Comments on: Film Critics Shut Their Eyes to Terrorism http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:36:57 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Critics afraid of terrorism - the cinematic kind — WHAT WOULD TOTO WATCH? http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-112529 Critics afraid of terrorism - the cinematic kind — WHAT WOULD TOTO WATCH? Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:07:40 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/#comment-112529 [...] address the situation in my latest column for Pajamas Media. Not all movie critics parrot these arguments, thankfully, but enough do to merit [...] [...] address the situation in my latest column for Pajamas Media. Not all movie critics parrot these arguments, thankfully, but enough do to merit [...]

]]> By: Javelin http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-112367 Javelin Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:47:50 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/#comment-112367 submandave: Your gross generalizations are as dishonest as they are stupid. Good to see that Mel has fellow believers on this blog, tune up your Jewdar! submandave:
Your gross generalizations are as dishonest as they are stupid. Good to see that Mel has fellow believers on this blog, tune up your Jewdar!

]]> By: smoothjim http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-111589 smoothjim Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:14:24 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/#comment-111589 <i>mike: Hollywood doesn’t have a clue of what the real world is, neither does Congress. Will it take a truck bomb blown up in downtown Beverly Hills to wake these idiots up? Sep 20, 2008 - 7:56 pm</i> Why? What did plane bombs in downtown NY and Wash DC do to wake most of those idiots up? Yes, generally speaking, most of them are already starting from some point of self-loathing. They're hardly interested in their own semi-opiated self preservation; why do you think they care for yours? Witness the humanity-is-the-disease undertone to the socio-economic backbone of the AGW movement. mike:
Hollywood doesn’t have a clue of what the real world is, neither does Congress. Will it take a truck bomb blown up in downtown Beverly Hills to wake these idiots up?

Sep 20, 2008 – 7:56 pm

Why? What did plane bombs in downtown NY and Wash DC do to wake most of those idiots up?

Yes, generally speaking, most of them are already starting from some point of self-loathing. They’re hardly interested in their own semi-opiated self preservation; why do you think they care for yours?
Witness the humanity-is-the-disease undertone to the socio-economic backbone of the AGW movement.

]]> By: Kateliz http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-111092 Kateliz Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:01:04 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/#comment-111092 I'll tell you what fans the flames of anti-Muslim rage. 9/11. Thats what. Muslims in this country have some serious explaining and appologizing to do. And I haven't heard a word of it yet. (And don't be telling me that the US deserved it, NOBODY is buying that anymore.) So a movie about Islamic terrorisim that actually portrays the terrorists as Muslim??? WOW? What are we coming to? What will they think of next? I’ll tell you what fans the flames of anti-Muslim rage. 9/11. Thats what. Muslims in this country have some serious explaining and appologizing to do. And I haven’t heard a word of it yet. (And don’t be telling me that the US deserved it, NOBODY is buying that anymore.) So a movie about Islamic terrorisim that actually portrays the terrorists as Muslim??? WOW? What are we coming to? What will they think of next?

]]> By: Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Film Critics: Terrorists? What Terrorists? http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-110992 Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Film Critics: Terrorists? What Terrorists? Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:36:16 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/#comment-110992 [...] buddy Christian Toto has a terrific piece up over at Pajamas Media that points out how film critics are just as politically-correctly-ignorant of the threat we face as [...] [...] buddy Christian Toto has a terrific piece up over at Pajamas Media that points out how film critics are just as politically-correctly-ignorant of the threat we face as [...]

]]> By: Dirty Harry’s Place… » Film Critics: Terrorists? What Terrorists? http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-110839 Dirty Harry’s Place… » Film Critics: Terrorists? What Terrorists? Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:18:23 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/#comment-110839 [...] buddy Christian Toto has a terrific piece up over at Pajamas Media that points out how film critics are just as politically-correctly-ignorant of the threat we face as [...] [...] buddy Christian Toto has a terrific piece up over at Pajamas Media that points out how film critics are just as politically-correctly-ignorant of the threat we face as [...]

]]> By: submandave http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-110794 submandave Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:17:02 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/#comment-110794 Consider the source. This is the same crowd who thought that screening "Passion of the Christ" was going to result in a huge ant-Semitic backlash by fundamentalist Christians. All their concern is predicated upon the assumption that the masses are mindless sheep who just knee-jerkingly follow whatever thoght or meme is placed in their head, and given their close association with the left and Democrat party I can understand why they think this way. (Sorry, I coudn't stop myself) Consider the source. This is the same crowd who thought that screening “Passion of the Christ” was going to result in a huge ant-Semitic backlash by fundamentalist Christians. All their concern is predicated upon the assumption that the masses are mindless sheep who just knee-jerkingly follow whatever thoght or meme is placed in their head, and given their close association with the left and Democrat party I can understand why they think this way. (Sorry, I coudn’t stop myself)

]]> By: My movie fast — WHAT WOULD TOTO WATCH? http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-110738 My movie fast — WHAT WOULD TOTO WATCH? Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:13:38 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/#comment-110738 [...] updates will return later today. For now, please check out my new article over at Pajamas Media about how both Hollywood - and movie critics - are less than eager to explore the biggest danger [...] [...] updates will return later today. For now, please check out my new article over at Pajamas Media about how both Hollywood – and movie critics – are less than eager to explore the biggest danger [...]

]]> By: seguin http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-110637 seguin Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:26:24 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/#comment-110637 You had me fooled until the last paragraph schnarg. I was starting to foam at the mouth. You had me fooled until the last paragraph schnarg. I was starting to foam at the mouth.

]]> By: schnargley http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/comment-page-1/#comment-110590 schnargley Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:57:29 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/film-critics-shut-their-eyes-to-terrorism/#comment-110590 I appreciate the effort Hollywood takes to present all points of view and not be so dogmatically one-sided. Americans need to understand the world they live in, the various cultures and narratives with which people are acclimated into, and that "bad" "good" are just obsolescent words, relative terms depending on where one happens to be standing. Arabic-Islamic suicide bombers are people with feelings, hurts, dreams too. It is not Hollywood's job to foist US propaganda on the owlrd. There has been far too much of that. I am hoping for a movie depicting, for example, Adolph Hitler's stormy romance with Eva Braun, replete with torrid love scenes, and a look at Hitler's human side, like his quirky, tender way of joking with her and his closest associates. I appreciate the effort Hollywood takes to present all points of view and not be so dogmatically one-sided. Americans need to understand the world they live in, the various cultures and narratives with which people are acclimated into, and that “bad” “good” are just obsolescent words, relative terms depending on where one happens to be standing. Arabic-Islamic suicide bombers are people with feelings, hurts, dreams too. It is not Hollywood’s job to foist US propaganda on the owlrd. There has been far too much of that.

I am hoping for a movie depicting, for example, Adolph Hitler’s stormy romance with Eva Braun, replete with torrid love scenes, and a look at Hitler’s human side, like his quirky, tender way of joking with her and his closest associates.

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