Posted on 09/14/2007 9:21:31 PM PDT by World_Events
Review: IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon is a throwback to the 1970s when every young American veteran was a ticking time bomb just waiting to explode into violence. It is an anti-American, anti-military drama about an investigation into the murder and dismemberment of an American soldier who has returned from Iraq and who was waiting to go back there....
The title for this movie comes from the story of the battle between David and Goliath in the Bible, which Hank tells to Det. Sanders’ own son. You might think that the moral of this story is that Americans should be brave and courageous when fighting evil terrorists and murderers in Iraq. The moral here, however, seems to be that Americans should not let the “Military Industrial Complex” send them off to any wars, even righteous ones.
IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH is just one of many anti-patriotic movies and documentaries against the Iraq War and the War on Terror being promoted these days. Don’t expect Hollywood to release any movies soon showing heroic American soldiers fighting evil terrorists in Iraq, or even Afghanistan. Apparently, it is too busy shilling for Osama Bin Laden, and the radical left extremist liars who hate the American flag and what it symbolizes. As even Hillary Clinton’s husband, Bill, once admitted about himself, these people “loathe the military.”
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What utter baloney.
What do you expect from the Scientologist director of the awful, Oscar-winning CRASH?
I met Tommy Lee years ago and thought he was a good guy, but I was wrong big time.
with a cast like that, how could they go anywhere but wrong? as far as Tommy Lee Jones is concerned...yeah, I used to think he was a good guy too.. till I found out his proud leftward leanings...college roommate and good friend to Al global warming Gore.
I boycott movies that have people like Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn etc in them. I won’t pay to go to the movies so they can get richer. I don’t even like going to the movies anymore. I hate the malls where the movies are & I miss the old theaters.
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TLJ is a huge disappointment. I understand that he has a gigantic chip on his shoulder and is spoiling for a fight (something along the lines of “I dare anyone to tell me to my face that I’m not patriotic!”).
I enjoyed his work in the past, but it won’t hurt my feelings a bit to never go see another movie that he is associated with.
James Brolin is a simpleton. Who would marry Babs even with all her $$$? EWWWW! They certainly deserve each other...
He also starred in a movie about Vietnam and how the Viet Cong were the good but misunderstood guys and how we were the violent, bad guys. I can’t remember the name of it....awful though.
“He also starred in a movie about Vietnam and how the Viet Cong were the good but misunderstood guys and how we were the violent, bad guys. I can’t remember the name of it....awful though.”
Was it Oliver Stone’s “Heaven and Earth” which takes place in Vietnam or “Rules of Engagement” with Samuel Jackson in which Vietnam was only shown in the begining.
Heaven and Earth. That was it.
Haggis got his start a long time ago writing the pilot of the Chuck Norris series ‘Walker Texas Ranger’!
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