No Berger scene. They caved. Groovy.
On the whole, a boring film.
Hmmm. I was wondering why the History Channel spikes with right-wing propaganda every election season. Today, we got a program on “World War III” (they really titled it that way) explaining why we just have to go to war with Iran right this very minute.
Considering this was the History Channel, did it have something to do with Zombie Hitler?
Well, sorta. Ahmadinejad is supposed to be Hitler reincarnate, dontchaknow.
Wait a minute, Hitler’s a Zombie now? So Rev. Moon wasn’t speaking figuratively at his congressional reception?
I thought Hitler had just been reborn in a ‘standing beside Jesus’ sort of way.
Thanks for clearing that up asterion. Ignorance has been fought!
Real men watch football. Pretty good game, too. Damn shame you all are wasting time watching a movie you went into hating. But, if that’s what gets you fired up, more power to you.
Naw, real men are watching the 9/11 film by the Gaudet brothers over on CBS and bawling their eyes out at “Danny Boy” being sung over the images of the fallen firefighters. 
I did switch over and watched about two minutes of the ABC thing after the good movie was finished, but the actors took me right out of the moment. Hard to concentrate when you’re playing H!ITG! with half the cast.
Admittedly, this political stuff lacks the overtones of repressed violence and homeroticism…
Me, I got out a DVD and for the umpteenth time re-watched that epic document of the class struggle, the classic film that has shaped so much of my political philospophy, Caddyshack.
See, we disagreed in the other thread about this movie and then you had to go say something eminently thought-out and respectable in this one. What’s your deal anyway? 
I think made-for-TV movies are the kind least likely to treat any topic seriously and faithfully.
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women served for me; real top-notch Soviet entertainment.
Didn’t see it. If I was in Nazi Germany I probably would have skipped some Goebbels radio broadcasts too. What I did see on Koppel’s show on Discovery was enough to make my blood boil. The US took an innocent Canadian citizen, arrested him as he switched planes in New York, interrogated and jailed him without so much as a phone call, then deported him to Syria where he was tortured. Eventually the Canadian government got his release, but the US stole this man’s life. 9/11 changed America all right- it turned us into monsters.
Ya know, I would’ve expected to see at least one decent channel in that list, but I don’t think I’d miss a single one of them, myself.
The History Channel was one of the reasons I signed up for cable – then I started watching it and was deeply disappointed. Little between-show bits cheerfully offering up stuff I knew was bullshit (like the debunked “deeper meaning” of “Ring Around the Rosie”); cheesy reenactments and superficial treatments of interesting subjects; and of course Hitler out the whazoo.
It’s still a great idea for a cable channel.
History Channel can be very good or awful. Some of their stuff is informative and fun to watch (their series on the presidents was quite entertaining and full of tidbits), but they have more than their share of tinfoil hat stuff too. I wish they had more Hitler, I find the WW II stuff to be among their better shows.
While all of you were “not watching” the docudrama on ABC, the show on The Discovey Channel was pretty much the counter point many of you were calling for. Simulcast on NPR, had a fairly left-leaning panel (George Soros, a Muslim ACLU lawyer, some guy who got in the “Bush apologist” talking point, etc.) and spent a good deal of time raking the Bush administration over the coals on the treatment of prisoners and the domestic intelligence gathering operations. Just the kind of meat and potatoes program that I would have thought many of the members here would have liked to see.
It’s a pity many of you spent the time “not watching” or hitting blogs to get updates on a docudrama, the non-fiction offering with Ted Koppel was actually worth watching.
Yeah, now I wish I’d seen the thing on Discovery. Have to look for a repeat.
Maybe the continuation of the ABC movie tonight will have a scene showing Rice deciding to ignore Richard Clarke’s advice to focus on Al Qaeda, or Ashcroft saying “I don’t want to hear any more about terrorism.” Or maybe they’ll show a meeting of Cheney’s anti-terrorism task force (which would have to be a dramatization, since the task force never met).
I love the idea that you have to make up stuff to “dramatize” the story of 9/11. Apparently it wasn’t dramatic enough already.
It was the Discovery Channel, who did they show mating with whom?
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