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To bad I don't get channel 4 over here. Report back on what you think of it please.

Yeah, i want a copy of that video.  It may be false hope..but hope nonetheless.

IRONCHEF wrote:

Yeah, i want a copy of that video.  It may be false hope..but hope nonetheless.

That makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time =*)

ghettoperson wrote:

To bad I don't get channel 4 over here. Report back on what you think of it please.

I thought it was really good. 

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The American government handle it exactly as you'd expect them to.  They find someone with an Arab name who works in the building where the shots were fired, called him a terrorist because he'd met an Al Qaeda recruiter once, been to training in Afghanistan but pulled out, and served as a soldier in Syria, and got him put on death row based on a partial match and a bit of gunshot residue. 

The real culprit was US veteran who blamed Bush because one son died from an IEDs and the other got messed up mentally and had turned to drugs, who pulled it off military style using leaked documents of Bush's schedule, who then drove into a forest an shot himself once he'd killed Bush. 

Of course, as far as the public and media was concerned it was already an Al Qaeda terrorist incident, so even though there were token internal investigations to find the government leak that lead to the document getting out, the guy they framed didn't look like he was getting out any time soon.  The attitude was that he'd dabbled in terrorism (he was actually against it) so he deserved to rot in prison whether he did it or not.

Essentially, the son of the veteran (himself a veteran) knew his dad did it, and knew his dad wouldn't have wanted an innocent man imprisoned, but essentially there was only circumstantial evidence linking his dad (e.g. the copies of the schedule document, maps marked with the buildings and positions involved, and one grainy shot of him leaving the building) so it looks like the official explanation is going to stick.
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EDIT: It wasn't anywhere near as good as The Departed which I went to see yesterday.

EDIT: And lol @ the US government worrying about the dramatisation of the assassination of a president, that's just a minor pretext for to the real message.  What this film is really saying they will mercilessly fuck over innocent people to help sway public opinion in the war on terror.  Funny they didn't seem to notice or mind that bit.

Last edited by UnOriginalNuttah (2006-10-09 16:55:43)

Jenkinsbball wrote:

Would you watch a movie made by an American which depicts someone murdering the royal family out of hate, just because they can? Thought so..

John Rambo helping what would become the taliban fighting against the evil red Russians....ohhh wait they are our friends now....................just shut up!!!

Jenkinsbball wrote:

Would you watch a movie made by an American which depicts someone murdering the royal family out of hate, just because they can? Thought so..

That'd be cool.  Someone do it, please.

edit: and LOL at Republicans calling for it not to be screened... they've just proved every American who said Free Speech means that Muslim leaders shouldn't complain about the cartoons wrong.

Last edited by UnOriginalNuttah (2006-10-10 02:50:57)

UnOriginalNuttah wrote:

ghettoperson wrote:

To bad I don't get channel 4 over here. Report back on what you think of it please.

I thought it was really good. 

[SPOILERS!]
The American government handle it exactly as you'd expect them to.  They find someone with an Arab name who works in the building where the shots were fired, called him a terrorist because he'd met an Al Qaeda recruiter once, been to training in Afghanistan but pulled out, and served as a soldier in Syria, and got him put on death row based on a partial match and a bit of gunshot residue. 

The real culprit was US veteran who blamed Bush because one son died from an IEDs and the other got messed up mentally and had turned to drugs, who pulled it off military style using leaked documents of Bush's schedule, who then drove into a forest an shot himself once he'd killed Bush. 

Of course, as far as the public and media was concerned it was already an Al Qaeda terrorist incident, so even though there were token internal investigations to find the government leak that lead to the document getting out, the guy they framed didn't look like he was getting out any time soon.  The attitude was that he'd dabbled in terrorism (he was actually against it) so he deserved to rot in prison whether he did it or not.

Essentially, the son of the veteran (himself a veteran) knew his dad did it, and knew his dad wouldn't have wanted an innocent man imprisoned, but essentially there was only circumstantial evidence linking his dad (e.g. the copies of the schedule document, maps marked with the buildings and positions involved, and one grainy shot of him leaving the building) so it looks like the official explanation is going to stick.
[/SPOILERS!]


EDIT: It wasn't anywhere near as good as The Departed which I went to see yesterday.

EDIT: And lol @ the US government worrying about the dramatisation of the assassination of a president, that's just a minor pretext for to the real message.  What this film is really saying they will mercilessly fuck over innocent people to help sway public opinion in the war on terror.  Funny they didn't seem to notice or mind that bit.

damnit....i wanted to see the movie too

=OBS= EstebanRey wrote:

P.S I enjoyed Braveheart and the Patriot even though both were riddled with errors that portrayed the British as either evil or less adequate...

Agreed the movie Braveheart was riddled with historic inaccuracies, however their portrayal of the British English was spot on.       MWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahaha....... haha....ha

what about him? Oh i'd say probably most definately

Last edited by IG-Calibre (2006-10-10 06:25:38)

I'm all for alternate history, but short of something as wildly far-fetched as an alien spacecraft crashing into the White House, I'd say using a President while he's in office for that kind of dramatization is a bit indecent, if not "eager."

I wouldn't have liked a "redneck shoots Clinton" movie in the 90's, either.

JahManRed wrote:

Jenkinsbball wrote:

Would you watch a movie made by an American which depicts someone murdering the royal family out of hate, just because they can? Thought so..

John Rambo helping what would become the taliban fighting against the evil red Russians....ohhh wait they are our friends now....................just shut up!!!

Yeah, but he wasn't popping any birthmarked-forehead either. But the Russians still didn't care too much for the movie, by the way.

IRONCHEF wrote:

Yeah, i want a copy of that video.  It may be false hope..but hope nonetheless.

This is why I don't vote liberal. They cover up dreams of assassination and public stoning with "it's for the children!"

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2006-10-10 07:12:07)

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Yeah, but he wasn't popping any birthmarked-forehead either. But the Russians still didn't care too much for the movie, by the way.

So you're saying it is better for a movie to portray the killings of hundreds of men as oppsoed to one and all because of social status? Depiction of 1 World leader's death = wrong, depiction of of lots of soldiers dying = right.  That's some weird logic and I really hope you don't value your life lower than anyone else's because I certainly don't regard Tony Blair as more deserving to life than me (especially seeing as i have never been responsible for hundreds of thousand of Iraqi and British deaths!!)