George Clooney’s Up in the Air Promotes Hurtful Muslim Stereotypes
Recently I watched a bootleg copy of the new George Clooney film, Up In the Air. It’s been a long time since I’ve been so offended.
I found the film to be very unrealistic and extremely insulting. For example, George Clooney’s character spends most of his life traveling the U.S. via the commercial airlines. Inexplicably, not once in the entire film does he encounter an Islamic Fundamentalist trying to bring down the plane with an underwear bomb. In fact, the only Muslims depicted in the film were normal, average Americans who were just trying to live their lives. I wholeheartedly object to this common stereotype. Zionist-controlled Hollywood wouldn’t feel comfortable depicting all Asians as dry cleaners or all Mexicans as migrant workers, so why do they feel it’s OK to depict all Muslims as tolerant, peace loving people? I resent the implication. Some of us want to destroy the Jews and force the rest of the world to convert to Islam, thank you very much!
Another aspect of the film which I found insulting was the gratuitous nudity. At one point, the side of Vera Farmiga’s breast and part of her backside are exposed for at least three seconds. While I appreciate that the film depicts Western women as promiscuous whores, couldn’t the director have found a way to do this while still having his female characters clothed, preferably in burqas? For example, in the film, Clooney meets the female lead at a bar and immediately brings her back to his hotel room. The director could have just as easily had Clooney chastise the woman for not being chaperoned by a male relative, followed by a scene of her public flogging by the religious police. The same point would have been made, but without the nudity.
All and all, I give Up in the Air 15 out of 72 virgins. Skip this insulting, sinful smut.
One of the dumbest things I’ve ever read…
Hot debate. What do you think?
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Muslims dont want to destroy jews. Idiot.
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A few of them do.
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No, you are right, not just Jews, some of them want to destroy everyone daring to think outside THEIR interpretation of Koran. Does 911 ring the bell? They kill everyone without discrimination.
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End political correctness. Kill a Muslim.
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If it wasn’t for the West this movie would be called “Down on the Ground” (or possibly “Chopping Off Heads”) and it would be shot in 3-D hieroglyphics. It would be narrated by Muslim clerics and no women would be allowed to see it. However, it would still be released around the end of the Christian New Year in order to be positioned for an Oscar.
The Ultimate Homo strikes again!
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wow you are ignorent and a jerk to muslims they are good people all humans are equal who ever wrought this is a bad person
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Shame that muslims don’t agree with You. If they did they would not start killing. After all fundamentalists or not they are still muslims. But to make you feel better Christians have already fought their Holy Crusade so it’s only fair if the other side gets their fair shot.
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Great commentary – Hollywood is full of apologizing liberal pukes
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Clever commentary. Clearly the rest of the people commenting don’t understand irony as humor.
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I agree, excellent article. Love it.
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Wow, if it weren’t for the colloquial American English used, I’d think all of the above posters were ESL students. Or written by 10-year-olds.
Hint: the review was ironic, pro-Islamic, and said the movie was good.
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someone said god is really angry with you, so i am the right path and what you need to do is get married to me and then i will even buy you a ring, and then i will even get permanant residency in this country, but i am doing all this for you and i want nothing for myself and thank god nothing happend between us. But mate, were you tripping?
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what have you been smoking?
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one and only
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Yo whoever posted this blog deserves to get smacked straight up..if u any of youss live around the philly region come talk to me to know what REAL islam is about..Islam is the ONLY religion that spread from the tip of the tongue and not from the tip of a sword..Remember when christianity came about, how many people were persecuted and killed just for having a diff oppinion where as when muslims conquered a nation they didnt force anyone to convert, we just simply raised taxes..we NEVER destroyed their religious buildings or sacred shrines we let them be..ofcourse we asked them to convert but thats human nature, everyone wants everybody else to feel and agreee with their own opinion. so for all u fucking idiots that really never paid attention in history class go back and open up ur fucking textbooks..and as far that one dude saying if it wasnt for the west this movie wouldve been in “3-D hieroglyphics”..u stupid inferior ass fuck islam is the REASON why we have 90 percent of mathematics, most medical advances and ofcourse astronomy..u know the shit that columbus used to find the fucking west..so as i said before pick up a fucking book before u wanna just go n blog shitt..and for reall i really would like to meet jimmy jihad just so i can personally slap the fucking narrow mindedness out of him….fucking idiots mannnnnnn
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If Islam really comes from the tip of the tongue than what you wrote here came out of your ass whole. Interesting use of foul language Holly Man. Ever herd of practice what you preach.
Oh yes, I forget you prefer to blow things up rather than engage in dialogue. Allah forbid someone did not share your point of view…
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and another thing if the the people behind this website are actually muslim..then i must say congrats for putting islam in a nice light..how can u guys expect others to respect islam if u guys cant even fucking do it…and for the staff members who arent muslim…open up your minds and hopefully youll be able to open up your hearts…..
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Say what you want about Christianity, but don’t pretend there’s no blood on your hands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janissary
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people only call u terrorist becuz u fuking muslims are terrorists… pick up a newspaper once in a while and ull kno wtf im talkin bout… If muslims stop killing people jus bcuz they happen to be any reliion other than islam…people will stop call u fags terrorists
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So are people just really ignorant or stupid that visit this page. Celeb Jihad… Just think about that for a second… Still don’t understand? This is pop culture through the eyes of a Jihad. If you can’t relax, shut the fuck up and laugh at this, your life must really suck.
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Just recently seen this movie. Dare I say: BETTER THAN AVATAR.
The Jason Reitman-directed movie is funny, clever, and entertaining. But it’s also depressing. That’s because it’s about people who fire other people for a living. And in this economy, especially during this holiday season, that’s hard to watch onscreen, since we see it every day in the current economically depressed situation throughout America. It’s definitely not a “cheerful holiday movie.”
Watching old men get fired and cry–knowing they will struggle to find another job as they, themselves, note–is hard. And it seems very real, as cold and harsh as the real-life terminations that happen across America every second of the work day. I found that unsettling for a movie (since movies are supposed to be an escape from hard realities of real life, not intense recreations of them). Still, the rest of the movie was entertaining and there are some great lines in it.
You can bear smug uber-liberal George Clooney in this movie because he essentially plays–and mocks . . . himself. Clooney is confirmed bachelor and master termination expert, Ryan Bingham. Companies hire him and his employer (his boss is Jason Bateman) to fire their employees, because they don’t have the guts to do it themselves. It’s cold, it’s harsh, and he feeds the now-terminated employees total BS lines he knows are fertilizer about how this is the “beginning” of their lives, will help them realize their dreams, etc. Soon, though, he finds himself with a young protege (Anna Kendrick) who is equally as cold and who has developed a firing technique in which employees are fired over a computer screen. It’s harsh.
Bingham spends most of his time on the road flying around to these termination sessions and, in his free time, lecturing at New Age empowerment psychobabble seminars from his silly book, “What’s in Your Backpack?” And since he has no permanent or special woman in his life, no close friends, and no tight relationships with immediate family members, he lives his life aiming to score elite status on various hotel and airline frequent customer cards. Eventually, he meets a woman (Vera Farmiga), who is the female version of him. She wants no commitments and also aims for ultimate status at hotels and on airlines. They begin an affair and he finds himself suddenly pining for something more than an empty life of sleeping and flying around, where he is all alone and everyone else has moved on with living life.
And that’s when he realizes that life as George Clooney is actually a meaningless, empty life with no real purpose on the planet. A shallow, barren shell with no there there and lots of nothingness. Even his job, at which he excels, is mean and turns people’s lives upside down.
So, if you don’t like the real life George Clooney, you’ll like this onscreen commentary that his life really isn’t all that.
Best scene/dialogue:
George Clooney is at an airport speaking to his protege Kendrick at the security checkpoints. He talks about how to make things faster and save time while traveling. He surveys the families, the old people, and other people in line whom he says make things slow. Then, he spots some Japanese businessmen going through one line.
Clooney: Asians–they pack light, travel efficiently, and they’ve got a thing for slip-on shoes.
Kendrick: That’s racist.
Clooney: I’m like my mother. I stereotype. It’s faster.
The movie is a little top-heavy on off-beat music and soundtrack, trying a little too hard to be hip. But other than that, it was okay.
Like I said, I didn’t enjoy the firing scenes, in particular a scene in which an old man is fired by computer in Detroit and starts crying. It made me wanna cry. But the rest of the storyline is entertaining and enjoyable. And, frankly, it’s a great statement on the emptiness of those who devote it all to their careers and eschew family and morality and that special “something more” we should all seek in life.
TWO-AND-A-HALF REAGANS
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WTF? Does this guy think is is thinking? Maybe you should fly your own plane into a mountain…then will be rid of people like you…
Whiney bitch..
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You are a sick genocidal maniac. that is probably the most horrible and ignorant thing i have ever read. you are just as bad as the suicide bombers if you really meant what you wrote. you need to take a good hard look at yourself and hopefully you will see how much of a sick fuck you are. And im no christian muslim or jew, but as far as i know you all believe in the same god. SO SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!
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steve
You are a stupid infidel and you wouldn’t know the truth if it was shot at you with an AK-47.
We Jihadists speak only the truth and everything we say on this site is the truth.
Also…..we do not all believe in the same God. It may have started out that way, but the dirty jews and their equally dirty off-shoots, the christians, have long ago distorted and perverted the God of Abraham into something evil and abhorant.
Allah is God and we Muslims have followed his word without error.
The jews and christians live for themselves, and worship a perverted image of Allah; and for this they are condemned to hell and will suffer big time.
So you shut the fuck up you ignorant mofo.
ALLAHU AKBAR
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Sure you may have done things in mathematics and astronomy (not so sure about medical unless trimming a clitoris is a medical procedure) but that was 500 fucking years ago. Tell me one thing you have contributed to the world besides oil (and we had to help you do that because the straw wasn’t working) since the middle ages. Get your head out of the fucking sand and do something besides blowing yourself up.
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whitemoron
Once we are finished blowing up all you infidels, the world will finally be restored to it’s original condition…that is…asshole free.
Then we Muslims will be the only ones left to rule the planet and peace will reign forever.
Also….women like their genitals surgically altered; it takes the “whore” out of them.
ALLAHU AKBAR
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All you fucking towelheads know are car bombs. You are so backward it’s almost funny. I love to hear about all those Muslims who converted to Christianity because they finally got smart and realized that the Q’ran is some ancient book. Did Allah ever perform miracles? Huh? You tell me.
Have any of your dead suicide bombers come back to tell about all those 72 virgins? I think not. There has actually been proof of miracles happening in this day and age and it isn’t Allah who was behind it. No, it was God the father of Jesus.
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crappy
That just goes to show what you know asshole.
For your information, we have car bombs, suitcase bombs, fruit stand bombs, airplane bombs, animal bombs…we have every kind of bomb devised.
I invite you to come to Tikrit. I have a “vest” that would suit you just fine.
Eat shit and then shove a bomb up your ass and explode you dumbass mofo
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and ….there is absolutely no proof that Jesus was anything but a TROUBLESOME JEW WHO HUNG OUT WITH DRUNKS AND PROSTITUTES AND GOT HIMSELF EXECUTED.
As for the daddy of jesus….only mary has that info…unlesss she was drunk and passed out before she was defiled.
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Don’t go all religious on us Happy, you were so predictable as a fucking idiot. Now a Christian fucking idiot……….thats too much to take.
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All that asshole rubbing during green acres was too much for her. She’s had a nervous breakdown and is now psychotic.
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