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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 4:01 pm
by Leisher
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: Thu Jul 01, 2004 4:37 pm
by 71-1085092892
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: Thu Jul 01, 2004 5:14 pm
by unkbill
I don't think I will go out of my way to see that one either.
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 6:08 pm
by 71-1085092892
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:
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: Tue Jul 06, 2004 7:29 pm
by Vince
heheh...
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 9:18 pm
by thibodeaux
Anybody got a link to the Onion's review of F.9/11?
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 9:21 pm
by 71-1085092892
thibodeaux wrote: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.