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These days, we don't go for propaganda via posters or showy military parades. No, if you want the populace subdued, you'd better dress up your message with some high-wire kung fu and guys running in slow motion from fireballs. Some fine examples of thought control via the kick-ass action movie: On Deadly Ground
The Plot
One Eskimo spirit journey later (he fights a fucking bear) ...
The Message
Think of it as An Inconvenient Truth II: This Time It's Personal. Of course, Seagal is so ahead of his time that he had the idea more than a decade before Al Gore decided that a slideshow about global warming would be a cool thing to put in a movie. Seriously, the movie ends with our hero giving a 3.5-minute speech (we timed it) about the need for alternative-energy sources.
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Yeah, But Do They Still Blow Some Shit Up?
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I'd like to see a similar article on 80's children's cartoons. GI Joe? How about Inhumanoids? Inhumanoids was total anti-Russian propaganda. A memorable quote from Metlar: "I'll just kill all the Russians myself!"
what about Rambo 3? I thought that was a lot of propaganda.
"Farenheit 9/11 is in a COMPLETELY different genre than any of these. It's a documentary, not an action movie." 'Documentary'? AAAAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH Best joke I've heard all year.
Actually, Red Dawn was PG-13. It was famous when it was first released because it was the first movie to ever be released with that rating.
You think maybe 300 was written about the Battle of Thermopylae, which actually happened (although not quite like that) and has nothing whatever to do with the United States of America, as it didn't exist and wouldn't for another 2256 years? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_thermopylae
The 'US is Best' 'subtext' of 300 is something infered by people trying to look for a reason to bash the movie, aside from historical innacuracy. But, to answer your question... Yes. 300 was made about 3 years before 9/11. Was out in Graphic Novel format well before we went to war with Iraq. Twit.
shooter was based on a book. somehow the story got twisted (ah, imagine that) and that piece of shit came out of it, makes me sad.
Really, Average Joes? You think that Frank Miller, several years BEFORE the U.S. invaded the Middle East, wrote 300 with the "U.S. is best" subtext? If you do, it's even funnier.
What about "300"? Hmmmm, good-looking white guys fighting for "democracy" against fugly Persians (Persia is now known as Iran). Could it be alluding to little Israel in the middle of Arab neighbors...or perhaps U.S. forces in the middle of Iraq...I wonder.
Lummox you fuckin' idiot, this is the best article I've seen in many a moon. Write some more, you massive douche.
My life's been bland. I've basically been doing nothing to speak of, but what can I say? Not that it matters. Eh. Such is life.
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what about csa the confederate states of america.
As for "Valley of the Wolves" all I have to say is FUCK THE TURKS!! Who are they to act all ritious, seeing as how they committed the first genocide of the 20th century and all.
You are all stupid communists. 9/11 was an inside job. Bush is Hitler. You are all communists.
Farenheit 9/11 is in a COMPLETELY different genre than any of these. It's a documentary, not an action movie.
Maybe if Farenheit 9/11 were a "Kick-Ass Action Movie" as the title states, it would've made the list, smart guy.
and farenheit 9/11 wasn't on this list?! really? ya know, my dad once told me something he heard in the army, you don't realize when you're watching the best forms of propaganda, because the best propaganda is so entertaining that you don't notice. or something like that...
DAmn, i miss the old 'america is better than the shithole your parents came from, so go die for us' genre of propaganda movie
Guys, sometimes simple is better.
Is it wrong to judge these movies before they're even made? No. No, it's not.
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They probably won't get a movie any time soon.
The Covenant's got nothing on Otto.
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Hey, was that John C. McGinley in the "On Deadly Ground" trailer? Dr. Cox on the side of oil barons haha