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Topic: Let the hypocrisy begin
started by: Leisher

Posted by Leisher on Jul. 01 2004,13:01

< A new documentary >.

I wonder how many of this country's "open minded" lefties will be running out to see this film on opening night?

Posted by Guest on Jul. 01 2004,13:37

If there's one thing I've learned the last 3 years, it is that talking about how much America sucks is a sign of true patriotism... but saying that America is a great place to be means you are trying to silence dissent.

America sucks = patriotism.
America is great = fascism.

Posted by unkbill on Jul. 01 2004,14:14

I don't think I will go out of my way to see that one either.

Posted by Guest on Jul. 01 2004,15:08

Heh, here's a review of another movie in the "America doesn't suck" vein.

< http://www.theonionavclub.com/cinema/index.php?issue=4026#review2 >

I'll just give you the words that set the tone of the review:

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a star-spangled plea for the hearts and minds of Disney shareholders

steaming pile

commercial-slick vignettes

a hilarious camp artifact

apple-pie mythmaking at its most insidiously thoughtless

the shame of Abu Ghraib

the cornpone idea of America

red, white, and blue clichés

Technically, the film is a documentary, but it's closer to an advertisement or a state-funded propaganda film, calibrated to appeal to emotional, unreflective instincts through shimmering hogwash. If this is a real cross-section of America, then where are the needy, the disenfranchised, and the assholes?
—Scott Tobias

I think we found one of the assholes, Scott.

Posted by Vince on Jul. 06 2004,16:29

heheh...

Posted by thibodeaux on Jul. 06 2004,18:18

Anybody got a link to the Onion's review of F.9/11?

Posted by Guest on Jul. 06 2004,18:21

Quote (thibodeaux @ July 06 2004,21:18)

Anybody got a link to the Onion's review of F.9/11?

Same link as the one a few posts up. Same guy reviewed both movies. My impression of his F911 review was that he was trying to gush without gushing.