Defense" (was not in the theater release) after the battle, its on the DVD. Mel Gibson knows how to pick his movie projects.
To: patriciaruth; HairOfTheDog
Haven't seen TTT yet. The trailers make it seem like three hours of dark and violent battles, which is what I didn't like about LOTR.Say, while you're avoiding TTT, which you've so expertly summed up, I thought I might warn you away from other movies that would also be wastes of your time:
- Ben Hur hours of chariot races; who needs it?
- The Quiet Man hours of people talking in some foreign accent; who needs it?
- Any Move About Jesus or Biblical Themes hours of outdoor shots, not one car or TV in sight; who needs it?
- Saving Private Ryan hours of bright and bloody battles; who needs it?
- Sophie's Choice hours of some gal with an accent; who needs it?
- Schindler's List hours of mostly black and white shots of people who aren't even American; who needs it?
- Gone with the Wind hours of medium-bright and bloody Civil War battles; who needs it?
Think of all the time I've saved you!
Dan
57
posted on
12/28/2002 4:16:29 PM PST
by
BibChr
To: BibChr; patriciaruth
Dan, she didn't like the battling part of FOTR, and TTT seems like more of that so she thinks she might not like it. Not everyone does like epic-war movies, especially women.
Patriciaruth, Half of the movie storyline is war epic, but half of it is continuing Frodo's journey, so if you liked that part of the story, you may enjoy the movie in part anyway. Even the battle sequences have a lot of human element in them. Give it a shot.
To: HairOfTheDog; patriciaruth
Hair, if she can watch the epic saga of love and devotion and bravery and sacrifice and heroism and good vs. evil, and cluelessly dismiss it as three hours of dark and bloody battles, she doesn't have what it takes to appreciate TTT. And a great deal besides.
PR, if that's how you see movies, save your money, and save us having to hear your complaints.
Dan
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posted on
12/28/2002 4:34:06 PM PST
by
BibChr
To: BibChr
I read it differently than you. The way I read it, she said the battles were the part of FoTR she didn't like... If she really meant she didn't like FoTR as a whole, then of course she won't like TTT. But she wasn't complaining, she was comparing the movies she had seen vs. not seen and why.
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