Too much of everything
Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
View MoreThis is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
View MoreIt's 2011 and the Internet's bandwidth is getting wider each day. Netflix offers streaming HD movies to your Internet connected TV or PC.Cost for watching? Totally free to a few bucks a month.High Quality films brought into your life.. Are you equipment to handle it? (I know I'm not)It is a natural human trait that we seek out programs that reinforce our belief systems. Generally if we see a program that "Challenges" our beliefs.. we turn the channel or turn "OFF" the program."Films" like this are very dangerous. I consider myself pretty good at media studies. AND still this movie/documentary or whatever it is scares the heak out of me.If you insist on watching.. At least question everything you see. If you find yourself at the end with a lot of "A Ha" moments.. Then do your homework.GENE
View MoreThis stomach-churning expose puts an anguished face on the brutality exalted by Saddam Hussein's former regime in Iraq. With some of the most shocking, unrelenting footage ever released on DVD, it's enough to make even the staunchest anti-war critic rethink their position that alleviating human suffering was not a legitimate reason for military action. We see tongues cut out and cruel beatings designed to induce kidney failure. We see public shootings and chain-wielding prison guards. It's truly more frightening than any work of Stephen King or Dean Koontz.Yet the footage goes beyond Saddam's devastation. Uncensored footage of post-Saddam Iraqis gleefully stringing up the charred corpses of two American contractors is sickening. The new enemies in Iraq, the insurgents and terrorists, are also profiled with several hostage beheadings, again uncensored. It's all intended to shock, and in that it more than succeeds.Unquestionably the biggest drawback in BURIED IN THE SAND are the studio segments hosted by an unknown named Mark Taylor. Taylor tries hard to make the compilation tasteful, but his appearances cheapen the entire documentary. He turns the production into a piece of right-wing propaganda, which it needn't be. It would have been much better to employ an unseen narrator and perhaps interviews with experts to help us digest what we are seeing. By marketing this as an anti-liberal film, the producers ensured they would change nobody's mind about the war and instantly alienate half of a divided nation. That's too bad, because taken more seriously, BURIED IN THE SAND could have been more.
View MoreIraq was in a terrible way LONG before the American came. Saddam was the modern day Stalin and Hitler. Gasing people with different political and religious views and torturing his own people. In the film they show many actual evidence of these acts. They even go back with recored audio of John Kerry agreeing with the invasion of Iraq along with Senetor Clinton and Kennedy.I however like the comparison with the Saddam era Abu Gharib and the American Abu Gharaib. Neither are acceptable but Saddams was MUCH WORSE! We ALL need to see this. 10 out of 10. Two thumbs WAY UP!
View MoreI borrowed this movie from my grandparents and watched it one Saturday afternoon with my dad. We knew that it was going to be a little disturbing. It starts off mellow. People are beaten until their kidney's fail, there fingers are cut off and they are released to do whatever the hell they want. Feet are also cut off and tongues are clipped. As Jigsaw once promised us "Yes. There will be blood".After these clips the host, Mark Taylor, comes on screen for his second appearance. He does get annoying during most of the film, saying things you already know. More then anything he will tell you the scenes are violent, brutal and disturbing yatta yatta yatta.They show more scenes like this, they also show more torture like techniques by Saddam's sons and they show prison footage of how the guards beat the inmates. Even at this point there is nothing to be queasy about. Then comes what are the most gut wrenching scenes I have ever seen. Live beading's of an American contractor and Japanese workers who are just trying to reform Iraq in the smallest ways. A group of armed me with bags over their faces make the people plead for their life before they chant things that are inaudible and sever the head off these people. In all, people who ca not handle CSI or House or any of those shows with blood should not watch this movie. It is still a good insight into what is actually going on that the news doesn't tell you about.
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