Posted on 09/28/2007 1:53:08 PM PDT by LS
Edited on 09/28/2007 2:36:32 PM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
Just looking at the excerpts from the reviews, they all seem to bemoan the fact the movie doesn’t take a absurdly ‘nuanced’ (read: anti-American or relativist) viewpoint and has clearly identifiable ‘bad guys’ as if we have to sit there and wonder who between the honorable AMerican and the nihilist Islamist bomber is the good guy.
These people really are a piece of work. You can really tell the reviewers who were bothered by something too pro-American.
I agree. Both he and Will Smith are super-star quality, but Smith usually can do it with any script, and Foxx, as you say, needs help.
Don’t trust me, either. See the movie.
I’m definitely going to see this one!
I don’t see in any way how one comes out of this sympathetic to the “House of Saud.” Maybe to a few individual Saudis.
The one scene where Jennifer Garner (ahem!) “introduces” the terrorist’s “glory” to the end of her knife make it worth it.
Thanks for clarifying. Actually we have never taken our 15 year old to an “R” rated movie before.
I thought this might be a good way to expose her to the Islamofaciast threat?
You forgot Collateral, He was good in that also./Just Asking - seoul62........
Oooops, the 15 year old stays home.....
The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel (liberal rag) actually bothered to review Tom Clancy’s book “Without Remorse” when it came out.
The only problem was that the reviewer, NEVER BOTHERED TO READ THE BOOK!
The reviewer missed the fact that “Without Remorse” did -not- feature Clancy’s ubiquitous Jack Ryan. Rather it featured Ryan’s “go to guy” John Kelly (Code Name: Mr. Clark).
I talked to the reviewer’s editor and even he didn’t seem too bothered by his employee’s laziness.
Lazy liberals......
Also thought Jamie Fox was pretty great in “Bait” where they planted that tracking device in him to catch the genius who stole millions in gold, buried in the ‘Bronx Zoo.’
It has to do with how most countries, America and Saudi included, don’t give a rats ass about problems that aren’t their own. And anybody expecting the Saudis to give a damn about America’s terrorism problem whenever it isn’t also their terrorism problem might as well expect water to run uphill. We spent most of the 70s ignoring other people’s terrorism problems because they weren’t OUR terrorism problem, now it’s the 00s and nobody has any right to be surprised or annoyed at other countries not paying attention to our problem.
His review is here.
Didn’r say it does. The House of Saud is the crux of our problem in the MidEast. One whole side of the House of Bush is in its pocket and so is the House of Clinton. No doubt in my mind, and this is of course speculation, that the Administration knows that Al Qaeda could not have sustained itself in Iraq except that the Saudis want it so.
Don’t see it this way. I think that Saudi Arabia is a cheap sponsor of terrorism. Without its money, the insurgency in Iraq would have creased three years ago.
I’m sure some in Saudi are. Of course we’ve also found organizations right here that are giving the bad guys money. Doesn’t mean there aren’t some people in both countries that want them stopped. Remember a couple of years ago a couple of bombs went off in Saudi, I’m sure they lost a few allies that day.
The government has done nothing significant to halt the flow of money from “private” sources” in Saudi Arabia.
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