Tsunami - the movie

[ironcross]

Why is it that the US has no problem with exploiting, and making money from the death of hundered's of thosands of people from Asia, by making trashy movies. It's been 6 months for god sake! This is bloody aweful IMO!

I can't see any 9/11 movie on the horizon? Too close to home maybe?

Source: news.com.au

US and British television networks have teamed up to make the first movie about the tsunami that devastated Asia last year and killed 220,000 people, the film industry press said today.

The NBC channel and the US arm of Britain's ITV, Granada America, had agreed to make a drama focusing on a coastal orphanage in one of the countries battered by the December 26 catastrophe, Daily Variety said. Producers of the film, which has not yet been given a title, are searching for a writer to pen the script ahead of the movie's expected 2006 premiere.

 

[Southy]

cunts

 

[Mark]

Tom Cruise is to play the hero who keeps the waves at bay while saving a million Sri Lankan kiddies.

 

[Spiff]

I don't have a problem with this.

 

[Celestial-Todd]

As Mark said, no doubt there'll be some sort of American hero in this who manages to escape with his family while all the "foriegners" die because they are too stupid (ie not American)

 

[Shannow]

http://peaceandjustice.org/article.php?story=20050118225820852&mode=print0

"I do agree that the tsunami was a wonderful opportunity to show not just the US government, but the heart of the American people, and I think it has paid great dividends for us," she said.

 

[Winmar]

And that article was a wonderful opportunity to confirm that Condoleezza Rice is a complete cretin.

 

[Southy]

you needed proof? She is part of the current USA administration, what more proff is needed?

 

[Winmar]

That would do it, yes!

 

[Goreripper]

That would be the government who is apparently the Leader of the Free World, but initially donated less money to the effort than a German race car driver and a Finnish heavy metal band.

 

[chrisvp]

heh heh right on the money Brian , as for the whole movie , I think its gonna be a frowned upon by the Australian public when they hear about it , I think its rank.
Like someone mentioned before , why havent they made a movie about 9-11 , there were plenty of heroes there as well , for sure they would have been plenty of opportunities to have a movie about one of the fire sqadrons who lost all their firefighters to the tragic event ,plus it would have been the perfect opportunity to give Tom Cruise another movie to star in and have a considerable amount donated to the cult of Hubbard and his loons, fucking idiots.

 

[Spiff]

There have been a few 9/11 movies - nothing dealing directly with it, people running in and saving lives and stuff, but there have been a couple that dealt with the aftermath ("The Guys" is probably the most notable one, ie the only one I can think of off the top of my head). But no, no modern-day Towering Inferno or anything like that.

 

[Southy]

I don't think there is a free world under the current Governments that are in power in Australia, US, UK and China, probaly the Japs too. But what our current government wants to do to the workers to start with are fucked

 

[Mark]

What do they want to do?

 

[dreamwatch]

plus it would have been the perfect opportunity to give Tom Cruise another movie to star in .

Yeah, they could have this really cool scene where the Cruiser jumps from the top of the Tower and lands just inches from the bottom almost triggering the alarms... oh hang on...

 

[Goreripper]

What do they want to do?

They want to abolish current employment conditions and replace them all with individual contracts, abolish unfair dismissal laws as they apply to small businesses (meaning you can be sacked for no reason and not be able to do fuck all about it), and force workers to trade off annual leave for extended hours of work. The way it's going, you're going to need to rock up to your job with a lawyer so your boss doesn't fuck you over.

 

[phlogiston]

They've been wanting to do that for ages, haven't they? Although now with the whole balance of power in the Senate thing and all it might be a different story.

 

[chrisvp]

yep , its definately worrying times ahead , the industrial relations minister is basically telling us in his warped mind that we will all be better off under the new system heh heh , thats the best joke I've heard all year .
its a really fucked up situation because like always the lower and middle class workers are going to miss out once again while this government keeps on prancing around telling people we have the lowest unemployment rate on record , yet when a person works only one hour a week they are counted as being employed in the statistics , which is sheer lunacy.
It all seems fine while they give themselves a pay rise and the more well off folk get a better tax cut , dont get me wrong , if a person has worked hard and succeeded they deserve success , yet it would be more beneficial and work well for everyone if the rest had a better tax cut .
I work nightshift and every week they tax my ass and at the end of the tax year I get asked which was I want to be fucked!!!!
bastards!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Goreripper]

Howard's $6 a week taxcut has already been eaten up by inflation, even before it's been handed out. He could cut the excise on fuel, but he won't because the high price of fuel is caused by global price fluctuations, not taxes. If that isn't a lie wrapped in a misrepresentation, I don't know what is. If he dropped the excise on fuel, petrol prices would fall about 25c overnight.

 

[Shannow]

Gorey,
remember when the Oz dollar was 45c, oil hit $45 U.S. a barrel, and petrol hit $1.00/litre.

Costello was on the T.V. every five minutes explaining that every cent the Oz dollar dropped would mean one cent per litre increase. Every dollar per barrel increase would mean one cent per litre increase.

$1.00 plus ($60-$45)x1c minus (75c-45c)x1c comes out to 85 cents.

We are being gouged by the petrol comapanies (who are predominantly owned by who ?)...i believe so that they can keep profits up, while not causing too much of a stir on their home front with high prices.

Howard and Costello are making an extra 2.5 cents/litre GST. Of course they aren't going to respond.