Let me get this straight. 1st our elected leaders gripe about the Administration giving classified material to the film makers and now they gripe about the film being inaccurate. What's wrong with this picture?
This is a film about fiction. It is not fact. Finctional renditions are designed to entertain period. They are not designed to be highly accurate and should be taken with a large grain of salt.
One of the main things that they are trying to sell is tickets. They will sell more tickets if they depict torture, then if they present some of the everyday things that are very boring and exteremly necessary.
Much of holidaywood does not reflect reality. Most people who got to movies only want entertainment.
That's what is usually called docu-fiction. If it was a mere fiction, characters would have different names and the movie would just be inspired by 9/11 ... It's not the case.
Cheney used to almost brag about water-boarding detainees at Guantanamo so the fact that the U.S. uses torture isn't in dispute. The only conclusion I can draw from this story is that the GOP wants to reassert its position of lying about it and trying to impose censorship and criminal penalties on anyone who says otherwise.
Everyone knows how those extremists in the middle east are going to react to a sensationalized, fictional, profit driven movie on this subject. That's why nobody has been greedy or stupid enough yet to make a movie about it.
Congratulations Sony. I guess you get the bottom-feeder prize. I hope your shareholders enjoy their profits on this fiction because it may amount to little more than blood money if this movie stirs the Muslim world to kill foreigners. Although it may be true to say that those in the Muslim world should have thicker skins about certain topics, given the recent history of things it's hard to say that you didn't know they would react with violence after seeing a fictionalized story like this.
I wonder if Sony will set aside some money to help the families of those foreigners that may be injured if this movie causes a backlash?
It was the US government that tortured, if you think that the families and communities in the Middle East, in fact people around the world don't already know that, then your Sterno has gone bad.
The whole world knows we tortured, or more accurately people wrapping themselves in our flag tortured.
The "D"s among the senators should have shown more balls when the issue first came to light, and held the Bush/Cheney klan responsible for their crimes, as well as those who carried out his orders.
We know torture was ineffective, but the facts remain, we tortured, and bin Laden was finally killed, on the order of Mr. Obama.
So whatever connection the filmmakers want to make between the two incidents is their right, if they want to be baggers and lie about what torture accomplished, it is only they who will look like fools.
spinner, are you so full of hate that you can't recognize a rhetorical question when you see it?? (first hint? the quotation marks around the word funded).
Hmm, I recall one former VP Cheney used to brag about how often the water torture was used on two specific "detainees" for info on bin Ladin. These guys have YET to have a trial, much less accorded POW status... Would be most appropriate for old Cheney to speak up now about this is where the info came from.... Old Chainy knew how to sizzle with a fraudulent yellow cake sale document doctored to be used for fear-mongering and he refused to be lectured on it being false...because he wanted war with Iraq...Let him defend torture and where he gets his info....because neither Pres Bush or D. Cheney wanted to actually FIND Osama bin Ladin after the bombing on Bora Bora....and there was no hot pursuit into Pakistan after bin Ladin.
Seems appropriate that Obama NAILED bin Ladin in the very country of Pakistan where Bush and Cheney REFUSED to go and and had FUNDED the Pakistani military some 9 BILLIONS of tax dollars...while they prosecuted a war in Iraq on false grounds of WMD's. Glad OBAMA did the job the Bush Administration REFUSED to do yet want to take credit for the intelligence.
Hardly.
"Obama NAILED bin Ladin"??? I thought I saw a picture of him setting in a bunker watching it on tv while it was going down (must have been his doppelganger doing it).
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One of the main things that they are trying to sell is tickets. They will sell more tickets if they depict torture, then if they present some of the everyday things that are very boring and exteremly necessary.
Much of holidaywood does not reflect reality. Most people who got to movies only want entertainment.
Politicians with some guts
Congratulations Sony. I guess you get the bottom-feeder prize.
I hope your shareholders enjoy their profits on this fiction because it may amount to little more than blood money if this movie stirs the Muslim world to kill foreigners. Although it may be true to say that those in the Muslim world should have thicker skins about certain topics, given the recent history of things it's hard to say that you didn't know they would react with violence after seeing a fictionalized story like this.
I wonder if Sony will set aside some money to help the families of those foreigners that may be injured if this movie causes a backlash?
It was the US government that tortured, if you think that the families and communities in the Middle East, in fact people around the world don't already know that, then your Sterno has gone bad.
The whole world knows we tortured, or more accurately people wrapping themselves in our flag tortured.
The "D"s among the senators should have shown more balls when the issue first came to light, and held the Bush/Cheney klan responsible for their crimes, as well as those who carried out his orders.
We know torture was ineffective, but the facts remain, we tortured, and bin Laden was finally killed, on the order of Mr. Obama.
So whatever connection the filmmakers want to make between the two incidents is their right, if they want to be baggers and lie about what torture accomplished, it is only they who will look like fools.
And you call other people Gomers.
Seems appropriate that Obama NAILED bin Ladin in the very country of Pakistan where Bush and Cheney REFUSED to go and and had FUNDED the Pakistani military some 9 BILLIONS of tax dollars...while they prosecuted a war in Iraq on false grounds of WMD's. Glad OBAMA did the job the Bush Administration REFUSED to do yet want to take credit for the intelligence.
Hardly.
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