Comments on: “Zero Dark Thirty” is a gut-punch to our concepts of justice and revenge

By: entagor

entagor — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:29:51 +0000

Looks like some little movie maker hit a nerve. Obama was supposed to ride into the sunset with the head of Osama bin Laden on his belt, when this witch ruined the whole Dionysian revel. Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall, and now all his handlers can’t put it back together again. You can hide the truth, but you can’t hide a movie

I thought Lincoln was sappy and boring, and a way-too-obvious attempt by Spielberg to compare Lincoln with Obama and the current “Tea Party Congress” with the one of 1865 that didn’t want to free the slaves but eventually knuckled under to Lincoln’s brilliant persuasion. Plus Sally Field was absolutely horribly miscast, as was Tommy Lee Jones.

rockmom on January 11, 2013 at 6:30 PM

Good review.

I assume Lincoln was supposed to massage the low info voter into accepting part II of Obama’s plans to reshape America, by reshaping Lincoln, down

By: karenhasfreedom

karenhasfreedom — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:58:23 +0000

I haven’t seen either movie but interesting that Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones received Oscar nominations for their roles. So how were they miscast in Lincoln?

By: rockmom

rockmom — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:30:28 +0000

it’s evident right away that she is not interested in establishing a sober account or approaching her material from a distance, like, for example, the stately, safe, and universally adored Lincoln.

I thought Lincoln was sappy and boring, and a way-too-obvious attempt by Spielberg to compare Lincoln with Obama and the current "Tea Party Congress" with the one of 1865 that didn't want to free the slaves but eventually knuckled under to Lincoln's brilliant persuasion. Plus Sally Field was absolutely horribly miscast, as was Tommy Lee Jones. Zero Dark Thirty cannot help but be a better film and I am excited to see it. Kathryn Bigelow is already a better director than Spielberg. She trusts her audience and never tries to propagandize them or beat them over the head with her own view of history.

By: jdpaz

jdpaz — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:07:52 +0000

She’s going to get kicked out of the Oh, So Important People’s Club for this one. How dare she direct a movie just the way she wanted to! Doesn’t she know there’s an agenda to follow?

By: njrob

njrob — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:59:54 +0000

In a way it is. If Bush were still president the interrogation scenes would be overblown torture pron, and those hunting OBL would be shown breaking every law in the world. They have no choice but to treat this story straight because doing otherwise reflects poorly upon their chosen boy-god.

NotCoach on January 11, 2013 at 5:52 PM

Except the film is shown taking place over a 10 year period including almost all of GWB’s Presidency. He is never shown and never once is anyone shown speaking negatively of him. The closest there is to any political statement is when the GWB Presidency is coming to an end and some CIA reps remark about how they need to watch their back regarding Congress coming after them for political theater because of what they’ve done to try and complete their jobs.

But I get your point.

By: Blake

Blake — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:54:36 +0000

Considering the number of doofuses who were waterboarded on campuses all over the US and in the UK and it’s commonwealth, what’s the big deal?

By: NotCoach

NotCoach — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:52:38 +0000

I thought it was a good film and I had no interest in seeing it originally because I figured it would be Obama propaganda.

njrob on January 11, 2013 at 5:49 PM

In a way it is. If Bush were still president the interrogation scenes would be overblown torture pron, and those hunting OBL would be shown breaking every law in the world. They have no choice but to treat this story straight because doing otherwise reflects poorly upon their chosen boy-god.

By: njrob

njrob — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:49:07 +0000

Sorry, I saw the film and there is no torture. There’s no physical violence such as punching, kicking, cutting, or other brutal forms of physical damage. The form of waterboarding they used it overly dramatized, but still not of concern.

I thought it was a good film and I had no interest in seeing it originally because I figured it would be Obama propaganda.

By: Paul-Cincy

Paul-Cincy — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:48:52 +0000

It’s a movie. Also known as

fic·tion
/ˈfikSHən/
Noun

Prose literature, esp. short stories and novels, about imaginary events and people.
Invention or fabrication as opposed to fact.

Synonyms
figment – invention – fabrication

By: Kataklysmic

Kataklysmic — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:45:29 +0000

Bretibart’s Big Hollywood site certified ZDT agenda free fyi.