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Mark Steyn: Time for some serious art about war
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 06/06/04 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 06/05/2004 8:19:15 AM PDT by Pokey78

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1 posted on 06/05/2004 8:19:16 AM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; JohnHuang2; ...

2 posted on 06/05/2004 8:19:55 AM PDT by Pokey78 (quidnunc: A one person crusade to destroy Mark Steyn.)
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To: Pokey78

Sadly, he's right.


3 posted on 06/05/2004 8:22:28 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Pokey78

Steyn, he's the best.

Bump.


4 posted on 06/05/2004 8:27:41 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Dog Gone

The only part of The Day After Tomorrow that I like hearing about is when the tornado rips through Hollywood.


5 posted on 06/05/2004 8:31:33 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Pokey78

Poifekt!


6 posted on 06/05/2004 8:31:40 AM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: Dog Gone

Let's see how long it takes Traitorwood to do a movie about Abu Greb.


7 posted on 06/05/2004 8:32:54 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Pokey78; tet68

Greatpiece. However, there's NO WAY int he world he was sober when he wrote this....he HAD tohave a little buzz on. So, the question is, WDSD?..what does Steyn drink..Lawdy, I hope it ain't Molson's or Labatt's..my money's on Jamieson's..


8 posted on 06/05/2004 8:33:51 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: Pokey78

This is why soldiers come to rule in Later days.

They're the only figures the mob respects.


9 posted on 06/05/2004 8:34:48 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: arasina

heres the title for the movie, Abu Ghraib , WHEN THE GOOD BAD GUYS BEAT THE BAD BAD GUYS.


10 posted on 06/05/2004 8:35:51 AM PDT by lillybet (oireadmefirst)
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To: Pokey78
" When the Chrysler Building comes crashing down due to a freak cold snap brought on by Dick Cheney (I hope I'm not giving any plot details away), it's the reductio ad absurdum of the lengths Hollywood's willing to go to avoid saying a word about the fellows who actually did bring down a New York landmark".

BANG! He nailed it!

This is his best yet!

11 posted on 06/05/2004 8:37:30 AM PDT by JOE6PAK ("The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein)
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To: Pokey78; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Thanks for the ping... passing it on.


12 posted on 06/05/2004 8:39:18 AM PDT by cgk (Rumsfeld: Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens.)
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To: Pokey78

Well, yes and no. There were some great songs out of World War II. Fantastic songs. The only problem is if we watch a current movie depicting that era, the only song that's played is "In the Mood". I like the song but you would think it was the only one that was ever composed from the years 1940-45.


13 posted on 06/05/2004 8:39:38 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (Vote a Straight Republican Ballot. Rid the country of dems.)
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To: Paul Atreides; Dog Gone

This largely apolitical girl I've fallen for with a thunk that could be heard in the next country convinced me to see Day After Tomorrow with her. I didn't like the idea because I didn't like the film's politics, and I don't like seeing thousands of people die, even in a movie. But of course it was with Her, and so I did.

It was the most ridiculous movie I've ever seen. There were plot holes you could drive a truck through; of course going out was suicidal, and the temperature was dropping by "ten degrees a second", and yet people went out and survived anyway. Sheesh. If the temperature was dropping 10 degrees a second, everyone in the movie would have been dead within a minute! Argh!

It was rather interesting, though, that it was a feel-good movie that in the end played all the death and destruction for laughs. Weird. I don't get it. I suppose it makes it watchable - as I told Her at the end of the movie, "It wasn't nearly as harrowing as I would have thought". But my moral sense hated that. Geez.

Thoughts?

D


14 posted on 06/05/2004 8:45:56 AM PDT by daviddennis (;)
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To: dighton; general_re; Pokey78
Michael Moore crockumentaries
15 posted on 06/05/2004 8:47:33 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: Pokey78

> with the exception of a few country songs

He's right about that. Thanks to Toby Keith, John. M. Montgomery, Daryll Warley, and a few others for the rare exceptions.


16 posted on 06/05/2004 8:49:47 AM PDT by Paul_B
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To: daviddennis
I haven't seen the film and don't know that I will. In order to enjoy it, I think I'd have to go in with the mindset that it's a comedy.

I guess the good thing about it is that the plot and science is so absurd that many environmentalists are worried that the movie's political message will backfire.

17 posted on 06/05/2004 8:53:09 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Pokey78

Toby Keith and Ted Nugent. Sad that it's so few, and there are no movies.....none. Hollywood has become a foreign country.


18 posted on 06/05/2004 8:53:27 AM PDT by McGavin999 (If Kerry can't deal with the "Republican Attack Machine" how is he going to deal with Al Qaeda)
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To: daviddennis

I've not seen the movie, and don't plan to see it. That said, I think this movie is one of those movies that is unintentionally funny. If you have ever seen Exorcist II: The Heretic, you'll know what I mean. It was made as an election-year movie, and has all of the earmarks of one. It speaks volumes that it was heavily touted in the media, before the premiere, and endorse by Algore.


19 posted on 06/05/2004 8:54:17 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: aculeus
dissent from their dissent

I like this one among his many quotables.

20 posted on 06/05/2004 8:55:25 AM PDT by Carolinamom
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