[1168] in peace2
Re: FRIDAY MOVIE!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Outcalt)
Fri Oct 26 15:32:32 2001
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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:32:19 -0400
To: Julia Steinberger <julias@mit.edu>
From: Jan Outcalt <jano@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Julia and everyone
I walked out on this movie. In my humble opinion it was a piece of
shit, total US propaganda. The "good" Arabs were the ones who pleaded
nicely for American help and didn't "like" the Arab military types
fighting the US. The supposed criticism against the US was basically
that: that some American military types didn't realize there were
people who really liked Americans, and were being victimized by the
more ruthless Arab military types.
Also it is very violent, well, if you like animals or women anyway.
Totally gratuitous shot of a cow being blown to pieces, etc. Also
some gross stuff against women. Someone with the side of their head
blown off, I think--the memory is a bit vague. I walked out at that
point.
Beautifully filmed but so what.
Anyway, this is my opinion.
Jan
Ps I did get my money back.
Oh also, very much a macho movie in many other respects.
>is back. Come at 7 PM to 2-105 to see
>"Three Kings" (about the aftermath of
>the Gulf war in Iraq, and the civilian
>revolt against Saddam, fictional, extremely
>critical of the U.S. role vs. civilians).
>(sez Saurabh, I haven't seen it, but
>G. Clooney IS a total babe, sez me).
>
>WHAT: Movie 3 Kings
>WHERE: 2-105
>WHEN: TONIGHT! 7 PM!
>BRING: Friends and cookies!
>
>Julia, she-of-the-last-minute-half-arsed-disorganization
