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Darth Chaltab

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MOVED THREAD (Guy Fawkes Day)
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Exactly, ADM.

No, seriously, I find it rather insulting that everytime someone brings this up they utterly fail to mention that Habeus Corpus has conditions on which it can be suspended written into the very Constitution you accuse Bush of violating. If you want to argue this further, take it to the politics thread though. Anything else you post here on the subject I will ignore.
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MOVED THREAD (Guy Fawkes Day)
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Ah ... V ... a movie penned by a couple of Americans, starring an Israeli-American and an Austrailian as Brits lamenting the passing of civil rights in a dystopian future. Almost as ironic as casting a Brit to play the man who led India to freedom from the Brits.


Who cares who wrote it? It's awesome-frickin' flick!


negative.
the movie took itself way too seriously and they way they went about comparing it to our world today was just too extreme and in your face.

it was a fun movie but would never deserve a second viewing.
i find it caters towards those who want to watch a smart movie but dont plan on thinking too hard.
so they throw together a movie which contains some sort of intelligent premise.. but then they dum it down so that it caters to even the most level headed viewer.

just my two cents..


Don't think of it as anti-Bush propaganda--that's just reading too much into it. Wishful thinking by a bunch of leftist Bush-haters. The totalitarian regime in the film is far closer to what happens in the average Muslim nation (just reversed with hypothetical 'Christian' radicals in power) than anything in the modern day west.

Just think of it as an action flick with a side-dish of 'nature of tyranny' talk. IE, Tyranny begins with the individual submitting to it. It's a lesson I think Iraq sorely needs to learn lest the nutjobs completely take over the country.