[Long Cut]

RETURNED, SMARTLY!

Ping everyone you can. As alongtime film lover, this is especially painful to me. As well, one of the chief ways servicemen while away the hours of boredom we sometimes face is by watching movies. The question of why we haven't seen any Terror War movies has come up quite frequently.

[Poohbah]

I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy...

Several "War on Terror" movies have been pitched.

The problem is that the studios are deathly afraid of losing the overseas market. Often, a complete clinker of a film will do well in France (witness Jerry Lewis). It's a mechanism that encourages the production of crap (which explains the large amount of expensive crap that gets produced--Battlefield Earth actually made money when it went into overseas release).

Some of the big overseas distributors are virulently anti-American. A movie that celebrates America gets marked "triumphalist" and gets blacklisted outside of America. If it does badly here, all of that money is lost.

We need a concerted boycott effort against Hollyweird. The US market is huge. They need to understand that losing the US market is a real risk--and that it will cost them a lot of money.

This is remarkably easy for me--I can't stand the crap that comes out these days--but we need a bigger boycott pool than myself and my family.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Long Cut said
"Ping everyone you can."
See post 26