Ebert: calls warmongers PC

[Doctor_J]

I don't know if anyone caught this, but this week Ebert & Roeper reviewed some anti-war pic that's been on the shelf since just after 9/11. The flick stars Scott Glenn & Ed Harris, which is another reason it may have been gathering dust. Anyway, according to Roger, the anti-war and anti-military message is strong throughout, and he says, "It's very politically incorrect to say such things right now".

It's always struck my as strange that wingers consider themselves "politically incorrect", when it's libs and Dems who risk their jobs, their freedom, and their safety by voicing their views.

Go Roger! A Big Media voice on our side!

[Forkboy]

1. Rogers a good man

it's a shame he doesn't speak out more about politics,he's sharp as a tack.

[oustemnow]

3. maybe so, but I'm not sure about that guy

he seemed to take on a very moralizing tone in his movie reviews a few years ago, which I thought was odd coming from a man who penned the script for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. (According to Meyer, they also collaborated on a few other scripts as well).

[acerbic]

2. Reality reversal, projecting... that's the standard for them:

It's always struck my as strange that wingers consider themselves "politically incorrect", when it's libs and Dems who risk their jobs, their freedom, and their safety by voicing their views.

[starroute]

4. Yeah, I noticed that

It got me wondering what the chances were of reversing the current meaning of PC. Wouldn't that be lovely!

[NashVegas]

5. Buffalo Soldiers

I believe that's the flick you're talking about?

Plot Summary for
Buffalo Soldiers (2001)


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1989. The Berlin Wall is about to fall, and the world is about to be made safe for the new world order. But outside of Stuttgart, West Germany, at Theodore Roosevelt Army Base, Specialist Ray Elwood of the 317th Supply Battalion (Joaquin Phoenix) is about to find his own cold war turn white hot. Elwood's a loveable rogue, a conscript who's managed to turn his military servitude into a blossoming network of black market deals, more out of boredom than ambition. Officially, there's his day job as battalion secretary to the inept but caring Commander Wallace Berman (Ed Harris). On the side, there's everything from selling the locals stolen Mop'N'Glo to cooking heroin for the base's ruthless head of Military Police, Sgt. Saad. When a new top sergeant (Scott Glenn) arrives, with the avowed intention of cleaning the base up, Elwood thinks the new blood is nothing he can't handle, especially after he lays eyes on the top's daughter, rebellious Robyn (Anna Paquin). But that was before he figured in the $5 million in stolen arms that just landed on his lap, Berman's jealous wife, an insane Turkish drug dealer, and, of course, the resulting lust, betrayal, and murder.

Yeah, I can just imagine what people would have said on 9/12 about this movie. The studio was wise to move it.