Escape to the Movies: Green Zone

[Mosstromo]

Once again Mr. Movie Bob, you are correct in all your points:
Aesthetical, technical and political. Not to forget self-analytical.

Good show.

 

[TornadoADV]

I laughed, to be truthful, your outlook on the US will largely depend on how you were brought up and your awareness of our history and general motives for our actions and our expected reward for said actions.

I think all and all, the US has done pretty well considering human history and the tendency for the most powerful entity that exists at the time to completely destroy and suppress any other way of thinking. Let's keep things in perspective here before we go ragging on the US.

 

[dex-dex]

Sorry to disappoint you Bob, but Baseball wasn't actually invented in America

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/7610016.stm

Ironically, the only sport invented by America, is basketball. Everything else is an adaptation.

yet it was not even invented by an american it was a Canadian born soo score one for Canada ( but we are too modest about it)

 

[Artheval_Pe]

Let's say it was a nation like France (which was illrgally trading through oil for food), or China, or any one of a number of other nations... simply by outing that your looking at an international charlie foxtrot that has to be dealt with.

Interesting, but it couldn't have been France, simply because helping another country having its own bomb was unconcievable for any of the administrations that run France since De Gaulle. Plus, if it had been France, Germany or Russia for that matter, they would have shut the fuck up before the war hoping for the US to find and get rid of the nukes.

However, the country that made possible for Saddam Hussein to think at one point of becoming a nuclear power was France indeed, as it provided the nuclear civilian technology that was used in Iraq (But the chemical et biological weapons, which were the only WMD that Saddam at some point actually had, were taken elsewhere).

the military was overconfident after initial successes in Afghanistan

I suggest you take a look at Gen Shinseki hearings (They are probably on Youtube). The military wasn't nearly as overconfident as Rumsfeld and the political leaders were.


One thing seems funny, though, is how people tried to make a film to prove something that at least 3 major countries were saying before the war. Russia, Germany and France were against this war, and all they got for it was hatred ^^, whereas they were only thinking about the huge mess that a war in Iraq was going to be.

Another funny thing (which is going to be a lot less funny in a few years), is how Iraq seems to be paralysing the United States now, when it comes to react to a true nuclear build-up, this time in Iran.

 

[Zing]

I just saw Green Zone and enjoyed it, if only for the action scenes, the dialogue is a bit shaky, that whole "don't be naive" bit was a bit cringe-worthy.

I was expecting after watching this review that Damon's character would be a super soldier, but you make it out like he's taking on legions of bad guys while shot three times, I honestly didn't see him do anything out of the ordinary for a trained soldier, and certainly nothing less believable then anything in the Bourne films.

edit: Oh and I was pretty disappointed with the character development, in that there is none, you don't find out anything about any of the characters other than their names the whole film.

Overall though It was worth admission for a good time, 7.5/10 from me.

 

[WOPR]

maybe it would be more fun if it were named "green HILL zone" (if anyone gets THAT joke)

 

[xenos60]

Wait, was the use of a picture of Australian soldiers to represent the Vietnam War intentional?

 

[DevilWolf47]

It really does seem like America either fucks up big or wins big. The country seems to be constantly starved for attention.
...wonder if we need to throw Ritalin down Mount St. Helen or something...