Bin Laden movie 'Zero Dark Thirty' mired in controversy

Entertainment Dec. 19, 2012 - 04:12AM JST ( 14 )

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FadamorDec. 19, 2012 - 05:53AM JST

So if reviews are good and the director has pretty much debunked all the "classified leaks" theories by Republicans sensitive to criticism of the Bush Administration's handling of detainees, how is the film still "mired in controversy"? Come on, Reuters! You have to do better than that!
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PenfoldDec. 19, 2012 - 08:35AM JST

Why they dumped his body at sea, very strange! But let's not go there.
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hoserfellaDec. 19, 2012 - 08:43AM JST

Penfokd - not strange at all. No country wanted to accept bin ladens body and the political controversy that would accompany it. Secondly, nobody would want his grave to become a place of worship for his followers
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ProbieDec. 19, 2012 - 01:05PM JST

Secondly, nobody would want his grave to become a place of worship for his followers

I don't know, it would have been a great place to visit with a few cruise missiles on the first anniversary of his death.

Instead, it tells the story through the eyes of Maya, fresh-faced and not long in the field, battling security threats, CIA bureaucracy and unsupportive bosses to eventually track bin Laden to his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Wow. Sounds really original. Is there a scene where, after an extended car chase, she gets called into her boss' office and he shouts at her "explain to me why the mayor's office has just been on the horn complaining that you just wrecked 20 cars!".

Chastain told Reuters in an interview that the woman she portrays is still active. The Washington Post has reported that the agent is now in her 30s, remains undercover and while receiving the agency’s highest medal, was denied a promotion.

I bet the undertone is "...because she's a woman."

Snooooore!
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vollandDec. 19, 2012 - 03:56PM JST

Bigelow has already made one movie supporting the Georg W politics, why on earth would anyone believe that this is different? If there is actually a single person (other than americans, that is) who believes either that this has anything to do with the Bin Laden story, or, that the official version of his "capture" had a lot to do with what actually happened, that person has to have his head examined...
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hoserfellaDec. 19, 2012 - 05:08PM JST

Bigelow has already made one movie supporting the Georg W politics, why on earth would anyone believe that this is different? If there is actually a single person (other than americans, that is) who believes either that this has anything to do with the Bin Laden story, or, that the official version of his "capture" had a lot to do with what actually happened, that person has to have his head examined...

let me guess, another bleeding heart Euro who thinks the US (I'm not American) should have put Bin Laden in a nice comfy town house and encouraged him to "talk about his feelings" while simultaneously reflecting on how horrible the US is - and maybe deserved- 9/11.

Oh dear...
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hoserfellaDec. 19, 2012 - 10:14PM JST

Bigelow has already made one movie supporting the Georg W politics

volland - this quote proves you haven't even seen "The Hurt Locker". The movie had zero to do with George W politics (whatever that means)
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FadamorDec. 19, 2012 - 10:28PM JST

Bigelow has already made one movie supporting the Georg W politics, why on earth would anyone believe that this is different?

Well, probably because this movie depicts the "enhanced interrogation methods" touted by Bush and Cheney for what they really were: torture. That's not the kind of thing someone trying to support Bush would want to portray.
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SerranoDec. 19, 2012 - 10:50PM JST

"could have made a testosterone fueled shoot-'em-up Hollywood version"

Could have, could have.
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vollandDec. 20, 2012 - 08:25AM JST

@hoserfella....

A few obviously necessary remarks.....

If for the last 60 years the USA would have had a more intelligent foreign politics, than just sending in the army whereevér necessary so their corporation can then steal whatever is worrth stealing, then there would not have been a bin Laden and no 9/11. You might find that Susan Sontag wrote exactly that on the frontpage of the New York Tiimes (that commie rag. Right?) on 9/12.... If you understand this or not does not chnage the facts.

As your understanding or misunderstamnding will not change the fact about hurt locker. Of course it takes a little more intelligence, and Bigelow obviously has that, to simply making the sad fact of lonelyness of an american soldier with a job like that the subject of a movie, instead those 100.000s dead after the illegal invasion of the US,
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psychopathsareincontrolDec. 20, 2012 - 01:34PM JST

propaganda
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hoserfellaDec. 20, 2012 - 03:37PM JST

If for the last 60 years the USA would have had a more intelligent foreign politics, than just sending in the army whereevér necessary so their corporation can then steal whatever is worrth stealing, then there would not have been a bin Laden and no 9/11. You might find that Susan Sontag wrote exactly that on the frontpage of the New York Tiimes (that commie rag. Right?) on 9/12.... If you understand this or not does not chnage the facts.

As your understanding or misunderstamnding will not change the fact about hurt locker. Of course it takes a little more intelligence, and Bigelow obviously has that, to simply making the sad fact of lonelyness of an american soldier with a job like that the subject of a movie, instead those 100.000s dead after the illegal invasion of the US,

And there it is! The exact argument I knew was coming; "The United States is bad and therefore hit its comeuppance on 9/11. Can I call 'em or can I call 'em?
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vollandDec. 21, 2012 - 05:22AM JST

@hoserfella I never questioned your, or any american's, ability to repeat what another person has written.... I questioned the ability of 98% of americans to understand and accept a truth, even when it hits them on the head. In Europe there is famous saying, that a soldier is nothing but a murderer, and the highest court found this a permitted and acceptable description. Now you will have to excuse me and others, who are not really impressed by the "lonelyness of a professional murderer".

It never needed any intelligent effort in Europe to understood Ms Bigelow intentions. Everyone there clearly understood what he was watching. And so, the movie was a flop outside the US, whose majority as was to be expected, has precisely the kind of "intelligence" (to abuse that that word) that is needed to find this an interesting subject.
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deadbeatlesDec. 26, 2012 - 02:17AM JST

Do the public go to these movies expecting to find out the truth? I'm tired of the BASED ON A TRUE STORY movies. A movie where the stories main characters are stranded alone at sea and meet their death. The only true part is that it's made up. All of these military theme movies are propagand, no matter what side they come from. Multiple source your intrest in currents events and draw your own valid conclusion and stop feeding the machine.