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Wasn't Vietnam like almost 50 years ago?!!! Let it go.
I wish that they'd boycott the god awful crappy remakes that Hollywood regularly puts out
This plot has already been done in a 1970s TV series called Backstairs at the White House with Leslie uggams. It's typical that Hollywood won't give us an original story.
This plot has already been done in a 1970s TV series called Backstairs at the White House with Leslie uggams. It's typical that Hollywood won't give us an original story.
Investigation? I don't need no stinkin' investigation! I already got it figured out.
Then why this:
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Originally Posted by GrandviewGloria
It's a thinly-disguised ad campaign, designed to make a very tired premise seem edgy. This is little different from all the fake hate crimes: people writing ethnic slurs on their own doors, or burning down their own homes or churches.
When the people behind this are discovered, they'll say they were in 'parody' or something. Anyway, a lot of people will fall for it, just as they have fallen for all the other "controversy" generated in order to get attention for other movies.
I'm curious as to how many posters who are critiquing this movie actually saw it (and that wouldn't include a 2.33 minute trailer). "Oh, I don't like the actors." "Oh, obviously it's political". "Oh, I can't see it the actors are all liberals." How about the story itself??
Eugene Allen had the privilege of serving 8 presidents. Butlers and house staff, generally uneducated, eventually become "invisible" and the absence of a formal education didn't mean that they didn't understand what they would hear or see. But being "invisible" people doing the talking forget that there is someone else in the room and will tend to do things and discuss things that would only be spoken about in private. One can only imagine what he saw and heard during his service.
How does one come to an informed review/opinion on a movie or a book that they haven't seen, hasn't even been released and received a few reviews?
It's stupid to boycott entertainment because of the politics of the entertainer.
Clint Eastwood has made some great movies and pro war Jimmi Hendrix was a fantastic guitar player,
who cares.
Re: Jimi Hendrix: served in the army for a little over a year (choosing such over jail time). He may have been briefly 'for' the war in Vietnam (probably assuming his country knew what it was doing), but he changed his views as he grew older. He was never, as I recall, very vocal about the war, possibly due to his regard for those in uniform.
Contrast Jimi with John Wayne: avoided service in WWII ('Got a bum knee, doc"), but was very gung-ho on war in Vietnam (see his movie, The Green Berets). Yet, while some may consider Marion a coward, I still enjoyed his movies.
I don't see or not see a movie because of what anyone thinks or who stars in it. Pure silliness.
That said, I see very few movies at the theatre and this probably won't be one of them.
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