Posted on 12/05/2010 2:03:36 PM PST by Starman417
During Thanksgiving weekend I went to see the movie REDS with Bruce Willis. Awesome movie and I highly recommend it. But during the trailers they showed the movie FAIR GAME with Sean Penn, supposedly based on the Plame/Wilson affair. I groaned when I saw it.
It appears my groan was warranted. Here is the WaPo: (h/t Dan Riehl)
In fact, "Fair Game," based on books by Mr. Wilson and his wife, is full of distortions - not to mention outright inventions. To start with the most sensational: The movie portrays Ms. Plame as having cultivated a group of Iraqi scientists and arranged for them to leave the country, and it suggests that once her cover was blown, the operation was aborted and the scientists were abandoned. This is simply false. In reality, as The Post's Walter Pincus and Richard Leiby reported, Ms. Plame did not work directly on the program, and it was not shut down because of her identification.The movie portrays Mr. Wilson as a whistle-blower who debunked a Bush administration claim that Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from the African country of Niger. In fact, an investigation by the Senate intelligence committee found that Mr. Wilson's reporting did not affect the intelligence community's view on the matter, and an official British investigation found that President George W. Bush's statement in a State of the Union address that Britain believed that Iraq had sought uranium in Niger was well-founded.
"Fair Game" also resells the couple's story that Ms. Plame's exposure was the result of a White House conspiracy. A lengthy and wasteful investigation by a special prosecutor found no such conspiracy - but it did confirm that the prime source of a newspaper column identifying Ms. Plame was a State Department official, not a White House political operative.
And as is usual with these liberal vanity pieces the numbers don't look so hot. It cost 22 million to make and since opening one month ago it has taken in 7.3 million domestically and another 5 million worldwide. Receipts continue to fall, down 32% this weekend. This movie will be lucky to get its money back.
Hollywood has a very skewed idea of what the public wants to see when it comes to movies like this. They've sunk mega money into anti-war, anti-Bush movies because they believe the movie going public MUST think like they do in their insulated left leaning world. Rendition, Redacted, In the Valley of Elah, Green Zone....all money losers.
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It was fun! I could actually see it again.
load them in the dishwasher and put it on “hot”. trust me on this.
Don’t think so. The humidity and water will destroy the labels.
washing machine then?
washing machine then?
You’re obviously bent on wanting me to destroy music history. I was thinking more along the lines of a power washer.
just watched ravens lose. was thinking more of a “wishing machine”
Ravens be one of my favorite teams.
The production company seems to be behind a large number of leftwing nutball and even Communist sympathizing movies.
His wife told him she was a secret agent on something like her third date. Makes you wonder how many previous boyfriends she’d also blabbed it to.
Didn’t they expand the nominations to something like 10 films in every category so more of the viewing audience would be interested because there was a chance they may have actually seen ONE of the movies?
If there are 10 nominees, you can bet on it that this will get nominated for at least one category. The company has an “Oscar” track record and enough industry players who support their propaganda efforts.
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