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Posted by: CJIS

Planet of the Arabs: How Hollywood Sees the Middle East watch!

Interesting to say the least. However Hollywood stereotypes everything but I could see how the movies within this clip could add fuel to an already raging fire

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Posted by: pahapoika

didn't Hollyweird rewrite a couple of movies after 9/11 changing the bad guys from terrorists to Nazi's or something stupid like that ?

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Posted by: KozmoKramer

2:49 Best Part of the Montage!! Chuck Norris is so smooth in his ass kickery...
Your a dead man.
I'm not afraid to die.. Are you?
No, Allah protects us.
Well then this shouldnt hurt...

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Posted by: Wolfman

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Originally Posted by pahapoika didn't Hollyweird rewrite a couple of movies after 9/11 changing the bad guys from terrorists to Nazi's or something stupid like that ?

I think they did that in "Sum of All Fears" - in the book, the Islamic terrorists build the nuke with disgruntled East German assistance and export it to the US; by the time the lame-ass movie came out it was Nazis.

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Posted by: KozmoKramer

Note To Self:
Don't bother renting "The Sum of All Fears" from Netflix...
I neednt anymore Political Correctness and revisionist history than I'm already force fed.

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Posted by: Wolfman

Tom Clancy's books cannot have justice done them on the big screen. Phenominal reading however; I've heard that "sum of All Fears" was held up in publishing while a congressional panel tried to figure out how such detailed descriptions of manufacturing an atomic explosive was in there. Apparently the assembly process is all available on the internet and in other public documents.

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Posted by: WaterPistola

koz, i made that note to myself years ago when i heard ben affleck was in it

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Posted by: Killjoy

Present a positive image of Arabs? How about you do something positive first. You don't see the Swedes blowing themselves up in crowded marketplaces.

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Posted by: KozmoKramer

Surprisingly, I haven't read anything by Clancy other than the Hunt for Red October.
And that because I loved the film so much. I really should order some of his stuff from Amazon.

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Posted by: pahapoika

i like the tom clancy stuff with harrison ford in it will have to break down and read some of his stuff.

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Posted by: Wolfman

Believe it or not, most public libraries have his books. If anyone's really interested and in the WMA area, I have a few that I've read and will be glad to pass along.

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Posted by: Killjoy

I've read all of the Tom Clancy books and they are quite good.

Best : Tie - Red Storm Rising (with Larry Bond): Probably the most realistic description of an all-out conventional war between the US and the old Soviet Union in the mid-eighties. The "Battle for the Atlantic" naval battles are without peer.
Without Remorse : His resident spook's "Mr. Clark" shadowy past loaded with violence, revenge and action. Has one of the most skin-crawling interrogation scenes I've ever read....dive compression used as torture device.

Worst : Rainbow Six : Tom, stick to big political thrillers, your handling of a supersecret "Special Forces" team is laughable. A spec-ops team selecting Beretta's and MP-10's? Not in this world. I do like the Rainbow Six video games, though.

Honorable Mention: Debt of Honor : Has some the most incredible air battles in literature. Also predicated the use of airliners as a weapon of mass destruction seven years before it actually occurred.

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Posted by: Wolfman

Many of Clancy's novels are strangely prophetic - "Teeth of the Tiger" (while not his best work by any means) illustrates the vulnerability of the US from terrorists who embed themselves with illegal immigrants coming up from Central America, then moving to strike a shopping mall.

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Posted by: rg1283

Red Storm Rising, rocks. I love how they always end up on the east coast and when their in iceland. I still have that book around here somewhere. I read it in HS.

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Posted by: SOT

I'd be all for a planet of the Arabs, as long as it was the sun....yo!

Myself, I'm a big Red Dawn fan.

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