Reply #70: Wouldn't it be fairly safe to assume that, since the movie was cut short [View All]

[vickitulsa]

of its planned length tonight, the advertisements which aired afterwards in particular mustn't be associated with sponsorship of the movie's propaganda and therefore those organizations shouldn't be condemned or boycotted?

Even I who have so little to donate have given to the WWF in the past when I was employed. And much as the Red Cross is criticized by many (perhaps fairly), that organization helped me and my ex tremendously when our house burned down around us in 1993. Also, since these are nonprofits and not commercial interests which could have afforded relatively expensive ad segments in primetime on this Sunday evening, it makes sense to me that they were likely last-minute PSAs or "filler" to throw into the gap left by the editing of 20 minutes or so of the movie.

And I'm with you, Sea, on the Cheerios! It's one of the few name-brand products I still buy because the generic substitute versions of Cheerios just don't measure up in quality. ;)

I just want to be sure that if we decide a boycott of companies or products is called for with respect to this absurd movie, we be sure to get the right culprits! Clearly ABC and Disney are guilty, and I have no problem with denying THEM my business. And if my local ABC affiliate had not added an intrusive and very strongly worded disclaimer by way of a crawl during the movie, I'd be perfectly happy to avoid their products as well.

I did a bit of research earlier today on the writer of the screenplay, Cyrus Nowrasteh, and it seems he's a Persian-American born in Boulder, CO, raised in Madison, WI, who has a decent resume including two literary awards in recent years (for "10,000 Black Men Named George" and "The Day Reagan Was Shot") from the PEN Center USA West Literary Awards, whatever that is. His early work in TV was on the "Falconcrest" episodic series and his interests and efforts appear to have a broad diversity.

Have yet to do research on others involved in the production we suffered through tonight, but in the end it may turn out to be a waste of valuable time. I'm going to wait and see how the wingnuts and the American public reacts, and take it from there. The damn movie was just so bad in so many respects, I can't imagine it will have significant impact on anyone at this point.

I confess I was very disappointed that Harve Keitel had the lead role in this travesty. He has done some fine work in the past -- my favorite far and away was in the movie The Piano with Holly Hunter, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin, where Harve played the native-blooded "primitive" complete with handsomely tattooed face who won Holly's heart with his understanding of her pain and her passion for her piano. But it was great to see that at least the actor made some very public statements in the past few days about being disturbed (in retrospect?) about some of the lines his character was given to say and other aspects of the movie as well.

Frankly, I'll be glad when this whole dust-up over this worthless POS film is over and done with. I'm so surprised that the product turned out to be so inferior -- and hopefully ineffective as a result. Surely the reviews post-airing will serve this one up on a platter as the tripe it is!