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Lyle Donating Member (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 04:45 PM
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SYRIANA - What impact do you think this movie will have on public opinion?
Do you think this movie will serve to expose our administration's true motives? Will the public be swayed???
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400Years Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 04:47 PM
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1. I gotta see it first
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 04:49 PM
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2. Did "Traffic" halt the drug trade?
No. But it educated people.
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Lyle Donating Member (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 04:49 PM
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3. Point made - and well taken...n/t
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Gruenemann Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 05:25 PM
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13. that would seem like
a false analogy to me.
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-05 08:35 AM
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18. Same film makers
Both films done in documentary style with multiple, interconnected subplots.
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stop the bleeding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 04:50 PM
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4. from what NPR was saying last week no matter who you are and
what your views are this movie will make you think what our country has done and why they did it. But I still have to see it and make my own thoughts.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 04:50 PM
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5. I haven't seen the movie
but if F911 had no impact then this will not either

We haven't lost enough of our children before anything has an impact

I wonder how many parents would feel about sending their children to Iraq. Do they believe it is really for god, country, and mom?
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kevsand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 05:05 PM
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6. None.
You have to see a movie before it can have an impact on you. This looks like a fine piece of work, and I'm dying to see it, but my gut is that it will be lost in the wash of holiday releases.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 05:08 PM
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7. Most of the Bushbots won't see it
but it would be nice if it could wake up the middle...
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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 05:08 PM
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8. viewed a wonderful special on it last night
damn..wish I could recall what channel.

But the people speaking about the oil wars etc were phenomenol...if the movie is even half as good...
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 05:17 PM
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10. could it have been A&E?
They had a program on it this week -- quite well-done, with lots of interviews with the filmmakers and various experts.
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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 05:21 PM
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12. jes! that's it!
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 05:38 PM
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16. I think the name of the show is "MovieReal"
I tuned in early because I was planning on watching the show that was coming on after that ... was expecting the typical "fluff" entertainment coverage, and was quite impressed.

It would be cool if they included this show (or at least clips from it) on the "Syriana" DVD, when it's eventually released.

http://www.aetv.com/global/listings/series_showcase.jsp?EGrpType=Series&Id=12172908&NetwCode=AEN
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elfin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 05:11 PM
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9. Probably too complicated
for sheeple to follow - all those plots you know.

I cannot wait to see it. Clooney is doing his best within the parameters of "entertainment" ala Good Night and Good Luck and Three Kings a while back to inform the masses without going the Roger Moore path.

I love Moore - but anything he makes is guaranteed to go mostly to the choir. With Clooney there is the hope of a broader audience to get them thinking.

Pretty soon the right will brand him as another Moore -- but not yet.

I am impressed with how he is using his fame and smarts to pursue important issues in accessible ways.
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 05:25 PM
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14. He even tried to expose K Street
until the **administration stopped allowing them access to the White House and other government buildings...
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im10ashus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 05:18 PM
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11. The movie was BRILLIANT!
And I HOPE that people see it like they did Traffic.
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StClone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 05:36 PM
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15. None if it gets the same screen number as "Good Night and...
Good Luck." The closest it came was two hours from me. Jeesh.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 06:29 PM
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17. No impact at all. The sheeple will not go and see it. The people
that will see it already know what's up.
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