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Day Zero (2007)
Total fascist Propaganda
I do not not know where to begin, except to agree with the other reviewers who stated that this film is pro-war. War has always has been and will be a business enterprise. The war in Iraq is/was about oil, geopolitics and nothing more. If you think otherwise there is not much hope for you. This movie was complete nonsense. I will end my review with a rather large quote from Fred Reed about the war on this subject, who could sum it up much better and more eloquently than myself. I apologize for a large quote, but this man was a soldier and he knows the score:
"A friend recently asked me what I would tell a young man thinking about enlisting in the military. (He had in mind his son.) I would tell him this, which I wish someone had told me: Kid, you are being suckered. You are being used. You need to think carefully before signing that enlistment contract.
First, notice that the men who want to send you to die were draft-dodgers. President Bush was of military age during Vietnam, but he sat out the war in the Air National Guard. The Guard was then a common way of avoiding combat. Bush could do it because he was a rich kid who went to Yale, and his family had connections.
He dodged, but he wants you to go.
Vice President Cheney, also of military age during Vietnam, also didn't go. Why? When asked by the press, he said, "I had other priorities." In other words, he was too important to risk his precious self overseas. He dodged, but wants you to go.
In talking to recruiters, you need to understand what you are up against. You are probably nineteen or twenty years old, full of energy and vinegar as we used to say, just starting to know the world. Which means that you don't yet know it.... They know that young men, the ones that are worth anything anyway, want to prove themselves, want adventure, want to show what they can do. Everything a recruiter does is carefully calculated to play on this. They go to recruiting school to learn how.
"The Few. The Proud." You don't think that came out of the Marine Corps, do you? These phrases—"An Army of One," "Be All You Can Be"--come from ad agencies in New York. Nobody in those ad agencies, I promise you, was ever in the Marine Corps. New York sells the military the way it sells soap. It has no interest in you at all.
Recruiters know exactly what they are doing. They are manly, which appeals to gutsy young guys who don't want to be mall rats. They are confident. They have a physical fitness, a clean-cut appearance that looks good compared to all those wussy lawyers in business suits. They invite you to come into a man's world. They promise you college funds. (Check and see how many actually ever get those funds. Read the small print.) Until they put you in combat. Then it's too late. You can't change your mind. They send you to jail for a long time if you do.
Combat is not the adventure you think it is. Know what happens when an RPG hits a tank? Nothing good. The cherry juice—hydraulic fluid that turns the turret—can vaporize and then blow. I saw the results in the Naval Support Activity hospital in Danang in 1967. A tank has a crew of four. Two burned to death, screaming as they tried to get out. The other two were scalded pink, under a plastic sheet that was always foggy with serum evaporating from burns where the skin had sloughed off. They probably lived. Know what burn scars look like? The recruiters won't tell you this. They know, but they won't tell you. Ever seen a guy who just took a round through the face? He's a bloody mess with his eyes gone, nasty hole where his nose was, funny white cartilage things sticking out of dripping meat. Suppose he'll ever have another girlfriend? Not freaking likely. He'll spend the next fifty years as a horror in some forsaken VA hospital.
But the recruiters won't tell you this. They want you to think that it's an adventure.
Other things happen that, depending on your head, may or may not bother you. Iraq means combat in cities. Ordinary people live there. You pop a grenade through a window, or hit a building with a burst from the Chain gun, or maybe put a tank round through it. Then you find the little girl with her bowels hanging out, not quite dead yet, with her mother screaming over what's left. You'd be surprised how much blood a small kid has.
You get to live with that picture for the rest of your life. And you will live with it. The recruiter will tell you that it doesn't happen, that it's the exception, that I'm a communist journalist. Believe him if you want. Believe him now, while you can. When you get back, you'll believe me.
Don't expect thanks from a grateful nation. Somebody might buy you a drink in a bar. That's about all you get. Many will regard you as a criminal or a fool.
Wars seem important at the time, but they usually aren't. Five years later, they are history. About sixty thousand GIs died in Vietnam. We lost. Nothing happened. It was a stupid war for nothing. Today the guys who lost faces and legs and internal organs back then are just freaks. Nobody gives a damn about them, and nobody will give a damn about you. A war is a politician's toy, but your wheelchair is forever. If you want adventure, try the fishing fleet in Alaska.
Think about it."
Mini's First Time (2006)
Skank Central
When I watched this film I got stricken with a horrible feeling. I was trying to figure it out what it was then it dawned on me; it was not the movie but rather the fact that, despite being just a movie, one is reminded about how it really is in America. The women here are just as portrayed in this flick. Though they may not act out what they really want to do, don't fool yourself. They think just as these characters and this is what's disturbing most. The men, equally likewise; they are desperate women firster douchebags who will do anything for a whiff of snatch, including being duped by the scams females play. There really is no innocence in this country today.
Before Sunset (2004)
Thanks for reminding me why I fled the USA
Man where do I begin other than to say this movie and the prequel sucked. I put the maximum number of stars since IMDb is hell bent on only giving the good reviews priority to the readers as opposed to giving priority on the first come first serve basis. Both movies were a french-wannabee flick using only dialog as its mechanism. The problem is that the characters are Americans and Americans talk about the stupidest things, as we see throughout the entire movie. We have a Joe Mangina douche bag who is smitten with this self entitled princess. He actually shows up to meet this bimbo at a place and time they agreed to meet 9 years ago and of course she is not there. The chick is a typical narcissistic American female, passed her prime at age 33, complete with her selfish attitude as she stated that she wished someone had proposed marriage to her and then turns around and says "I would have said no, but it would have been nice to have been asked" so really her desire is not to be married but rather to flush down the toilet a mans genuine affections of love. That's sick. This film clearly demonstrates that American women are selfish idiots and American men are desperate spineless wimps who cater to to them. Thanks for reminding me why I fled that dysfunctional wasteland.
The Devil's Rejects (2005)
Another reason to be cautious when a skank is being friendly to you because...
most likely she either wants something from you, or she is keeping your attention so her crack-addicted thug boyfriend can dissect you and execute you in that order. But having said that as much as I was put off by the violence, this movie serves as a wakeup call to how sick America has become, and is recommended as a must-see in the same manner one sees those highway accident films in Driver's Education classes. The world is F***ed up and you need to absorb this film in order to pull yourself out of the Walt Disney perspective most people walk around with. It's about shootings, knives and killing simply for the joy of it....
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
For Your Eyes Only
For all the bad reviews of For Your Eyes Only, I can only say one thing: Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one.
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Stealing Beauty (1996)
More of a travel log for Tuscany
"Stealing Beauty" has noticeable flaws. We see throughout a good part of the film the director is bent on creating some kind of world where Lucy is this precious flower and dealing with unwanted advances by men. This plays no part really in the main plot; and I am not sure if Bertolucci did so to cater to the anti male bias American viewing audience (here in the States all men are considered pigs, rapists and gorillas by feminists and almost all forms of our media) or if there was any other reason, it is not apparent. Silly as it may sound, it's just that the time has come that people need to start to take a stance against seeing men depicted as scum of the Earth. It's also getting tiresome to see yet another flick with the plot focusing on the proverbial American princess [*BARF*]. The second flaw here is Lucy's character. We see this beautiful 19 year old girl as a complex deep thinking creature with introspective thoughts. The problem is her nationality: she is American. How many really pretty nineteen year old girls from the USA do any of you know who actually have an intellect of that portrayed like Lucy? None of course. Americans, both men and women in general are pretty shallow people and not very well educated, due to the great dumb-assing movement currently sweeping the U.S.. I know this, I am an American who has had the luck of being able to leave the States and study abroad, and experience a different life (thank God). Also, as one reviewer had written "...really pretty American girls who's looks are in the same league as Liv Tyler would rather be in nightclubs sticking coke up their noses rather than be in Tuscany..." though there are exceptions, I think that comment is generally true. Don't believe me? make a pilgrimage at "Girls Gone Wild" take a look at how chycks in America really behave. Real geniuses, yo! My girlfriend is in her early twenties, and is actually prettier than Tyler, and all I can say is that I am glad she is NOT American. I will say that Bertolucci does a great job with our sense of sight and music to create quintessential Italy. This is really what makes the movie. I would also recommend the soundtrack due to the interesting variety of songs from Grunge to Classical, which seem to work together as an album.
Girl Fever (2002)
Crap ..
Even though "Girl Fever" (other title "100 women") is a fantasy piece at best, the way it's done is so idiotic beyond even the most cliché rubbish ever done in cinema. In one aspect of the movie we see the politically correct, totally unrealistic fantasy set-up: an American art student has some hot looking trophy chyck fall out of the sky and be all over him. We are supposed to believe this could ever happen? Unless you're an art student who happens to be a rich and famous rock star or movie industry mogul, or coke dealer I suppose. Also, we see the main character treated like crap by a bunch of women to see if he is *worthy*. The kind of men-are-not-worthy-of-women for some reason goes unnoticed in America. With the exception of the various nemesis in the story, everyone is so nice and so genuine it's just too sickening. So unrealistic. This flick is for those who really want like to see men played for suckers by skanks.