I wish. But some people just ruin everything.
I was just on IMDb looking at user comments for Independence Day, one of the best films I've seen in my life (just watched it again last week -- director's cut of course -- and the soundtrack I ordered the other day just showed up in the mail) and I found that some Morlock had the balls to say (back in July '04):
This is a reactionary movie helping to prepare the ground for war, racism, and fascism. Take a look at how Will Smith, after he captures the alien pilot, kicks him in the head while dragging his body to the Area 51 base, just like the U.S. military has treated its prisoners in Iraq!
What a fucking clueless moron.
First of all -- there was no excuse for Abu Ghraib. Straight up. No excuse. But out of several hundred thousand soldiers, sailors, and Marines, I think maybe no more than a couple of dozen were implicated in that fiasco -- and none of them were George W. Bush or any other member of the Administration. So perhaps you tar with a brush that's a bit wider than necessary, comrade.
But let's review the bidding. Will Smith manages to take down the biggest, baddest enemy he's ever been up against, with the most amazing flying of his life, he's got adrenaline pumping, he's madder than hell that his buddies have just been exterminated by aliens who haven't got the balls to fight fair -- and besides that, this alien just tried to fucking KILL HIM...and I completely empathize with him punching out the alien pilot. Besides, how did he know the alien wasn't going to come out with some green ray gun and just wipe him out? Our friendly reviewer would probably rather that he had extended the hand of friendship and species love just like all those folks on the rooftop in LA did. (And see where it got them.)
The tool who wrote this review HAS NO CLUE. And it's his clueless ass that our armed forces are over in Iraq and Afghanistan trying to protect so he can continue to think his clueless thoughts.
Later, military personnel at the base actually shoot and kill the alien detainee while he (or she?) is a captive.
Clueless again. Uh...sure. Wouldn't you? The fucker's already killed everyone in the operating theatre and is trying to kill the President of the United States after telling us that his race only wants us to die. And I'm guessin' I'm next. Damn straight I'd be opening up with my primary weapon. This guy ain't no Iraqi, ya know.
The aliens are put in the position of the "other", the locust-like collectivist hoards who want to "spoil" the reign of the war criminal gulf war veteran occupying the White House.
*ROTFL* WHAT???? PUT IN THE POSITION? What the fucking aliens want to do is WIPE OUT HUMANITY AND STRIP THE PLANET BARE. Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it, you loser.
The aggrandizement of U.S. imperialism, which seeks to invoke the 4th of July, the holiday of the supremacy of white racist rule over the Native Americans, the holiday of the brutal oppression of the African-American people, the holiday and banner of the brutal reactionary regime currently waging a war on the people of the entire world to rip off their oil and natural resources, as though it was the banner of humanity, when, in actuality, it is the brutal and evil banner of fascism and racism, and war.
I'm not even sure what this means. I think our reviewer had a brain fart in the middle of it. Anyway, MEGO -- typical leftist anarchist Che-loving Bezerkely bullshit, let's move on.
One day, when we are free, this vicious movie will be seen as the pool of diseased pus it is and be in museums next to Nazi propaganda films. ZERO Stars!
Right. When we're free so you can write this movie review (movie review, for Chrissake!) without worrying about being sent to the gulag, right?
Oh, wait. You weren't worried about that anyway, were you? After all, you did post your screed. I'm guessing the brownshirts never showed up at your door, either...I won't say "unfortunately", or you'd just lump me in with the rest of the Nazis. Which would be a hoot, since I'm Jewish.
I wonder how Roland Emmerich would feel to be compared to Leni Riefenstahl...
But you know what they say. "It's just a movie, dimshit. Lighten up."
