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GREAT DOCUMENTARY + GREAT WOMEN!

posted 17 years ago by ali__
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just saw the movie tonight and its wonderfull! freedom of speach is such an important thing and the women did a great job in being consequent and not trying to me sorry or whatever just because the media did what it did: making up something when there wasnt really something.

i mean, whats wrong basically saying that war is not right? and being ashamed that the guy who is responsible for the war is from the same state? hellllo?? if its the opinion of someone ??

i was really shocked about how people reacted. the movie did a great job showing the reactions and also showing what the women had to go through . but they never lost their humor and strength.

i am so impressed! keep on going so strong!!!!

i found it quite funny that natalie made a >scandalous< statement regarding bush in the middle of the movie. haha, that was reallly cool!

[–] toxiemite 17 years ago

Yep, I was never a fan of their music to begin with but having seen this film I have complete respect for these women. They're strong, smart and very very talented.

This film only highlights America the way the rest of the world sees it these days. Thanks for the moronic redneck numbskulls who reacted so fevorishly and aggressively, the US looks like a nation of opression and hatred (to outsiders).

America would be a great nation if there were more Dixie Chicks. Some of the people protesting, boycotting and slagging the Dixie Chicks are the same people who wore flowers and beads in the 60s. What happened to em!??

[–] ali__ 17 years ago

yeah!

i am sooo shocked that they were like against the freedom of speech. i mean, how come that people become sooo obsessed by a simple statement which was spoken during a concert? its crazy and its also terrifying that there it can become such a huge thing.

i was also now thinking how funny this tshirt was which natalie wore because of this country singer who made stupid comments on her. hilarious!! hahaha.

[–] dancequeen407 17 years ago

I just saw the movie and do you know what I saw? I didn't see great women. I saw a bunch of cowards. If these women were as great as all of you are saying they are, then would they have been wanting to make up excuses for why they said what they said? Or apologize to the American public? I think not. They would have stuck by what they said from the beginning. But they didn't. They stuck by what they said once they learned how many followers they had.

[–] ali__ 17 years ago

ah, in my opinion they didnt make excuses for natalie 's statement, they appologized for maybe snubbing people.

and natalie said during the second concert in london her >famous< sentence.

i still like them and think they are brave and cool

[–] dancequeen407 17 years ago

It's not a matter of opinion. It's a matter of the real reason why they were apologising, and it was because they were a bunch of cowards.

[–] danu33 17 years ago

ali,

i agree, they apologized for offending people, but did not apologize for their feelings about the president or being against the war.

they were sorry their words offended some, but not sorry they said it.

[–] rgcg985 17 years ago

"As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful. I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect," Maines said in her latest statement.

[–] ali__ 17 years ago

i still think there is a difference between appologizeing to a real person, or to appologize to the >function< of a person.

sorry for the mistakes i made . i am just too tired to look for the right writing of appologize in the diccionary

[–] danu33 17 years ago

the only thing i see in that apology is for how she said it. i see no apology for how she feels about the job the president has done and her opinion about the war.

[–] ali__ 16 years ago

doesn anyone know if the dixi chicks are now being played again on country music stations? or are they still not >popular<

[–] costumergal 16 years ago

I don't know about in the south, but they get played all the time in the north. I wasn't a fan until after I saw this movie, and now I've brought all their CD's and love them. I usually hear them twice a day, but I don't listen to a country station, just a regular "hits" station.

[–] redtailedhawk12 16 years ago

Honestly, you should try making a career out of something that depends on people liking you. Who cares if they got scared and apologized right away. It was the American people who did wrong in the first place by hating them for it and making such a big deal out of it.

[–] m60green 16 years ago

Yeah, right. The biggest coward in the film is George (Jesus) W. (A.W.O.L.) Bush.
The only fighting he saw during Vietnam was from the inside of a bar. Bush is the one that should apologize.

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