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    August 8, 2010
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Recommended for It Reveals Evil of Hollywood
PostedJuly 13, 2013
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from Los Angeles, CA
Age:55 to 64
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:monthly
Dialogue 
1 / 5
1 / 5
Special Effects 
5 / 5
5 / 5
Art Direction 
5 / 5
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Acting 
3 / 5
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Camerawork 
4 / 5
4 / 5
This is perhaps the most evil Hollywood film I have ever seen. So you should see it. It is a revelation of how utterly degenerate Hollywood can be. It is disturbing that the audience likely does not understand how corrupt and anti-democratic this piece of trash propaganda is.
As housekeeping, the script writing reeks. The dialogue is often trite, ham-handed, blatant (and dumb, naive and horridly wrong as misinformation and misguided) propaganda and just plain painfully lame. But it is the world view of the film that renders it utterly rotten to the core. The writers, director, and producers are truly despicable and the actors should be ashamed of themselves for reciting such sickening falsehoods. Acting in such a tawdry movie bespeaks of their cupidity and greed at best; at worst, their intellectual derangement and morally degenerate views.
The movie disclaims and dismisses the violence of radical Islam as if it does not exist and blames "the [American] Military-Industrial Complex"] for most global violence. Worse, it claims Iran truly desires peace and that Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons is a conspiracy-concocted lie by U.S. political and military leaders and the defense industry, and then dismisses the fact that the real Iran is, actually, rapidly developing nuclear bombs and delivery systems by use of an unsubtle allusion to Iraq not having had WMDs, that the charge against Iran, therefore, is solely to rationalize a war with Iran to the profit of the M-I Complex.
At the end, with the M-I Complex "exposed" and defeated -- but never really identified except vicariously through the movie's crazy-white-right-wing-villains -- the Arabs, Iranians and Israelis are all (suddenly) eager to sign onto the Obama-clone President's "peace initiative." (Yes, the real problem all along was, somehow, the U.S.) The "lunatic-White-rightists-as-the-bad-guys trope, of course, is the reverse racism that is the grand slam partner to the movies anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism.
Whatever brilliant insight the makers of this film think they have into the U.S. and the global situation, they are simply screeching parrots squawking the same old Communist Party Line that goes back to comrade Stalin if not earlier. The movie is anti-capitalist, paranoiac and conspiracy-obsessed. These "artists" and producers are dupes, what Lenin called "Useful Idiots." They need to go live in Iran.
The special effects-filled uttter, physical destruction of the White House and Capitol building are symbolic of how the U.S. needs to be destroyed and remade, i.e., "Fundamentally Changed" in order to have "hope" -- for world peace, for one. Clearly condemned are "white right wingers" who are plotting a virtual coup, the murder of the President, the takeover of the Presidency itself with a Manchurian Candidate, and launching a nuclear world war.
Needless to say, the film has a "utopian" message. All brought to us by an Obama Clone. Rather than world peace, utopian-enterprises, once launched, always decend in short order, typically before complete control is achieved, into mass graves and even genoicides.
The principals behind this film should be held answerable to its vilely corrupt principles.
Cons viciously anti-u.s., clumsy dialogue, anti-capitalist, paranoiac, conspiratorial
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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4 / 5
A Bit Derivative, Ambiguous - and Economically???
PostedAugust 8, 2010
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from Los Angeles, CA
I enjoyed the movie but the idea of confusing, if not conflating, dream states with conscious reality has, of course, been done. Its novelty was using dreams to "implant" ideas -- ergo "inception". The "ambiguous" ending is gratuitous and merely reflects today's cynism about "happy endings", at least by cynical screen writers.
Likewise, the underlying plot: A cynical view of corporations. In this case "anti-monopolism", that the target character's company was "too big". The idea that the company he inherits would monopolize world energy seems a bit too fantastic but it provides an "acceptable" form of anti-capitalism. Of course, the moviemakers themselves will make a fortune thanks to capitalism. Typical Hollywood.... I'd like to see a movie that doesn't preach against capitalism for a change. Sick of the rich Leftists telling the rest of us about money.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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