Comments on: No Concessions: Spies Like Us (“Nothing But the Truth” and “Quantum of Solace”) http://popdose.com/no-concessions-spies-like-us-nothing-but-the-truth-and-quantum-of-solace/ your daily dose of pop culture Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MR.KS2http://popdose.com/no-concessions-spies-like-us-nothing-but-the-truth-and-quantum-of-solace/comment-page-1/#comment-50806 MR.KS2 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:12:21 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=9404#comment-50806 Great movie <br>WE SHOULD BE STABLE WITH OUR VALUES WHAT EVER HAPPENED Great movie
WE SHOULD BE STABLE WITH OUR VALUES WHAT EVER HAPPENED

]]> By: MR.KS2http://popdose.com/no-concessions-spies-like-us-nothing-but-the-truth-and-quantum-of-solace/comment-page-1/#comment-41845 MR.KS2 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:12:21 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=9404#comment-41845 Great movie <br>WE SHOULD BE STABLE WITH OUR VALUES WHAT EVER HAPPENED Great movie
WE SHOULD BE STABLE WITH OUR VALUES WHAT EVER HAPPENED

]]> By: MR.KS2http://popdose.com/no-concessions-spies-like-us-nothing-but-the-truth-and-quantum-of-solace/comment-page-1/#comment-31377 MR.KS2 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:12:21 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=9404#comment-31377 Great movie <br>WE SHOULD BE STABLE WITH OUR VALUES WHAT EVER HAPPENED Great movie
WE SHOULD BE STABLE WITH OUR VALUES WHAT EVER HAPPENED

]]> By: The Popdose Interview: Rod Lurie | Popdosehttp://popdose.com/no-concessions-spies-like-us-nothing-but-the-truth-and-quantum-of-solace/comment-page-1/#comment-28498 The Popdose Interview: Rod Lurie | Popdose Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:45:48 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=9404#comment-28498 [...] I caught Nothing But the Truth, which was inspired by the Valerie Plame affair, at a screening, and was impressed, not least with the strong central performances by Kate Beckinsale and Vera Farmiga. What Doesn’t [...] [...] I caught Nothing But the Truth, which was inspired by the Valerie Plame affair, at a screening, and was impressed, not least with the strong central performances by Kate Beckinsale and Vera Farmiga. What Doesn’t [...]

]]> By: OlgaKurylenkohttp://popdose.com/no-concessions-spies-like-us-nothing-but-the-truth-and-quantum-of-solace/comment-page-1/#comment-26207 OlgaKurylenko Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:43:07 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=9404#comment-26207 Olga is the hot gir of the moment right now with roles in all kind of movies. She is headlining the action movie Kirot.<br>In the movie she plays a woman that is coerced into becoming a hit woman for a shadowy organization after being imprisoned for working as a prostitute.<br><br>She escapes from her new employees and joins forces with an abused woman she encounters on the run. Together they embark on a campaign of revenge.<br><br>Sound like the movie NIKITA to me but with olga and that makes it 100% better and the original is great<br><br><a href="http://www.kurylenko-olga.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.kurylenko-olga.com</a> Olga is the hot gir of the moment right now with roles in all kind of movies. She is headlining the action movie Kirot.
In the movie she plays a woman that is coerced into becoming a hit woman for a shadowy organization after being imprisoned for working as a prostitute.

She escapes from her new employees and joins forces with an abused woman she encounters on the run. Together they embark on a campaign of revenge.

Sound like the movie NIKITA to me but with olga and that makes it 100% better and the original is great

http://www.kurylenko-olga.com

]]> By: car loan modificationhttp://popdose.com/no-concessions-spies-like-us-nothing-but-the-truth-and-quantum-of-solace/comment-page-1/#comment-24668 car loan modification Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:56:54 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=9404#comment-24668 Quantum drops the ball in other ways. The “Another Way to Die” theme, a first-time duet for the series co-warbled by Jack White and Alicia Keys, is coitus interruptus, building toward something and never climaxing. It’s a song stuck in a condom. The cog-in-the-wheel villain, a phony environmentalist grimaced by Mathieu - ----- would've been better if there were extras Quantum drops the ball in other ways. The “Another Way to Die” theme, a first-time duet for the series co-warbled by Jack White and Alicia Keys, is coitus interruptus, building toward something and never climaxing. It’s a song stuck in a condom. The cog-in-the-wheel villain, a phony environmentalist grimaced by Mathieu – —– would've been better if there were extras

]]> By: Adamhttp://popdose.com/no-concessions-spies-like-us-nothing-but-the-truth-and-quantum-of-solace/comment-page-1/#comment-16631 Adam Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:50:59 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=9404#comment-16631 Nothing But the Truth, a good movie, doesn’t require evasive action or a charm offensive. Lurie’s best film since The Contender (2000), its virtues are in ample supply. It needs a little love: Right before it opened, for a one-week Oscar-qualifying run in New York and Los Angeles Nothing But the Truth, a good movie, doesn’t require evasive action or a charm offensive. Lurie’s best film since The Contender (2000), its virtues are in ample supply. It needs a little love: Right before it opened, for a one-week Oscar-qualifying run in New York and Los Angeles

]]> By: BobCashillhttp://popdose.com/no-concessions-spies-like-us-nothing-but-the-truth-and-quantum-of-solace/comment-page-1/#comment-16630 BobCashill Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:11:12 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=9404#comment-16630 The movie doesn't glorify journalists, it just shows how one might react in these fictionalized circumstances. (The prosecutor does his job zealously, but it's hard to criticize him for doing it. It's a fairly faceted portrayal.) I'm not sure the profession needs to "justify' itself, or how it might do so for those disinclined to pick up a newspaper or magazine, but we'll be at loggerheads here. What replaces journalism if journalism is dead?<br><br>The media swims in the same murky economic waters as we all do, and for newspapers particularly it's all upstream. Our valiant embeds are a declining breed: The government doesn't want them, the news agencies can't afford to keep them, and readers haven't shown much interest in their reporting. Apathy is hardly restricted to journalists.<br><br>On a more concrete matter, Beckinsale's hotness is like the economy. She was prim and cute in the early 90s, then chesty, "enhanced," and otherwise over-inflated. I really didn't recognize her in <i>Pearl Harbor</i>. I like the burst-bubble incarnation more. The movie doesn't glorify journalists, it just shows how one might react in these fictionalized circumstances. (The prosecutor does his job zealously, but it's hard to criticize him for doing it. It's a fairly faceted portrayal.) I'm not sure the profession needs to “justify' itself, or how it might do so for those disinclined to pick up a newspaper or magazine, but we'll be at loggerheads here. What replaces journalism if journalism is dead?

The media swims in the same murky economic waters as we all do, and for newspapers particularly it's all upstream. Our valiant embeds are a declining breed: The government doesn't want them, the news agencies can't afford to keep them, and readers haven't shown much interest in their reporting. Apathy is hardly restricted to journalists.

On a more concrete matter, Beckinsale's hotness is like the economy. She was prim and cute in the early 90s, then chesty, “enhanced,” and otherwise over-inflated. I really didn't recognize her in Pearl Harbor. I like the burst-bubble incarnation more.

]]> By: autodidacthttp://popdose.com/no-concessions-spies-like-us-nothing-but-the-truth-and-quantum-of-solace/comment-page-1/#comment-16629 autodidact Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:37:18 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=9404#comment-16629 I may be resident crank here, but I will politely suggest that any movie attempting to glorify or justify the journalistic profession is going to fall on unsympathetic eyes here and in perhaps half or more of the country. Distrust of the media may be at an all-time high. A favorite preacher opines: "Journalism is dead." Working Americans have, in the past few months, been robbed, through Federal Reserve loan programs like T.A.F, T.S.L.F., P.D.C.F., and other obscurities -- to the tune of at least $2 trillion. We have no accountability for Secretary Paulson's TARP funds. Other government promises have pushed the cost of bailouts to the $8 trillion dollar range. Not only have journalists been slow to investigate, I'm not confident that any but a tiny handful are even competent to investigate. A recent lengthy New Yorker piece on Fed chairman Bernanke provides the barest outlines of what has been done, but no details and little about the real-world consequences of these gigantic interventions. And that article is one of the best I've seen. The bailout scandal is bigger than Watergate, bigger in financial terms than the Iraq War. Congress is not demanding accountability from Treasury and the Fed, and the mainstream moron media -- the MSMM -- is not demanding that Congress demand accountability. This isn't merely an important issue, it is the only issue, because it is a fundamental alteration in the structure of our economy. Let the industry show some actual nobility, or even modest competency, before we attempt to ennoble it in fiction. End rant mode. <br><br>That said, Beckinsale is hot, and I'll try to catch Nothing But The Truth on DVD. Because, who doesn't love a good fairy story? :-<br><br>(Disclaimer: I would not apply my wrath and disdain to one class of journalists -- those brave embeds who have covered the good, bad, and ugly of the war. They put it all on the line. I respect them greatly, even if I don't always agree with their analyses.)<br><br>Have donned asbestos suit here. Fire away. :) I may be resident crank here, but I will politely suggest that any movie attempting to glorify or justify the journalistic profession is going to fall on unsympathetic eyes here and in perhaps half or more of the country. Distrust of the media may be at an all-time high. A favorite preacher opines: “Journalism is dead.” Working Americans have, in the past few months, been robbed, through Federal Reserve loan programs like T.A.F, T.S.L.F., P.D.C.F., and other obscurities — to the tune of at least $2 trillion. We have no accountability for Secretary Paulson's TARP funds. Other government promises have pushed the cost of bailouts to the $8 trillion dollar range. Not only have journalists been slow to investigate, I'm not confident that any but a tiny handful are even competent to investigate. A recent lengthy New Yorker piece on Fed chairman Bernanke provides the barest outlines of what has been done, but no details and little about the real-world consequences of these gigantic interventions. And that article is one of the best I've seen. The bailout scandal is bigger than Watergate, bigger in financial terms than the Iraq War. Congress is not demanding accountability from Treasury and the Fed, and the mainstream moron media — the MSMM — is not demanding that Congress demand accountability. This isn't merely an important issue, it is the only issue, because it is a fundamental alteration in the structure of our economy. Let the industry show some actual nobility, or even modest competency, before we attempt to ennoble it in fiction. End rant mode.

That said, Beckinsale is hot, and I'll try to catch Nothing But The Truth on DVD. Because, who doesn't love a good fairy story? :-

(Disclaimer: I would not apply my wrath and disdain to one class of journalists — those brave embeds who have covered the good, bad, and ugly of the war. They put it all on the line. I respect them greatly, even if I don't always agree with their analyses.)

Have donned asbestos suit here. Fire away. :)

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