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Offline Everyone needs to see this movie. I cried throughout the whole thing and I usually don't do that with movies. Not only was Sean Penn insanely amazing and the cinematography/acting beautiful and engaging, but it held such an important message for this country.
I didn't cry so much for the death of Milk, as he was indeed a martyr and did not die in vain, but for all the homosexuals and minorities out there under serious persecution. This movie will make you angry just as any movie on civil rights for African Americans will.
Not to mention that Anita Bryant is one creepy fucker.
*Our world is far more complex than the rigid structure we want to assign to it, and we will probably never fully understand it.*
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I would like to see this movie, but I hate Sean Penn too much to ever see any of his films. I can not support that man in any way. Maybe I'll 'borrow' this movie from the internet. That way I can see it, but I won't be giving any money to Sean Penn.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
British General Charles Napier while in India
I have been trying to schedule time with the wife to watch this
.. Between work, school, & kids it's hard at least it's on demand now.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. - William S. Burroughs
Care to elaborate, or should I start searching for dirt on Google?
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Well, I have not seen it yet. Based solely on your review, I will (even though it was already on the short list).
From what you have to say, I would also suggest “Astronaut Farmer” with Billy Bob Thornton.
I could review it here but it would detract from the point of the thread. Just see both movies.
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That movie was gay.
Why so much hate for Mr Penn?
*Our world is far more complex than the rigid structure we want to assign to it, and we will probably never fully understand it.*
"Those believers who are sophisticated enough to understand the paradox have found exciting ways to bend logic into pretzel shapes in order to defend the indefensible." - Hamby
Sean Penn likes to make communist propaganda. He goes to Cuba and writes ass-kissing articles about how great Fidel and Raul are. I fear that if I see one of his films I won't be able to understand anything that he says, on account of Fidel's cock being so far down Sean Penn's throat. Ironically Fidel likes to imprison his own journalists, yet lets Sean Penn pretend to be a journalist and visit so he can write about how great living under Cuban communism is. Being a shill for Cuban communists is why I refuse to support Sean Penn in any way. I have read too much about the Cuban communist government mass killing dissidents to respect Sean Penn for supporting them. Read about La Cubaña and you'll know why I hate Sean Penn.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
British General Charles Napier while in India
In any event, he was amazing playing Harvey Milk, communist supporter or not.
*Our world is far more complex than the rigid structure we want to assign to it, and we will probably never fully understand it.*
"Those believers who are sophisticated enough to understand the paradox have found exciting ways to bend logic into pretzel shapes in order to defend the indefensible." - Hamby
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Hehe.
likes to make communist propaganda. Man are you really that lame,you sound like Bill O'Reilly. Don't you think that we here in the US are feed propaganda,when congress asked Exxon-Mobile and a few other super rich oil co.after they had record profits to lower heating fuel cost to help Americans thru the winter,they all said NO,except Citgo which is a Venezuelan oil co.and then you got Castro who has sent over 8,000 Doctors and Nurses to Pakistan when hit with an Earthquake,and they stayed there helping these refugees long after the US pulled out. Or the fact that Fidel Castro sent Doctors to Haiti and Jamaica who then sent blind people back to Cuba for eye surgery to restore they're eye sight.Sure Cuba is bad off,but why,could it be because the US has blocked all trade with Cuba,and when your an Island,you get over 90% of you needs from trade. A few years ago Muhammad Ali had rented a 747 from Canada and filled it with much needed products and then broke US law by flying it to Cuba in order to help this small island nation that we constantly try to ruin,hoping that the people will rise up to overthrow Castro. Then you say read La Cubana,well I would advise you to read William Blum's Rogue State:A Guide to the Worlds only Superpower or check out a former CIA agent John Stockwell "Third World Traveler" or the many articles that Noam Chomsky has written,Chomsky.info
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I know that Cuba likes to send doctors everywhere. I know that they have a lot of hospitals in Cuba. I also know that Castro had people mass killed for suspicion that they could enact a counter revolt. Spare me the 'Cuba does good things!' argument. That doesn't make Castro a nice man. He gathered up everyone that he felt was a danger to him and had them executed. Sean Penn writes about how great Castro is. If Sean Penn wrote about how we need to be nicer to Cuba, I would not mind. But Sean Penn doesn't do that, instead he kisses Castro's ass. So save the "US is bad and Cuba is good" speech. I know that my government is mean to Cuba and I know that it propped up a lot of terrible governments and I know that Cuba lends medical help to South America. But Castro is still a mass-murderer and Sean Penn still loves to wrote about how great Castro is. Do you really think that Cuba's friendliness now makes up for Castro being a mass-murderer? Is that what I should take from all of this? "Well he did have at least hundreds of people executed for political reasons; but he does send doctors out to help other countries and my government does maintain that embargo. So all-in-all he's a pretty good guy." Is that how I am supposed to think about the mass-murder Fidel Castro?
Though it is pretty funny that you think I sound like Bill O'Reilly. So if I don't like the mass-murderer Castro and the people who like the mass-murderer Castro, that makes me a right-wing shill?
I have read some of Chomsky's nonsense. If you know anything written by him that isn't a steaming pile of shit, please tell me and I'll read it.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
British General Charles Napier while in India
Does an actor's personal life really have that much of an effect on their performance in a movie?
...Why does it matter? If I had a Doctor that did a good job, and wrote in his personal life how "A Modest Proposal" was the best thing since sliced bread, I wouldn't give a damn about anything but how well he did his job.
As a Doctor I mean, not with the orphans.
Theism is why we can't have nice things.
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I never said that. You are putting words into my mouth. I know that our government is very bad. I know that they like to arm rebels to overthrow governments (mostly leftist governments) that we don't like. I know that they liked to prop up horrible despotic governments so long as those governments were against communism. Like I said in my previous post: spare me the "US is bad, Cuba is good" speech. I already know how bad our government is. But, and here is the main point of what I am trying to get across here, Castro is a mass-murderer. And that makes me not like Sean Penn because Sean Penn likes Castro so much. Nothing that you write will negate the fact that Castro is a mass-murderer. No matter how bad the US government is and no matter how helpful Cuban doctors are in relief efforts, Castro is a mass-murderer. Do you get what I'm trying to say here?
I don't even understand why you wrote that post. Did you think listing US atrocities would make me like the mass-murderer Castro? Let me spell out what I believe here: Cuba is good at relief efforts, the US government needs to stop trying to manipulate third world countries (a lot of people die from our manipulations, and a lot of other people grow to hate the US because of it, that is how terrorists are made), and Castro had at least a few hundred people killed in order to prevent a counter revolt. The first two things from that list do not negate the third thing. You can drag the "US government is bad" red herrings around all you want, but it won't make Castro any better or Sean Penn any better for being a Castro fanboy.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
British General Charles Napier while in India