Trailer for Oliver Stone's SNOWDEN starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Digging the voice.
Digging the voice.
Snowden (Post-release)
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Darth Lars
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Re: Snowden
Yeah.... just like Stone's World Trade Center movie, the two recent Steve Jobs movies, The Fifth Estate and The Social Network: Hurry, hurry to profit on retelling recent events before people forget about them!. :rolleyes
Yeah.... just like Stone's World Trade Center movie, the two recent Steve Jobs movies, The Fifth Estate and The Social Network: Hurry, hurry to profit on retelling recent events before people forget about them!. :rolleyes
firesprite
Master Member
I haven't watched an Oliver Stone film since Alexander. How someone can take one of the most fascinating military minds ever and make a deadly dull slog of a movie out of it, I've no idea.
I Agree....to make a movie about a Traitor to me especially doing what he did....I hope the movie flops!!!!!....We may not all agree to everything that our country does but I feel(ex military) that some things are needed and most people don't need to know! what the government,cia etc... does, if you think were the only country doing this you Blind,Deaf and Dumb.....He's a traitor! And I hate JGL
Axlotl
Master Member
Communist Russia spied on it's own citizens.
Nazi Germany spied on it's own citizens.
Would you say we're in good company?
...No...but with what our country does( CIA,HOMELAND ETC..)....there is a certain amount of Security involved with it, if it stops just one Terroist from carring out his or hers attack then I feel that its worth it......
xl97
Master Member
So the ends justify the means for you? (to be clear, I dont care if that -is- your stance, I'm just trying to understand)
anyways.....
Honestly.. I hope its a good movie. (but doesnt look to exciting from the commercials so far)..
I also feel bad for our military people, 'acting on orders' (ie: being loyal/patriotic in their minds).. but still doing illegal things. (slippery slope there)
(Nazi's were 'just following orders' too) <-- and now after the fact thats a laughable excuse!
I think its a complete JOKE.,. that they want to charge him for 'not following the rules'.. when they (government) do not either.
I'm glad he did it, and I hope others follow suit.
"The people shouldnt fear the government, the government should fear the people"
Keep them honest/transparent.
anyways.....
Honestly.. I hope its a good movie. (but doesnt look to exciting from the commercials so far)..
I also feel bad for our military people, 'acting on orders' (ie: being loyal/patriotic in their minds).. but still doing illegal things. (slippery slope there)
(Nazi's were 'just following orders' too) <-- and now after the fact thats a laughable excuse!
I think its a complete JOKE.,. that they want to charge him for 'not following the rules'.. when they (government) do not either.
I'm glad he did it, and I hope others follow suit.
"The people shouldnt fear the government, the government should fear the people"
Keep them honest/transparent.
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JoMamma_Smurf
Master Member
All I'll say on the matter is that when your own government will go so far out of it's way to violate constitutional rights while denying it the entire time yet nobody has been held accountable but that same government will stop at nothing to jail the the person who exposed them..... Houston, we have a problem. Right now there is a politician who purposefully put U.S. national security at risk to hide God only knows what and well... cough cough...cough cough cough cough....cough cough...cough cough.. faints.
brandomack
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Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.
When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.
When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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Darth Lars
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After Oliver Stone had made JFK, he made the TV mini-series "Wild Palms" set in the future. In that series, there is a TV interview of Oliver Stone having him comment on secret papers having been revealed, that had confirmed his theories from his (then) old movie ...
So, yeah ... That man has hubris for sure.
Back on topic: I have already seen the Oscar-winning documentary Citizenfour on TV where Snowden was filmed while fleeing and getting stuck in Moscow when it happened.
I don't need to pay for a movie ticket to see dramatizations of the events when I have already seen the real events for free.
So, yeah ... That man has hubris for sure.
Back on topic: I have already seen the Oscar-winning documentary Citizenfour on TV where Snowden was filmed while fleeing and getting stuck in Moscow when it happened.
I don't need to pay for a movie ticket to see dramatizations of the events when I have already seen the real events for free.
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