Comments on: BDS Alert: Depressing Movies The Fault Of Bush http://floppingaces.net/2009/12/08/bds-alert-depressing-movies-the-fault-of-bush/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bds-alert-depressing-movies-the-fault-of-bush Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:53:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tyree http://floppingaces.net/2009/12/08/bds-alert-depressing-movies-the-fault-of-bush/#comment-258847 tyree Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:33:31 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=31451#comment-258847 Years ago I had a subscription to GQ magazine. I was reading an article about sleeve length on coats and jackets. While discussing this subject the author wrote that the Presidents sleeve length made him look like a monkey. I canceled my subscription and haven't picked up an issue since. As for Hollywood, they can keep their operatic tragedies. I'll keep my money. I would like to see a film about the excesses of Soviet socialism. "The Lives of Others" was great but it was not a Hollywood production. Perhaps a film that shows how Walter Duranty lied to cover up the Soviet starvation of the Ukrainian population. They could include Uncle Joe executing his officer Corps and installing Commissars to check on the armies loyalty. The film could show Stalin and Hitler signing their non-aggression pact. They could document all the Soviet spies that were in the US. Instead we get Senator McCarthy shoehorned in to "Julie and Julia". That makes "McCarthyism" and Republican bashing one of the most common story threads in Hollywood films. They can keep it. And they wonder why more Democrats watch Fox News than the other channels. We want some part of our lives to be "Fair and Balanced".

Years ago I had a subscription to GQ magazine. I was reading an article about sleeve length on coats and jackets. While discussing this subject the author wrote that the Presidents sleeve length made him look like a monkey. I canceled my subscription and haven’t picked up an issue since.

As for Hollywood, they can keep their operatic tragedies. I’ll keep my money.

I would like to see a film about the excesses of Soviet socialism. “The Lives of Others” was great but it was not a Hollywood production. Perhaps a film that shows how Walter Duranty lied to cover up the Soviet starvation of the Ukrainian population. They could include Uncle Joe executing his officer Corps and installing Commissars to check on the armies loyalty. The film could show Stalin and Hitler signing their non-aggression pact. They could document all the Soviet spies that were in the US.

Instead we get Senator McCarthy shoehorned in to “Julie and Julia”. That makes “McCarthyism” and Republican bashing one of the most common story threads in Hollywood films. They can keep it.

And they wonder why more Democrats watch Fox News than the other channels. We want some part of our lives to be “Fair and Balanced”.

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]]> By: newguy40 http://floppingaces.net/2009/12/08/bds-alert-depressing-movies-the-fault-of-bush/#comment-257887 newguy40 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:19:44 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=31451#comment-257887 Sorry. I think you are a bit off base on this one. Has nothing to do with Bush or why this was made, IMO. The McCarthy book is relentlessly depressing. Also, Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West is equally violent. Wonderful prose though in this one. The man can write, IMO. I won't see this movie. Too depressing for me.

Sorry. I think you are a bit off base on this one. Has nothing to do with Bush or why this was made, IMO.

The McCarthy book is relentlessly depressing.

Also, Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West is equally violent. Wonderful prose though in this one. The man can write, IMO.

I won’t see this movie. Too depressing for me.

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]]> By: tfhr http://floppingaces.net/2009/12/08/bds-alert-depressing-movies-the-fault-of-bush/#comment-257847 tfhr Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:07:26 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=31451#comment-257847 Don't much care for most of the fare offered by Hollywood these days, particularly these apocalyptic tomes. I would make an exception though if someone produced a doom and gloom disaster flick where we got to see the vast majority of Hollywood stars, playing themselves, reacting to the end of the world. Of course that would be set in 2012, the year in which the Mayan calendar comes to an end and Sarah Palin is elected. Since "2012" has already been taken they have to find another title. I would suggest "Palinoia: BDS II".

Don’t much care for most of the fare offered by Hollywood these days, particularly these apocalyptic tomes. I would make an exception though if someone produced a doom and gloom disaster flick where we got to see the vast majority of Hollywood stars, playing themselves, reacting to the end of the world. Of course that would be set in 2012, the year in which the Mayan calendar comes to an end and Sarah Palin is elected. Since “2012″ has already been taken they have to find another title. I would suggest “Palinoia: BDS II”.

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