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  • Offline Pete

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on: April 27, 2010, 22:07:24 PM
M.I.As video that got pulled from youtube.
http://www.miauk.com/

NSFW - it has ginger people in it. getting blown up and stuff.
I know sh*ts bad right now with all that starving bullsh*t and the dust storms and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings.

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Reply #1 on: April 27, 2010, 23:02:17 PM
Gratuitous violence and not very good music either.

TBH I dont blame them for removing it, the things naff.

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Reply #2 on: April 27, 2010, 23:19:30 PM
More thought-provoking and creative vids like this please.

No more lame, tame, safe sell to the masses crap.

Music very passable too.

 :rock:  :cheers:

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Reply #3 on: April 27, 2010, 23:20:15 PM
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Gratuitous violence

Im assuming you dont watch movies at all then?

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Reply #4 on: April 27, 2010, 23:26:53 PM
Seems overly gratuitous for no real reason. Music was meh. Whole thing might have been better if Ron Weasley was in it...

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Reply #5 on: April 28, 2010, 08:40:42 AM
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More thought-provoking and creative vids like this please.

No more lame, tame, safe sell to the masses crap.

Music very passable too.

 :rock:  :cheers:


Gets the thumbs up from me.

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Reply #6 on: April 28, 2010, 13:23:13 PM
Im actually completely shocked that is a music video, im not surprised it was pulled from Youtube.

I can see it now TOTP at 7 and that starting the show off :P

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/28/mia-born-free
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Reply #7 on: April 28, 2010, 16:29:10 PM
I dont know if its because of the music Im into or have listened to in the past but I dont understand the controversy; that video is actually quite tame in my opinion.

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Reply #8 on: April 28, 2010, 16:51:36 PM
The music isnt a problem, the visuals are? In terms of tameness, there arent many films which would show a child being shot in the head so vividly. If it came to it, most would pan or cut away and have the gunshot audible.

I guess its a good thing as maybe the realism going on might be enough to show some potentially desensitised people its not all that pleasant?

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Reply #9 on: April 28, 2010, 16:53:52 PM
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The music isnt a problem, the visuals are? In terms of tameness, there arent many films which would show a child being shot in the head so vividly. If it came to it, most would pan or cut away and have the gunshot audible.

I guess its a good thing as maybe the realism going on might be enough to show some potentially desensitised people its not all that pleasant?


Its obviously graphic, but I cant say I found it excessively disturbing or anything.

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Reply #10 on: April 28, 2010, 20:04:05 PM
Same here, I found the whole thing a little underwhelming in all honesty.

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Reply #11 on: April 29, 2010, 15:26:12 PM
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Gratuitous violence

Im assuming you dont watch movies at all then?


I dont mind violence if there is a reason for it, proof that someones a homicidal nutter in a detective film would count. This basically says ginger haired people are persecuted by government. I know some people are individually biased and even attack ginger haired people, but I doubt if its endemic in the government here, Europe, the US or anywhere else.

Whats the point in chasing a group of people through a minefield when you can just shoot them all in the head? The graphic explosion of one of them was ridiculously faked rather than shocking.

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Reply #12 on: April 29, 2010, 15:49:27 PM
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I dont mind violence if there is a reason for it, proof that someones a homicidal nutter in a detective film would count. This basically says ginger haired people are persecuted by government. I know some people are individually biased and even attack ginger haired people, but I doubt if its endemic in the government here, Europe, the US or anywhere else.


I cant figure out if youre having a bit of a dense moment or if youre just trying to be facetious.

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