Overrated, Underrated: no topic is off-limits.

[Dolly Potter MD 0]

...................... including forum related politics, and poster contributions/feuds etc .

 

 

 

Overrated: "Saving Private Ryan" - Technically brilliant recreation of the field of war, but equally offensive in it's portrayal of the frontline soldier. By that i mean the typecasting of the frontline German soldier as a cardboard caricature, an embodiement of pure evil. Politics doesn't enter the field of war, whether in the trenches of if one is a blonde haired-blue blued German soldier caught behind enemy lines. Spielberg may as well have inserted a Star of David [via a single frame] into the end credits. Thin Red Line is a non-politicised & fair depiction of the field of war.

 

 

Underrated: Dick Cheney - Bush Jr cops alot of criticism as his admistration's figure head. But the United States' foreign policy [which many suspect to be driven by desire for control of natural resources, namely a mooted oil pipeline stretching from the Caspian Sea through Azabaijan and Afghanistan etc] was effectively born from Cheney's one-time Energy Taskforce. And Cheney [as Secretary of Defese at the time] was a prime advocate & mover for the partial privatisation of the American Military Machine, over a decade before the eventual rise of for-profit companies like Blackwater, in the wake of the invasion of Iraq. Cheney in short was far from the token buddy or sidekick vice-president.

Edited February 6, 2011 by Year Zero

[Billy Castell 0]

Over rated: Spongebob Squarepants.

Under rated: Ren and Stimpy

 

Over rated: Gavin and Stacey

Under rated: Early Doors

[Dolly Potter MD 0]

Overrated: Rib-eye steak.

 

Underrated: T-bone steak.

 

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Overrated: Crayfish

 

Underrated: Bugs [cheaper than Crays, tastier though]