Posted by Robert ap Richard on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:32 | #

“Suppressed”?  Are you kidding?  This movie is unknown because it is so poorly acted and directed.

Posted by James Bowery on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:26 | #

Look at <a >The Numbers</a>.

Posted by Bud White on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:36 | #

“This movie is unknown because it is so poorly acted and directed.”

What are you talking about??? Rowdy Roddy Piper was brilliant in his performance! He was definitely robbed for the best actor category at the Oscars.

Posted by James Bowery on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:04 | #

You know, I might have more sympathy for the viewpoint that “They Live” was killed after the second week due to poor quality alone if it weren’t for the fact that it took in triple its production budget within the first 2 weeks and then was yanked from the market—TOTALLY. 

Note, my statement that the movie was suppressed doesn’t require the movie to be profitable, let alone good, whereas your counter requires you to explain the phenomenon entirely in on your terms.

You guys who want to play erudite critic—get some rationality.

Jews do it much better than you anyway.

Posted by Robert ap Richard on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:31 | #

Sorry, the movie was just poor; reminded me of Walker Texas Ranger.  I like the messages in both and I think both writers are great guys personally but these are just not well made.  Poorly acted,  directed, and edited.  You are letting your—completely understandable—hatred of Jews get in the way of your aesthetic judgement.  Perhaps it was yanked because of the symbolism but I’d bet that it was because it just wasn’t very good.

Now idiocracy, that’s different.  That was pretty good.  Not great but better than most of the schlock put out these days.  If They Live was at least that good then you’d have a better case.

I’m giving They Live one one thumb down.

Posted by James Bowery on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:34 | #

Richard, you are rapidly losing credibility.  I never said the movie was great or even good.  I said there was a scene that was great.  Moreover your repeated harping on aesthetics as the reason movies that are profitable are pulled from theaters betrays a very serious lack of perspective about the movie industry that goes beyond an supposed “hatred of Jews”.

Posted by Rnl on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:48 | #

Even I have a hard time believing they’re really getting ready for another Mideast war, given the extraordinary failure of their adventure in Iraq. The evidence, however, strongly suggests that they are.

Homage to Herzliya
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10399

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The “clean break” strategy embraced by the Israelis, predicated on the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the Americans, has so far played out pretty much as outlined in a notorious game plan drawn up by top U.S. policymakers, including neocon point-man and former Defense Policy Board official Richard Perle, former Deputy Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, and David Wurmser, currently Dick Cheney’s top adviser on Middle Eastern affairs.

The agenda put forth in this widely cited 1996 document, intended as advice to then-incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was meant to confront the central conundrum at the heart of the Zionist predicament: how to overcome its essential dependence on the West. As a settler colony, implanted by force of arms and sustained by aid from abroad, Israel has from the start been dependent on outside forces to ensure its survival. What was needed, argued the Clean Breakers, was a new offensive that would repudiate the concept of “land for peace” and set Israel free from Western-imposed constraints. Invoking the “right of hot pursuit,” Israel would launch periodic invasions of Palestinian and Lebanese territory – and set the stage for strikes against Syria and Iran.

The road to Damascus and Tehran would run through Baghdad, however, as the authors of “A Clean Break” put it:

“Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq – an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right – as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions.”

Syria and Lebanon were seen by the Clean Breakers as the front line in their battle to expand the frontiers of Israeli power. Following a successful campaign to “redefine Iraq,” it would be possible to envision a “profound” shift in the regional “strategic balance of power.” Jordan would be drawn into the new order, and the Israelis would succeed in “diverting Syria’s attention by using Lebanese opposition elements to destabilize Syrian control of Lebanon.”

A decade after the Clean Break scenario was conceived, its policy prescriptions read like prophecies.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10155

Posted by Rnl on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:36 | #

Lest we forget, Jimmy Carter is a notorious Holocaust minimizer, or perhaps a Holocaust neglecter. There is as yet no exact term to describe his offense, but he is a forgetter of the need to mention the Jewish Holocaust whenever one discusses Israel. That’s not exact either, since he did make “two fleeting references to the Holocaust” in his book. So he is a forgetter of (or maybe even a disbeliever in) the obligation to mention the Holocaust regularly when discussing Israel, which needless to say is very bad, as Deborah Lipstadt explains:

His book, which dwells on the Palestinian refugee experience, makes two fleeting references to the Holocaust. The book contains a detailed chronology of major developments necessary for the reader to understand the current situation in the Middle East. Remarkably, there is nothing listed between 1939 and 1947. Nitpickers might say that the Holocaust did not happen in the region. However, this event sealed in the minds of almost all the world’s people then the need for the Jewish people to have a Jewish state in their ancestral homeland ... y almost ignoring the Holocaust, Carter gives inadvertent comfort to those who deny its importance or even its historical reality, in part because it helps them deny Israel’s right to exist. This from the president who signed the legislation creating the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.