"Buffalo Soldiers"...Hollywood military-bashing at its finest.

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[Long Cut]

Studio: Miramax
Director: Gregor Jordan
Writer(s): Eric Axel Weiss and Nora Maccoby
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Anna Paquin, Leon, Gabriel Mann, Elizabeth McGovern

Release Date: July 25th, 2003

Notes: Production began on November 6, 2000 in Berlin and other parts of Germany and wrapped in February 2001. Currently scheduled to be released sometime in the first quarter of 2003; originally scheduled to open on July 19, 2002. Based upon the novel of the same name by Robert O'Connor.

Plot Summary: Set just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, this is the story of a criminal drug culture among U.S. Army soldiers, focusing on Sgt. Ray Elwood, the clerk to the battalion commander, Colonel Berman. What Ray doesn't know is that there is an investigation working its way in his direction, even as he is falling in love with the daughter, Robyn, of the soldier, Sgt. Lee, of the man who's tipping the investigation off about Ray. (Upcoming Movies) - Andrew Molinaro

Updates:

4.23.03 According to the Los Angeles Times, Miramax has pushed this film's release back again, this time to space the film from the recent controversies about patriotism that are hounding people like Janeane Garofalo, the Dixie Chicks and Susan Sarandon. (Yahoo! Movies) - Andrew

[dansangel]

Precisely the reason .45MAN and I have boycotted Hollywierd for the past almost three years. 99% of what comes out of there is no better than what gets flushed down my toilet.

We have also seen first-hand how Disney has hurt FL and have boycotted them as well. We used to live about an hour from Orlando but refused to support Disney in any way.

Carl Hiaasen's "Team Rodent" is required reading for all Disney-haters.

PS - Great to *see* you Long Cut - it has been absolutely forever!

[Soaring Feather]

This outrageous film will be shelved for a season, then when the "people have short memories" theroy kicks in, it will be released.

It is a outrage!!!

[Long Cut]

I agree with you COMPLETELY about the Mouse House and its effect here in Florida.

I read Team Rodent and it was only confirmation of things I already believed.

I live fairly close to a LOT of very historic, and quite beautiful, Florida attractions. Sadly, they suffer because of the plastic puffery of the Mouse and his clones and hangers-on. I watched my beloved Marineland go bankrupt and decay before my eyes because no one stopped there any more. It's open again, but is hanging on by a thread.

[Long Cut]

Nope, Feather, it's getting released on July 25th. They pushed it back until after the battle for Iraq...it was already made before that.

You apparently think that America's attention span is longer than the producers of this crap do. i hope YOU're right and not them.

[dansangel]

Sadly, they suffer because of the plastic puffery of the Mouse and his clones and hangers-on.

That is *so* true! The masses are driven to the rodent and his icons en masse. It's like a cult - too much so.

Have you ever seen the Disney property Celebration City up close and personal? We went to an art show there 5 years ago never realizing what we were about to experience. It is absolutely, downright *scary.* I kept muttering to myself about how I felt that I had just wandered onto the set of the "Stepford Wives."

Each house had a white picket fence around it. Every blade of grass was perfect. There were no cars parked on the streets, nor were there any driveways visible from the street. Each house had an alley running behind it to "hide" vehicles - I mean, after all, it's hard to control the make, model and color of each car in the neighborhood.

I didn't see one child out playing in any of the yards.

I was physically ill by the time we left, vowing *never* to return.

PS...I *do* however want to return to FL. Been trying hard to find work for the past 4 months, but it has been tough.

[Soaring Feather]

Some of us will never forget!

[radu]

If this outrages you, GO TO THIS THREAD. Hit the links there to the Drudge Report summary of this movie.
Prepare to have your blood boil...

It did!!!! Oh boy, did it!!!

[Long Cut]

GREAT NEWS! The movie's a bomberoo!

Box Office Mojo has the wonderful news!

To summarize, it was a $15 million production, and to date it has made only fifty grand!

Thanks to ALL those who spread the word, and kept the faith!

[SAMWolf]

To summarize, it was a $15 million production, and to date it has made only fifty grand!

Great! Thanks for the update.

[Long Cut]

PING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good news here...the cash registers are NOT ringing for this flick.

[snippy_about_it]

The poster tells it all, they should be ashamed...but then they'd have to have morals for that.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"To summarize, it was a $15 million production, and to date it has made only fifty grand!"

WOO HOO!
I have not seen one thing about this movie on TV!

[dansangel]

To summarize, it was a $15 million production, and to date it has made only fifty grand!

Thank you for sharing that excellent news.

Next, I hope to hear that Disney, et al goes belly-up.

[Long Cut]

They really have fallen, haven't they? They actually USED to make good films. I have a Special Edition DVD of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea which I treasure, as it's such an outstanding film.

It'd NEVER be made by the modern, Eisner'd Team Rat.

[Radix]

The liberal media, and the Marxists in Hollywood are in trouble, but they will be the last ones to acknowledge it publicly.

[Kathy in Alaska]

To summarize, it was a $15 million production, and to date it has made only fifty grand!

Wonderful news, Long Cut, wonderful news. Losing their shirts over this piece of garbage is just reward.

[radu]

Good news here...the cash registers are NOT ringing for this flick.

HEH...HEH...HEH!! This just makes my day! No one I know had any desire to see it, that's for sure. Looks like no one else did either. I love it! WOOOHOOOOO!!

[XtreMarine]

With respect to the real Buffalo Soldiers especially those who served in the 9th and 10th Cavs and men such as the Tuskegee Airmen, I am not crazy about this movie. Mainly the title.