Movies where Westerners are aligned with Islamic militants (against COMMUNISM!)

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Rambo III
The Living Daylights

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Timothy Dalton: Can you help me find the mujahadeen?

Osama bin Laden: (hearty laugh) We ARE the mujahadeen!

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

'lawrence of arabia'

ok not really.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Of course, we must remember that the Soviet Union invaded and occupied Afghanistan in the 70s. There must be loads of these.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

That said, I can't think of any other than Rambo III and the Living Daylights.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, they moved pretty quickly from earthy freedom-fighters to genocidal lunatics in hollywood's jaundiced eye.

― andy --, Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

"spies like us"

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Of course, we must remember that the Soviet Union invaded and occupied Afghanistan in the 70s.
-- scotstvo (arrib...), December 1st, 2005.

thx 4 the tip

― oooh, Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Right, Spies Like Us! (Although they never actually allied with Islamic militants, right? They just got chased over the mountains by them, then watched hot Russian chicks dance to "Soul Finger," then disarmed a missile. Also there was some kind of joke about a grenade, that's all I really remember.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Do I correctly recall that Paul McCartney did the SLU theme song?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

In Mummy they align with Islamic militants to fight DEMONS!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Right, Spies Like Us! (Although they never actually allied with Islamic militants, right? They just got chased over the mountains by them, then watched hot Russian chicks dance to "Soul Finger," then disarmed a missile. Also there was some kind of joke about a grenade, that's all I really remember.)

dude, they pose as doctors and unwittingly kill the son of the mullah (omar?) during an appendectomy. they are on the muhajadeen's "side," as it were. and bob hope's.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

and yes, the foreign policy connotations are about as sophisticated as, say, anything in "starship troopers"

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Starship Troopers is about domestic politics, silly.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

right, hence the invasion aspect.

cultural studies majors, stick to dissecting madonna and "roseanne," pls.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

(Umm, not to spill that one over here, but dude: the movie, at least, has nothing to do with what they're actually invading -- the whole thing's about the fact and the mood of their doing it! You could replace the bugs with puppets, it'd be the same thing.)

(People who don't like talking/thinking about how stuff works, stick to ... I dunno, not talking/thinking?)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, "Spies Like Us" was in fact PMC's last American #1 song.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

seriously?

whoa.

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

(People who don't like talking/thinking about how stuff works, stick to ... I dunno, not talking/thinking?)

thinking that certain people talk way over their heads and have no idea what they're talking about /= "People who don't like talking/thinking about how stuff works"

and i wasn't even making a dig at you, mr. OTM!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want to be on the money anymore. Some sort of backlash is emerging.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.odedfehr.de/tm/tmdvd032.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

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