Video: Another Piece Of Shit Anti-Troop Movie Coming Out
These pukes just don’t get it. America does NOT believe the way the lefty liberal scumbags in the Hollywood “Director’s Chairs” do.
Stand by to stand by…I hear Young Americans is on the way.
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I don’t know, I think stop loss is a horrible thing. These soldiers are heroes…and this that’s how the country repays them?
January 14th, 2008 at 11:45 amHollywood doesn’t exactaly have an immaculate track record in my book, but I’ll wait until I see this one to pass final judgment.
I’m not an expert in military law, but I’m pretty sure that there’s fine print in your contract that says they can do that.
Jus’ saying’.
These guys need to quit bitchin’.
January 14th, 2008 at 11:48 amJust goes to show you how far removed from reality Hollywood is. They have always been that way. Anyone who places one ounce of truth into what Hollywood says or puts out, needs serious psychological help.
January 14th, 2008 at 11:49 amMore mental midgetry from the land of Oz. It will go down in flames like the last leftist weanie production that Cuban and his butt-buddy put out.
C’mon Young Americans!!!!
January 14th, 2008 at 11:49 amYour first enlistment is for a total of 8 years. YOU get to decide how to do it. You can opt for 4 years of active duty, then 4 years of IRR (inactive ready reserves), or 6 active 2 IRR, or 2 active 6 IRR etc.. However, if you are on IRR you CAN be called back to duty. I’ve had several soldiers that were stop lossed and NEVER once did it occur on the day they were getting out.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:12 pmAh, I see, they are playing the AWOL card, every soldier who came/comes back from Iraq is mentally unstable and REALLY wants to go AWOL because Iraq is sooooo fucked up just like the MSM says. Sorry, had to pause there for a few seconds and catch my breath from laughing.
And I just LOVE the name “stop loss” these fools don’t understand the concept of it, just that it sounded cool for a title.
Just one more piece of liberal propaganda that will bomb in the box office. bwahahahahaha
So anyone know when Rambo come out and who is he killing this time? Strange the producers use the same song in the into of their ads.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:19 pm2 Things: I served with Marines who were stopped loss during the invasion of Iraq. They all did their job even if they bitched a bit much.
2: The Marine Corps has not stop - lossed anyone since april 2003. I cant speak for the Army but, the term stop - loss means you cant get off of active duty. When someone is in the IRR (the time of the eight years contract all first time military personnel sign, minus their active or select reserve status) and ordered to active duty, they are “recalled” not stop-lossed.
@Gaige Mosher, I thought the same thing when I saw this preview in the movie theater. Quit yer bitchin.
Unfortunately though, this one will not fail horribly like redacted did because it appears to be really well produced and appeals to the 18 - 35 market. Lions For Lambs is another such well produced anti-troop movie that did not do well, but everyone hates Tom Cruise these days and it just did not look that exciting.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:27 pmDamn it…It’s all about them finding that angle to hit an emotional core…Enter “Self Pity - The Righteous Loser”
January 14th, 2008 at 12:28 pmBeing someone who was stop-lossed 2 mos. before I was set to go on terminal leave — I call BULLSHIT!
I knew a year ahead of time that I was going to get stop lossed for Iraq. Anyone with half a brain knew what was going on and what was coming. A staff-sergeant not know he is in a low density MOS with a high attrition/retirement rate? — I call BULLSHIT!
I was a 13F Combat Observation Lasing Team Platoon Sergeant and Team Chief for the 3rd ACR — Stop Loss? DUHHH!
Switch out your tampon, give the wife a kiss and do your job!
January 14th, 2008 at 12:43 pmWhile this looks better than the other anti war movies, I’ll still try to avoid it if I can. After reading stories of soliders and marines reenlisting after being hurt, I don’t even think this is that accurate. I want a movie about Lone Survivor NOW
January 14th, 2008 at 12:44 pmSix and a half years after 9/11 and NOT ONE, pro-American, anti-jihadi film has been made.
Not one. Unless I missed it.
Jack Bauer is the closest thing and that too nuances it so much that “Who’s the real terrorist” and “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” crap gets injected into it.
If “Stop Loss” were an adjunct to a tide of pro-American films -which there should be- it wouldn’t irk. It wouldn’t make it into a good film (And it looks pretty predicatably boring.) but it wouldn’t annoy so much.
However, the likes of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon -rich, white metrosexuals who just ADORE Hillary Clinton and a good facial- rule Hollywood.
I was forced to catch the end of Bourne Ultimatim recently at a Christmas party I attended. Whaaaa! Jason Bourne was a VICTIM!!! WAAAAA!!!!
Damon gets to play it both ways. His Bourne is both super-killer elite and psycho-babble bitch. I’M A VICTIM TOO!!!!! WHAAA!!!!
Bourne made money, because of the car chases. They were excellent. No denying.
The other films are tanking because most people don’t buy it.
The funny thing is that if they ever made a KICK ASS film about Americans doing great things in the world…it would KICK ASS at the box office.
Go Young Americans.
But we also need a great Hollywood Sized Blockbuster that shows the transcendent level of heroism that our guys and gals are demonstrating right now in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Because of their dainty political sensibilities, they would never make that film.
But the final irony is that it would make beaucoup bucks.
Clowns, all, Hollywood.
January 14th, 2008 at 12:44 pmApparently the retarded minority of Americans who learned nothing from the shame of how soldiers were treated during Vietnam all migrated to Hollywood.
With the exception of Pat, Bruce Willis, Stallone and a few others, you could nuke Hollywood and I wouldn’t miss it for shit.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:10 pmOne of my Marines, while on his second tour in Iraq (was in on the initial invasion) … his Humvee hit a roadside IED. The driver lost an arm … and my Marine nearly lost one foot, part of the other, and possibly his arm … but went on the mend after several surgeries … He fought tooth and nail to STAY in the Marines because they wanted to discharge him. He passed his PT and went back over for a third tour in Iraq (returned stateside last October).
So, yeah, soldiers/Marines/troops bitch and moan … Who doesn’t on their job(s)?? And they know when they sign on for service that their lives ain’t their own for the duration, AND that what they do could cost them their lives. So, can Hollywood please stop depicting these men and women as fools and dupes? Show them bitching and moaning … hell, even show them bad-mouthing the Administration … I don’t care. But don’t write them as dumb fucks … They ARE obviously smarter and brighter than Hollywood.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:27 pmJust to add one thing to drillanwrs thought. Just because we were not actively engaged in a shooting war when I served 91-95, that does not mean that there were not Marines lost to training accidents. My little brother who was a Marine with 1/1 B Co. Wpns Plt. was in a helicopter crash off of the coast of Kenya in 92. In that crash there were four or five Marines lost, not including the Helo’s crew.
Bash I don’t know if you still have the DoD casualty figures that showed us all that while Slick Willy was presiding over the peace, that Reagan’s policies brought us, we lost more Service Members than we have while fighting a two front war on terrorism.
January 14th, 2008 at 2:21 pm@Howie -
Did you mean these stats?
http://doubletapblog.com/2007/11/despite-the-liberal-squawking-military-deaths-are-no-more-than-clinton-and-carter-presidencies.html
January 14th, 2008 at 2:46 pmOkay, I have never served in the military or any government position at all. Thus I am from the outside looking in on the whole issue.
In respect to other wars, did the troops have any choice at all as to discharge? Let’s go back to the Civil War, and all in between then and now. I don’t think that my father had any choice during WW2, until many months after Japan surrendered. He tells the story of how his vessel was at the Kamchatka Pennisula decommissioning a weather base when he was first offered a discharge now or wait until his ship reached the U.S. While he did not have a problem serving, other than breaking a few rules to keep his engine room crew better fed than the rest of the ship’s crew, he caught a freighter back stateside and left all but barest necessities onboard.
He had originally enlisted in late 1938 and had been onboard ships that sunk several German U-Boats long before we “officially” entered the war. Included was being part of the convoy where FDR and Churchill met of the Canadian Coast.
January 14th, 2008 at 2:55 pmI hope Hollywood is really sucking financially like the stories say . . . I can’t stand any of them . . .
All you heroes who posted on this string - THANK GOD FOR YOU - THANK GOD FOR ALL OUR TROOPS.
Hollywood is disgusting.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:19 pmWhat a bunch of horseshit. I almost choked when I heard the punchline, that he was being “stop-lossed.” As has already been explained, being on IRR and having the gov. arbitrarily “force” you to fight are two entirely different things.
And it’s not even “small print” on the contract, it’s right fucking there. 8 years. Yea, 4 and out and on to college…in happy ignorant peacetime…quite obviously everybody who signed that paper understood a war meant a different future.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:23 pm@Kermit
Okay, I have never served in the military or any government position at all. Thus I am from the outside looking in on the whole issue.
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In the same boat with ya.
However, I do know that after Germany had been defeated/surendured in WWII, MANY of our guys were slated to head to the PTO from the ETO … and it was only through “points” they had individually acquired and accumulated through wounding(s), accommodations, and such that they could be discharged and sent home.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:25 pmWhat’s so fucking galling and frustrating about this (and other similar shit) is that the people making it simply twist the concept and use it for their own purposes, and grab a couple whiny ass soldiers or marines who don’t speak for the huge majority. Fucking hell. Ryan Phillippe. Ain’t gonna some shit about a deserter. That’s what it comes down to.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:25 pm“Ain’t gonna ’see’ some…”
January 14th, 2008 at 3:26 pmI have a 24 year old son serving with the USMC in Iraq. The support he is getting from the American people just blesses my heart. He’s doing what he loves and was destined for. But all these fucking Hollywood pieces of shit movies never tell the story from our guys side. If the American people are supporting those guys over there so wonderfully, then why doesn’t Hollywood see a box office opportunity there to capitalize on that sentiment? That is if they were good capitalists. Nope. They think they have to preach shit to us and make us pay for it. But then, that’s how lefty socialists think anyway. Right?
January 14th, 2008 at 3:45 pm@Rudemeister
If the American people are supporting those guys over there so wonderfully, then why doesn’t Hollywood see a box office opportunity there to capitalize on that sentiment? That is if they were good capitalists. Nope. They think they have to preach shit to us and make us pay for it. But then, that’s how lefty socialists think anyway. Right?
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Actually we are NOT paying for it … All these lame-assed attempts by Hollywood to sell [their] war have failed big time at the b.o.
Also, keep in mind, they are making these kinds of movies for themselves. Suffering for their “art” and all … You know, so they can brag `what a sacrifice’ they made.
It’s just as you see with the MSM news … They are talking to hear themselves.
January 14th, 2008 at 3:59 pmdrillanwr “and my Marine nearly lost one foot, part of the other, and possibly his arm … but went on the mend after several surgeries … He fought tooth and nail to STAY in the Marines because they wanted to discharge him. He passed his PT and went back over for a third tour in Iraq (returned stateside last October).”
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Is it possible for me to join any part of the armed forces when i am missing my left hand (goes down to the wrist)? I just always assumed that I would be denied.
January 14th, 2008 at 9:18 pmStop loss is not a back door draft, and Big Sarge is right that it is very much a contractual issue. Why, do tell, would you serve the last year of the “active” portion of your contract if you cannot be deployed during that time? Stop loss is DOING YOUR DUTY to the very last minute and second of your agreed service time. I’m about to be deployed and will have to put off my ETS for over six months, eating into my IRR time, and am I complaining? FUCK NO! I just *WISH* I could stay home, but it is “off to war we will go, live or die, hell I don’t know!”
January 14th, 2008 at 10:47 pmI’ll post this again, it looks good from what the trailer shows. Click show trailer, takes a while to download.
BROTHERS AT WAR
http://www.brothersatwarmovie.com/
January 14th, 2008 at 11:38 pmFound this about BROTHERS AT WAR
Last night was an industry event, not a political one, with the goal of finding Brothers At War domestic distribution. After the standing ovation it received, there’s hope, but I’m not holding my breath. This is a not a look at the United States military anti-war Hollywood will be eager to rally around. Though it’s a warts-and-all documentary, when it’s over you can’t help but admire these professional, fiercely intelligent warriors who believe in their mission.
What makes the film so effective is its honesty. Unlike these anti-war documentaries and narratives where you feel manipulated by the narrow context of what the filmmaker is choosing to show you, Brothers at War feels fully fleshed out. There are plenty of horrific moments to bolster the anti-war argument and many hopeful moments to arm the other side, but what rises from all of this are those magnificent men and women who serve their country by leaving their loved ones behind to run towards danger.
The anti-troop propagandist would choose only to show our guys cussing, annoyed with slow-moving Iraqi soldiers, and strutting their machismo. The pro-troop propagandist would choose only to show the brave, heroic, and vulnerable moments. Rademacher shows it all, and when the smoke clears heroes emerge.
January 14th, 2008 at 11:51 pm