Remember when we were talking about anti-capitalist messages in movies?

It gets so bad that you begin to assume that the only reason people do bad things is for nefarious capitalist gains.

In Unknown, Liam Neeson plays a man who wakes up from a coma, to discover that another man has replaced him in his life. He's stuck in Berlin, to boot, and the only help he has is the National Archives babe from National Treasure.

Since the movie ends up sucking, and since I can't talk about what I want to w/o spoiling the movie, I'm going to spoil the movie.

Near the end, he finds out that he's not who he thinks he is; that's just his cover story, because really he's an assassin working for Frank Langella. His 'wife' is his partner, and the new him is his replacement for his current mission, cause, y'know, he went and got all boogly in the brain thinking he was his cover.

What is the mission? Brace yourself, because you'd NEVER guess what the mission is...

It seems this biochemist, somehow supported by a benevolent Saudi prince, has come up with a strain of corn that will grow pretty much anywhere. It's bug resistant, drought resistant, and, presumably edible (if not, I guess you can always make gasahol out of it...)

He already planted a bomb in the hotel suite where both the biochem guy and the benevolent Saudi prince will be, but what he and his partner were really after is the formula for that corn (whut?!?) and to kill the inventor of it to eliminate competition. When he Learns the Truth (tm), he decides to thwart the evil nefarious plot.

Because his crew had been hired by an Evil Corporation (tm) to steal the formula and kill the biochemist, because the formula will be worth billions, especially if the original creator is dead and the Saudi prince is kept from sharing it with the world (meanwhile, Neesom and the National Treasure chick grin at each other at the airport as they see the stock value of agribusiness companies go down before starting their new lives as the "Taylors").

I'm sick of seeing movies with potential perverted into anti capitalist screeds. How about making the Saudi gov't out to get the prince? How about Iranian agents out to kill him, blame it on us, while they take off with the formula, which they can sell to N. Korea for nuclear weapons and nuke manufacturing materials?

Biggest fallacy; if anybody is going to find a super version of corn, it's going to be in Iowa, not Saudi Arabia or Germany or even Kansas. I O W A. First, cause there's Iowa State (which really was working on plastic corn at one time, though I don't know whatever became of it). Second, because Kent Feeds and lots of other "agribusinesses" already have their test fields in Iowa. Iowa is to corn like Earth is to life.

No, I guess the biggest fallacy is the idea that a Saudi prince would A) give a shit about super corn, and B) would, if he had it, give it to the world for free.

No, I guess the biggest fallacy is the idea that a giant corporation would be the one's trying to steal the formula rather than the ones who developed the formula.

No, the biggest fallacy is the suggestion that CAPITALISTS ARE EVIL AND SOCIALIST BASTARDS ARE BENEVOLENT.

Sorry for my language. I didn't mean to use a redundancy in reference to the latter group.

I WISH someone would come out with a movie where the businessmen are the good guys; where, when they pack up their toys and go away, the rest of the world collapses. A movie that shows the real bad guys are those who do business via political favors. A movie that champions "making money".

Not like we'll ever see a movie like that in my lifetime...