[1169] in peace2
Re: FRIDAY MOVIE!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicholas Limerick)
Fri Oct 26 16:23:35 2001
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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:24:52 -0400
To: Jan Outcalt <jano@mit.edu>, Julia Steinberger <julias@mit.edu>
From: Nicholas Limerick <limerick@MIT.EDU>
Cc: peace-list@mit.edu
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nothing worse then someone who ruins a movie before you've even seen it
At 03:32 PM 10/26/01 -0400, Jan Outcalt wrote:
>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
