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A new story is coming...

Filmed at Simon Phoenix Movie Studios, this is the first full-screen treatment of the Second Allanea-Reich War made in the Free World. Playing in the movie are Allanean actress Nina James and Friedrich Evans – as CIWS gunner Linda Devonshire and bomber pilot Scott Johnson.

It is is a story about love...

Scott and Linda are seen in Liberty-City harbor. He is wearing Air Force parade dress, and she is wearing a skimpy pair ot shorts and a tube top that leaves most of her torso visible (the Navy had no uniforms at the time, just armbands with ranks on them).

SCOTT: I am sorry, my love. I have to go. You know, things to do...

Suddenly, he picks her up in his arms and kisses her.

It is a story about hatred.

Linda is sitting in a CIWS turret aboard a battleship, her face contorted with anger, pulling on the control levers of the immense Gatling cannon, screaming.

LINDA: DIE, YOU F***ING NAZI SCUM! DIE! DIE!

The camera pans out to show an Endless Crimes fighter-bomber burning as it falls out of the sky.

It is a story about bravery.

Scott is shown, wearing his pilot outfit, commanding a Corona bomber. We see powerful explosions as AA cannon rounds and rockets detonate all around the bomber.

SECOND PILOT: Captain Johnson, this is dangerous! We must get out of here!

SCOTT: You heard our orders. We must proceed to Auckland. There are no ifs or buts about it.

It is a story about justice.

We see footage of Auckland as seen from a bird's eye view, as five immense nuclear explosions rise to envelop the city. Fade-to-white – and we see the city again, now in ruins. We hear a recorded newscaster's voice say:

“At 10:35 AM today, our glorious Air Force had landed a death blow against Amadeus Shelford's regime. Millions of Gods Ownii are presumed dead...

But above all, it is still a story about love.

Scott and Linda are shown again, now after the war's end, kissing as the sun sets on Liberty Harbor.

WINGS OF LIBERTY
Soon in theaters near you



Warning: The film is rated PG-13 by the Movie Pictures Association of Allanea, and R by the Conservative Movie-Goers Association of Allanea for Extreme Violence and Sex. It is rated DNW (Do Not Watch) by the Christian Cinema Association of Allanea.


OOC: I know the title is tacky. This is Allanean movie cinema. Basically imagine a stereotypical Rambo-type film, except with really good actors and directors and actual plot.

OOC: So... what is this thread for exactly?

(Seems like Movie Threads are becoming the fad! YAY)

Film has been accepted into Kanami for wide release

KEBCR: Certification #345678 NC-17 for Graphic War Related Violence, including abuse and torture, strong sexual content and strong language

Please Mark One of the Following

*** Do You Wish To: Re-Edit and Re-Submit? Appeal The Board's Rating decision? Leave As Is, Surrender Your Rating and Release it Unrated?***

Any film can be shown in Swilatia, no need for certification. Swilajka Informacja Filmowa, which is not in anyway linked to the governement, will be looking to identify content.

OOC: Swilatian content descriptions are listed below, select the ones that apply to your movie.

Profane Language
Serious Crimes
Violence
Nudity
Sex
Gambling

OOC:

Profane Language, Violence, Nudity, and Sex apply to this one. HOWEVER: Note Allanean MPAA ratings are MUCH more liberal then real MPAA ratings. (It'd likely be an R in real MPAA).


OOC: Swilatian content descriptions are listed below, select the ones that apply to your movie.

Profane Language
Serious Crimes
Violence
Nudity
Sex
Gambling

OOC:

Profane Language, Violence, Nudity, and Sex apply to this one. HOWEVER: Note Allanean MPAA ratings are MUCH more liberal then real MPAA ratings. (It'd likely be an R in real MPAA).

We don't needs to know about your ratings, they won't mean anything in Swilatia. We don't participate in censorship, the content decriptors are for the sole puropose of providing information. For this reason we do not rate movies.

- Swilajska Informacja Filmowa

Your Film has been approved

RATED: RA-17

Your movie has been approved

CERTIFIED: MA-17

Approved for showings in the Queendom of Aqua Anu

Rated: AO

“You’re going to love this, it’s the most tacky and awful film I have ever seen, and I’ve seen ‘Battlefield Earth IX, Return to Psycholos…’” a short haired, blonde ‘woman’ beamed from a lounging chair.

Ranisath raised an eyebrow, “You know, Sam, this is a truly bizarre hobby you’ve picked up.”

“Ah, come on, ‘The Eternal Elf’ is so tasteless it’s genius.”

“That was hardly the intent…” he said, sitting down, and putting his feet up, grinning at her.

“Of course not, but I think you’ve got to laugh at these people, or you get too obsessed with hating them… just sit back and watch it.”

A short time later...

“So, how would you rate that? Out of ten…”

“Two to the five over minus two…” he answered.

She laughed, “Who even has human close in weapons system gunners these days anyway? What is this, world war two?”

Statement from the Palmerston North Parliament on behalf of all Freyberg-Everest:


The government of Freyberg-Everest can only express its' shock and dismay at the production of this film, as the successor government in control of the land devastated by this horrific conflict we find the Allanean glorification of it absolutely abhorrent, our disgust surely echoed by all right-thinking individuals.
Certainly, the Shelford regime was vile and disgusting, but regardless of the reasoning behind the war, the reality is that Allanea was directly responsible for the deaths of over thirty million civilians as a result of the Auckland air strike alone.

That they think of this as less than reprehensible revolts us and it should revolt you too.
Freyberg-Everest continues to suffer the results of that conflict even now. We lose ground to the horrors unleashed by the bombardment daily, we lose tens of thousands of citizens to disease and starvation hourly, we continue to suffer long after Allanea has returned fully to normal and embarked on its' next program of genocide against those it has deemed its' enemy.

And the Allaneans call this justice?
Justice that they gleefully extracted from people who could not protect themselves.
Justice that failed to claim the life of the man responsible for this awful war.
That is justice?
We call it an abomination. There is no defensible response the producers of this disgusting film can make. They are glorying in gigadeath, paddling in the blood of the innocent, purveyors of vile war-pornography that defecates on the memory of the innocents lost on both sides.

We call on all right-thinking nations to ban this barbaric film and censure its' repugnant creators. We have learnt to our cost what happens when good men do not stand against vile untruth. Do not grow to share our experience, do not let vileness stand unchecked.

~ signed by all three hundred and seven Members of Parliament for Freyberg-Everest.

'Wings of Liberty' is, quite possibly, going to enter the illustrious company of works such as 'Plan 9 from Outer Space', 'Gay Niggers from Outer Space' or 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes' - "It's so bad, it's good."

But then, maybe not, given the scary lack of irony and almost painfully serious 'Acting' on the part of the 'Actors'. That, and some people may have problems laughing at the live-footage of thirty million people dying from a nuclear bombardement, although the film does - perhaps unfortunately, as such images would probably have an educational purpose for the average die-hard Allanean - spare us the image of mothers with their skin melted off, and newborns dying from radiation sickness.

I could have started this review with a brief rant on Allanean 'Hurra' patriotism and its black-and-white worldview, but eventually choose not to bother with it, as this is pretty much a given for every Allanean film, from 'Bazooka Bunny and Chlorine Commie' (For three-to-nine year olds!) to 'Shotgun Granny in the Slaver Valley' (With its infamous pantyshots).

Still. 'Justice' is portrayed in this film, and to Allaneans, 'Justice' apparently means the eradication of thirty million civilian lives for a cause that could never have succeeded in the first place. To think, they wanted to save these people... But they're probably happier as atomised dust, at least this seems to be what the average Allanean believes deep inside his - or her - heart.

And of course, the effect of these attacks - the nuking of a few million Allaneans, something that could effordlessly have been avoided by not starting to shoot at a nuclear power - is conveniently left out.

This already tells us something about the mindset that has created this film. Allaneans believe in clan liability - stone the son for the deeds of the father. And the nephews. The nieces. That one dude they talked to at a gas station, three years ago. And his neighbors. Probably the pets, too.

'Love', too, is mentioned, unintentionally ironic as it is, given the aforementioned ideas of 'Justice' in the Allanean heads.

Of course, 'Love' it may be, but development? No - it pops in and out, with nothing in between. Maybe it's just me, but didn't love stories involve something happening? Characters developing? Love - perhaps - having to grow, slowly, before showing its beauty? Having to overcome obstacles while trying to break free from the hearts of the protagonists, to fight for its fulfillment?

But no. Manly Allanean men (And women) don't do such things. Love pops in, is made, and that's it, with a lot of bombing and shooting and mass-murder in between. Admittedly, this form of 'Love' does explain the Allanean version of 'Justice' as it is beautifully shows in Wings of Liberty, so if there is a complaint we can't raise, it's this film being logically inconsistent (Whether Allaneans are is another question).

ANd I'll be fair - at least it's human love, and doesn't involve common Allanean fetishes. Seeing Gods Own PoWs getting raped to death by aquatic mammals would've been a bit too much...

Technical details (Human crews for CIWS? Bombers actually getting close enough for it to be used against them? And what the hell happened to SAMs?) do of course add to the film's negative value, but the average viewer will likely be busy with laughing (Or crying) at the acting they're presented with (Made all the much scarier by them presumably taking all of this very much serious), so it's probably superfluous to criticise this, too.

Of course, Wings of Liberty has its merits. Poor as the acting may be, questionable as the ethics it's based on are, and sloppy as the technical details have been handled, it does have rather pretty explosions, and Auckland going up in multiple nuclear fireballs, with mushroom clouds rising in the dawn, is certainly one of the more impressive scenes I've witnessed in recent years. As such, so long as you're not bothered by aforementioned acting, ethics and details, the film's probably worth watching, although I'd suggest downloading the relevant snippets instead - it spares one the pain of having to watch the rest.

- Patrick Müller

Somewhere in Rejistania:

"jilih... aru'tes?" (where is this from?)

"alhaneha'tes" (From Allanea)

"iln'xan 'eha jilih su?" (They plan to make money with this?)

"ve, lanja" (yes, maybe)

"sejil... jilih'slani! jilih'akvy! jilih'okiy!" (But... this is crap, this is cruel, this is crazy)

"ve. mi'aru." (yes, it is)

"mi'exkira'ta namin'ra!" (It will not gain profits here)

"oki've!" (of course!)

Since discussions like that happened all over the country at the cinemas, the film did not exactly get any audience. The 18+ rating of course did not help.

Official Notice of the Allanean Department of State to the Government of Freyberg-Everest

We would like to point out that 'the Allaneans' as a whole cannot be held responsible for the production of the film, for reasons that are painfully obvious to any rational being.

To CEO: Simon-Phoenix Movie Studios

We regret to inform you that your studio's recent picture "Wings of Liberty" contains content that the Imperium rates unsuitable for Imperial audiences. This content includes but is not limited to: depiction of foreigners engaging in sexual activity, glorification of foreigners, and omission of the Seven True Gods. For this reason, the film will not be screened in the Empire or any of its subject territories. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.



Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Emerald Springs Film Board has deemed the movie unsutibable for showing and has offically labled it BANNED

Foreign Certificate #11236,
OFFICAL CERTIFICATION: REFUSED CLASSIFICATION

Refused Classification (Banned)

"Taking a turn to entertainment news now Wings of Liberty has just opened in Kanami to poor reviews and poor performance at the box office. Tickets haven't been exactly sell outs and it's been opening to mostly empty theators."

Ally Peterson

"I think it's a glorification of all war crimes Allanea has committed and it's a wonder why we even allowed it to come here."

"The KBECR offically gave the highest rating for a general movie disallowing minors to view, and parents aren't disagreeing with it. Obviously the choice to allow it into Kanami is the intrest in free expression. Director Alex Thorton who passed on distributing the film agrees."

"Free expresion is an important tool for any artist to have, if people really think the movie is awful then just don't go see it. I mostly passed on it for poltical and moral reasons because of Allanea's ties. Poor reviews and poor performance it will be out in no time. "

"Critics have shown no mercy, earning an F average from critic circles and and movie goers alike. Earning a 1/10 stars at the internet movie database, Notorious Critic Saki Katusma gave it a flat 0/5 and even walked out of the theator."

Saki Katusma (critic) "This was nothing more than 2 1/2 hour glorificaiton of war crimes comitted by their own government. There was no real substance to the story it was all one big farce."

"As a result many theator chains are begining to pull it out from their showings, due to poor attendance for the film."

(taken from www.e-opinie.swi, a Swilatia review site)

Wings of Liberty Review

I have no idea why I saw this film, but I definately regret it.It's hard to neutrally describe this movie, which makes me glad that that's not what a review is supposed to be. In fact, I could just use 3 words to describe Wings of Liberty: This Move Sucks. But that's not what a review is supposed to be either.

Now, I don't even know where to start with this, but I guess it might be a good idea to start off by saying this movie has no plot. Thats right kids, a movie without a plot. There were many pathetic scenes placed in to try to make the movie exciting, but no plot. And while that already damages the film greatly, the lack of a plot is only the beginning. The movie was free of any real action, drama, or humour, and was grossly offensive. No wonder so many countries are banning it.

In fact, if you look at the stuff I said above, you might be thinking why this movie was even made. I would really love to know that as well, but i think it is fair to guess that this movie is nothing more than Allanean propaganda. The title should have made this obvious. After all, if you watch this, and you don't walk out of the cinema in the middle of the movie like I almost did, It will become clear this movie is merely a glorification of war crimes. A perfect reason drop this movie's score even lower, don't you think?

Final Rating: 0 Stars

(Seems like Movie Threads are becoming the fad! YAY)

2 threads is too little to call it a "fad". Also, it'll be a long time until you will be seeing me post a movie thread.

OOC: I like how people are ignoring what I have said ICly and OOcly about the movie.

IC:

Simon Phoenix Movie Company Reaction

“Hello. I understand you are an advertisement company?”

“Yes.”

“Look, I'm from the Simon Phoenix Movie Theater Company. Our cinema division has made this thing... about the Reich War. Now, it's been banned in Gods Own recently – they have a new government now, but I can't pronounce their name worth a damn. I want you to produce an ad series on the subject... I'm even having a few ideas.



WINGS OF LIBERTY
Banned in four nations and counting

We fought a war.

A war for our very survival.

We lived. We turned their capital city into a lake of steaming radioactive glass. And we made a film about it.

Now, they retaliate.

THEY BANNED THE FILM

In one week from now, come to the cinemas... and see the film that the revanchists don't want you do see.

Review (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12543960&postcount=3) From the Times of Navarre

Several Weeks Later

Extracted From:www.freeboxoffice.ftc

Total Cinema run: 32 days
Maximum spread: 2,585 screens

First Week Revenue: Mt3,670,300 (US$7,524,115)
Total Run Revenue: Mt11,533,200 (US$23,643,060)

Cast and Credits:

KBECR Rating: NC-17 for it's graphic content in violence language and sexualtiy

Star Rating: Zero Stars

Viewer Rating: 1/5

Saki Katsuma


I never thought a war film could sink low, my was I ever wrong. As a hard core movie goer I seldom walk out of the theator. Last time I left in the middle of the movie was after I keeled over in laughter from the funniest movie I ever saw. But that wasn't the case, 30 minutes in I decided this film is just far too trashy and proves only Allanea can make even the most heinous war crimes look wonderful on the Silver Screen. Thus I left.

Filmed at Simon Phoenix Movie Studios, this is the first full-screen treatment of the Second Allanea-Reich War made in the Free World. Playing in the movie are Allanean actress Nina James and Friedrich Evans – as CIWS gunner Linda Devonshire and bomber pilot Scott Johnson. The film basically goes of on a million subplots from there about nuking everywhere and turning everything into a radioactive pool of death and desturction. That was all I could take, because I figured if I stayed longer I was going to see a bunch of mutant canibals snatch the girl away only to get blown away by the hero of the story.

This is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. By the time the relentless nuke attack hit and the celebrations, followed by his victims and calls her "mission accomplished!" I walked out of the theater and kept on walking. No doubt the execution of this is even worse than a garden variety bloody action film.

I like War films and I like action films but this film combined two genres and decided to make it everything less of a contempoary film and more of a blant propagandous film of the worst kind. No approach of humility, sorrow, shame can be seen in this film, something the director must take responsiblity for on such a film. Fortunatley Black Hawk Films passed on the distribution rights of this and it went to a company where one in Kanami would expect this sort of trash, thus killing it's reputation faster. The sooner this is pulled from theators the better and my hat is off to the nations who banned the film because they saw through the smoke and mirriors of the speical effects and the cliched action story.

It's impossible to convey how many people get shot, stabbed, elctrocuted, disembowled or blown away in the first 5 minutes of the film. For such talent of special effects creation has gone to waste on this. The only senseable thing to come out of this film is the fact it's a movie based on actual events. It's real all right, as real as Barbie.

There is a line and this movie crosses it. I don't know where the line is, but it's way north of "Wings of Liberty." There is a role for violence in film, but what the hell is the purpose of this sadistic celebration of pain and cruelty? The theaters are crowded right now with wonderful, thrilling, funny, warm-hearted, dramatic, artistic, inspiring, entertaining movies. If anyone you know says this is the one they want to see, my advice is: Don't know that person no more.

OOC: Did anybody read my OOC description of the movie? The entire, 'Rambo, but with better acting' bit?

It's basically a 'trashy, ultraviolent, jingoistic war movie' made by a civilisation that loves war movies so much that's were our best actors go.

OOC: Did anybody read my OOC description of the movie? The entire, 'Rambo, but with better acting' bit?

It's basically a 'trashy, ultraviolent, jingoistic war movie' made by a civilisation that loves war movies so much that's were our best actors go.

You have no control over what our critics/review site users have to say.

OOC: Did anybody read my OOC description of the movie? The entire, 'Rambo, but with better acting' bit?Rambo (1) had exceedingly good acting, ya'know... Regardless of how 'Good' the acting may be, with this kind of script, and this kind of theme, you're not getting anything good out of it. And gratuitious sex scenes wont help you with the critics. 'Flesh for Skill'. Not to mention that the dialogue we've actually seen (Well, read) does not suggest good acting. At all.

But, in more detail...

Scott and Linda are seen in Liberty-City harbor. He is wearing Air Force parade dress, and she is wearing a skimpy pair ot shorts and a tube top that leaves most of her torso visible (the Navy had no uniforms at the time, just armbands with ranks on them).

SCOTT: I am sorry, my love. I have to go. You know, things to do...

Suddenly, he picks her up in his arms and kisses her.Softporn-esque costumes, catastrophic dialogue, about as predictable as it gets.

Linda is sitting in a CIWS turret aboard a battleship, her face contorted with anger, pulling on the control levers of the immense Gatling cannon, screaming.

LINDA: DIE, YOU F***ING NAZI SCUM! DIE! DIE!

The camera pans out to show an Endless Crimes fighter-bomber burning as it falls out of the sky.Poor technical detail, hilariously poor monologue (You're not Quentin Tarantino), utterly overacted.

Scott is shown, wearing his pilot outfit, commanding a Corona bomber. We see powerful explosions as AA cannon rounds and rockets detonate all around the bomber.

SECOND PILOT: Captain Johnson, this is dangerous! We must get out of here!

SCOTT: You heard our orders. We must proceed to Auckland. There are no ifs or buts about it.The pathos is just sad. And it couldn't possibly get any more predictable.

We see footage of Auckland as seen from a bird's eye view, as five immense nuclear explosions rise to envelop the city. Fade-to-white – and we see the city again, now in ruins. We hear a recorded newscaster's voice say:

“At 10:35 AM today, our glorious Air Force had landed a death blow against Amadeus Shelford's regime. Millions of Gods Ownii are presumed dead...Sickening, but very pretty explosions.

Scott and Linda are shown again, now after the war's end, kissing as the sun sets on Liberty Harbor.*Yawns* That's what? The hundred-billionth time such a scene is seen?

[B]Review:/B]

Wings Of Liberty

"Wings of Liberty", an Allanean war film depicting the Allanean-Reich war, in which Franberry participated, has been released nationwide today. The film, rated R (Extreme violence, Coarse language, Nudity, Gambling) by the Franberrian Movie Board, has achieved moderate succes, mainly due to the depection of the Franberrian armed forces within the film. For a war film, the Allaneans deliver a very nice package, with excellent acting and non-stop violence, this is a film which will not bore you. The plot is also well done, but the movie employs a large amount of coarse langugage, which is rather inapropriate at times and can create a feeling of uncomfortness, the large amount of nudity in this film aslo creates a similar effect.

Rating: 7.5/10 stars

You have no control over what our critics/review site users have to say.

Yes, but I am free to be somehow surprised people are depicting it as a new Killer Tomatoes.

(OOC: if you don't like our critical comments, than do an IC rebuttle like your 'banned' slogan )

Random Allanean Movie critic

Damn. These foreigners are strange.

First of all, apparently someone complained about Nina James' part as CIWS gunner. (CIWS gunners do exist. While of course CIWS controls are automatic, starting with the Old American Navy there's very often an override system. It existed in the Old American Phalanx CIWS and Sea-Sparrow missile systems, for one, and it is also used on quite a few Allanean craft. The scenario in Wings of Liberty, where a fire control computer fails due to Endless Crimes rounds hitting the ships, and Nina has to take over, is not very feasible, but it is conceivable.) Now, how eloquent do people get when there's people shooting at them and they have to shoot back? I guarantee you that if you were at an actual battlefield, you would find at least a dozen people screaming "Die, , die!" People's faces contort with hatred and anger – by the way, Nina's expression when fires that cannon system is pricelessly realistic.

Second, the dialogue. Didn't people have the same problems with the second Star Wars trilogy? Look, when people talk about love, most of them say the very same things. That's the greatness of 'simple film'. It allows us to realize that we're the same as those 'other people' – those who shoot down aircraft and blow up Death Stars. It hints that we can be just like them if we try. We all love being told we can be heroes, that heroes are just like us – they love, they feel, they hate – nothing wrong about hatred. This applies to the last scene too – people kissing as the sun sets over Liberty Harbor. It's beautiful [i]because we've seen it millions of times. It refers us to literally centuries of cinema tradition – just like getting heart-shaped candy on Valentine's day never does get old.

And it appears a lot of people object to war movies on principle, since they 'glorify violence'. Oh well. That's just foreigners, I guess.