Anti-War Hollywood Is Casualty Of War
You smell that? I do. Stinks like a Brian De Palma Iraq War bomb.
You hear that? What you hear is a rumbling…
…stay tuned Dollard readers. The shit is about to hit the fan…~Bash
The wave of recent films set against the backdrop of war in Iraq and post-9/11 security has failed to win over film-goers keen to escape grim news headlines when they go to the movies, analysts say.
In a break with past convention, when films based on real conflicts were made only years after the last shots were fired, several politically-charged films have gone on release while America remains embroiled in Iraq.
Almost without exception, however, the crop of movies have struggled to turn a profit at the box-office and in many cases have received a mauling from unimpressed critics as well.
“Rendition,” a drama starring Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal about the CIA’s policy of outsourcing interrogation of terror suspects, has taken just under 10 million dollars at the box office, a disastrous return.
Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis’s latest film “In the Valley of Elah,” about a father investigating the death of his son in Iraq, earned favorable reviews but less than seven million dollars following its release in September.
Even the action-packed “The Kingdom,” starring Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner, fell well below its 70 million budget with around 47 million dollars in ticket sales.
The poor returns do not augur well for more war films due for release in North America later this month, notably the Robert Redford-directed drama “Lions for Lambs” and Brian De Palma’s hard-hitting “Redacted,” based on the real-life rape and murder of an Iraqi schoolgirl by US soldiers.
(AFP)
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I had a feeling this would happen(or at least hoped it would). see this is the score right here, the American people are not against our military or the Greater war on terror as a whole. And do not like when people bad mouth our country. Glad to see that this sentiment still exists on such a large scale. Most people just want to know we’re winning
November 9th, 2007 at 2:40 pmYou know the problem, right wingers like war movies. No one will see a left wing war flick. Left wingers don’t want to see a movie with guns in it. Right wingers don’t want to see a movie with left wingers in it. No one watches.
November 9th, 2007 at 2:42 pmIf someone wants to do a war flick, they ought to pick a subject like the rescue of Jessica Lynch…as a subject. Or how about the heroic defense of 100 men by SFC Paul Smith?
America digs gallantry. The Great Raid got good reviews and was a pretty good flick. Where I live, theatre goers received the movie very well.
If you ask me, someone needs to “redact” DePalma and his vapid leftist loser Mark Cuban
November 9th, 2007 at 2:49 pmD_Mac, you nailed it.
Think about some of the great war movies of the past:
The Dirty Dozen
Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
Band of Brothers
Patton
The Longest Day
The Great Escape
The Guns of Navarone
Force 10 From Navarone
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
Enemy at the Gates
Even consider some of the movies about wars, though not actual wars, like the Star Wars movies, or Lord of the Rings.
They all held to the themes of good vs evil, and that people are capable of heroic deeds. Is that what we see in the current load of excrement produced in Hollywood these days?
Hardly.
I have always enjoyed movies, but there are so few decent, well-made movies these days. And Hollywood wonders why video game sales make more money than the garbage they put out.
November 10th, 2007 at 11:50 amI love it when America votes with its wallet.
November 10th, 2007 at 3:44 pm