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heba · #**496** (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 10:43 PM

i just watched american gangster
two thumbs up

Skinwalker · #**497** (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by TrentReznor858

Don't worry about it. GO ENGLISH PEOPLE FOR FREEING THE SLAVES!!! BOO YAH!!!

Why do you hate the British so much? Are you still hung up on the Revolution or something? A good film for you would be The Patriot then. Makes the English look real bad.

Skinwalker · #**498** (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Bluestar

hmm, tom hanks is great, i think he's wonderful but the storyline didn't interest me so much and considering the time it came out, i just thought it could be used as propaganda and didn't think that was particularly useful. Eh, it also became a parody, it was all about the soldiers and the unsaid things about war, which the new soldier learns towards the end. Yet the film was explaining it quite bluntly, so the unsaid things were said

and i just thought, what's the point now? There's no consistency

Huh? What propaganda are you thinking of?

TrentReznor858 · #**499** (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by MoonStar

Scarface- the 1932 black and white one. It was okay, interesting to watch such an oldie, it was very silent-film like with the way the scenes move. apparently it was a big hit back then. I haven't seen the Al Pacino Scarface so can't compare.

WHAT!!!!

TrentReznor858 · #**500** (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Skinwalker

Why do you hate the British so much? Are you still hung up on the Revolution or something? A good film for you would be The Patriot then. Makes the English look real bad.

I dont hate the British I am half British. I hate movies like Amazing Grace.

Skinwalker · #**501** (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by TrentReznor858

I dont hate the British I am half British. I hate movies like Amazing Grace.

Why? Because it's a true story?

TrentReznor858 · #**502** (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Skinwalker

Why? Because it's a true story?

IS it really that difficult to understand? The movie. regardless of it being true or not, is propaganda. I hate Politically Correct movies that go for that easy emotional pull.

IbnMardhiyah · #**503** (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 12:32 AM

At approximately 0:55 into this trailer for Jumper, they've got this track playing in the background, just after when the dude in the Mercedes drives the car out of the window.

Does anyone recognize it?

[I need the name]

Timbit · #**504** (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 12:33 AM

I just saw the Friends episode where they discover that Phoebe is a porn star.

And by just, I mean three days ago.

Bluestar · #**505** (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Skinwalker

Huh? What propaganda are you thinking of?

I remember it being shown on TV a lot during 2004/5 during the whole Afghanistan/Iraq thing. So i suppose i couldn't get it out of that context

vegetables · #**506** (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 01:50 AM

Good movie for those who follow BSG. I was a bit disappointed with the lack of cylon ass whomping but it was interesting seeing how the military fleet dealt with the civilian populace...

TariqBinSleepin · #**507** (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 02:48 AM

HITMAN and it sucked.

GOTFIVEONIT · #**508** (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 04:45 AM

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Deel · #**509** (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 11:35 AM

Bobby Z.
nothing great. it made me think it was a remake of Vin Diesel's XXX.

same story line.

Skinwalker · #**510** (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by TrentReznor858

IS it really that difficult to understand? The movie. regardless of it being true or not, is propaganda. I hate Politically Correct movies that go for that easy emotional pull.

I would suggest that it doesn't fit your political world view and that is the reason. Not because it is supposedly 'propaganda', but because it shows the story of a good Christian, white man doing something about an injustice of his time. From Variable's account it's a slow moving film filled with dour old men involved in discussions etc. Hardly the stuff that propaganda is made of. Believe me, the British have a lot to answer for as do the Spanish and the French according to my historical viewpoint, but I would still give credit where credit is due, and the reminder that there were good people all over the world, from many different backgrounds at various times in history trying to write wrongs, is just the stuff that the human spirit needs to witness.