http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365737/
Corruption? Corruption is our protection! Corruption keeps us safe and warm! Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets! Corruption... is why we win!
Take a notebook, and a personal voice recorder, take notes, bring some coffee. Like the NY Times mentions: "...is a movie that demands and rewards close attention...". This little feel-good nugget is based on the book "See No Evil" by Robert Baer, a CIA veteran who was spending some "quiet time" in Beirut and I believe, Iraq. Foreign policy changes, budget cuts, and very prominently displayed oil interests contribute to an increasingly unstable climate leading to present, and i'm sure, future conflicts in the area. I'm not sure if my description really helps AT ALL, tell ya the truth. Watch it.
"Syriana" is a term that appears often in the briefings of certain neoconservative think tanks to describe, in director Stephen Gaghan's words, "a hypothetical reshaping of the Middle East," though he said he used it more specifically to refer to "the fallacious dream that you can successfully remake nation-states in your own image."
Directed by Stephen Gaghan (directed the movie Traffic)
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I heard this was pretty good. I'll wait for it to come out on DVD before I watch it
"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?"
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QUOTE(trashtalkr)I heard this was pretty good. I'll wait for it to come out on DVD before I watch it
You can download the DVD screener rip of it now. Check isohunt.com
You can download the DVD screener rip of it now. Check isohunt.com
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That's what I plan on doing. I wanted to see this in theaters but never got around to it.
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I watched this movie last night, and it's was fuckin amazing. It's definitely one of the best movies I've seen this year. It was a little hard to follow at times because there's so much going on, but it was still good. 8)
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After what seemed like forever, Syriana finally came to my town last week. I agree with Kramer that it was one of the best movies from 2005 that I've seen so far.
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