Hey Hollywood...we don't want your Anti-War/Anti-US films - Part 2
01-19-08, 12:33 PM
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Hey Hollywood...we don't want your Anti-War/Anti-US films - Part 2
As if the following wasn't bad enough
Lions for Lambs aka "Lementing for Liberals"
Rendition aka "All Muslims must naturally be terrorist and therefore tortured"
In the Valley of Elah aka "U.S. Soldiers are murdering thugs"
Redacted aka "U.S. Soldiers are murdering thugs and Rapists, The Sequel"
Now Hollywood is kicking out Taxi to the Dark Side aka "All Muslims must naturally be terrorist and therefore tortured, The Sequel"
They are relentless. Hollywood has waged their own war on terror with all this bombs.
Lions for Lambs aka "Lementing for Liberals"
Rendition aka "All Muslims must naturally be terrorist and therefore tortured"
In the Valley of Elah aka "U.S. Soldiers are murdering thugs"
Redacted aka "U.S. Soldiers are murdering thugs and Rapists, The Sequel"
Now Hollywood is kicking out Taxi to the Dark Side aka "All Muslims must naturally be terrorist and therefore tortured, The Sequel"
They are relentless. Hollywood has waged their own war on terror with all this bombs.
01-19-08, 12:42 PM
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How can you post those laughably narrow-minded and distorted descriptions and expect people to take you or this thread seriously? Did you even read the description of Taxi to the Dark Side?
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
01-19-08, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by dugan
Have you seen any of the movies you're criticising? Just wondering.
01-19-08, 01:17 PM
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oh jesus, not again...can't anyone understand that hollywood's been making anti-war/anti-US movies for 50 years??? It doesn't even matter because whether they are anti-war/anti-US or pro-war, WAR MOVIES ARE GODDAMN ENTERTAINING!!! So why would anyone in their right mind stop making them???
By the way, as an anti-war person myself, I just bought the DVDs of pro-US military movies of THE GREAT RAID, FLYBOYS, and even STEALTH, and thought they were all awesome!
By the way, as an anti-war person myself, I just bought the DVDs of pro-US military movies of THE GREAT RAID, FLYBOYS, and even STEALTH, and thought they were all awesome!
01-19-08, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by abrg923
Can we close this thread, please?
Even if others are not so good with tact...
01-19-08, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by B5Erik
Well, if you want people to be tolerant and willing to listen to your opinions, you've got to be tolerant of others - even if you strongly disagree.
01-19-08, 08:54 PM
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National Public Radio story about TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
In December 2002, a 22-year-old Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar was detained and sent to Bagram Air Base for interrogation by U.S. soldiers.
Dilawar was suspected of involvement in a rocket attack against U.S. troops.
Five days after his interrogation began, he was dead.
A new documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side, tells the story of Dilawar and his death, and links the abuses at Bagram with techniques used at Guantanamo and later, at Abu Ghraib in Iraq.
The film was written and directed by Alex Gibney, who also made the 2005 documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room — a portrait of another culture that ran amok.
The U.S. Army said Dilawar died of natural causes. Gibney tells Melissa Block that his death might have gone unnoticed if it weren't for one clue: a note, written in English, clipped to the man's death certificate and discovered by New York Times reporter Carlotta Gall.
It said: "Cause of death: Homicide."
Gibney talks with Melissa Block about his film, how he was able to secure the cooperation of soldiers involved in the case, determining which images were too graphic to include and what he hoped to achieve with Taxi to the Dark Side.
"I worried about the worldwide reaction, yet at the same time, I felt that in some way, making the film was a kind of patriotic act. I think after this abuse has taken place, one of the things we as a nation have to do is show the rest of the world that we're capable of investigating ourselves," the filmmaker says.
Listen to the story here (8 minutes)
In December 2002, a 22-year-old Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar was detained and sent to Bagram Air Base for interrogation by U.S. soldiers.
Dilawar was suspected of involvement in a rocket attack against U.S. troops.
Five days after his interrogation began, he was dead.
A new documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side, tells the story of Dilawar and his death, and links the abuses at Bagram with techniques used at Guantanamo and later, at Abu Ghraib in Iraq.
The film was written and directed by Alex Gibney, who also made the 2005 documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room — a portrait of another culture that ran amok.
The U.S. Army said Dilawar died of natural causes. Gibney tells Melissa Block that his death might have gone unnoticed if it weren't for one clue: a note, written in English, clipped to the man's death certificate and discovered by New York Times reporter Carlotta Gall.
It said: "Cause of death: Homicide."
Gibney talks with Melissa Block about his film, how he was able to secure the cooperation of soldiers involved in the case, determining which images were too graphic to include and what he hoped to achieve with Taxi to the Dark Side.
"I worried about the worldwide reaction, yet at the same time, I felt that in some way, making the film was a kind of patriotic act. I think after this abuse has taken place, one of the things we as a nation have to do is show the rest of the world that we're capable of investigating ourselves," the filmmaker says.
Listen to the story here (8 minutes)
01-19-08, 08:56 PM
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Still waiting for a R1 special edition of this
-"Daddy, what is democracy?"
-"I don't know, son. It seems to have something to do with young men having to go out and kill each other."
-"But Daddy, what if I don't want to go?"
-"Son, any man would be proud to give up his child's life for democracy."
-"Daddy, what is democracy?"
-"I don't know, son. It seems to have something to do with young men having to go out and kill each other."
-"But Daddy, what if I don't want to go?"
-"Son, any man would be proud to give up his child's life for democracy."
Last edited by inri222; 01-19-08 at 09:06 PM.
01-20-08, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by zombiezilla
I took a Taxi to the Darkside once, but just to pick up some smoke. Then I took said Taxi back to my side of town.