I'm only surprised that it took them this long. The entire purpose of the cartoon show was to educate kids about the importance of environment. No doubt this movie is aiming to do the same. And they will probably concentrate on climate change. It's pretty obvious, really.canadamus_prime said:Are you fucking kidding me? Captain Planet??? Oh for fuck sake!
As directed by Micheal Bay and staring Shia La Bouf as that American kid whose name I forget.Adam Jensen said:I'm only surprised that it took them this long. The entire purpose of the cartoon show was to educate kids about the importance of environment. No doubt this movie is aiming to do the same. And they will probably concentrate on climate change. It's pretty obvious, really.canadamus_prime said:Are you fucking kidding me? Captain Planet??? Oh for fuck sake!
Lol yeah good way to put it. While technically the word 'propaganda' applies to this movie (as it does to anything that it trying to convince its audience of anything), I think Bob's description of 'fantasy' for the left works much better.Devil said:I was interested until I heard it's pretty much a propoganda movie. Really, "Obama is the hero and peace loving guy and everyone who dislikes him are in some sort of terrorist plot?" Way to pick the time to release a movie when it shows him being one of the most corrupt Presidents in history. If only the movie came out earlier then I'd be happier to watch it.
Not a bad point. Movie Bob is unapologetically left wing liberal.josh4president said:Anyone else creeped out to see MovieBob gushing like a schoolgirl over what is effectively a loud-and-proud modern propaganda film glorifying a sitting politician?
This is exactly what I was thinking. This whole movie is nothing but more Pro-bama taint licking. The only way it could have gotten more blatant and more ridiculously disconnected from reality is if as Fake-Obama was single handedly saving reality itself, he charged across the reflecting pool in front of the washington monument ATOP the water, stopped half way across to tell a fisherman to let his net down on the other side of his boat to catch his fish, and then when he reached the other side commanded Agent Richard Lazarus to arise from the dead, which he would.SNCommand said:This right here, the movie is presenting a president as far removed from the real one as possibleRJ Dalton said:You say it's not afraid to be about something, but what it's about is just pumping up the propaganda machine and continuing to pander to the us/them ideology that is destroying this country. To wit, Obama is not interested in peace with Iran, has put more troops into combat overseas than President Bush, is SUPPORTING a bigger and more dangerous spying scandal than Richard Nixon that has all the same qualities of McCarthyism (replacing communism with terrorist as the excuse for doing it), and has not only refused to prosecute the banks that have caused the economic problems in this country, but systematically put into place laws that further protect them from legal repercussions and allow them to continue the exploitation of the American people. If it were still Bush in office, most of the media would be up in arms about it, calling for his resignation and you'd be right along with them in the chants. But because Obama's a democrat, the media will make any excuse they can to keep from being seen as the monster he is (unless you're Fox News, but Fox is already a joke to most of the American public, so their opinion doesn't count).
I don't care if it's ballsy for Emerich to make this film about something. It would be equally ballsy for someone to make a film in which a a good-hearted, but maligned Republican president is attacked by unapologetically evil homosexual pro-abortion Muslim radicals.
It would also be equally bullshit.
A really bland protagonist
Villains with no logical motivation or rational actions
A message as close to the current mainstream ideology as possible
There's nothing edgy about this, no Roland Emmerich movie has ever been either edgy or even thought inducing, he makes what he does best, special effect summer blockbusters pandering to the Hollywood view
And this is sorta kinda why the movie has utterly tanked at the box office. You cannot put the sitting President or a very thinly (and badly in this case) veiled caricature of the same as the hero of a serious action adventure movie. You just can't do it. You immediately and totally alienate vast swathes of the population and come off looking more like a propagandist than a filmmaker. It doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum you approach this from. Just imagine if someone would have made a serious "George Bush Action Hero fighting terrorists" movie during Bush's term in office? See how cheesy you would have felt it to be, even without seeing if it was well written or directed? While a President is still in office there is only a handful of ways that they can be effectively used or portrayed by Hollywood. They can be used for minor exposition, rewarding the hero, etc. They can be used as a plot device ("OMG this threatens the President and the Nation"). You can go pure satire and make a spoof of it all. But there is no place for doing what this movie sought to do. Sony is bemoaning its poor performance and blaming it on Olympus has Fallen, and that it fell between WWZ and Lone Ranger. But none of this applies. The coming attractions left people with one indelible thought "Obama with a rocket launcher!" And that made most of them mentally switch off (and allow themselves to be dragged to a Sandra Bullock Chick Flick).RJ 17 said:Soooo the short version is "Action movie is Action" and "Propaganda movie is Propaganda."
Sorry Bob, but at least for my tastes I can't stand political statements in my movies. I go to movies because I want to escape from the bullshit of reality, not to have someone's views of reality crammed down my throat.
It's a work of fiction, it takes the current political climate and repaints it black and white (figuratively speaking). Frankly, there's nothing wrong with that at all.SNCommand said:Am I the only one who find this love letter to the current US president a bit distasteful considering Obama is as much onboard with the NSA and the military as the bad guys in this movie?
History is going to deem the current president as a weak one considering how little control Hollywood and the rest of the media is presenting him as having, just think about the one in this movie, it isn't easy overlooking so many groups plotting an armed insurrection, not unless the heads of NSA, FBI and CIA are in on it, and if they are you've really fucked up as president.
This is the wonder of tribalism. "It's ok for a dumb movie to be about something, just so long as I agree with it".Hellfireboy said:So you're saying that this movie was made by an unapologetic, pandering sycophant and basically boils down to a propaganda film for the current president in the form of an over the top, boilerplate action film... and that's a good thing?
So a giant love letter to Obama (though obviously the opposite of what Obama does because i can actually fucking read and make up my own damn mind) about the EVIL RACIST RIGHT WINGED CAPITALIST MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX taking over the white house with the political message thats as subtle as a dildo launched in your face *Insert jackass 3d clip* and made by a director who is all style over substance and i generally avoid.MovieBob said:White House Down
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Which is funny you bring that up, since in reality, obama is acting the complete opposite of how the movie is portraying him.Ihateregistering1 said:This is the wonder of tribalism. "It's ok for a dumb movie to be about something, just so long as I agree with it".Hellfireboy said:So you're saying that this movie was made by an unapologetic, pandering sycophant and basically boils down to a propaganda film for the current president in the form of an over the top, boilerplate action film... and that's a good thing?
Could you imagine Bob's review if this movie had been made during the Bush Administration, with Not-George-Bush fighting OWS protestors and Islamic Terrorists? Methinks the word "awesome" probably wouldn't have come up in the review.
My issue is not that it's dumb (hell, the original "Red Dawn" was pretty dumb), I just believe that if Emmerich had made the exact same movie but had basically reversed the roles (ie. Republican President fighting against a left-wing Paramilitary group) Bob would have torn it to shreds.Jegsimmons said:Which is funny you bring that up, since in reality, obama is acting the complete opposite of how the movie is portraying him.Ihateregistering1 said:This is the wonder of tribalism. "It's ok for a dumb movie to be about something, just so long as I agree with it".Hellfireboy said:So you're saying that this movie was made by an unapologetic, pandering sycophant and basically boils down to a propaganda film for the current president in the form of an over the top, boilerplate action film... and that's a good thing?
Could you imagine Bob's review if this movie had been made during the Bush Administration, with Not-George-Bush fighting OWS protestors and Islamic Terrorists? Methinks the word "awesome" probably wouldn't have come up in the review.
Instead of peaceful and ending wars, he's started up more fronts and has attempted to arm several people who shouldn't be armed. Not to mention unrestricted drone warfare that has a more than 50% civilian kill rate.
And really, Racist right winged military industrial complex ex NSA agents?
Thats offensive not only to non Obama supporters, thats insulting to anyone with a reading level above the 6th grade.
Thats like if they made a movie about a rand paul stand in where he fought singlehandedly against the entire state of California that was taken over by militant jihadist, communist, hippies who were part of the OWS who tried to take away everyone's gun and shot up schools while blaming the people they confiscate guns from.
Its just silly as all hell and kind of stupid.
Only reason Red Dawn and similar cold war movies got away with it was because we seriously thought that shit was possible and reasonable.