In Reply to: My exact feelings. Over the f'n top Hollywood BS.^ posted by Road Warrior on January 6, 2013 at 20:21:43:
Notice how all the state department and CIA strategies were no good. It took a couple of movie bigshots to save the day. Self-indulgent hollywood trash.
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- it's even worse than that because the underlying message was that Hollywood saved the hostages - Jazz Inmate 23:47:55 01/06/13 (8)
- It was the CIA guys idea. And that was the real idea. nt - sjb 12:13:09 01/07/13 (7)
- It wasn't the officers' ideas, which were cast as idiotic - Jazz Inmate 12:40:12 01/07/13 (6)
- It showed State Department guys having those ideas - sjb 20:33:06 01/07/13 (5)
- It was the low-level CIA agent who came up with the idea - Jazz Inmate 20:29:21 01/08/13 (4)
- No. The film was made because it was a film about a fictitious film. A very interesting idea, given all the - tinear 08:13:38 01/09/13 (1)
- Not a fictitious film; real hollywood types, production company, storyboards... - Jazz Inmate 09:59:13 01/09/13 (0)
- We must have seen different movies then - sjb 22:37:58 01/08/13 (1)
- we saw the same movie; you're just not acknowledging its pure celebration of hollywood's godlike power - Jazz Inmate 09:57:47 01/09/13 (0)