Film Review by Uri Dowbenko

'The Skulls': Insider Secrets of the New World Orderlies

What if you were tapped -- invited to join the world's most powerful secret society -- the Order of Skull and Bones -- a membership so exclusive that it virtually guarantees success in the material world?

What if you could join the ranks of global movers and shakers like George Herbert Walker Bush (Director of CIA, US Ambassador to the UN, and President of the United States), George W. Bush (party animal and cokehead screw-up, Governor of Texas and future President of the United States), and other members of the Power Elite of industry, education, banking and media?

Would you do it? And what would be the consequences?

>From Ru -- Pull up the site and read the rest --- Isn't it interesting that Hollywood made this movie about Skull and Bones just when George W. Bush -- a member of Skull and Bones is running for President???

I wonder if Hollywood will make a movie about Communism, how Armand Hammer got rich off of communism, and how Armand Hammer paid for Al Gore's education?

Read Uri's review of this film -- even though I think it is clearly a Hollywood gimmick to turn the younger voters away from G.W. Bush -- I am going to go see it. R.

http://www.steamshovelpress.com/altmedia.html

Written by John Pogue (US Marshalls) and directed by Rob Cohen (Dragonheart, Daylight), "The Skulls" is an entertaining albeit cursory look at the hidden world of secret societies.

Luke McNamara (Joshua Jackson, "Dawson's Creek") is a working class guy, who happens to be the varsity crew team captain at an Ivy League school, obviously Yale University.

His best friends are Will (Hill Harper), a student journalist, and the rich and blonde Chloe (Leslie Bibb).

Invited to join a super-secret society called the Skulls, Luke's priorities and friendships start to change.

His soul-mate -- he's bonded to a Skulls' chum by revealing his most intimate secrets -- is Caleb Mandrake (Paul Walker), a rich kid with a strong track record for getting into trouble and getting bailed out by his father, Litten (Craig T. Nelson). It's really hard not to think of Bush Jr. and Bush Sr.

-- Flash (flash@flash.hq), April 07, 2000

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Anybody seen this yet? If so, thoughts please...

-- Flash (flash@flash.hq), April 07, 2000.

I know the year is still early, but "The Skulls" will no doubt compete as one of the worst films of the year. Trite, sophomoric and badly acted, this flotsam is so ill-conceived, one wonders how it ever got made...

Why I paid to see it remains a mystery even to me...

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), April 07, 2000.

Y2K Pro: So sorry about that. Was hoping it might cast some illumination upon the dark side of shrubya.

-- Very (Grateful@still.here), April 07, 2000.

Very -

I hope you don't often make use of Hollyweird "product" in your evaluation of real world events. Many of the folks in the movie biz are so far out of touch with the day-to-day lives of most Americans, they need translators. The vast majority of movie-making is not about truth; it's about entertainment and box office results. That's why I enjoyed the "Rules and Clues" presented after The Sixth Sense. Gave some excellent insights into the movie-making process itself.

FYI, for a more current and accurate view of The Skull and Bones Society, check the link in this thread: A Skeleton of Itself

Like most of modern university life, The Skull and Bones has moved to a far more left-of-center orientation than was in place a generation ago.

-- DeeEmBee (macbeth1@pacbell.net), April 07, 2000.