Posted on 11/08/2023 11:03:03 AM PST by nickcarraway
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The latest celebrity to spark outrage with her thoughts on the Israel-Hamas war is Angelina Jolie.
On October 7, Hamas launched a deadly militant attack on Israel by land, sea and air. Israel has subsequently struck back at Hamas in Gaza. As of November 1, at least 1,400 people have been killed in Israel in the conflict, while over 8,500 people had been killed in Gaza, both figures according to the Associated Press.
The actress shared a lengthy statement to Instagram on October 30, in which she expressed support for civilians on both sides of the conflict.
"Like millions around the world I have spent the last weeks sick and angry at the terrorist attack in Israel, the death of so many innocent civilians, and wondering how best to help," the statement reads.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Why does what she ever say matter?
I’ve never watched anything Angelina Jolie has starred in, and now I never will. She’s as dead to me as Arnold Schwarzenegger.
She’s very confused , must be getting OLD
Typical equivocal female who doesn’t really know what she’s talking about.
She had ‘fans’? Actual fans?
Angelina Jolie has had at least 16 known tattoos:
Don’t know why women do that to themselves. And she is beautiful.
“Changeling” was good. And I thought she was good in “Gone In Sixty Seconds”.
I wonder if and what she thinks about how things would have gone for her if she was at the concert where Hamas attacked.
It doesn’t. As a matter fact, nothing she says matters.
I have to admit that I am one of those guys who don't even like clowns.
I get annoyed if I accidently mark on myself with my ink pen.
I suspect it is because of being taught in my youth the admonishment against defiling the Holy Temple.
Writing to the church at Corinth, the apostle Paul stated, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy which temple ye are” (I Cor. 3:16-17).But I have an undercurrent of the late sixties, early seventies of living in purity with nature, which is really an extension of the admonishment in my mind. Nature as God intended.
Any comment from her falls right into my “Who gives a s**t” file.
I understand your feelings on this completely.
That said, I did see one movie with Angelina Jolie in it that I really, REALLY liked, and that is “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”.
Hilariously done movie with her and Brad Pitt who are some kind of governmental assassins working for different secret agencies, each married to the other without knowing that they were both assassins. I recommend that to anyone with no reservations, and married couples are likely to appreciate the humor even more.
But of all the other movies she has made, I have never seen any of them. I started to watch the Tomb Raider movie once, but found it completely boring. She has big boobs, puffy lips, wears skin-tight clothes, and carries weapons, but that is a formula used in hundreds or thousands of movies, not original at all.
I did take umbrage with a movie she directed, “Unbroken”, a true story, because she cut out the single most impressive part of that story, the POW who crashed a B-24 in the Pacific and was captured and tortured by the Japanese in the camps. That was all good. But in real life, after the war, he spiraled into alcoholism, nearly strangled his pregant wife as he had a nightmare about the Japanese guards torturing him, but was saved by God through Billy Graham. He went back to Japan after the war (and after he found God) and forgave his captors (many of whom were still in jail for their war crimes)
She did not even spend one second on that part of the story, the single most powerful part of the man’s story. That movie could have been great. It could have been a classic. But she made the decision to downplay that aspect of the story, which made the move not great, just better than average.
Two other movies that were worth watching were The Tourist and Salt both from 2010.
Hmm. I may get those from the library...:)
Thanks for the reference-
8,500 killed in Gaza, according to AP. Where’d AP get that figure? I heard they keep using data lies from Hamas, or Gaza “officials,” i.e. Hamas.
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