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By the way, I think you're dead wrong about 2016. No way a Republican will be sitting in the White House come Jan 2017.

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. . . since when did we ever have a greatly planned one?

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David Petraeus, the former Army general and CIA director, admitted today that he gave highly-classified journals to his onetime lover and that he lied to the FBI about it. But he only has to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor that will not involve a jail sentence thanks to a deal with federal prosecutors. The deal is yet another example of a senior official treated leniently for the sorts of violations that lower-level officials are punished severely for.

According to the plea deal (filed March 3, 2015) Petraeus, while leading American forces in Afghanistan, maintained eight notebooks that he filled with highly-sensitive information about the identities of covert officers, military strategy, intelligence capabilities and his discussions with senior government officials, including President Obama. Rather than handing over these “Black Books,” as the plea agreement calls them, to the Department of Defense when he retired from the military in 2011 to head the CIA, Petraeus retained them at his home and lent them, for several days, to Paula Broadwell, his authorized biographer and girlfriend.

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I have lost total focus on the discussion at hand.

Poorly thought out war; since when did we ever have a greatly planned one?


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Non-linear, of course. But it did play with our perception of good vs. evil.

Pulp Fiction, the game changer.


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Now we're talking. Just so happens you picked some of my fav films of all time; Highlander, Fried Green Tomatoes. I'm not sure that they told their stories in quite the same way as Pulp Fiction did.

Now Momento is an interesting choice for game changer, it definitely put Nolan on the map, that's for sure.

Those two films, especially Highlander, did rearrange the storyline but it didn't change our perspective as to how the stories related to one another.
It was a rearrangement of storytelling, a history of the main character. FGT interwove the story of two main characters and how they related to each other.

Pulp Fiction had several stories apparently happening simultaneously. It jumped around and was seemingly unrelated. Plus you could literally start anywhere and you wouldn't be wrong. Any one of those stories could have stood alone - Jules, Vincent Vega, Marcellus Wallace, Mia Wallace, The Boxer, Honey Bunny, Hell, even The Gimp. Anyone of those a stand-alone story.

Momento was groundbreaking because it told the story in opposite form, like looking into a mirror, sort of like reading the story backwards.


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Can you imagine how bad American Sniper would have been if Spielberg directed, as originally scheduled?

It was released on December 25. 4 months later, still playing in my local cinema, and I now see ads for purchasing it.

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. . . outside forces looked to ruin the commercial success of the movie. Politics aside, it told it's story.

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Can you imagine how bad American Sniper would have been if Spielberg directed, as originally scheduled?

It was released on December 25. 4 months later, still playing in my local cinema, and I now see ads for purchasing it.

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Speilberg spoiled A.I. for me. Imagine how good it would have been with Kubrick at the helm. A.I. lost it's way about half way through the film. HJO was brilliant, as was Jude Law, but ultimately the script failed them and so we had E.T. Revisited at the end.

Sniper is a good film and had it's moments, but, to me, outside forces looked to ruin the commercial success of the movie. Politics aside, it told it's story.


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Spielberg didn't pull any punches making Jaws, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan. He's the greatest movie maker of the last half century.

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Can you imagine how bad American Sniper would have been if Spielberg directed, as originally scheduled?

It was released on December 25. 4 months later, still playing in my local cinema, and I now see ads for purchasing it.

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Speilberg spoiled A.I. for me. Imagine how good it would have been with Kubrick at the helm. A.I. lost it's way about half way through the film. HJO was brilliant, as was Jude Law, but ultimately the script failed them and so we had E.T. Revisited at the end.

Sniper is a good film and had it's moments, but, to me, outside forces looked to ruin the commercial success of the movie. Politics aside, it told it's story.


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Editing would have taken years. Imagine the expense of digitally removing all those GUNS and replacing them with flashlights or joints or whatever.

Everybody remember when network TV edited Showgirls for non-R rated viewing?

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Spielberg didn't pull any punches making Jaws, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan. He's the greatest movie maker of the last half century.

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As for your statement regarding the Lefty leaning Hollywood industry, now I get it.
But, I have to ask, why do you think they allow Eastwood to make his films?

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Eastwood makes them money, so they can spend the money on garbage libtard fliks. Eastwood learned early on how to turn around a film quickly, reducing the fiscal exposure to minimums. Eastwood's time from final wrap to film-in-the-can and ready for distribution is the shortest in the industry - he sets the standard, and this makes the bankers and the studio heads happy. The unfortunate circumstances of "Waterworld" would never have happened under his watch.

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As for your statement regarding the Lefty leaning Hollywood industry, now I get it.
But, I have to ask, why do you think they allow Eastwood to make his films?

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Eastwood makes them money, so they can spend the money on garbage libtard fliks. Eastwood learned early on how to turn around a film quickly, reducing the fiscal exposure to minimums. Eastwood's time from final wrap to film-in-the-can and ready for distribution is the shortest in the industry - he sets the standard, and this makes the bankers and the studio heads happy. The unfortunate circumstances of "Waterworld" would never have happened under his watch.

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In the event some readers did not understand this, or did not believe this, films currently in cinema provide an example.
Eastwood directed American Sniper, filming started on Mar 31, 2014 and was still filming as of June 3. It was released on Christmas Day 2014.
The star Bradley Cooper was also in a film called Aloha, just released this past week in cinema. It was filmed beginning September 26, 2013 and still filming in mid-December 2013. Co-star Emma Stone has mentioned that towards the end of this film, Bradley was preparing a diet to add the 40 pounds he would need for the American Sniper role.

Eastwood's directing provides less than 7 months, perhaps less than 6 months between wrap and release. Aloha ended up with 17 months between wrap and release.
Even if there were schedule delays for the release, a 7 month turnaround could have put Aloha in theaters last summer, and a non-Eastwood turnaround would have put Sniper either as this summer's blockbuster, or this coming Christmas season's release - in time for award consideration.

While looking around, I was able to find an image of Chris Kyle's coffin, and it looks like there are 127 Tridents impaled on the lid.

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Eastwood is a minimalist filmmaker, as well as one of the best in getting what he needs to make a successful film (for the most part). Two that come to mind is Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby. So I agree that his film making schedule appeases the studio heads both in the pre and post stages. By Hollywood standards, he breeds success. His politics notwithstanding, I happen to enjoy his "fliks" and I'm not sure he wears his colors on his sleeve when it comes to his films.


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