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Harrison Ford signs for Iraq war film
Guardian ^ | 12/16/04 | Guardian

Posted on 12/16/2004 7:56:38 AM PST by Pikamax

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To: onedoug

I'm waiting for my close-up Mr. DeMille.


41 posted on 12/16/2004 9:17:10 AM PST by windcliff
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To: windcliff

The back of it.


42 posted on 12/16/2004 10:11:03 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Paulus Invictus

Harrison Ford slams Bush policy, guns In Spain interview:

"I'm very disturbed about the direction American foreign policy is going," said Ford, according to the Australian Associated Press.

"I think something needs to be done to help alleviate the conditions which have created a disenfranchised and angry faction in the Middle East," said the 62-year-old Ford, the Australian news wire reported.

"I don't think military intervention is the correct solution," he said. "I regret what we as a country have done so far."





www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34310 - 21k

Nothing like a liberal hypocrite making money off of something they disapprove of...


43 posted on 12/16/2004 10:20:04 AM PST by Jon Alvarez
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To: LTGStonewall

remember that one? that evil, lying US gov't and military industrial complex...

turn our good boys into murderers and junkies...

More Hollywood crap. I can hardly watcha film anymore without seeing the anti-American agenda in there somewhere...


44 posted on 12/16/2004 10:23:56 AM PST by Jon Alvarez
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To: Pikamax

"West's coverage of the war has tended to side with US troops."

Harrison Ford's though hasn't.


45 posted on 12/16/2004 10:26:51 AM PST by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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To: Jon Alvarez
'Three Kings' was a virtual remake of Kelly's Heroes and showed disparate American soliders as men of conscience who do the right thing. Where's the problem?
46 posted on 12/16/2004 10:46:08 AM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

didn't it cast our troops as thieves? I barely remember it...Clooney's in it, so it's unbearable for me to watch again.


47 posted on 12/16/2004 12:08:23 PM PST by Jon Alvarez
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To: Pikamax
The Plot:

An evil Marine Colonel plots the destruction of a Fallujah mosque filled with Friday worshipers while a courageous Lt. crosses over to try to warn them before it's too late.

48 posted on 12/16/2004 12:11:30 PM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: Borges
I am talking about in the last 35 years. Most winners are hard corp libs trying to rewrite history and stereotyping people they do not like.
49 posted on 12/16/2004 1:03:05 PM PST by Sprite518
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To: csvset

Yeah no kidding. If he was KKK Byrd, then he would be painted as a hero.


50 posted on 12/16/2004 1:04:14 PM PST by Sprite518
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To: Sprite518

I'm talking about Best Picture winners. Most of them are conservative with very few exceptions (American Beauty)


51 posted on 12/16/2004 4:17:55 PM PST by Borges
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To: Jon Alvarez

Three troops set out to get some booty that Saddam had looted over the years and have a change of heart along the way. If you think that American soldiers are infallible if not quasi-divine as opposed to good hearted human beings like most people then you would have a problems with it. It captured the tone of the first Gulf War perfectly. The first cell phone/24-7 newschannel war.


52 posted on 12/16/2004 4:22:30 PM PST by Borges
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To: Pikamax

Vietnam draft dodger Harrison Ford finally gets his shot at pretending to be in combat. Maybe that puke Brian Dennehy will be his co-star.


53 posted on 12/16/2004 7:33:26 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: Borges

Kelly's Heroes came at the tail end of the post WWII movie trend. There was room in the "crowd" for it. "Three Kings" and "Courage Under Fire" were the only pictures of the Gulf War that the masses got. That's the problem. I think that's hurting us now.


54 posted on 12/16/2004 7:54:23 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (This space for rant)
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To: Lady Heron

Does Ford play Bung West?


55 posted on 12/16/2004 8:07:34 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

When I said that those two movies were the only pictures of the Gulf War the masses got, I meant from Hollywood.


56 posted on 12/16/2004 8:11:09 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (This space for rant)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Well WW2 is a much richer and vaster canvas to deal with then the first Gulf War which seemed to end in the blink of an eye. Did we need a film about Saddam's fearsome Republican Guard! (remember that 1990 canard?)


57 posted on 12/16/2004 8:15:08 PM PST by Borges
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To: Pikamax
The last film I can remember Ford doing was that awful picture where he played the Russian submarine commander "K-9 the Widow Maker". The acting was like a direct to video movie and so was the plot even if it was based on a true story. Ford was paid about $25 Million for 6 to 8 weeks work and he phoned in his performance. Needless to say it bombed and his next picture "Hollywood Homicide" bombed to.
All he's got left is if they make another Indiana Jones picture to put him back on top and I wonder if they will ever get it made. It's been delayed at least two or three times for lack of a good script.
I would guess he will play a geriatric Jones on his last great adventure and maybe die at the end. Who knows.
58 posted on 12/16/2004 8:22:10 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Borges

If "Three Kings was an updated "Kelly's Heroes" well it sucked. Kelley's Heroes was a great ensemble film and is still funny to watch today. "Three Kings was a film I could only watch once, it just had no repeat value for me but "Kelley's Heroes" I can watch anytime it comes on.


59 posted on 12/16/2004 8:24:38 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Brian Dennehy served in the Marine Corps before he got into acting so he ain't no punk or puke.


60 posted on 12/16/2004 8:26:35 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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