The bad guys are never Islamists: List of movie "bad guys" since 9/11
Since 9/11, and the declaration by Islamic terrorists
of a war on the world,
Hollywood is desperate
not
to show us films
in which the bad guys are Islamic terrorists.
Paradise Now
(2005)
- The bad guys are ... the Israelis!
Loose Change (2005)
- The bad guys are ... the US government!
9/11 never happened!
It was all a conspiracy, man!
New York City never even existed, dude!
Sorry, Haters (2005)
- The bad guys are ... the American government!
The Sentinel
(2006)
- The bad guys are ... some random post-Soviet terrorists
that don't make a pick of sense.
Children of Men
(2006)
- The bad guys are ... a British fascist government again!
Couldn't Islamists take over the government for once?
Wouldn't that be something different?
Death of a President (2006)
- The bad guy is .. President Bush of course!
And he gets shot!
Casino Royale
(James Bond movie, 2006)
- The bad guys are ... some kind of international "terrorists".
Not Islamists.
You know, um, the other kind.
Déjà Vu
(2006)
- The terrorist bomber is ... American. Of course.
The Good Shepherd
(2006)
- The CIA are morally dubious - yet again.
Couldn't Hollywood have made just one pro-CIA film after 9/11,
before getting back to business as usual?
Just one?
If Hollywood has made a single pro-CIA film since 9/11,
tell me about it here.
The Mark of Cain
(2007)
- The bad guys are .. the British soldiers in Iraq!
Like
The Road to Guantanamo,
this is
the kind of film an enemy propaganda department would make.
We had to wait 6 years after 2003 for the first film that was
positive about the British troops in Iraq,
and that was
an American film.
Die Hard 4.0
(2007)
- The bad guys are .. "Internet terrorists"!
Transformers
(2007)
- The bad guys are .. alien robots!
(Though it is wonderfully pro-military.)
Max Payne (2008)
- The bad guys are .. a sinister drug company!
Linked to a secret US military project!
Eagle Eye (2008)
- The bad guy is .. a top secret super computer at the Pentagon!
Quantum of Solace
(James Bond movie, 2008)
- The bad guys are .. some kind of international "terrorists" again!
And the Americans are in league with the bad guys!
Green Zone (2010)
- The bad guys are ..
the Bush administration for invading Iraq for WMD lies!
The Crazies
(see here)
(2010)
- The bad guys are ..
the US military, who infect people with a biological weapon,
and then lock down everyone, infected or not.
The Ghost Writer (2010)
- The bad guy is ..
a British Prime Minister who cooperated with the Americans in abducting jihadis!
The bastard!
Fair Game (2010)
- The bad guys are ..
the Bush administration and its lies about Iraq!
Route Irish (2010)
- The bad guys are ..
the allies in Iraq!
The Losers (2010)
- The bad guy threatening the world with a "sonic nuclear bomb" is ...
a rogue U.S. military commander called "Max"!
Never Let Me Go (2010)
- The bad guys are ..
the scientists!
Because scientists want to kill living humans to get their organs. Right.
Typical anti-science bullshit from liberal arts types who know nothing about science.
Red (2010)
- The bad guys are ..
rogue elements of the CIA!
Essential Killing (2010)
- The bad guys are ..
the Americans!
A jihadi is the hero!
Mooz-lum (2011)
- The bad guys are ..
those racist Americans!
Unknown (2011)
- The bad guys are ..
a secret team of US government assassins!
They carry out a terrorist bombing in Europe.
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
- The bad guys are ..
space aliens!
In fairness, it is wonderfully pro-military.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
- The bad guys should be the Soviet communists and western traitors,
which would be brilliant,
but it's John le Carré,
so there are no bad guys, only shades of grey.
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
- The bad guy is ..
a rogue Russian nuclear expert
who wants to start a nuclear war to "clease the earth"!
Imperium (2016)
- The terrorists plotting a dirty bomb attack on America are ... neo-Nazis!
Bastille Day (2016)
- The terrorists bombing France are from ... the French Interior Ministry!
Jason Bourne
(2016)
- Don't tell me the bad guys are his goddam employers again!
Angel Has Fallen
(2019)
- The bad guys are ... evil contractors, you know, like Blackwater!
The terrorist attack on the President is staged by .. the Vice-President!
Accused (2023).
A young Muslim British man is falsely accused of bombing the London Tube.
Of course the bombing was done by a right-wing white British man.
[4] In the book,
the Islamist terrorist
Carlos the Jackal
was one of the bad guys.
But this was cut from the film.
[5] In the book,
the bad guys are Islamic terrorists.
Incredible.
[6] Daniel Greenfield
notes the psychological displacement:
"When Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
featured a terrorist cell in Dearborn, even though Muslims dominate the area, the villains were shown operating out of a Russian Orthodox church and getting their cues from a priest reading the bible while the terrorists cried out, "Slava Bogu" or "Praise God.""
The
deeply stupid and asinine
disaster movie
2012 (2009)
planned to feature the
destruction of Mecca,
but this was scrapped because of fear of Islamic violence.
Instead it featured the destruction of the Vatican,
the Christ statue in Rio,
and the White House.
Not knowing about this, an
Irish Times profile, 6 Nov 2009, amusingly says:
"You do have to hand it to Roland Emmerich. .. he does exhibit a certain kind of stubborn integrity. Nobody tells him what to blow up and what not to blow up."
Munich (2005)
- The first movie since 9/11 in which the bad guys are Islamists at all
(from the past).
Flight 93
(TV movie, 2006)
- The first movie since 9/11 in which the bad guys are the modern Islamists.
It only took 5 years.
United 93
(2006)
- The first cinema-released movie since 9/11 in which the bad guys are the modern Islamists.
The Kingdom
(2007)
- The first movie since 9/11
with a fictional story
in which the bad guys are the modern Islamists.
One of the few benefits of Obama's election in 2008
was that finally, after years of censorship and silence during the Bush era,
finally Hollywood made some pro-war movies:
The Hurt Locker (2009)
- The first real movie about the Iraq War.
The first film supporting the American troops in Iraq.
The first film supporting the British troops in Iraq.
The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)
- The first movie since 9/11 to
really show the reality of Islamism.
Four Lions (2010).
Humour and satire.
But also the first movie since 9/11 showing a fictional modern Islamist attack on a western city.
Unthinkable (2010).
The first movie since 9/11 showing a fictional Islamist attack on the US.
It only took 9 years.
The first movie since 9/11 showing an Islamist nuclear attack.
The first movie since 9/11 supporting the homeland fight against Islamism.
Cleanskin
(2012).
The first serious movie since 9/11 to have Islamic terrorists attack the UK.
It only took 11 years.
Still waiting for
the first film showing
the Islamisation of Europe.
Still waiting for
the first film showing civil war in the west between
westerners
and
Islamists.
Still waiting for
the first film showing Islamist victory and the destruction of the West.
Still waiting for the first film showing
total, fantasy victory
- the defeat, humiliation and destruction of jihadism,
the rapid and unpredicted collapse of Islamism like communism,
the collapse of belief in Islam itself,
waves of change washing over the Middle East,
and the start of a wonderful new world.
Neo-Nazis nuke America
Terrorists attack a western city with a nuclear weapon,
in The Sum Of All Fears (2002).
Terrorists? What sort of terrorists?
Why, some kind of European "neo-Nazis" of course!
But of course.
What useless pee-cee drivel.
Not to mention that the star, right-on leftist
Ben Affleck,
is the complete opposite
of counter-jihad hero Jack Ryan.
Terrorists bomb a bus in Russia in real life, Oct 2013, killing 6 and injuring many.
Oddly, they weren't Africans from Matobo.
They were Islamic terrorists.
"The book is awesome. Maybe someday someone will make it into a film." Cracking comment
on the useless movie of
The Sum Of All Fears.
