why does this movie exist

Alt text: The movie Bricklayer. Overview: Someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible. As the world begins to unite against the U.S., the CIA must lure its most brilliant - and rebellious - operative out of retirement, forcing him to confront his checkered past while unraveling an international conspiracy.

In reality, the CIA would be the ones funding the assassination of foreign journalists 🤦‍♀️

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    77·
    10 months ago

    This has so many problems. Like, starting with the fact that the CIA never admits anything unless the entire rest of the US government puts a gun to their head, and sometimes not even then, so why would they be able to be blackmailed? It comes down to “Your fabricated evidence vs. CIA fabricated evidence”, and the CIA is probably better at fabricating evidence, tbh.

    Another being that, historically, the CIA has assassinated foreign journalists and… the world didn’t unite against us. Like, it was a blip on the international relations radar. Which, while fucked up, suggests that it’s a terrible fucking choice to try to blackmail the CIA with.

    • Land_Strider@lemmy.world
      11·
      10 months ago

      Hey, managing public opinion has never been easier than the mass-served entertainment. CIA has been battling the frigging aliens in the shadows for decades, why not put in a few blackmails into the list?

  • CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca
    54·
    10 months ago

    always reminds me of Top Gun Mavrick: The poor US, with its last generation fighters, against some unnamed micro power with top of the line fighter jets.

    Why they didnt just use missile, or a high altitude bomber, ill never know.

      • Slovene@feddit.nl
        7·
        10 months ago

        Which is already a recreation of a previous movie about an actual WWII dam bombing campaign.

        • CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca
          3·
          10 months ago

          would that be “The Dam Busters”? Only watched it the once, but now that you mention it i can see the similarities, especially with the… bomb guider…

          • Slovene@feddit.nl
            3·
            10 months ago

            Yeah, that’s it! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dam_Busters_(film)

            “The attack on the Death Star in the climax of the film Star Wars is a deliberate and acknowledged homage to the climactic sequence of The Dam Busters. In the former film, rebel pilots have to fly through a trench while evading enemy fire and fire a proton torpedo at a precise distance from the target to destroy the entire base with a single explosion; if one run fails, another run must be made by a different pilot. In addition to the similarity of the scenes, some of the dialogue is nearly identical. Star Wars also ends with an Elgarian march, like The Dam Busters.[55] The same may be said of 633 Squadron, in which a squadron of de Havilland Mosquitos must drop a bomb on a rock overhanging a key German factory at the end of a Norwegian fjord.[56] Gilbert Taylor, responsible for special effects photography on The Dam Busters, was the director of photography for Star Wars.”

            https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M

  • LolaCat@lemmy.ca
    32·
    10 months ago

    The tags at the bottom are hilarious lol, who’s searching through the “journalist killed” tag looking for something to watch‽

  • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
    22·
    10 months ago

    This is the plot to like a million movies, similar to ‘this one last heist and then we’re out’ or the ‘they killed his son/daughter/dog so now they will seek revenge’