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America D'Souza's movie

Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 10 years, 10 months ago to Movies
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I saw America after my Atlas Shrugged book club meeting today. It was excellent with a lot of information to help refute many of the common lies being told and taught these days. It was a 4pm movie, so there were about 30 people in the theater, non under the age of at least 50. After the movie there was dead silence and no one even moved. I started clapping and everyone joined in. They seemed relieved to be lead. I was disappointed that I didn't see the ASIII trailer on the 50' screen, although they have several postits in the ladies room now.


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  • Posted by awebb 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Can you tell me what theater (name and location) that you were at (since the ASP3 trailer didn't play)?
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  • Posted by Randman80 10 years, 10 months ago
    Went to see it (2:45 7/6 ) and it was sold out!
    Roswell ga :))
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm only about 1/4 of the way through. Our financial framework is colossal and criminal and we are literally funding the world in the name of being a helping hand... No one is better off except the bloated politicians on every continent. New world order.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No idea. Maybe the big house where the financial demise of America was planned is still standing. Probably teetering at this point, just like our existence.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I may be passing near Jekyll Island if we go on vacation this year. Is there anything worth seeing? Perhaps it would be a good place to litter with Post-It Notes?
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Except that never really goes back on the shelf. They continue their onslaught even when out of power.
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  • Posted by scojohnson 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We go through this crap about every 20 years it seems like, as Rush says, every generation has to dust-off liberalism and try it out, after a term or two, it goes back on the shelf for 20 years.
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  • Posted by lostsierra 10 years, 10 months ago
    Went with the family on July 4th. Whole family liked it. Am stilling getting questions from my 16 and 13 year olds. My wife is Asian national. My 13 year old son has already gotten a taste of "God damn America dogma in his 7th grade history class. I asked him if the film reminded him of his history teacher. "Yes." Small crowd for an evening show in Folsom, CA.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Understandable, thats the next best thing. I'm sure you will get as much out of it as we did.
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  • Posted by Lnxjenn 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Unfortunately I'm an expat living in England. I doubt it will make it over here. So sadly, DVD is they way I have to experience it.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The Civil War was about taxation more than slavery. Recall that prior to Lincolns Presidency the South has already established its nation: had a president, a constitution of its own, a currency, treaties, and (if memory serves) was comprised of 8 States. Lincoln pushed the issue (not on my watch) when additional states sought to break away and started a war over thin pretense (Sumter). Lincoln did use the hot-button of slavery to keep the Northern units from leaving and going home after repeated losses.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You'll be missing a truly heartwarming experience if you wait for it on DVD. The experience is sitting in a theater packed full with like-minded Americans who applaud the principals of the United States and recognize what is jeopardy of being lost. Plus, movies like America need to be supported to ensure they continue to be made. Even liberal Hollywood will not long turn a blind eye or dismiss those movies that Americans are willing to pay to see.
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  • Posted by Lnxjenn 10 years, 10 months ago
    My dad saw America and enjoyed it. I won't get to see it in theatres. :( I plan on purchasing it when it comes out on DVD! I've read several reviews that echo what you all have said about America! I look forward to getting my chance to view it.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm starting to think even the "informed" aren't enough informed, or as informed as they think they are. The Creature from Jekyll Island is a mind blower.
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  • Posted by professorbean1942 10 years, 10 months ago
    Yes the Civil War or otherwise known as "The War of Northern Aggression" was about "states rights" thus the hated "Stars and Bars" Southern battle flag. Lincoln and his new Republican Party were cleaver enough to turn the issue into their own primary plank of "freedom for all" as "called for in the Constitution and Declariation of Independance. Lincoln turned lemons into lemonade. Therefore as D'Souza says we did fight to free the slaves. I love his exposure of the history of slavery and the "white" slaves kidnapped in England and indentured to long servitude in America. Also the fact that there were "many" freed black slave owners in the Southern states who supported the rebellion to maintain their wealthy station. I have discovered these truths before but never has it been told in film that I know of.
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  • Posted by professorbean1942 10 years, 10 months ago
    I also went to afternoon presentation. Sat through about ten trailers but was dissapointed that one was not AS 3. Excellent and honest presentation of history through the lens of an intellectual outside analyst. This is the first movie that I actually sat through ALL the credits and the are extensive! Well done Sir! I am proud to call you my fellow American Patriot.
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  • Posted by RonC 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Like the ten year old that had never worn glasses, the young and the low information voters can't imagine a world without regulation and government assistance. Information overload is, perhaps, a vaccine for the under informed.

    When I look through the "Bill of Rights" it's hard to believe that we started out with three branches of Government to tend to the Nation's business and 10 amendments to clarify our actions. All else was left "to the separate States or to the people". Today, it is often in the news when a Patriot is told he cannot fly his flag in the community where he resides. Ruled by the collective where he lives, the only choice is to comply or move.

    To touch the poor vision metaphor again; if all we have known or can remember is some degree of collectivism, then AS enthusiasts, TEA party candidates, and Libertarians of all stripes look like revolutionaries.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Lincoln is a very complex figure. Some things he did I agreed with, and others I detest. The War of Northern Aggression was somewhat misportrayed as well.
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