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Artistic Liscence - The Devils Own


Artistic liscence is always hard to swallow when you know the truth, normally I'd rant about this but on the title page I saw a review by a Theo Thompson.


"If you're confused by my disgust at THE DEVIL'S OWN well imagine this: A film starring hunky George Clooney as a freedom fighter for Al Quida who's on a mission to buy stinger missiles to shoot down American helicopters in Afghanistan and it's up to a murderous agent from the fascist CIA to stop him by liquidating the gallant freedom fighter . Do you think Hollywood would produce something like that? I rest my case" Theo Robertson


Well done mate I could not have put it better myself.

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Lol! This is exactly what I thought while watching the film! :)

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And because they were uniforms the english occupiers are not terrorists?

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by - VanNostrand (Wed Jul 6 2005 22:15:07 )
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"And because they were uniforms the english occupiers are not terrorists?"

Oh you think its just the English soldiers that have got blown to peices by the IRA?

No Irish, Scottish or Welsh soldiers then?

No - because they WEAR uniforms, that just makes them easier targets for cowardly terrorists to murder.

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