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I do not believe that my fellow reviewer thought that this film was one of the best of the 1980s! Even Willem Dafoe, when he appeared on Lipton's show, said that people still thought he was a great actor even though he co-starred in "To Live and Die in LA." I have to say, it's among the worst movies I've ever seen, and I've seen a huge number of movies in my long life.

No, it's not as bad as, for instance, anything featuring the Mutant Ninja Turtles," or "Howard the Duck" but none the less...BAD. It was needlessly bloody, stiffly acted, and even though Friedkin directed many fine movies, this was not one of them.

It's odd. I like the actors so I thought I would like the movie, but the opposite was true. It was just unpleasant and not particularly entertaining. It seems to go on forever getting nowhere in particular and doing so unenjoyably. I don't like most of today's movies either, especially anime and other cartoons featuring famous voices. It seems that since the writers's strike Hollywood has done everything to spend a lot of money without using good writers,new ideas, repeating old movies that did not need to be remade ever. Most people cannot afford the prices of movies--$9.50 per show and the snacks are more expensive than they could possibly be worth. Where are people getting the money for these prices with virtually no jobs in the country and people losing their homes and having little or nothing to eat.

The movie is losing popularity for exactly the same reason that I cannot sell books published in the 1990s and not sold any. It is not new and hot and full of current stars. That does not mean that it is no longer the same movie, it means that the attention span of the average viewer, like the inability to read of the average student, is fading away under our system of non-education. We mentored a young man out of here to graduate school. And his headmaster wanted him put out of school when he was in junior high school because the new way is not what I learned by; staying in school was considered to be important. Now we make children prep for the tests created by Neil Bush, who was doing poorly before his brother got into office. And how did George W. Bush become President? By lies. Not that he's the first, most of our leaders have lied to us.

I call Sean Penn a hero because he is a fine actor who also cares enough about people to take his own boat down to New Orleans when the levees burst, the same levees that have not been fixed at all, so it will happen again. The police, or possibly the mercenaries we've hired at top dollar because we do not have many police, the National Guard is being used as soldiers, and we lack troops to fight our endless wars, turned him away at the border. He sneaked back in and rescued some people anyway. I admire him a whole lot.

We refused aid from Cuba (I cannot imagine how they could even give us aid after what we've done to their economy since the boycott began), Venezuela, (which has oil money) because we didn't like Chavez (because we did not choose him, and you can't be a leader if we don't choose you), so we called his election illegal.

His election was legal, it has been our elections that have been illegal, particularly the selection of Bush by his Republican Supreme Court (put in place by his father). A professor at Harvard Business School wrote a book saying that Bush would come in without his homework (because he is probably dyslexic, Barbara Bush told us that when Bush the First was President, though she did not say which son), and claim that the materials he needed at the library were not there. The professor checked the library. The materials were there and available. Bush is an alcoholic and a cocaine user who thought it was funny to use cocaine at his parents' vacation house in Kennebunkport, ME.

The fact is, neither Bush the first or the second is from Texas, they are from Connecticut. Bush cheated his way into office, committed countless war crimes and is currently rolling around in the money he was given for all the bad decisions he made (or more likely that Cheney forced on him).

And back to President Nixon--he should have gone to prison, but Ford was bribed to pardon him. Does anyone remember any of this? Reagan got a full state burial, when he should have died in prison for war crimes, and we have the nerve to have run a little trial after WWII called Nuremberg. We punished the Germans thoroughly, dropped atom bombs on Japan, and Nixon had a little thing called "The Side Show"--bombing and killing innocent Cambodians while pretending to end the war in Vietnam (a promise that got him elected). His actions softened the public so that Pol Pot could come down from the mountains and kill everyone who wore glasses--because that meant that they were intelligent.

The movie is great, and anyone with an interest in world leaders should watch it.