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Capt_Nemo
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14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Broadcast News' Predi... · 1 reply · +8 points
Thanks to the Internet, people can choose who they want to listen to. People can also find news that use their own beliefs as a starting point.
Some of of the people who call for unbiased reporting, are ones who want to hide their beliefs as fact (to whit I point to the deluded Michelle Maddow) or who are denial that the world has moved on without them ( to whit i point to Tom Brokaw and his cohorts who called the internet a sewer for reporting the Van Jones petition).
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - HuffPo Slams 'Act of V... · 0 replies · +7 points
The problem is that audiences would have seen that for what it was. A peacenik would have been very out of place in a movie like that. Not to mention that it was a tired cliche was as old as the hills. And it would have damped the movie experience every time the peacenik was on screen.
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - HuffPo Slams 'Act of V... · 2 replies · +14 points
We are living in an age where movies seem to be formulaic and repeats of the same old crap they've been releasing for generations. It gets so bad that even movie critics start to complain.
But then somebody comes up with a movie with new ideas that throws out old Cliches an old conventions and what do the critics do? They complain about how the new film is not following the old dynamic.
The author of the Huffington Post piece admits this. He blatantly requests that filmmakers go back to how films portrayed the Vietnam War.
It's been the standard for a while (see "American Gangster." It's time for change. So I say, "yes!" Get the Pentagon off the sidelines and into the movie game.
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Lies... · 0 replies · +5 points
As to how effective it was in the long run? Well, Bush did get re-elected. The anti-war movement went in to hibernation when Obama came to power. Guantanamo is operating. And as a backlash to what happened above, the right started to organize so they could counter what was being thrown at them. Breitbart being one example. We're not big yet. But we can force the left to confront questions they were never used to be confronted with.
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - New Sci-Fi Comedy Feat... · 0 replies · +4 points
WOW!
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Halle Berry Takes VOD ... · 0 replies · +1 points
The Oscar was NEVER a guarentee of employment. Ask Louise Fletcher how her career went after her Oscar for Nurse Ratched.
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The Politics of 'Star ... · 1 reply · +1 points
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The Politics of 'Star ... · 3 replies · +1 points
The reason why they could do this back then was because most media and entertainment didn't take the Nazis to task for the suffering of their victims. As I've said all along, it wasn't until the 70's when they started to be portrayed as perverse and amoral. Between the 40's and the 70's the main argument against the Nazis was that the security they offered was not worth the price. Secret Police, army patrols in the streets, flagrant racism was too high a price to pay for a "efficient and secure" society.
What profit a man if he gains the world but loses his soul.
"Patterns of Force" was a variation on that theme.
Today, we now know that the Nazis had NOTHING to offer. Good riddance.
And the point, I have been trying to make is that this was the best arguement they could offer back then. No attention was paid to the great suffering they caused in their quest to make a fairytale society.
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The Politics of 'Star ... · 1 reply · +1 points
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The Politics of 'Star ... · 3 replies · +3 points
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw8sDJtGaqI
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