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Old 07-28-2014, 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by janmcn View Post
Movies are banned from being shown in The Villages all the time because of their political leanings, as are public speakers, book signings, etc. So much for the "take it or leave it" theory. If you want to take it, you will have to travel out of this area.
True. I'm not going to come back to this thread, because its clearly biased in one direction, but I thought Roger Ebert summed it up pretty well when he said something to the effect that America is like the cinematic equivalent of one of those forwarded e-mails of mostly discredited "facts" that you receive from an uncle.

In fact, all the major critics say that it lacks fact checking, it relies on hypothetical reenactments rather than interviews, research and data; Souza tries to make real world points with make believe scenarios; his arguments and rationalizations are facile.