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ThePainefulTruth On May 06, 2013
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#1New Post! Jul 31, 2011 @ 00:20:49
Yeah, ok, not a terrible movie even though they do an updated version of jumping the shark.....

But what I kept saying to myself: "Ain't it grand, the cowboys and criminals and Indians all getting along. But what about the aliens. Why aren't we trying to UNDERSTAND them. I mean, we're hoarding all that gold they need and are just killing them indiscriminately while they're trying to redistribute it--AS IS ONLY FAIR. I guess we're just a NAZI species after all.
shinobinoz On May 28, 2017
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Wichita, Kansas
#2New Post! Jul 31, 2011 @ 02:37:38
@ThePainefulTruth Said

Yeah, ok, not a terrible movie even though they do an updated version of jumping the shark.....

But what I kept saying to myself: "Ain't it grand, the cowboys and criminals and Indians all getting along. But what about the aliens. Why aren't we trying to UNDERSTAND them. I mean, we're hoarding all that gold they need and are just killing them indiscriminately while they're trying to redistribute it--AS IS ONLY FAIR. I guess we're just a NAZI species after all.


It's film dude!
ThePainefulTruth On May 06, 2013
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#3New Post! Jul 31, 2011 @ 05:35:23
@shinobinoz Said

It's film dude!


Yeah, well now it's satire, and once again, at the expense of the easy, predictable Left.
DiscordTiger On December 04, 2021
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#4New Post! Jul 31, 2011 @ 05:46:21
Did you actually watch it, or just read about it?
shinobinoz On May 28, 2017
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Wichita, Kansas
#5New Post! Jul 31, 2011 @ 13:22:39
@ThePainefulTruth Said

Yeah, well now it's satire, and once again, at the expense of the easy, predictable Left.


Appears you think it documentary!
restoreone On January 30, 2022




, Ohio
#6New Post! Jul 31, 2011 @ 13:24:31
@ThePainefulTruth Said

Yeah, ok, not a terrible movie even though they do an updated version of jumping the shark.....

But what I kept saying to myself: "Ain't it grand, the cowboys and criminals and Indians all getting along. But what about the aliens. Why aren't we trying to UNDERSTAND them. I mean, we're hoarding all that gold they need and are just killing them indiscriminately while they're trying to redistribute it--AS IS ONLY FAIR. I guess we're just a NAZI species after all.



All I want to know is do we win in this one?
shinobinoz On May 28, 2017
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Wichita, Kansas
#7New Post! Jul 31, 2011 @ 13:26:33
@restoreone Said

All I want to know is do we win in this one?


It's a mometary draw for us. A win for planet Earth. Though Adam Beach does die.
restoreone On January 30, 2022




, Ohio
#8New Post! Jul 31, 2011 @ 13:46:03
Even in a movie First Nation people must pay the price for others.
ThePainefulTruth On May 06, 2013
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#9New Post! Jul 31, 2011 @ 14:12:16
@DiscordTiger Said

Did you actually watch it, or just read about it?


Yes. I would have said I hadn't seen it if that was the case.


@shinobinoz Said

Appears you think it documentary!


It could be, on a Michael Moore or Al Gore level. Of course, nobody called them illegal aliens.


@restoreone Said

All I want to know is do we win in this one?


Yes.



@restoreone Said

Even in a movie First Nation people must pay the price for others.


Huh?
shinobinoz On May 28, 2017
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Wichita, Kansas
#10New Post! Jul 31, 2011 @ 15:38:45
@restoreone Said

Even in a movie First Nation people must pay the price for others.


Damn if that ain't the truth!
shinobinoz On May 28, 2017
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Wichita, Kansas
#11New Post! Jul 31, 2011 @ 15:39:49
@ThePainefulTruth Said


Huh?


NDN thang!
crazylikeafox On June 02, 2017




McKinney, Texas
#12New Post! Jul 31, 2011 @ 18:34:23
@shinobinoz Said

It's film dude!


That was my thought. Sometimes people read WAY to much into movies. Personally I thought the movie looked like it ran on rule of cool more than anything (granted, I only got that from the trailers). I still want to watch it, though.
DiscordTiger On December 04, 2021
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#13New Post! Jul 31, 2011 @ 23:35:03
@ThePainefulTruth Said

Yes. I would have said I hadn't seen it if that was the case.



Ok, It just wasn't clear based off what you wrote.
But I've never been a fan of film analysis, as it tends to say more about the perspective of the person doing the analysis rather than the filmmakers.
boxerdc On December 18, 2012

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#14New Post! Aug 01, 2011 @ 04:40:49
Feel free to correct me if the world has changed recently and nobody told me.. I've been busy.

I sort of thought that the movies that came out between Memorial Day and Labor Day were supposed to be entertaining bits of fluff... made specifically so people would have something to do on a hot summer afternoon, that didn't involve thinking or sweating..

Has this changed, and is this why we're getting a critique?
ThePainefulTruth On May 06, 2013
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#15New Post! Aug 01, 2011 @ 14:54:27
@crazylikeafox Said

That was my thought. Sometimes people read WAY to much into movies. Personally I thought the movie looked like it ran on rule of cool more than anything (granted, I only got that from the trailers). I still want to watch it, though.
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I wasn't reading into it, it's obvious that it's not what was intended, just tricking a little political commentary, which I thought was obvious. I mean c'mon , illegal Aliens?


@DiscordTiger Said

Ok, It just wasn't clear based off what you wrote.
But I've never been a fan of film analysis, as it tends to say more about the perspective of the person doing the analysis rather than the filmmakers.


If that was true, we'd still be wondering what 2001 was about, and we'd still believe Al Gore telling us that global warming causes glaciers to calve icebergs. You believe the same thing about book or any art criticism? Criticism of criticism is the same as whole criticism--consider the source.


@boxerdc Said

Feel free to correct me if the world has changed recently and nobody told me.. I've been busy.

I sort of thought that the movies that came out between Memorial Day and Labor Day were supposed to be entertaining bits of fluff... made specifically so people would have something to do on a hot summer afternoon, that didn't involve thinking or sweating..

Has this changed, and is this why we're getting a critique?


Yes, God forbid we should think in the summer, or absent that, squeeze some substance out of the fluff with some well placed zingers, especially at the liberals expense--however unfair and one-sided it might be.

Hmmmmm, ah yes, now I see the objection.
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