The Weather Underground
by Sam Green (II), Bill Siegel
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Actor: n/aDirector: Bill Siegel, Sam Green (II)
Brand: New Video
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-08
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: NEW VIDEO
DVD Reviews of The Weather Underground
DVD Review: The Weather Underground
Summary: 1 Stars
I saw the whole movie in parts online(utube) because I refuse to pay to watch it,as a self-proclaimed reactionary and rightwinger I could care less about a bunch of spoiled white kids thinking they can cause any change either by passing out flowers or in the case of the pathetic sds/weathermen or WU by intimidation. on the contrary whenever you get violent means from any group no matter the political stance you won't get a good response,the documentary is a look back at group that isn't important to history and is a stain on the anti-war movement and reinforces the belief that Liberal Fascism has existed and still exists. Professor Ayers and Dohrn should be in Jail, I wish I could have been in Law Enforcement myself to lock up the brats.Now no matter if your a washed up professor or lib,or progressive ,or Conservative or apolitical it's important you know the history of such scoundrels.DVD Review: Good but as a DVD the effect was spoilt by a constant annoying soundtrack
Summary: 3 Stars
The content of this programme about the 1970s radical group was enlightening and edifying as it got to the nitty gritty of the actual participants. It does give a good 'feel' for the period and the antagonisms and emotions stirred up by the Vietnam War and the social / racial problems of the period . However, for me the inclusion of a monotonic, almost 'white', noise in the background started to drive me to distraction. I was very annoyed by this as I was beginning to enjoy the program. No idea why the noise was there but whoever put it in should re-examine their style. So as a DVD I would give it zero stars but the content I would give five. I would also give it five stars as a mental torture device - you only need listen to the soundtrack! Perhaps I am too sensitive to that sort of noise - I would like somebody else's feelings about it.DVD Review: Are we reviewing the movie, or the Weather Underground itself?
Summary: 3 Stars
I encourage everyone to read the fine review by "Stoic", dated July 29, 2009. Please see also the correction I give in my comment on that review.
I was going to rate this movie higher until I read Stoic's review. The film makers really should have mentioned, for example, the stomach-turning things that the WU said about the Manson murders. However, the film does present very harsh, lengthy criticisms of the WU. At least some of the former WU members are shown to accept those criticisms, several of which come from leaders of the SDS and Black Panthers.
Bottom line: The accusation that this movie glorifies the WU is grossly exaggerated, if not simply false. Many reviewers are critiquing the WU itself, rather than the movie.
DVD Review: Weather Underground
Summary: 5 Stars
The Weather Underground Organization is an extremely interesting domestic backlash from the Vietnam War. Maybe misguided individuals fighting for a just cause. A quite unorthodox method of spreading their ideology. The important thing is that everybody should know not only what the Weather Underground has done, but what they did it for.DVD Review: I Was Going To Rate This Higher....
Summary: 3 Stars
Having been born in the late seventies, I missed two whole decades of influential history. This history is too recent to have been covered in my history classes and too far back for me to have had any personal experience. To fill the hole, I've been watching films.
I had not heard of 'The Weathermen' before I came across this film. (I had heard of Bill Ayers, of course, but knew very little about him). I knew that groups like this existed into the seventies from references made to them in other movies ie, the SLA (being the most often referenced and parodied).
For me this film was quite informative. Being a Chicago native, I learned about a number of big things that happened right here in my own back yard. However, I couldn't shake the sense that something was missing. The film presented this group as sort of soft core. A lot a harsh talk, but only "non-violent" action (non-violent in that they only hurt property, never people). ::I don't think that is what Dr. King had in mind.:: Anyway, for a group that never hurt anyone, they sure had a lot of enemies. The original SDS founder seems super-fumed & hyper-concerned about their association with his group. There is video of a member of the Black Panthers saying effectively - 'These stupid, priveliged, kids are WAY out of control. We don't want anything to do with them.' - Wow!
In the movie they do come off as a group of idealistic, over-priveliged white-kids, playing with bombs, but it is repeated ad-nauseum that they didn't hurt people. It sounded untrue based on the things others in the film had to say about them and I have since found some pretty disturbing information about this group, most especially the Bernadette Dohrn comments about the Manson murders.
This movie gains three stars for pointing me off into a direction of interesting research, but loses two for obvious bias.
Description of The Weather Underground
This film tells the unbelievable story of the weathermen the group of 70s radicals who fueled by outrage over the vietnam war & racism in america went underground throughout much of the decade to wage a low-level war against the government. It includes modern day interviews with key members & founders. Studio: New Video Group Release Date: 05/25/2004 Run time: 92 minutes Rating: NrThe key players in the radical movement known as the Weather Underground are skillfully brought to life in this Oscar-nominated documentary. The Weathermen were born of sixties protest, but took their scheme to overthrow the U.S. government to especially violent extremes. Never a well-populated movement, the Underground petered out as its leaders aged during the seventies; by decade's end, weary of hiding, most of them had turned themselves over to the authorities. That journey, by which a fire-breathing revolutionary such as Bernadine Dohrn became a (still fiery) gray-haired wife and mother, is an intriguing one. This film, rich in period footage (and some unnecessary sensationalism) captures the era somewhat broadly. But the present-day interviews with the participants, contrasted with their radical selves, provides an exceptionally detailed look inside the organization itself. It's not a nostalgic look back, and the overall mood is sobering rather than celebratory. Lili Taylor provides the narration. --Robert Horton
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