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'terriorism was still unusual'

posted 8 years ago by ekelks-2
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This, a quote from some fool 'reviewer' above about a 1974 movie I'm about to watch, was meant to put me off. Instead, he's inspired this rant -- his one-star slasher review topped the IMDB page. Apparently ignorant of the IRA, the Red Army Faction, the PLO, and the many other terrorist groups of the 1960s and 1970s who inspired today's terrorists, the reviewer decides why bother, what's the point? Had he checked out the writing credits, which are far more important than the acting credits, he'd've seen the writer was once MI6. And that the other title of this movie is The Ransom. Google hijack and ransom and see what decades come up. Before you review, do your research.

[–] Judger 8 years ago

Islamic terrorism was new at the time and not necessarily associated with Islam itself. Terror by Palestinians and Iranians was assumed to be nationalistic and anti semetic, which it was in part.

I was born in the house my father built

[–] spookyrat1 8 years ago

Terror by Palestinians and Iranians was assumed to be nationalistic and anti semetic, which it was in part.

True, but the terrorist "endgame" in this movie is just ridiculous and probably the reason this film remains relatively unknown when compared to earlier terrorist inspired films like Skyjacked and Black Sunday.🐭

[–] ib011f9545i 8 years ago

islamic terrorism was unknown but we had Palestinian terrorists and far left and far right terrorism happened in Europe and the USA and we had the IRA in Britain and Northern Ireland.

Terrorism was not totally unknown.