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Reacting to the Trailer: Dr. Strangelove Comparisons and Alan Rickman's Death
from The Pilot! · #15
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1 minTim mocks a reviewer comparing Eye in the Sky to Dr. Strangelove, jokes darkly about Alan Rickman's death, and connects the drone movie's sanitized violence to real-world propaganda cover-ups like Abu Ghraib.
- 52:48Tim argues the movie's propaganda war logic: killing one kid while blowing up an entire country, then Alan Rickman dying as divine punishment for making the film.
- 53:06References Abu Ghraib and Seymour Hersh's allegations about US soldiers and unreleased vault video footage.
- 53:27Tim observes the absurdity of focusing collateral damage messaging around one girl doing a hula hoop.
- 53:40Tim calls the movie horrible, saying it represents what Americans are willing to buy as propaganda.
Abu GhraibGeorge ClooneySeymour HirschAlan Rickman