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2008-07-25 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-25 09:04|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Go see Mugabe he'll give ya a handful of 25m Zimbob notes. Film away

Posted by Beavis 2008-07-25 09:54|| 2008-07-25 09:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Danny Glover's still working?
Well good for him...

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-25 10:02|| 2008-07-25 10:02|| Front Page Top

#3 If Danny-boy is in charge, the film's liberal slant will doom it before it begins.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-07-25 10:08|| 2008-07-25 10:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Gee, he managed to get the money from his Commie dictator friend, whoduh thunk it?

Posted by AlanC 2008-07-25 10:52|| 2008-07-25 10:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe he should call the movie "Kill Whitey".
Glover is a shitbag, he can stay in Venezuela.

Posted by bigjm-ky 2008-07-25 12:14|| 2008-07-25 12:14|| Front Page Top

#6 He wants to glorify the Haitian independence hero because independent Haiti has been such a rip roaring success.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-07-25 12:31|| 2008-07-25 12:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Glover is a tool, a fecking leftist moron.

This movie will flop massively, since it will be a leftist polemic piece of shit.

Look at the red meat:

Due to be shot in Venezuela...

Sergey Eisenstein (communist supporter) Harry Belafonte (anti americal leftwing looney)

raised 18 of the 30 million dollars needed from a Venezuelan cultural body set up in 2006 by his friend President Hugo Chavez

I hope Danny is happy, because he will not get work again after throwing this much money down the crapper for whats bascially a left wing version of a Riefenstal pice.

Anyone else wonder why we need to get off foreign oil? SO Huge will not havemoeny to waste on leftist shit-heads like Glover.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-25 13:07|| 2008-07-25 13:07|| Front Page Top

#8 And I've been to Haiti - its a tribalistic cesspool. Such a success that peopel risk dying on the ocean rather than staying.

Real good example there Glover.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-25 13:08|| 2008-07-25 13:08|| Front Page Top

#9 You guys are being too harsh on the folks in Haiti. I mean, they've only had 200 plus years since indepedence to create a civil society.

Posted by MarkZ 2008-07-25 14:26|| 2008-07-25 14:26|| Front Page Top

#10 "the film will star Don Cheadle, Mos Def, Wesley Snipes and Angela Bassett."

-other then Cheadle (who I thought was good in hotel rwanda) I wouldn't pay to see a cRapper, a tax evader, and some over the hill heffer either.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-07-25 14:34|| 2008-07-25 14:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Hati's a basket case, and Glover's a lefty airhead, albiet one who is a pretty decent actor.

The story of Toussaint's uprising is an interesting bit of history that isn't well known. If the script sticks to reality, it could make for something worth watching.

Or, it could suck, for any of the reasons why movies suck--bad dirceting, bad acting, bad production values, a script that tries to filter events through Marx or postmodernism or the screenwriter's cocaine habit, or just isn't all that well written to start with. We won't know until we see it.

I do think it hilarious that our moral superiors in the compassionate Hollywood Left are refusing to finance the project because there aren't enough white people in it.

Posted by Mike 2008-07-25 15:15|| 2008-07-25 15:15|| Front Page Top

#12 I do think it hilarious that our moral superiors in the compassionate Hollywood Left are refusing to finance the project because there aren't enough white people in it.
Mike, actually, we only have Danny's word that the Hollywood elite rejected it because it didn't have enough white people in it. They could have rejected it because they thought it sucked like a bilge pump.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-07-25 18:06|| 2008-07-25 18:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Haiti and the U.S., the first two independent nations in the Western Hemisphere. One overwhelmingly black, the other predominantly white. Haiti is known for what? Voodoo? Papa Doc? Can't think of anything else they're known for except unwanted refugees. "Born under a bad sign" indeed.

Just another example of the fact that anyplace there is a black government there are tremendous problems with the governance of that political entity. See Detroit as a U.S. example.

Posted by Jomock Platypus9662 2008-07-25 21:26|| 2008-07-25 21:26|| Front Page Top

#14 Jomock, it aint the skin color. Its that the US is individualist and ecuminical, Haiti is collectivist and tribalistic.

Simple. America values tne individual, Haiti values the clan/tribe.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-25 22:46|| 2008-07-25 22:46|| Front Page Top

#15 OS, I value your insight, but please feel free to clarify how Detroit, under its succession of black mayors, meets your assessment as a cause of failure. Be careful, though. If you claim that Kilpatrick sees all blacks as his "clan/tribe," you are not only being politically incorrect, the infighting going on there about his actions among blacks themselves brings the validity of your observation into question.

We won't even start on the idea of how a Bama presidency might lead to greater anti-white racism and discrimination.

Posted by Jomock Platypus9662 2008-07-25 23:24|| 2008-07-25 23:24|| Front Page Top

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