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Godzilla (2014)
don't be bullied
I love it when a film like this comes out and generates that wave of IMDb walls of text full of mockery and bitterness, but then turns out to be one of the greatest film viewing experiences of my life. The subtext and allegory is what puts people into that panic as far as I can tell, and in that context this films delivers, with sledgehammers. Once those initial false plot devices are deconstructed and we as viewers are welcomed into the film as participants (around the time the crazy old fart is validated), this film shines. I do not trust the sincerity of some of the negative reviews posted here, because its as if those reviewers either have the perception and discernment of a stone, or perhaps they having simply been frightened...
Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement (2007)
Disturbingly moving
ENDGAME is quite possibly the most fundamentally disturbing multimedia presentation ever put forth for consideration by an ambulant public so habituated to having global concerns interpreted for them, not because this conspiratorial perspective hasn't been expressed before, but because it is expressed in the same highly polished and well produced emotive fashion that mainstream media delivers its perspective.
Past works by Jones may well have been overwhelming to the average person due to their blizzard-like flurries of hard evidence, eyewitness testimony, governmental documents and admission, and confessions by the some of the worlds most powerful and influential people, but this film is different. This film is accessible. It does not 'ask' you to reconsider the merit of having trust and faith in the wealthiest most powerful people in the world, it demands it, by teasing you with quotes like Prince Philip's "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation".
We have been conditioned to accepting undeveloped and incomplete expressions, and it would appear that Alex Jones has finally accepted this, probably at least in part due to advice from those well versed in the art of communication. This production is entertaining in the purest sense, and bypasses that 'I hate documentaries' filter may of us carry. Its tone and cadence is almost dreamy, despite its nightmarish content.
In the end it is merely a perspective. The true cause of all mankind's problems is of course simply human weakness. What makes this film so special, not unlike elements of his past works, is that it lends the viewer some courage, and also leverage, towards tackling their own weakness, while baiting them towards uncovering for themselves what could be described as 'secrets'. The paradox here is that these 'secrets' have always been in plain view, but for some reason the vast majority of people down in the larger lower sections of the pyramid seemed to have been tricked into taking the perspective of those high up in the highly exclusive pyramidion. Alex Jones ENGAME is a bold effort towards reminding us all that we are in fact nearly entirely redundant and superfluous to those that hold the power, the power that we have given willingly, in exchange for a promissory note assuring us of some fairy tale trouble-free paradise on earth.
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
soul destroying
Perhaps the most brazenly manipulative cake of lies with a thin coating of truth I have ever seen. Mr. Moore appears to have lost his way and taken the pay-off, shamelessly trying to shift blame away from those ultimately responsible. In time I suspect that his betrayal will be revealed to all, but not before the hoards of misinformed are scarred for life. This film is basically a non-linear tossed salad of truth and lies, an incomprehensible roller-coaster of grotesqueness. For those that have at least a basic understanding of what really happened on that fateful day, imagine standing in front of a firing squad with your eyes taped wide open while your body is fired at with poisonous darts, for two hours, and you will have a rough sense of what it is like to watch this film. Conversly, for those that accept the mainstream media's revisionist version of the truth of 911, prepare to be deeply insulted and patronized. Now, maybe I have no right to make any of the above statements, since I walked out about half way through (something I have never done, I even can sit through Bruckheimer films!), but judging by the looks on the faces of the crowd as I watched them leave the theater, walking away from this steaming heap of evil may be the surest sign of wisdom. My scars are beginning to heal after much time and several viewings of Alex Jones' "Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State"...