The film is directed by the guy who brought us the Transformer movies and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which probably tells you all you need to know about the accuracy of this film.
Here Vox has more:
Based on the trailer, it appears that Bay's movie will attempt to squeeze and contort the painful events of Benghazi into a neat and emotionally satisfying narrative: Brave American military heroes must overcome cowardly suits and shoot a bunch of bad guys so that they may save the day. That should sound familiar; it's one of Hollywood's half-dozen or so standard cookie-cutter action movie plot lines.
The plot sketched out in the trailer is a reassuring and simple checklist of action movie tropes, like a security blanket for the audience, protecting them from the scary complexities of the real world. Tough, bearded American men must survive in a hostile land, which fortunately is easy because they are tough and bearded and willing to "die for your country."
Then a bad thing happens — brown people! explosions! — and the heroes fly into action. Shooting bad guys is no problem for these heroes, so surely victory is imminent.
But wait: A bureaucrat, played by an actor known for portraying weak, feckless men on various TV shows, tells the brave bearded men that they're not allowed to go bravely shoot the bad guys. The audience cannot help but hate the cowardly bureaucrat, and be happy when the bearded man shouts him down. The brave bearded heroes, the trailer suggests, will Do the Right Thing, even if that means defying orders. But will the heroes be heroic in time? Or will the bad orders from the cowardly bureaucrat ruin everything?
So as even the casual, non-Fox viewing, person probably knows, that is NOT an accurate depiction of what happened that day in Benghazi.
But hell it makes an exciting movie so who cares if it helps to perpetuate a lie or negatively impacts a presidential campaign?
This film will undoubtedly rally the conservatives who want desperately to believe in its red, white, and blue rah rah message that we could totally have killed all of those brown people and rescued our precious white brothers if only the sniveling Obama appointed bureaucrats had not interfered.
And much the same way that the movie "Zero Dark Thirty" forever reinforced the idea that we killed Osama Bin Laden based on intelligence that we tortured out of another brown person, this will now serve as the contemporary wisdom for the low information crowd.
In fact the conservative media is already salivating over the potential impact this film might have in undermining the truth.
There comes a time when enough is enough. None of us know what actually happened and, quite frankly, I'm so tired of all the bullshit and conspiracy crap.
ReplyDeleteJust so .... they've discovered who torched Dar Miller's home killing her and her dogs .... who watered down Cutis Menard Jr's av gas causing him to crash and be killed .... then linking the same arsonist that torched Dar Millers house to the torching of the wasilla bible church's records room, destroying all records ... ?!? .... that the firebugs had the last names palin/heath ... ? ...
Delete5:26--- Me too. I would bet that none of these Benghazi conspiracy-mongers have ever been in a situation where things go wrong so suddenly and so violently, and so no one grasps what's really happening or what they're supposed to be doing in keeping with their roles.
DeleteMy Vietnam veteran friend has nothing but contempt for these people....what was it he called them? Oh yeah, "chickenhawks"....
Oh yeah I fully believe Bristol and Dakota both planned the baby. And that fully explains why he was heartbroken and why his family acted as if they wanted it to work out eventually. It explains his aunt writing "you're going to make a great father" as well.
ReplyDeleteCest la vie. She was right to call it off if her heart changed. Mature decision. She's raised Tripp well and shown him how to be nurturing since he was a baby himself. They will all be fine.
Are you lost?
DeleteAnd this is related to Benghazi, how?
DeleteBristol is knocked up by some dude that is NOT Dakota, that's why he kicked her out of his house and had a cab and a plane ticket waiting for her and Tripp and said get the hell out you can come get your shit later you lying whore...I definitely know that it wasn't Dakota's heart that "changed" it was his being used as a baby daddy for a bun that wasn't his that really just kind of pissed him off. I'm surprised he's even able to keep all this under his hat, but really, he's said that saying nothing at all can say just as much.
DeleteSo many are lost on this site. See the post above? It's getting ridiculous.
DeleteHey, Alicia, remember when you said Bristol and Dakota were "soul mates?" I guess they weren't. Bristol is a shitty mom by her own admission. She's said so (and shown it to be true) multiple time in multiple ways on her shitty reality teevee shows. I especially love when she asked for help on her Brancy blog.
Delete(Dakota aint the daddy)
The topic is Benghazi, not Bristol. I know it can be confusing because they both begin with the letter B.
Deletehttp://websta.me/p/1042349057416878641_1395504853
DeleteA stream of pure unconsciousness ruined.
DeleteThanks 7:20 and Obama.
Think AK AftaDark might have the baby daddy...
DeleteProbably about as accurate as Bay's reimagined Pearl Harbor; a 1941 America where nobody smoked.
ReplyDeleteBay is a douche of the highest order and his movies are crap, so no, I'd not say that his translation of the Benghazi events is something that anyone should spend any time watching.
ReplyDeleteSuch a wonderful movie this is, starring actors whom most of us have never heard of. Is there such a thing as a C-Movie? D?
ReplyDeleteYeah, this movie gets made, meanwhile Shailey Tripp's Boys will be boys movie is not going to be made. WTF is up with that?
DeleteShailey Tripp is a stupid whore. As if anyone would spend money to see that pos movie and as if nobody around here hasn't jacked while looking at Megan foxxx
Deletehey fuktard,
Deleteif shailey's a whore what's that make todd ?
really chucktard jr, you incestuous worthless sack-0-shit, you should really do mankind a favor and end it all, take little sis and daddio along too ..
go fuk yer lardass incestuous self first though, eh
thanks mucho in advance !
7:59 - gross one, Alicia M. Stop the crudeness in your OT comments.
DeleteSix Americans die: uproar. Hundreds of thousands die for "Her Majesty's" ideal of "freedom": Not a tear on the part of their assassins.
ReplyDeleteFuck America.Fuck her to hell.
OT: Splendid news
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/01/1407900/-Texas-Attorney-General-INDICTED-on-3-Charges
Thanks, that really made me smile, especially knowing what a raving homophobe this fraudulent POS happens to be, couldn't happen to one more deserving.
DeleteHomophobia must run deep in Texas politics. I understand the same thing was said of Greg Abbott when he was AG and now he's the Governor. Then of course there is Little Ricky Perry, famous closeted gay/bi former Governor.
DeleteWas wondering who this is: 'A bureaucrat, played by an actor known for portraying weak, feckless men on various TV shows...'
ReplyDeleteThe IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4172430/?ref_=nv_sr_1
My vote would be David Constable, although before now I had never heard of him.
DeleteI'm a fan of fiction, but it's got to be well done and with actors known for the ability to make the implausible seem truthful. I just perused the imdb link posted above, and only recognized one name, and it wasn't for good acting.
ReplyDeleteI just question the timing of this pos film, will be interesting to see what kind of viewers it appeals to.
I don't see it getting any awards nor nominations. Another fluff piece for the conspiracy folks.
This seems like a parody of a sketch comedy show parody of a flaming sack of Michael Bay schlock.
ReplyDeleteSarahpac just deleted months worth of tweets. Please tell me we have a copy somewhere.
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Remember it was a BAD stupid piece of shit low budget film that was a central part
ReplyDeleteTrey "Rooster" Gowdy will be entering this film into evidence in his Benghazi Inquiry...
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