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Machine Gun Preacher - dumbest American propaganda ever !


Seriously, this film is such a propaganda that I don't even know where to begin :)


1. American who is ex-gang member and who in some miraculous, unknown way suddenly believes in Jesus. we don't even know what caused cold-blooded criminal to become some weird "form" of Christian. He becomes one just like that and even though he killed a man doesn't have a problem with that ;)

2. He wants to help so he builds a church. Of course he is not like the rest of Christians, I mean why would he want to go to an already built, old church. if he's a Christian, Sam thinks, it's HIM who has to build a church cause only him knows the best and only he is a REAL Christian so it's only HIM who has to preach ;)

3. He wants to help and this part makes sense for a while. He builds a church in Africa but of course bad guys decide to destroy it.

4. Now, our hero decides he will lead the soldiers and beat bad brothers even alone if he has to. Now more ridiculous part, it's NOT the soldiers who train him , hell no ! He's American have you forgotten ? he knows everything, he's a Rambo, Superman, Batman , you name it ;) He even explains to the black "brother" how to clean a weapon cause Sam Childers is an ex-gang member and Deng happens to be JUST a well trained soldier ;)

Sorry for my 3 buckets of sarcasm but I just had to say this.


NOW, it just happens that I KNOW about Sam Childers and believe he did some good job in Africa but I'm also sure that too many things in the film were exaggerated. Exaggeration always sells better.

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your a piece of *beep* *beep* for trying to bad mouth a hero, and a not only a hero an awesome guy like butler who got this thing into production. i hope someone elbow strikes you in the face and caves your *beep* head in.

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I don't think it's that harmful, if it's based on the truth (yes, I'm aware that some of it will have been fictionalised... but some of the things you mention did also undoubtedly happen)

Besides, what is 'lying' going to do to people - turn them all into missionaries dedicated to leading better lives? It's not exactly a bad thing. It's meant to be an inspirational story, and - theoretically, at least - there's nothing wrong with that...






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Propaganda:

Noun

Information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

The dissemination of such information as a political strategy

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So you never said what agenda this so called "propaganda" piece is trying to promote? If a story is westernized or exaggerated, that doesn't make it propaganda. It makes it a movie.

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"Of course the bad guys want to destroy it"

Do you have any idea what is actually going on in Sudan and what kind of "bad guys" they're dealing with?

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"Of course he's not like the rest of [the?] Christians, I mean why would he want to go to an already built, old Church" - so every Christian who builds a new church isn't a christian, so everyone, what, post 18th century isn't a Christian? What if there's a place - like in SUDAN where there isn't a quaint, old church?

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Its a tradition to now anoint anything against your own ideals propaganda on IMDB. It surely makes us ambivalent to the very real propaganda that exists, and susceptible to it.

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This is a true story - you are full re-tard !!!!

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No it is not, and you're a moron for thinking so. Do a little research before embarrassing yourself further.

The movie is loosely based on a story written by the protagonist.- A guy who is a known arms dealer, who has been denounced as a fake by the people he claims to be working with, etc etc.


- And all this has already been pointed out in this thread. You're calling others retarded, yet you have the IQ of a turnip.

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Yeah & I hope your child is forced to kill you ...see you next Tuesday !!!!

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i just want to be the 100th person to iterate how retarded the OP is. i could go through all the ways, but i'm sure most of you already have so there's no need at this point.

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shows what you know about dumb american propaganda ... try The Cubs are going to win a World Series ... ever ... again

and they still fill the stands every damn day

that's dumb american propaganda ... this ain't even a close second rofl

take care,
cormac


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so I named it Otis Redding"
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