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GenrXr
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 Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject: Great read on David Zucker's new comedy/assault on the Left |
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Click here to read it.
Couple of quotes
| Quote: | | The holiday in An American Carol is not Christmas and the antagonist is not Ebenezer Scrooge. Instead, the film follows the exploits of a slovenly, anti-American filmmaker named Michael Malone, who has joined with a left-wing activist group (Moovealong.org) to ban the Fourth of July. Along the way, Malone is visited by the ghosts of three American heroes--George Washington, George S. Patton, and John F. Kennedy--who try to convince him he's got it all wrong. When terrorists from Afghanistan realize that they need to recruit more operatives to make up for the ever-diminishing supply of suicide bombers, they begin a search for just the right person to help produce a new propaganda video. "This will not be hard to find in Hollywood," says one. "They all hate America." When they settle on Malone, who is in need of work after his last film (Die You American Pigs) bombed at the box office, he unwittingly helps them with their plans to launch another attack on American soil. |
One of my favorite parts,
| Quote: | Eventually, the conversation turns from policy to punditry. Grammer, who is friends with Ann Coulter, says he quoted her once to some of the young people who work for him.
"'Ann Coulter,'" he says, recalling their horror and assuming their voice. "'She's the antichrist.' And I said: 'What the f-- do you know about the antichrist? You don't even believe in Christ.'"
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | McEveety is one of several big names that will make it hard for the Hollywood establishment to ignore An American Carol. Jon Voight plays George Washington. Dennis Hopper makes an appearance as a judge who defends his courthouse by gunning down ACLU lawyers trying to take down the Ten Commandments. James Woods plays Michael Malone's agent. And Kelsey Grammer plays General George S. Patton, Malone's guide to American history and the mouthpiece of the film's writers. |
I might actually go to a theatre to see this...after a 30+ year hiatus. |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:08 am Post subject: |
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I pray it becomes as much of a classic as "Airplane" and "Naked Gun". 
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GenrXr
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:54 am Post subject: |
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| JN173 wrote: | | I pray it becomes as much of a classic as "Airplane" and "Naked Gun". |
If it is as good as either of those films, the cultural impact among the young will be huge and a great duty will be performed in their service to this country.
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LewWaters
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I predict very unfavorable reviews from the "critics," but a smashing box office success.
Like #1, it seems I can return to a theater to view something worthwhile, finally.
The real shame, in reading through the article, is the caution many had in approaching each other, in America.
As we know, the "tolerance" of the left is total intolerance of anything not left.
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| Quote: | | "The accepted way to speak about America is in the voice that disrespects it. And the voice that's unacceptable is the one that loves America," he (Kelsey Grammer) says, wearing the uniform of an Army general and sipping from a bottle of pomegranate juice. "How did we get here?" |
This reminded me almost instantly of the Steve McQueen character, Jake Holman, and his final line in "The Sand Pebbles"...
| Quote: | | I was home. What happened? What the hell happened? |
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TEWSPilot
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| #1, I hope we don't wake up on Nov 5th saying that very thing. |
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GenrXr
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early review
| Quote: | | The comical attacks on Jihad and radical Muslims alone are worthy of a twenty-year off-the-grid Salmon Rushdie vacation for Zucker and everyone else involved. George Clooney thinks he’s a brave filmmaker for tackling McCarthy or Big Oil? DePalma and Paul Haggis think they’re courageous for attacking Bush policies and the War in Iraq? Dudes, that ****’s so safe you coulda put Sandy Duncan in them! But this...this is real life dangerous **** here! And I say: it’s about freaking time someone had the nads to do it. Only in pansy-ass Hollywood ’08 does it take a comedy director to avenge the death of Theo Van Gogh. |
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Stevie
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my gf and i go to the movies about twice a yr...
fall and spring - this is gonna be our 'fall' movie I hope.
there is also a movie about a taco bell type dog coming out Lew - that'll be safe! lol!
that was my pick for the fall movie til I saw the promo for this one!
about a yr ago we went to see Firehouse Dog...
we see a lot of dog movies...
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