fave genre of cinema

BEAT

ya ya, been done before I know...but it has been awhile.

So what's your fave type of movie?

Mine is comedy, following close behind in thriller and action

pauldeehan

I can't choose...

I'll come back later, when I've had time to think about it. Maybe Horror...

sceptre

Good black comedy. Stuff like the Ladykillers, Kind Hearts and Coronets.

Voted comedy (for what it's worth).

Winters

Its kinda hard to choose one. Id be able to choose about 2 or 3 from the list...

Kolodny

I guess sci-fi. But there's a lot of foreign language movies I like too.

Draco

I really like sci-fi, but there is so much crap out there.

Dave

How is foriegn language a genre?

CodeMonkey

where's the porn option?

Corega

Horror at the moment, I especially liked Stephen King's IT and Childsplay, unfortunately there's been no decent horror's out in a while, that still does'nt alter my vote.

Keep on Trekin

I voted Subtitles as Belgian films are my fav but.

Foriegn Genre?

Does that mean Foriegn as in Not Hollywood,.... Aussie, English?

Foreign philosopical French with Subtitles

or

Kung-Fu, Manga madness with no need for Subtitles

pauldeehan

Chose action, but to be honest I don't really have a favourite genre, I like all genres.

Lei Xiejiang

Any HongKong film.

I was going to vote "Foriegn"

but then again it might mean French or German.


so I voted Action instead.



But I hate those Bruce willis & Rocky films. Pure Lame!!

pika

Comedy, but I suppose it would depend on what your humour is like that film Jean Claude van Dame did when he was a kung Fu fighter that was comedy.

BKtje

Ended up going with sci-fi but tbh its whatever mood im in at that time

Dustaz

Atari Jaguar.

All of the above

TetsuoHashimoto

Dustaz. are you handicapped?

These were the policies of a particularly hysterical period of anti-communist sentiment in the USA, but even so, the public were clearly not to be trusted when it came to interfering in the internal affairs of another state like this. Democracy plays no role in this kind of policy-making. But does anyone care? Will anyone try to do anything about it?

Let us remember the case of the School of the Americas. This institution, founded in 1946 and moved from Panama to Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1984, is close to the front line in the U.S. government's attempts to keep the Generals in power in Latin America. Manuel Noriega and Omar Torrijos of Panama, Leopoldo Galtieri of Argentina and Roberto D'Aubuisson of El Salvador were all graduates of the school, and the death and torture squads of half a dozen countries — Chile included - were led and organised by U.S.-trained officers.

What is so shocking about the U.S military and Bush Snr's CIA campaign in Chile in particular is that it was completely counter-productive. There was no need to install a military dictatorship in Chile

The Phoenix Program
by Douglas Valentine

"One of the best books ever written on the secret history of the Vietnam war. Valentine presents an unsparing account of the Phoenix Program, the CIA/US Army 'pacification' program in Vietnam that practiced plunder, torture and widespread assassination."

Rogue State:
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum

The Beast Reawakens
by Martin A. Lee

Derailing Democracy:
The America the Media Don't Want You to See
by David McGowan

Killing Hope:
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII
by William Blum

Western State Terrorism
Alexander George, editor; essays by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman, Gerry O’Sullivan and others

Terrorizing the Neighborhood:
American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
by Noam Chomsky
Pressure Drop Press, 1991

Pirates and Emperors:
International Terrorism in the Real World
by Noam Chomsky
Claremont, 1986; Black Rose Books, 1987; Amana, 1988

What Uncle Sam Really Wants
by Noam Chomsky

Deadly Deceits:
My 25 years in the CIA
by Ralph W. McGehee

Blackshirts and Reds:
Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
by Michael Parenti

I Was Never Alone:
A Prison Diary from El Salvador
by Nidia Diaz

Colombia:
The Genocidal Democracy
by Javier Giraldo

Against Empire
by Michael Parenti

War At Home:
Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do About It
by Brian Glick

Harold C Funk

Contents

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Letter No: 172

To: 189 Heads of Nations
To: the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery and 24 United States, Chinese and European News Services.
To: the Cabinet of the Province of Manitoba, Canada
To: 42 Members of the United States Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives
To: the Canadian Military Chief of Staff
To: the Commissioner of the Canadian R.C.M.P.
To: the Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police
To: the City of Ottawa

You can not spend your citizens money on anything better than peace and enironmental protection of the creations of good
As Senator Craston reported in a 1989 hearing of a subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "US taxpayers have sent more than $3 billion to El Salvador since 1980. In the last decade, 70,000 Salvadorans have died and little in the situation has imporved." All this in a concerted effort to deny the voices of the people of El Salvador.

If the Tax paying money of the people of the USA is sent out to support the murder and torture of South Americana and US citizens then the people of the USA should know about it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1891145.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,400605,00.html
http://www.socialjusticecenterofmarin.org/Issues/US_Truth_Commission.html
George Bush pardoned Reagan, but what of Bush's own role? After heading the CIA, he was vice-president throughout the Reagan presidency then succeeded Reagan as president. On December 24 1992, 12 days before former secretary of defence Caspar W Weinberger was to go on trial, a trial in which Bush himself might have been called as a witness, Bush pardoned him and five other defendants. The criminal investigation of Bush himself was never completed.
http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/elsalvador.php
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/47/index-da.html
http://speakout.com/activism/opinions/5477-1.html
http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/weapons/US-Torture.html
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/funkcia.htm
http://speakout.com/activism/opinions/5477-1.html
The United States has even assassinated its own leaders. The C.I.A. assassinated for example John F Kennedy and his brother Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
http://www.spectacle.org/595/cia.html
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/funkcia.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/1996/25046223-25051802.htm
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~pavr/harbury/archive/guatemala/112996.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~neoludd/MATANZA.htm
Bush Snr is enjoying his position as ex-president who supported very questionable people and human rights violations.
Read The Article,
"Who is the biggest threat to world peace?"

The Story of Bancroft
Kim Tong-jung (Jan 5 2003 - 21:22)

American troops racists

by richard ford and richard beeston

A YOUNG British army officer ordered to take over a prisoner of war camp during the Korean War wrote a scathing report about the treatment of North Korean prisoners held by American troops.
The attack was brought to the attention of ministers but kept secret until yesterday. It accused the Americans of incompetence, ill-discipline, abuse and breaking the Geneva Conventions on treatment of prisoners. The document was written in August 1952 by Major Dawney Bancroft of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, who commanded a Commonwealth unit sent to the island of Koje-do to take over the running of a prison camp where 3,200 North Korean officers were held. Although British troops were fighting alongside the Americans against the Chinese-backed North Koreans, co-operation between the allies appeared to break down away from the front.

The British reported that American soldiers on sentry duty often fell asleep, or abandoned their posts to spend the night in local brothels. They rarely searched the prisoners' quarters and mail was distributed erratically. He said that prisoners were usually addressed by their American captors as "slant-eyed, yellow bastards".

Early on in his command, Major Bancroft intervened to protect a sick prisoner who was being mistreated by an American soldier assigned to take him to hospital.

"This was the first of many occasions I witnessed US troops openly violating the Geneva Conventions," he wrote.

He was in no doubt of the fanaticism of the North Korean commissars who effectively ran prison life. On one occasion he watched as 100 prisoners were killed in clashes with American troops trying to clear a camp.

"It was during this phase of reorganisation that it became more evident that the US officers and soldiers responsible for the operation of enclosure thought the Chinese and Korean PW (prisoners of war) were Oriental cattle who were to be given quite different treatment to a European," he wrote.

Major Bancroft went on to become a brigadier-general and died in 1995
Read The Article,
"N Korea says Japan suicidal to follow U.S. policy"

darque

Um...it's kinda hard to just pick one genre, cause it really does depend on what mood your in, but if I had to watch a movie right now...it'd be a comedy I'd say!

Of course that is subject to change but I'm feeling light-hearted at the moment, so...yeah...

Satan's Kitten

its gotta be horror! i love being scared, not that many films do that anymore, cept the others. there's nothing like a good horror. although comedy can be a good break sometimes. it all depends on ur mood like darque say
!:D

Berger

if i had to choose, i would pick suspence/triller. luv that on the edge of your seat feeling .

But sci-fi is also 1 of my favs

Practical

Mine has to be Action followed by thriller then commedy

Jimi-Spandex

Voted Suspense thriller, have some probs with this poll

Foreign is not a genre, e.g. would Crouching Tiger sub be part of this and the dub not? despite the fact that they're the same film?


Where is art house?
Where is film noir? (I know suspense thriller is close)
Where is documentary?

flyz

Where's the Chick Flick option??

Kalina

I chose comedy but I like action, horror and war movies aswell. And I love animated movies- ordinary animation, computer animation, claymation.. all brilliant!

Tails

Would war be a genre? that would be my fav, anyway i voted action.