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  • #46
    "Say what you want about Mel Gibson, at least the man understands story structure"
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    • #47
      300 was a pro-war movie, and it did quite well. Hoo-ah!

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      • #48
        Positive about "We Were Soldiers" was that the Vietnamese weren't depicted simply as nazis. Aside from that it was just a war movie with a "war sucks - but sometimes individuals have to go through it - at home families wait - the hero returns" message much like described above by DM. It wasn't really pro-war, and not clearly anti-war either IMO.
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        • #49
          Bah, that movie was filled with cliches. The 1SG character was ****ing retarded.
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          • #50
            Originally posted by Oerdin
            Bah, that movie was filled with cliches.
            Yes, I agree. I don't think it was overall a great movie.
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            • #51
              Originally posted by Elok
              Why has nobody mentioned that Lions for Lambs features Tom Cruise? There might still be some residual flop factor attached to his name after all the couch-jumping and Scientology-promoting.
              Errr... His last film, Mission Impossible: III, cumed $400 million. His second to last film, War of the Worlds, cumed $600 million.

              Yeh, sounds like a real has-been to me.
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              • #52
                If he could *** $400 million wouldn't he just stay at home all day watching porn and wacking off?

                On another note DanS's last post just helps to prove what people have already said in this thread. Americans like Action movies and not boring political diatribes. Feel free to continue pretending being pro or anti war was even a remote factor if it pleases you.
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                • #53
                  Originally posted by GePap
                  Think of "The Kingdom", in which brave FBI agents go hunting down terrorist after a huge attack in KSA.
                  Since when are FBI agents warriors?
                  I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                  • #54
                    There have been so many anti-war films in the past, especially after Vietnam.

                    And what's new that war films like Platoon and Full Metal jacket don't send the same message? People suffer, die, go through emotional turmoil. **** gets blown up. Yeah, people know what's going on in Iraq thanks to an all pervasive media. The News reports it 24/7 and most people are against the occupation now. Anti-war movies aren't going to add much at this point.

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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by DanS


                      Since when are FBI agents warriors?
                      Ever since being against (extraordinary) Rendition is equivalent to being anti-war
                      THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
                      AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
                      AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
                      DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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                      • #56
                        Rendition's CIA. You know, the organization with a substantial paramilitary force stocked full of special ops folks? You may have heard of it.
                        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                        • #57
                          Originally posted by LordShiva
                          Ever since being against (extraordinary) Rendition is equivalent to being anti-war
                          Anti-War on Terror. In that sense, one might describe Kingdom as being Pro-War but I never saw it.
                          I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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                          • #58
                            Originally posted by DanS
                            Errr... His last film, Mission Impossible: III, cumed $400 million. His second to last film, War of the Worlds, cumed $600 million.

                            Yeh, sounds like a real has-been to me.
                            WOTW was before he went critical-mass crazy. MI3 was expected to earn a lot more as part of a highly popular series. Cruise was given the boot from his old production company or what-have-you after the (relative) flop. There was a brief but noisy sound-bite catfight between him and his former superiors. Look it up on www.tomcruiseisnuts.com (I'm not sure if the site is still up tho').
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                            • #59
                              Originally posted by Pekka
                              I disagree.

                              Wasn't Platoon an anti-war movie as well? It just depends what people regard as anti-war movies. IMO all movies with at least bits of realism are anti-war movies.

                              Then again, we might not understand that they are actually anti-war movies.
                              Platoon sucked too. Good vs. Evil could have been handled so much more delicately than the ham-handed over-the-face-with-a-broken-bottle ****e that came with that movie.
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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by DanS


                                Since when are FBI agents warriors?
                                Since the X-files. Where were you in the '90s?
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