Think Israel.


by Tom Thumb

So by now you’re all aware — right? — that 2007 Best Actress Oscar winner Marion Cotillard apparently said some things awhile back that indicate she A) believes the WTC attacks were orchestrated by the building owners and B) isn’t all that sure about this moon landing business, either. Still with me? Good.

Okay, so Times Online correspondent Charlie Bremner broached the subject on his blog last week, and it turns out his readers hold strong, considered opinions both for and against Ms. Cotillard and her worldview… that is, when they aren’t misinterpreting her as saying 9/11 never happened, as Gail Johnson seemingly did:

Another relative of mine SAW the planes hit the towers. It was the full jet fuel and where they hit the towers that caused the “implosion”. But I’m sure she feels that the Hollicoust didn’t happen too!

Lisa offers a morsel of welcome perspective…

So she made these comments a year ago before anyone had ever really heard of her? Ms. Cotillard is perfectly entitled to think and believe what she likes - as a great many are doing even in America. This “siutation” is being blown all out of proportion.

… which in a just and caring universe would shut the thread right down. But this is the Internet, where the laser-like focus of debaters such as Little Big Horn holds sway:

(I’ve even been heard that a consequential amount of people nowadays believe that the Universe has been created 7000 years ago in 6 days by a Super Daddy praising capitalism, that His Son Jesus saved humanity (even non-monotheist vegetarians) from all sins, that real life/world was indeed after death, and not on the web and, please believe me… that the Pope’s chasuble is cleaned with a special new synthesis powder that makes water totally useless. It’s an acquaintance’s Swiss friend, banker in Vatican, who told me. No article about that?)

One anonymous metallurgist/construction expert/grammarian leaps to Ms. Cotillard’s defense:

In the history of Construction & Engineering, no steel structure or building has EVER collapsed because of fire. WTC buillding collapsed, bur fire was not the cause.

If that doesn’t convince you, heed the words of no less an Authority than Yah Weh, whom you’d think ought to have the last word on the subject:

If you think some `errorist` guys from a cave on the other side of the world had all of that happen, there is something wrong with you….US Neo-Cons (Fas..) absolutely utterly complicit in these events. Think Israel. If you think this is outside the bounds of reality, you clearly do not know much of modern history, particularly US Military history. Enjoy your awakening.

Naturally, many more comments follow, including poetry and… I guess you’d call it philosophy?



It’s only conservatives who are ever dismissed


by Ted Grant

Libertas, the conservative film-blog that judges films not based on the quality of their writing, direction or acting, but on their adherence to the right-wing ideology of the moment, is unhappy with an alleged script leak for the forth-coming Iron Man film.

After a rather defensive screed about the treatment of conservatives in the media, we get to the “objectionable” plot:

Sarcasm aside, this script is almost exactly what a character like Iron Man should be facing. The script opens on a weapons facility hidden somewhere in North Korea, and we soon discover that it is Tony Stark’s weapons that are being manufactured there - but without his knowing. What unravels is a tale of global and corporate espionage, tying into the current War on Terror and some social commentary on WMD’s. …

It’s easy to see why the studio is going in a different direction with the real film. This version makes America the bad guys, run by a corporate Hitler with people planted throughout the government, as high as the Vice President.

Libertas commentators respond:

 

you don’t suppose the trailer editors had specific instructions to make the movie look like it could be the next “300″, do you? A specific edict to make the film appealing to moderates and the right-of-center by making the trailer appeal to those who know who the bad guys are would be a good marketing/business move.

anyone else saddened by the conundrum of whether we should pay for or boycott anti-American films?

If this turns out to be the direction Iron Man is going, than it is most unfortunate. However, it makes an odd sort of sense that Marvel’s most conservative hero would be in the most left-wing Marvel film.

 

Terence Howard I’m sure was right. There’s simply no WAY Hollywood could make a film where the US AND it’s Executive were good guys.

Hollywood is filled with folks who want a Castro to rule, forever, with themselves as the whip hand. It’s why this film like all others will be predictable, cliched, formulaic, and BORING.

Only way HW will stop trying to use films to push their ideology on us will be when they start losing BIG at the box office.

Studios will finally put the foot down and stop letting the A-List use the medium to feed their political self-indulgences.

Yeah, Hollywood! Stop polluting our wholesome entertainment about war profiteers and military industrialists with left-wing propaganda! Give us some right-wing propaganda instead!



[spoilers]He dies in the end[/spoilers]


by Brought to you by Carl's, Jr.

IMDB’s message boards are marvelous places to peruse if you ever want to find endless reasons to hate your fellow man. It’s also a place of great passion and activism. The world’s most avid movie fans gather there to tear down the movie folks they hate and boost the ones they love. For instance, this thread on how The Rock can boost his career, inexplicably placed in the Dark Knight message threads:

Dwayne Johnson, also known as The Rock, Rocky Maivia, The Brauma Bull, and the People’s Champ is a man who has unlimited potential. I firmly believe that he can become an actor among the likes of Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, or George Clooney. He simply needs to have the right image and land the right roles. I hope to help him succeed in his quest to become a serious actor, and not just go to the Oscars to present an award. Here’s the plan:

Change the image. Dwayne simply needs an image overhaul, physically among other things. So,
1. Grow out the hair (On the head and on the face)
2. Lose some muscle and trim down.
3. Get paler (ditch the fake tan)

Once he has done that, here are some sure shot movie ideas I have come up with:
1. He plays an abusive father dealing with the death of his eldest son and his painful, crippling, debilitating alcoholism.

2. He plays an Argentinean intellectual who is arrested and taken to a concentration camp in the Argentine countryside with his wife during the so called “Dirty War” of the late 1970s. [spoilers]He dies in the end[/spoilers]

3. He plays an Army officer who proudly served his country in Vietnam. However, he is forced to retire due to an early onset of Alzheimer’s. As his mind slowly starts to slip away, he tries to reconnect with his estranged family before the end. Cue the sad music (I suggest the Johnny Cash cover of The Beatles’ “In My Life”).

Let me know what you guys think. What stuff works?

Later in the thread, some spoilsport reminds “watchoutforbears” that Dwayne Johnson is, in fact, part Samoan, and so his “fake tan” is not in fact fake. But “watchoutforbears” is ready for that:

I know he’s part Samoan, but I think he could expand his horizons if he bleaches his skin tone a little bit. Actors do it all the time (or tan). Studios are pricks and they are all about accuracy. I could definitely work with it. Argentina, obviously. Also, I will just say his last name is Diaz or Ramirez. Boo yah!

Done got served, son.



Riding the PC train to death by using John Stewart..


by Kevin Church

So, the powers that be at Warner Brothers are in the process of making a Justice League movie, featuring all the big guns: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, etc, etc, et cetera. Now the problem here in many people’s minds is that it will confuse filmgoers expecting to see Routh as our favorite Kryptonian or Patrick Bateman as Batman. A reasonable concern, especially considering as how everybody seemed positively baffled that Smallville had nothing to do with Superman Returns.

Thankfully, K-DoG7p7 has a solution:

So.. the JLA movie is back on track and start shooting the first week in May. Yet not a singel fan of the characters are enjoying the news.. the closes i have yet to hear is “Ohh a JLA movie that nice.. but….” there is always a but…
Like setting the movie in an alternate universe then the other DC movies being made at the same time!, New actors for part that are already filled by other actors..Brandon Ruth is Superman, Christan Bale is Batman.. get it in to your heads!!
Riding the PC train to death by using John Stewart.. even worse is the fact that there is a GL movie coming about Hal..

Now if WB really wants a JLA movie and really want to NOT use the actors already playing the parts.. then I have a really easy solution..

MAKE ‘KINGDOM COME‘!!

you get all the major characters..
you get a good reason to cast different actors (as superman and batman are quite a bit older)
you get a larger cast and get to show off more of the DCU
you get to show the fans the true difference between Supeman and Batman..
Also…

Superman vs Captain Marvel!

so please WB.. can the JLA movie and make Kingdom Come instead!

That’s right - cast aside the youth-oriented summer blockbuster you’re making and instead use one of the most continuity-dependent comics in the history of the medium as the basis for a film where Superman creates gulags for his enemies, Batman’s turned Gotham into a fascist state, and Wonder Woman looks like the least successful M2F ever.

The whole thread’s pretty golden, so make sure you click over. Thanks to Jeff at Conditional Axe for pointing this out!



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