Iraq war is hell on the bottom line at the box office

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 23, 2007 | Joe Garofoli

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Jabbar Magruder is an active duty Army National Guard sergeant who served 11 months in Iraq. He was hoping that stateside Americans would get a glimpse of what the war was like when several dramas featuring the Iraq conflict either in the foreground or the background hit theaters this fall.

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But to some Iraq veterans, like Magruder, who have tried to raise awareness about the war's perils, the apathy represents a larger disconnect many Americans feel toward the war. Implicit in the Redford, Streep and Tom Cruise film "Lions for Lambs" is a challenge to filmgoers to become impassioned about the war.

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"I thought that with the casts (of these films), at least a portion of America would go to see them," said Magruder, a 24-year-old who is taking premed classes at California State University Northridge and is the Los Angeles chapter president of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Like many soldiers, he joined the service out of a sense of duty and, because his family had limited financial means, to pay for college.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

If the Los Angeles chapter president of Iraq Veterans Against the War isn't a good source for reporters writing about veteran opinion on the subject of Iraq then I don't know who is. Unless perhaps it's one of the half million or so veterans who aren't part of that organization. But I guess this reporter couldn't find any of them.

[goldstategop]

The MSM wouldn't know the meaning of patriotism if it chomped them on their rear end.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[redstateconfidential]

Jabbar?

[Uncle Hal]

Hollywood does not get it. Americans do not to see anti USA movies that make our military look like war criminals. Plus that is not what we are. If they would bring out some movies that make our soldiers look like heroes, then maybe people would go see them.

[bolobaby]

*sputter*

I can’t believe this tripe. Gee... maybe the films failure has to do with apathy towards the moonbat leftist line???

[SandRat]

If Hollywood instead of Hollywierd would produce a film that was about the soldiers, their heroics, and their big hearts, rather than the rehashed Vietnam Anti-War trash; it would be different.

Unfortunately we don’t have Hollywood any longer only Hollywierd.

[Clara Lou]

And the movies are just bad ones, to boot?

[VOA]

Iraq War on America's Warriors is hell on the bottom line
at the box office

This "Truth in Journalism" correction provided free of charge to
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[Brilliant]

Hollywood has no credibility these days. The public wants entertainment, but Hollywood portrays it as history, or perhaps opinion. It certainly doesn’t pass as entertainment these days.

[SeaDragon]

But to some Iraq veterans, like Magruder, who have tried to raise awareness about the war's perils, the apathy represents a larger disconnect many Americans feel toward the war. Implicit in the Redford, Streep and Tom Cruise film "Lions for Lambs" is a challenge to filmgoers to become impassioned about the war.

A larger disconnect??? Please, maybe people are just tired of the Hollywood hype. Come on! Give us a break from these idiots.

[rdl6989]

That’s an interesting name isn’t it.

[DGHoodini]

Yet more enemy propaganda from the pervert filth traitors of the LA Slimes. They’d burst into flames if ever forced to tell the truth.

[kingu]

Tell you what, Hollywood, you put out a film that documents the incredible roll-over of the Iraqi army, the creativity in bringing amphibious vehicles through the desert to cross the Tigeres river and surprise Republican Guard units, and ends with the Iraqi people cheering as the statue of Saddam is toppled, I’ll pull out my fifteen bucks and go see it.

We can’t lose a war we won /long/ ago.

[Vision Thing]

In another great example of reality being greater than fiction, The Surge is working on two fronts: Not only is it making ho-wood's anti-war fantasies look ridiculous, but it's also making believers out of Iraqi refugees who are finally returning home: 100,000’s of Iraqis Enthusiastically Return Home.

[DGHoodini]

OOoops! Meant SF Chronicholes.

[nkycincinnatikid]

“Jabbar?”
Well, maybe his folks just couldn’t find a name in the Bible or whithin the Greco-Roman-European area that suited him.

[freeangel]

Wahoo! Let’s hear it for the sound of hollywood whinos being flushed down the toilet where they belong.

[The Duke]

...a challenge to filmgoers to become impassioned about the war.

I'm not sure I want to be sitting in the middle of a theater full of "impassioned" viewers.

[Man50D]

Hollywood does not get it.

Oh they get it. With all due respect,people who say they don't get it are the ones who don't get it. Many Hollywood types and like minded people don't think of themselves as Americans. They consider themselves socialists. it is paramount for them to attempt any means possible, including trying to demoralize our military, to replace our democratic form of government with a strong centralized socialist form.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

What about that Bruice Willis Movie he can’t get anyone to make because it show US troops as heroes rather than wacked out murderous nut jobs? Make that movie and see if people come. Maybe Hollyweird needs a 9-11 to happen on Melrose Drive before they will start to see red, white and blue again.