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14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - How 'Act of Valor' Bro... · 5 replies · +25 points

This movie was fantastic. I will be first in line to buy the Blu-ray.

I only hope that this movie tops $100,000,000 at the box office. Hopefully word of mouth combined with the TV ads and forums such as this will keep this flick alive at the box office for a while. Cracking that $100 million mark might actually get some attention from the powers that be in Hollywood.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Broadcast News' Predi... · 9 replies · +24 points

I loved this movie when I first saw it, and it is still a favorite of mine. I was 32 when this came out, active duty USAF, married and a father of three. I was well into the "change of life"...leaving the liberalism of my youth and embracing conservatism, seeing Reagan as a great leader and undeserving of the media scorn heaped upon him.

This movie spelled out EXACTLY what was wrong with "journalism". A pretty face, the ability to read well on camera...that was all that was needed to be an anchor. If you don't have a good story, make one. If you don't have ANY story, make one. I think Dan Rather, even back then, was the most egregious, trying so hard to meet or exceed Cronkite's audience acceptance. Sad to say, they're even worse today.

I watch NO television news. I get all of my news on-line, and I am very particular about where on-line I get it. Our local liberal "newspaper" is laying off workers and shrinking in size due to plumetting sales. Good Riddance.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Crystal Eager to Pound... · 1 reply · +2 points

Hmmm...seems to me Obama made this little speech AFTER Bin Laden was killed. How...convenient. It's pretty easy to back track and make yourself look good. Bush's "failed policies"...like Guantanamo...were CONTINUED by Obama. Mr. "Make no mistake about it...I'm going to close Guantanamo" sure as hell changed his mind pretty quick! And that is precisely where the intel to GET Bin Laden was initially developed. Try some critical thinking. It's hard, I know. Obama is an unrelenting fool, with more failed policies in 3 years then BOTH Bush's combined 12 years. And the country is in much worse shape, despite the propaganda machine's protestations to the contrary.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Crystal Eager to Pound... · 3 replies · +12 points

Actually, Ding, I spent 20 years in the USAF before starting my second career in Law Enforcement. I never met any SEAL's, but I knew PJ's (pararescue) and FAC's (Forward Air Controllers), both part of the Spec Ops community. Two of my instructors in the Police Academy were US Army Green Beret's...reservists, but stil Spec Ops guys who were activated on occasion.

Let's see...how can I put this. The end credits for Act of Valor lists the names of 60 SEAL's who have died since 9/11. Since 9/11...not since Obama was elected. These guys ( and Delta, and the Green Beret's and many other SpecOps guys) have been conducting missions since day one...we just didn't hear about them. Because we aren't SUPPOSED to. Their missions are classified. At least until Obama decided HE needed the publicity. Now these guys can't take a dump with the Prez issuing a press release.

And UBL was "got" because intel finally found him. The hunt had been on since 9/11. Obama just fept Bush policies in place.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Crystal Eager to Pound... · 7 replies · +6 points

How can you use the screen name "dingchavez", a character made famous by Tom Clancy, a CIA operative who kills at his government's command, and be a supporter of an empty suit like Obama? A little bit of irony there, huh?

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Crystal Eager to Pound... · 0 replies · +6 points

Wasn't going to watch it anyway.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Liberal Movie Critics ... · 0 replies · +14 points

Okay, I want to make a bet right now, for any amount of money a $38,000 a year Deputy Sheriff can afford, that the same critics who pound THIS movie will trip all over themselves praising the "Let's Kill Bin Laden" film currently in the works which will undoubtedly highlight the "leadership" and "soul searching" of President Obama.

Even though that mission was absolutely and without a doubt whatsoever a "kill" mission. Bin Laden was to be shot on sight...that was the SEAL's orders (and deseverdly so...I wouldn't have had it any other way). But in this movie, highlighting the combat capabilities of the Naval Special Warfare Group's highly trained, superbly motivated and unquestionably heroic operatives against ARMED combatants, is "war glorification".

Screw'em. Hypocritical, metrosexual pissants, all of them.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Director Oliver Stone'... · 1 reply · +1 points

What a putz! It's okay for Iran to have nukes because they're a "republic with a lot of factions, just like this country"?

Hmmm...yeah, let's allow a country who exports terrorism and has openly declared that he wants to see Israel destroyed and America "brought to it's knees" the most powerful weapon known to mankind. Yeah. That's a good idea.

This asshat hasn't got a clue.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Tosh.0' Review: Repul... · 0 replies · +4 points

Tosh makes me laugh...and cringe...many times in his allotted half hour . He doesn't just push the envelope, he tears it into itty bitty pieces.

I don't know his politics. I suspect he's pretty left. He's young and in show biz, so that's probably a given. But he's got a pretty much 360 degree field of fire.

I laughed out loud at the wheelchair clip. Hey, I'm allowed. I'm in a chair due to an auto accident. I'd woulda shot the first guy who tried to lift me up like that!

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The 2012 Grammy Awards... · 1 reply · +3 points

Tony, it's what used to be called "common courtesy". When one is in a gathering in which a prayer is offered, no matter the denomination of the person(s) offering the prayer, or your particular beliefs (or lack of them) you bow your head or remain still and silent out of respect. It hurts you not one whit, it does not make you a hypocrite, it simply shows respect for the belief of others.

That respect is the social lubricant that once kept this country running rather smoothly. It is sadly lacking now.

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