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Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon
Iranian state television's Channel Two is playing a Lord of the Rings marathon in an attempt to keep people inside watching hobbits and not protesting in the streets. Normally, people in Tehran are treated to one or two Hollywood movies a week, but with recent events the government hopes that sitting through a nine-hour trilogy will take the fight out of most of the protesters. Perhaps this was not the best choice in films if you want your people not to believe that "even the smallest person can change the course of the future."
Bah, I didn't like those movies at all. If I was in Iran, I'd probably be so pissed off that they're showing me such garbage that I'd take to the streets and wreck at least a couple of cars.
Well, speaking for myself, I wanted to kill people on the exit from 2 out 3 of those movies, so this may not achieve the intended effect.
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Lord of the rings in the original farsi! Can someone tape it for me?
Since beer is already off the list for Iranians, that leaves only one option.
Maybe the Iranian censor board will be able to cut out anything unneeded and make the movies more compact and watchable. I love the movies, but they can induce numbness to the posterior if watched more than one at a time.
Where is my vo... Ooh! Legolas!
Did they get the rights to that?
It's probably in pan-n-scan too.
JIHAD!
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"A day may come when the courage of men fails ... But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, men of ... Iran! Allahu Akbar!"
They should have showed 300 instead.
one islamic regime to rule them all
and scantily clad women.
You've said it!
You should see some of the new burqas and chadors they are shipping to the stores. Sexy as hell.
You can almost see the eyebrows.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
After they saw how they lost sleeper cell after sleeper cell here in the US:
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Maybe the Iranians can figure out why Frodo didn't just ride the eagles to Mt. Doom in the first place.
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Any questions?
their new hobbit overlord.
Oh wait! That's North Korea ... my bad!
Que Deus te de em dobro o que me desejas
[May God give you double that which you wish for me]
So the tyrants of Iran are blaming this whole mess on the American media, then they're tying to placate the protesters with American media? A movie trilogy about a bunch of people banding together to overthrow an evil tyrant no less. Nobody could draw parallels between things like the dark riders and the police riding motorcycles beating people with clubs.
The sense of irony is weak with the Iranian dictatorship...
Or the Iranian leftist media just managed to *WHOOSH* the evil overlord.
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If they wanted to see a boot stomping on a human face they wouldn't really need to stay inside watching TV...
It's all in who you regard as the good guys. How about paralleling the motorcycle-riding police with the Riders of Rohan?
From what I've heard, most people voted for a Star Trek marathon, not LOTR. The Guardian Council denies anything is wrong with the vote count, despite the official count being 17 billion votes for LOTR vs -8 for Star Trek.
I wonder if this is going to cause any trouble...
How about Star Wars then....
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One does not simply Jihad into Mordor.
Every observer called the election rigged, even some of the internal ones.
Russia has recognized the elections as fair.
In completely unrelated news, Russians have been campaigning for a return to the methods of Stalin. Not a joke.
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Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
That way, Frodo starts out near-death from exposure to the outside world, but ends up happy at home, blissfully ignorant of what's going on outside the shire, while his ancient and powerful Supreme Leader takes care of all that messy 'freedom' stuff....
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Braveheart?
Two Rules For Success:
1) Never tell people everything you know.
So... this would be the "dictator's cut" that they're watching...
Come on; it doesn't matter which U.S. state the film was made in; the point is it's all American media.
"One does not simply walk into Tehran..."
"The great "eye"atollah is ever watchful..."
"Riders! In burqas!"
"Do not meddle in the affairs of Muslims, for they are subtle and quick to anger"
"The battle for Iraq is over, the jihad for Middle-east is about to begin..."
"The bomb will not save Iran. It only has the power to destroy..."
"Authority is not given to you to deny the votes, Mahmoud" "The rule of Iran is mine! And no other's!
"In the land of Iran, in the fires of Mosque Doom..."
is the only movie that would have pushed the irony meter higher.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
No country operates in a vaccuum. Period.
Well, except for Moonistan.
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