Anti-war movies hurt America - and debase the art of film

New York Daily News ^ | 11/1/07 | Govindini Murty

[skikvt]

I am really looking forward to seeing the opening number for Lions for Lambs. This thing is getting heavy promotion, and has Streep/Cruise/Redford. When this turkey tanks, it will be obvious to everyone that anti-war movies are box office poison.

It won't matter if it loses money. They'll reward themselves with an Oscar or two and throw around words like 'courage' and 'bravery' for having the guts to stand up to the evil Republican Administration...

Conservative themed movies always seem to sell, but they refuse to make them in Hollywood. Obviously money isn't their prime motivation....

[DollyCali]

thanks for ping.. good thread, will come back to chew on it a bit when I get time..

[NordP]

"Even superstar Bruce Willis has tried to get a film made about the famed "Deuce Four" battalion serving in Iraq - but has gotten nowhere with the studios.

Mel Gibson, when he tried to make "The Passion" had the same story. Then he put up his OWN money and made the 4th biggest blockbuster movie of all time..."

COME ON BRUCE - IF YOU MAKE IT...WE WILL COME!"

55'ers RULE!

[driftless2]

"anti-America"

A very good point. If there was no Iraq war going on, the studios would still be cranking out anti-American films like "American Beauty". Not only do modern filmmakers not make pro-war movies, they also do not make pro-American movies. The overriding urge of modern moviemakers is to smear their own country as racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, you name it. They think of the average American in the worst possible terms. Modern libs don't just hate the war, they hate America too. In all it's respects.

[VOA]

Even superstar Bruce Willis has tried to get a film made about the
famed "Deuce Four" battalion serving in Iraq - but has gotten nowhere
with the studios.

A well-made movie on that topic could cover a lot of ground:
crime, corruption, trying to figure out who to trust, hanging tough
on patrol when it's 120 deg. F.

Would make a h-ll of a movie.
No wonder Hollyweird is trying to abort such a film.

[VOA]

Just in case folks are unfamiliar with the lady that wrote the article,
see link below.

I was lucky to attend the Liberty Film Festival that she and
Jason Arpuzzo (sp?) hosted in Hollywood a few years ago.

http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=30

[UncleDick]

Ridiculous article. Some of the greatest films of the early 20th century were anti-war films. Birth of a Nation, All Quiet on the Western Front, even later classics like Bridge on the River Kwai had anti-war themes.

To suggest that anti-war films are a recent Hollywood invention makes sense only to those who have no knowledge of film history.

[dfwgator]

Commies in Hollywood supported to WWII war effort, because Hitler invaded their beloved Soviet Union.

[dfwgator]

These recent films are not anti-war films, but anti-American films, big difference.

[Global2010]

TCM.

Watched a old one last night and was atonished at seeing statues of Saints in the living quarters of a wheelchair bound man.

He had cool rims for such an old WC.

The scripts are great and pertinant to daily living.

They don’t come close to writing movies anymore.

I watched the old movie “the window” (not sure on the title) and it was so different from when Chris Reeves did the remake from his WC.

[discostu]

And often time the message gets a little mixed up. War movie buffs consider Patton to be one of the all time greats, the guys that actually made the movie consider it to be an anti-war film. Both good war movies and anti-war movies don’t flee from the horrors, which makes the line between the two very thin.