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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 09:32 AM
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My suggestion to ABC: pull the the docucrap and show this movie instead
http://www.sonyclassics.com/fogofwar/



I thought war was bad but after watching this documentary about an interview with former DoD Secretary Robert McNamara (Kennedy & Johnson), I realized that war is an absolutely fucking shithole of a horror that god forbid I pray that I never find myself stranded in the middle of one.

I cried my eyes out as I watched this old man try to clear his conscious of the horrors he had witnessed and created.

Absolutely deserved the Oscar it won!
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 09:35 AM
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1. That was a brilliant film.
Errol Morris' best, and certainly his most important in my opinion.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 09:37 AM
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2. I loved how Morris interacted footage to complement the text of McNamera
When McNamara talked about the bombing of Japan he compared the stunning horror of death by showing how many died in each Japanese town and then using an American city to give a population comparision

:cry:
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-09-06 02:39 PM
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3. Deserving of a kick. n/t
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