50 Cent, Samuel Jackson Enlisting In Iraq War Movie (Will Far-Left Jackson "Support the Troops"...?)

MTV.com ^ | 02/10/2006 | Larry Carroll

[Falcon28]

oh great.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Hopefully Bruce Willis's upcoming movie about Fallujah will do much better business than this drek.

[iPod Shuffle]

Jackson was great in Rules of Engagement.

Must see flick for any Freeper.

[Falcon28]

Exactly, bring on "Deuce Four"

But I think it takes place is Mosul.

[endthematrix]

I hate it and haven't even seen it.

[Rocketwolf68]

There should be this disclaimer on every hollyweird war flick- "No actual military or prior service military members were used in the filming or consultation of this movie"

[kb2614]

Screw it. I'll just watch "The Longest Day" if I want to watch a war movie.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I often see people on other boards ask about the same question which boils down to "what's the big deal with movies showing soldiers in bad light? It's not like people don't know it's just a movie." Wrong. Many people out there have got their only exposure to military life from the movies. Some believe that even if the movie is only half true, it's an accurate representation of our military. They don't realize that outside of all of the film's actors wearing uniforms, any similarity with reality ends there.

[advance_copy]

I bet you will never read about the Bruce Willis movie at MTV.com, which lies when it reports, "'Home of the Brave' would be notable as the first military drama to address Iraq."

[Skywalk]

Actually, Cpt. Dale Dye has made his name to the point where he actually appears in movies by acting as consultant.

He's done a great number of military movies.

The actors may not have military service, but the big budget war movies, or the ones they want to have any sense of realism always hire people like Dye.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Just to clarify that I didn't mean all war movies were total hokum, but some are just out there. It seems that as a group, the more recent ones are the most far from reality.

[Falcon28]

Blackhawk Down was well done.

[marvlus]

I was under the impression that Samuel L Jackson leaned more right than left. I thought I had read that somewhere several years ago.

[mcg2000]

Maybe you have Danny Glover confused with Samuel Jackson?

[marvlus]

Danny Glover is to the left of leftists. But I don't think Samuel L Jackson is leftist, but I could be wrong.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Quotes from Jackson's Maxim interview of last year, where he cheerfully admitted to stealing people's credit cards as a teenager and using them to buy guns for the purpose of armed revolutionary struggle against the United States.

[mcg2000]

Let me start by saying it was a fluke that I saw this show ... I watched Jackson on The Actor's Studio.

He discussed the same story and left the entire time explaining it was his way of "getting the man" while he was at college in Atlanta. He also said the thefts were ignorant and born out of a desire not to work, a lesson he's since learned.

He is in H'wood now ... so you may be right?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

ACLU Press Release prominently listing Jackson along with other noted leftists (including Kurt Vonnegut, Martin Sheen, Larry Flynt, Michael stipe, etc.), promoting the organization's anti-Bush "I Am Not An American Who --" campaign.

[mcg2000]

enough said.