[The_Republican]

This is not Repubclican year - "Flags of Our Fathers" is a Box Office Bomb.

Numbers don't lie.

[LibLieSlayer]

"Numbers don't lie."

Yes they do... 2004 exit polls! Figures lie and liars figure!

LLS

[fantom]

Flags bombed. As did the hideous film with robin williams. A lefty screed . So what ?

[nativist]

Flags of our Fathers wasn't very good is why it bombed. If the movie would have focused on the actual battle for Iwo Jima instead of the guys who toured the nation it would have done better. The movie was good when they flashed back to the guys taking Iwo but it became boring and preachy when it was about the 3 guys.

[BurtSB]

the movie bombed because it had a anti war theme that ticked off the crowd that would have gone. clint has become a Hollywood liberal in his old age.

[jps098]

Neither is the Bush assassination movie doing well. I guess it's not a Democrat year.

[FastCoyote]

<"Flags of Our Fathers" is a Box Office Bomb. >

Mainly because it was filled with PC tripe.

[Hildy]

Flags of our Fathers is not a pro-America rah rah movie...people DO read reviews. Did you see it?

[since 1854]

Why pay to see Hollywood prettyboys pretending to be soldiers when real soldiers are out there fighting for real?

[musikman]

Maybe it's just a bad movie. I heard it was long, boring and emotionally draining. I would not go. I might rent or buy to watch in my home.

Movies are so yesterday.

[Cicero]

I'm not planning to see "Flags of Our Fathers."

I like all of Clint Eastwood's westerns, and I like the idea of a patriotic movie about the flag raising at Iwo Jima.

But the guy who scripted the movie is a screaming leftist. And every indication is that the movie is about racism in America and corrupt exploitation of heroism. Not what I want to see. I think Eastwood miscalculated, because it's not a movie apt to draw in the antiwar crowd, either.

[kuma]

I think it bombed because some people suspect that it is a film that attempts to give a demoralizing view of the patriotic nostalgia that surrouds Iwo Jima and WWII.

I know that I have had mixed feelings hearing the reviews but I'm not one to go to theaters anyways. Still I'm not all that sure I want to rent it on DVD either.

[unlearner]

"This is not Repubclican year - 'Flags of Our Fathers' is a Box Office Bomb... FOF is a GREAT movie"

My father, a veteran, has rarely gone to the theater. In my whole life I think I could count the times on one hand. But he asked me whether this one might be worth going to see.

After all, Spielberg is a great producer, and Eastwood is a talented (though not conservative) director. I was interested too. But after reading up on it, I have decided to wait for the DVD if I watch it at all. My father also decided to pass.

I learned that this is probably the most violent war movie ever made. I have no problem with that. War is violent. In this case it is not gratuitous like horror flicks, but graphically demonstrates how evil the enemy was and why they had to be defeated, and at the same time shows the depth of the heroism of our troops. However, some people (my mother is one) could not stand to see the violence in Saving Private Ryan. Apparently this one is even more violent.

What is more troubling to me is that the politics are muddled. Some of the more accurate views expressed are done so by less sympathetic characters.

And this adaptation of James Bradley's book leaves out the religious and spiritual content which played an important role in the original story. It does contain a certain kind of spiritual content though: the wrong kind. Of the more than one hundred profanities, God or Jesus have their name abused or used as a swear word over forty times. That isn't necessary. And I am not going to be among those who vote for this by buying high priced tickets at the box office so that Eastwood and Spielberg can make more like it.

[Uriah_lost]

Flags of Our Fathers is NOT a patriotic movie, unless you leave a third of the way through it!

[Caipirabob]

This is not Repubclican year - "Flags of Our Fathers" is a Box Office Bomb.

I'm not sure I understand your premise. The word on "Flags of Our Fathers" was that it was sympathetic to the plight of the Japanese side during that episode of the war. Rumor had it that Eastwood wanted to present a balanced perspective. That killed much of the potential audience before it was ever released because most people do not want to entertain a sympathetic side for our our enemies.

Americans in general want strongly defined lines between good and evil. We like black and white. The liberals attempt to obfuscate the line between good and evil. That's why a lot of these movies bomb. Americans don't think there should be moral equivelency between us and the enemy. In truth, they are diametrically opposed. The rats would have us believe they are the same.

I think the fact that "Flags of Our Fathers" bombed is a good sign based on this premise. Still, I'd like to hear more on why you think the opposite.

FRegards, Bob

[Rokke]

"This is not Repubclican year - "Flags of Our Fathers" is a Box Office Bomb."

This is going to come across as offensive, but I mean it in all sincerity. Your reasoning and logic are among the most pathetic I've witnessed on FR in recent memory. You think movie attendance is an indicator of voter turnout? Are you kidding me?!?! Shrek 2 was the top grossing movie of 2004. What was your prediction based on that profound bit of insight into the minds of American voters. And in case you've forgotten, George Bush was re-elected in 2004(despite all the dire predictions of his certain failure).