Wknd Box Office: Act of Valor, Wanderlust, Gone

Here is an interesting article from http://www.debbieschlussel.com/  reviewing some of the movies that came out over the past weekend. This follows this post some of the movies from last week and  THIS POST about some movies that have been released over the past few years that you might have missed!  This all  follows this post about guidelines to chosing good movies to watch yourself!

Wknd Box Office: Act of Valor, Wanderlust, Gone


By Debbie Schlussel



I can’t really recommend any of the new movies debuting in theaters, this weekend. But here’s what I saw:


* “Act of Valor“: You’ve probably already read my full review column on this trash.  What could have been a decent made-for-TV movie with real-life Navy SEALS trying their hands at acting, instead became an anti-Semitic diatribe in which the main terrorist financier and torturer of CIA agents is, not Muslim, but Jewish.  No thanks.  I’ve had enough Goebbels-quality cinema to last a century, but Leni Riefenstahl would be proud.  Read my complete review.



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* “Wanderlust“: At times, this movie was extremely funny. And I give credit to any movie that makes funny of hippies, left-wing morons, animal rights activists, free love advocates, vegans, and other forms of New Age wacko-ism. This movie did all that and even exposed a hippie “leader”/”guru as a complete fraud and charlatan.






However, it went a little too far for me and was kinda gross. A baby being raised with its placenta still attached and at the table at dinner, all kinds of feces and bathroom jokes, and other assorted bathroom humor/eeuuw-inducing stuff–yuck! Ditto for a nudist’s penis in everyone’s face and scenes with lots of senior citizen nudists running around. It’s a sagging, disgusting scene I can’t get out of my mind. And the movie was more than a little annoying, which pretty much sums up how I feel about star Jennifer Aniston. She’s annoying, and she plays herself in every failed movie she does. It gets old. I’ve had enough of Rachel from “Friends,” still desperate to stay relevant years later.



Aniston and Paul Rudd play a New York couple who buy a “micro-loft,” which is a euphemism for tiny studio apartment that costs a fortune. But, right after that, Rudd loses his job and Aniston’s documentary about arctic penguins with testicular cancer doesn’t sell to HBO. They are broke and must move out of the apartment and seek work elsewhere, while staying at Rudd’s annoying rich brother’s house in suburban Atlanta. On the way, they get stuck at a “bed and breakfast” in the middle of nowhere, called Elysium. It turns out to be a hippie commune. And, after a brief time there, they decide to give the commune and hippie life a try, though Aniston is more into it than Rudd.



Being the only intelligent, normal, and sane person amidst these hippie nutcases is difficult for Rudd and the source of much of the movie’s comedy. But he’s pretty much the only likable person in the entire movie. Aniston’s character was selfish back in New York and she’s selfish at the commune. She’s the reason they were stuck in the commune in the first place. I, frankly, couldn’t understand why Rudd’s character didn’t quickly dump her, and I wanted him to. Wives like her are the reason a lot of men get into troubled scenarios like this.



Not my kind of movie and too much that is just plain gross. Plus the ending was cheesy and so very predictable.



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* “Gone“: This was not screened for critics, but like an idiot, I went to the Midnight show last night, so I could post a review of it for you, today. When will I learn that almost all of the movies not screened for us are crap? It’s the occasional good ones that keep making me enough of a sucker to go see the ones which have trailers that appeal to me. Sadly, the trailer is almost always a major league lie.



This was long, slow, boring, and stupid. It involves a cockamamie, uninteresting plot centering around Amanda Seyfried, who plays a victim of a serial killer that got away. She lives with her college-student sister in Portland, and is constantly looking to find the pit in the woods from which she escaped her attacker. The police believe she made the whole story up and there is no serial killer. But she believes the serial killer is watching her, so he can finally put her out of her misery. Her sister goes missing and she searches for the killer.



Believe me, when I tell you that the description makes it sound far more intriguing and exciting than it is. I struggled to stay awake because it was that bad.



Skipworthy to the max.



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Act of Valor OUTRAGE: Navy SEALs Movie’s Terrorist is . . . JEWISH (Tortures, Murders CIA Agents, Smuggles Jihadists into U.S.)

By Debbie Schlussel



It’s official: “Act of Valor” is anti-Semitic tripe wrapped in the American flag with a Navy SEAL cherry on top. The movie, which debuts in theaters today, goes to great pains to tell you that the largest terrorist plot against America is perpetrated by a Jew. Did the Stormfront guys write this crap? In case there’s any doubt, “But you’re Jewish!” is shouted by a real-life Navy SEAL interrogator who heads SEAL Team 7 featured in the movie and goes by the nickname, “Senior.” Apparently “Senior” forgot this, but the last time I checked, the guys behind 9/11 were not named Osama Bin Cohen and Khalid Sheikh Horowitz. Ditto for the guys behind every major terrorist attack against Americans, whether on U.S. soil or abroad. The Beirut bombing and murder of over 300 U.S. Marines and civilians? Here’s a tip, Navy SEALS: It wasn’t perpetrated by HezboLox&Bagels. And the guy just sentenced for trying to blow up a plane full of Americans with his underwear isn’t Umar Farouk AbdulEpstein.









But, apparently, the real life Navy SEALs and their wives and kids who participated in this movie don’t have a problem with portraying Jews as “jihadist terrorists,” nor do the many Pentagon officials who approved their participation and the movie’s production. Ditto for Mike “Mouse” McCoy and Scott Waugh, former stuntmen and the first time directors who made this movie. They apparently believe that Jews torture CIA agents and smuggle jihadists into the U.S. with suicide bomb vests, NOT Muslims.



The Pentagon and the Navy have both declined to respond to my questions regarding this absolutely disgusting display of anti-Semitism, which wasn’t necessary and ruined what would have been an otherwise good movie. They didn’t have to make the terrorist financier Jewish. They chose to. This was clearly gratuitously inserted for some agenda. Goebbels would be proud. Sad that Rush Limbaugh had no problem with this, either, as he gushed over the movie. Does he also believe the real men behind the jihadists are Russian Jews (or any Jews at all)?

There’s been a lot of hype surrounding “Act of Valor,” and, sad to say, I bought into it until I saw the movie and couldn’t have been more disgusted and outraged. But none of the hype tells you that at the heart of the movie is major anti-Semitism. Gee, I wonder why the “But You’re Jewish!” line isn’t in the trailer. The movie features a Russian Jewish millionaire, “Christos” (played by Ukrainian actor Alex Veadov) as a terrorist mastermind who kills a CIA agent, kidnaps and tortures another CIA agent, and then helps a friend of his smuggle jihadists wearing bomb belts into the United States from Mexico in a plot “100 times bigger than 9/11.” Um, how many Russian Jewish billionaires are illegal alien smugglers into America’s southern border? None. Juan and Jesus ain’t exactly Russian Jewish names. But why let the facts get in the way of this government-approved anti-Semitic propaganda, right?




That Was Then (Goebbels Propaganda Against Jews) . . .







This Is Now (Navy SEALs Propaganda Against Jews). . .







While it is true that his childhood friend, “Karimov,” whom he’s helping perpetrate the plot, says he’s a Muslim convert, he’s in fact, a Russian named Yuri, whose father’s name is Yevgeni and it isn’t so clear he’s actually really a Muslim. (Oh, and by the way, the writers of this ap-cray movie don’t know Arabic and screw that part up, too, as they name the guy “Abu Shabal,” and then have his friend tell him he’s the son of Yevgeni, not Shabal. Abu means “father of,” not “son of,” in Arabic.) In any event, the main bad guy is the Jewish millionaire who has his henchmen drill into the hands of a female CIA agent to get her to talk, after they’ve murdered her fellow agent. And the movie makes clear that real, actual Muslims from the Philippines, who’ve been recruited to wear suicide bomb vests and blow themselves up all over America, don’t really want to do it. After a scene showing them praying on the ground of a desert somewhere, they ultimately cry and look scared, as the Russian pseudo-Muslim friend of the Jew forces them into wearing the vests and pulling the cord.



Yeah, I know–it’s like another pointless, fraudulent season of the former FOX series, “24,” in which the Islamic terrorists always turn out to be working for some evil White man, not Muslims or jihad.



With the anti-Semitic plot point, the movie was ruined for me and I recommend that you skip it.



But it’s not just a movie. It’s a reminder that real-life Navy SEALs and top Pentagon and U.S. Navy brass have no problem with a plot portraying a Jew as the key terrorist in a jihadist plot, something that bears no resemblance to reality. If you wanna see a good movie about this outfit, rent “Navy SEALS.” No matter how un”winning” Charlie Sheen may be now, he at least had the guts to star in a movie in which the real terrorists (Islamic terrorists) are the terrorists–the way Hollywood used to show us back in the good old days of 1990 before we rewarded Muslims for 9/11.



To paraphrase the great Mark Twain, there are lies, damn lies, and “Act of Valor.” That’s the most damned lie of all.



Hey, who needs the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and blood libels, when you have Navy SEAL propaganda feature films?



There’s nothing valorous in Jew-baiting on the silver screen. Act of Valor isn’t an Act of Valor at all. Not even close.



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Below is the e-mail I sent Amanda Greenberg, the Navy press person who is handling all inquiries regarding “Act of Valor.” And, yes, I see the irony in her apparently Jewish surname. But I’m sure you’ve heard the term, “kapo.” The e-mail went unanswered, after Navy personnel assured me she would respond. I encourage you to write her to complain about this vicious Jew-hatred.



———- Forwarded message ———-

From: Debbie Schlussel writedebbie@gmail.com

Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:36 PM

Subject: Press Inquiry Re- “Act of Valor” Movie . . .

To: amanda.greenberg@navy.mil



Ms. Greenberg:



I’m a journalist (whose work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal

and New York Post and who has been quoted in almost every major media

outlet) and the movie critic for the SiriusXM Patriot Channel Morning

Show (“Mike Church Show”), and I have a few questions regarding “Act

of Valor.” I’m told by the Navy press office that you are handling

these inquiries. I’m on deadline and need this information by late

tonight, as I’m writing a review and will be discussing the film

tomorrow morning on SiriusXM, as well as another radio outlet.



Who at the Pentagon, US Navy or Navy SEALs was in charge of approving

“Act of Valor”?

Was the final product vetted?

Was the script vetted?

Was there no problem expressed or objections to the fact that the

script makes a Jewish billionaire the bad guy and the smuggler and

financier behind the major terrorism plot?

What is the position of whomever vetted and approved the final script, regarding anti-Semitism?

Can that person name a single major terrorist plot against America in

which Jews were involved?

I note your name is Greenberg. Does it not offend you that the major

players in the “jihadist” plot in this movie are not really Muslims,

but a Jew and a Russian who “converted”?

Are there any Jewish Navy SEALs?

How do you think it will affect Jewish Naval officers and enlisted

men, knowing that their branch of the U.S. Armed Forces believes that

Jews will be behind a major terrorist plot against America?



I look forward to your timely response. I can be reached at

[redacted], should you have any questions.



Thank you.



Debbie Schlussel



Again, Ms. Greenberg chose not to respond. Gee, I wonder why.



Don’t give money to blood libel movies like this that seek to turn America against the Jews using patriotism, the flag, and the Navy SEALs. This flick clearly earns its rating of . . .



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There’s been a lot of hype surrounding “Act of Valor,” and, sad to