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14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - In Memoriam: Andrew Br... · 4 replies · +7 points
And I mean THOROUGH!
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Americans Give their T... · 0 replies · +25 points
- George Orwell
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Americans Give their T... · 2 replies · +35 points
- Robert A. Heinlein
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - ‘Game of Thrones’ ... · 0 replies · +1 points
They did...it's called RIGHT NETWORK...
http://rightnetwork.com/
...and, sadly, its ratings aren't very impressive. We need to support them.
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - How 'Act of Valor' Bro... · 0 replies · +4 points
...despite the fact that one of the main characters was a pig-headed, reckless fire chief whose renegade actions resulted in a rookie firefighter becoming critically burned...
...a second main character who was a flaky, gutless slacker who can't get his act together until his older brother (the reckless fire chief) is killed, thanks to...
...a third main character who, it turns out, is a cold-blooded murderer who uses his firefighting expertise to kill a bunch of bureaucrats who were cutting the city firefighters' budget.
"Backdraft" grossed $75 million domestic and garnered heaps of critical acclaim and even a couple of Academy Award nominations....which means nothing to me. Boffo box office & "thumbs up" from critics does not equal a positive portrayal of firefighters in this case.
I don't give a runny bowel movement how successful or critically acclaimed "Hurt Locker" may have been. Nor do I care how "dramatic" or "nuanced" the character or the plot may have been.
The issue is whether or not the depiction of the EOD character in "Hurt Locker" was a positive portrayal....and it wasn't.
Waving big box office money or favorable movie reviews under my nose doesn't change that.
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - How 'Act of Valor' Bro... · 3 replies · +12 points
We didn't forget about it...we just don't agree with your assessment.
" It had a very positive look at EOD Soldiers..."
Portraying EOD Soldiers as reckless, emotionally damaged narcissists each with their own death wish is hardly what I would call a "very positive" portrayal.
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"...and was a critical and commercial smash"
The Hurt Locker was lavishly praised by the same crowd who made a collective "o"-face for movies like Redacted and Rendition.
And just because it made more money than most of the other anti-war crap films...
(17 million dollars domestic Box Office? Wow.)
...means it was only the most successful of all those anti-war failures.
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Glee,' Jeff Goldblum ... · 1 reply · +5 points
Answer:
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself,
you will succumb in every battle”
Sun Tzu: The Art of War
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Deep in the Heart' Re... · 0 replies · +6 points
Sounds like he's going to acquit himself nicely.
Hopefully, Mr. Gries will join the likes of Paul Giamatti, William H. Macy, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as a truly talented leading man who can (and will) headline movies based on his performing skills rather than any metrosexual, pretty-boy looks.
14 years ago @ Big Journalism - Keith Olbermann Now DE... · 0 replies · +3 points
Keep up the great work, Breitbart!
The more you shine the spotlight on losers like Keith, the more shameful and pathetic they appear.
14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The Horrors of Hollywo... · 0 replies · +4 points
"Bring me Solo and the wookie!"