this is not the hamster you're looking for (flightstothesea) wrote in

otf_wank,
@ 2007-06-26 12:47:00

because i had to post avclub wank sooner or later...
The Onion AV Club now allows comments on most of its articles, interviews, and reviews. You can see where this is going already.

Today's tasty bit of wank is about Tom Cruise and Scientology. Apparently, the German Army won't let Cruise's new movie film on a base there because he's a Scientologist. The German government classifies Scientology as a cult and um... well, I'm not sure how that figures into the movie, but the point is, there is lots of wank in the comments. Unfortunately, you can't link to individual comments, so you'll have to warm up your scroll finger.

Is Scientology a cult?

Are the Germans being ~~just like the Nazis~~ intolerant?

Wait, Beck is a Scientologist?

Posted here because it didn't seem fandom-y enough for Fandom Wank.

Really late edit: Germany clarifies its position on Cruise filming.

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queencallipygos
2007-06-27 04:53 pm UTC (link)

I know I'd hope that the US Department of Defense wouldn't be that helpful in a film on say... George Washington that was funded by oh.. Hugo Chavez?

That's a fair point, but I also know that I'd be VERY curious to see it; one of the most fascinating books I read within the past few years was "History Lessons," and was a retelling of the history of the United States told solely through excerpts from the high school textbooks used in other countries; so it was the Norwegian textbook's take on the Vikings, the British take on the Revolutionary War, the Mexican textbook's take on the Battle of Alamo, etc. Absolutely fascinating; and the North Korean take on the Korean War was a complete mindfuck.

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