"Lions for Lambs" is the latest of the Hollywood attempts to propagandize the Iraq war. No one went to see the movie, just like the others. Why not?
If you read the pundits, the word on the street is that America is just avoiding Iraq war movies in general. We just want to be distracted from that, they say.
I say they're wrong. We just don't want to see movies that are blatant left-wing political screeds where America is the bad guy.
HOLLYWOOD, IF YOU WANT PEOPLE TO SEE A MOVIE ABOUT IRAQ, LISTEN UP:
Americans know that the bad guys are the Muslim wacko's who want to kill us all. Whether we favor the move into Iraq or not, we know the bad guys are not the Americans. The majority of us, that is. We know that the bad guys are the millions of fanatics who think Jihad against the Americans is a good idea.
So, make a movie that portrays the terrorists as bad guys, and Americans who try to kill them as good guys, and people will go see your movies. Give them a happy ending, and you'll get even more people to go see it.
We are tired of hearing that our president and our military are the problem. We want personal responsibility. We have Bin Laden and his cronies on internet videos every week telling us that they want to kill us all. We have little nut jobs like the one in Iran telling the world he wants to create chaos, kill all the Jews, and bring in the great Imam to save the world, and his nation is filled with men who answer him with "Death to America!" And Robert Redford offers us one more movie where Bush is the bad guy. Okay, we've heard that old song before. We're tired of it. Give us a movie we can rally behind. One based on a more reasonable moral perspective. One that says that the guys trying to kill us all are the bad guys.
Hollywood really is out of touch with the majority. There's just not enough moveon.org people who see movies I guess.
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Also, Mark Cuban owner of the Dallas Mavs, funded the movie "Redacted". t is about US GI's rapeing a 14 year Iraqi girl. It is being shown all over the Arab world. Mavs suck and the Spurs rock. Thier Vietnam vet-GOP big wig. And Steve Nash is still a none winner.
Mark Cuban might even be a war criminal. He is giving film dramatizations of American soldiers committing crimes against innocent muslim families. Where will that film end up? Al Jazeera, and all over the arab street. What will the reaction be? More anger against our soldiers.
They call themselves peaceniks, but people like Cuban don't care who dies if they get their way.
.....and that is why we root for the SPURS and not the mavs
Yes! That's why The Kingdom was a nice break! (even if I couldn't get through it) It was a fresh perspective on the war. It makes the militant Muslims out to be monsters, and glorifies American soldiers. But it also sends the message that not all Muslims are the bad guys, only the violent ones. The movie has Americans, "good Muslims", and "bad Muslims".
You should take a dramamine and see it :-)
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