Comments on: Surprise! De Palma wins Venice’s best director award for “Redacted”

By: Marshall Art

Marshall Art — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:46:40 +0000

David Foster,

The C.S. Lewis piece works even better for those calling for reparations and an official apology for things like slavery, Hiroshima and CarrotTop.

As for the DePalma film winning the award, it calls to mind Quentin Tarrantino after giving a best picture award to Michael Moore for “Farenheit 9/11″, where he said, “This isn’t political!”

By: Terrye

Terrye — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:36:41 +0000

Maybe he would like to do a movie about the Butcher of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein. If he likes violence…I can’t think of a better subject.

By: PCD

PCD — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:22:38 +0000

10, Jack, DePalma is a Trancer. Take care of him.

By: Jack Deth

Jack Deth — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:17:40 +0000

De Palma is basically a one trick pony. Whose one trick has rotted badly with age.

Jack.

By: Severian

Severian — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:49:02 +0000

I’ve never been a fan of de Palma’s films. Red Ryder mentions he is a Hitchcock wannabe, but he’s nowhere near the master. De Palma substitutes gore and blood and such for Hitchcock’s masterful suspense. Hitchcock never needed gore for his films, de Palma is an uncreative hack with delusions of adequacy IMO.

By: Red Ryder

Red Ryder — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:34:16 +0000

My favorite De Palma story was from years back, after “Dressed to Kill” was released.

He was living with Nancy Allen (an actress in the pic) and actually went public with the ultra-wimp whine that she was “scaring him” at home–presumably by popping out at him, precisely as did the actors in his films.

This is the first and only time in the history of Hollywood that a horror film director went public with being a wimp.

He was never more than an cheap Hitchcock wannabee, and is trying to revive his stumbling career with Leftist agitprop.

By: Drewsmom

Drewsmom — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:19:16 +0000

Sorry, I posted twice guys, I’m pissed that this crap would win an award so close to the anniversary of 9/11.
We have forgotten, not us normal folks mind you, but most of the loons.

By: Drewsmom

Drewsmom — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:17:17 +0000

I’m waiting for SOMEONE to do a movie about ALL THE GOOD THINGS OUR TROOPS HAVE DONE, like building schools, adopting that little infant that all the troops fawn over an keep at the military hospital in a pumpkin seat, the utilities we have turned back on, the endless good deeds they do EVERYDAY, but that kind of movie, so far, has not been made and would probably not win any SO CALLED LEFT WING AWARDS, cuz normal people would go see it and we don’t count.
Just the smelly, hippie, demonstrating leftoids count in the wonderful world of hollywierd.
When they attack I hope they visit mr. brian’s studio, see how he like em up close and personal.
Better than any troop bashing movie you ever did, huh brian.
Try flashing to them depalma. FOOL.

By: Drewsmom

Drewsmom — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:17:07 +0000

By: camojack

camojack — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:50:27 +0000

I wonder if Kerry gets cowriter credits…”in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan“.

By: Tom TB

Tom TB — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:35:18 +0000

People like De Palma choose to be willfully ignorant of the simple fact that the Islamos will use their anti-American propaganda, and still murder them the first chance they get.

By: david foster

david foster — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:03:27 +0000

"The chronic myopia of self-loathers like De Palma"...I don't know much about De Palma, but in general, these people are *not* self-loathers...it's the *rest of us* that they loathe. They have very high opinons of themselves, and view the American people as inadequate to their high standards. About 50 years ago, C S Lewis analyzed a very similar phenomenon. See my post Repent Now.

By: Iwo Gina

Iwo Gina — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:52:16 +0000

If anyone would take the time to research the movies that De Palma directs, you would see a very definite pattern: They all have to do either with violent death or near-death and/or those who commit these acts. It's just my opinion, but he seems to be fascinated with death and violence to the point of obsession. I find it hard to believe that anyone with such a narrow repitoire is able to have a realistic perspective on life; it is inevitable that his fantasies would color everything he says or does. Personally, I would question such a person's sense or reality. But, we seem to be living at a time when the lunatics are running the asylum - for some reason, the world we now live in expects victims to apologize, criminals to have their acts analyzed and then excused on the grounds that their victims were "asking for it" by not being "sensitive" to the terrorists feelings. People like De Palma are awarded for the propaganda they spew - as I recall, Lord Haw-Haw was regarded as a "hero" by the Nazi party for the demoralizing broadcasts he made during WWII. I see very little difference between him and De Palma. What is most exasperating is that Mr. De Palma chooses to ignore the thousands of American fighting men and women all over the world that are willing to sacrifice their very lives to protect all Americans, including this Ingmar Bergman wanna-be. Do you understand what that means, Mr. De Palma? Their LIVES ... absolutely everything they have and everything they are. Would you ever, ever even consider making such a sacrifice? Can you even comprehend how great a gift you are given by these young men and women every single day of your selfish, self-indulgent life? Frankly, Mr. De Palma, I am not as selfless as the fighting men and women in the US Military - I personally think you and your kind are not worth the sacrifice.