[Parody]

He's belaboring the obvious, but with all the thick skulls in Hollywood, what else can he do?

[Grizzled Bear]

Some musical acts have enjoyed limited success by insulting and degrading their audience. Hollywood fails to understand that this market is a very narrow niche.

[Zhang Fei]

He's belaboring the obvious, but with all the thick skulls in Hollywood, what else can he do?

I don't think they're stupid. They think we're stupid and we not only need to be brought around to their point of view, we'll pay for the privilege. What they're discovering is that we might be stupid, but we're not interested in their propaganda.

[ncphinsfan]

He’s right, right, right, right and right. I love the grasshopper analogy. Pull of the grasshopper’s legs, it won’t jump, it’s deaf.
Go, Hollywood!

[Zhang Fei]

At least not to the extent of paying for it.

[Old Sarge]

There will never be another uplifting story of the contest of arms in our lifetime.

The last was “The Lord Of The Rings”, and it was already sixty years old when filming started.

[stevem]

Stephen Bochco explains the failure of these war films (as of his own TV series on the war, Over There) by saying, "It's a hugely unpopular war, and there's a staggering amount of depressing coverage.... I don't know if you can do a serious drama about this war and locate any angle that would overcome the negativity about it."

It's almost impossible to believe that someone putatively literate could say something this stupid.

[Malone LaVeigh]

Here's a complete refutation of the idea that Hollywood's war films keep failing because the War on Terror is so "hugely unpopular": The Unit.

Definitely one of my favorites.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"It's a hugely unpopular war,"

Yeah, the islamonazi types dont cair much for it!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET

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Actually,

...one of the most important Motion Pictures in the last 100 years is a 2007 ImaginAsian Entertainment Vietnam War film that horridly relives what happens to a once Free South Vietnamese family during the last week of, and then after, the Fall of Saigon to Communism:

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..”JOURNEY from the FALL”.. MoviePremieres = Fall of Saigon CLARITY..

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts

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Truly a must see message for all Americans now,

in a new time of war
in a new century
with our own Freedom
directly at stake
right here at home.

Now available on DVD.

http://www.TheImaginAsian.com

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NEVER FORGET

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[ALOHA RONNIE]

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MEL’s -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085111/posts

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[Billthedrill]

What if Hollywood made a movie in which the people fighting the war thought that the U.S. was the good guys, that fighting Osama's terrorists in Iraq was way better than fighting them in Manhattan, and that the men and women who volunteer for service in our military are devoted servants of our country?

I can tell you what would happen. Ebert would throw two thumbs down one it, the other critics would pan it, it would be resolutely ignored at Sundance, Cannes, and the Academy Awards, and it would pull in the better part of a billion dollars. And sooner or later some smart guy in Hollywood is going to figure that out.

[shield]

Look at the movie UNITED 93...it was one terribly sad movie...but we went to see it...it told the truth about a plane full of American Heroes...it hurt...but we went....we've bought the DVD and have watched it again...and again...

If commie hollyweirdo wants to lose money on HIT PIECES against America, the WOT, and our troops with those old by-gone stars...let'em...one day they'll go broke and busted...

[VeniVidiVici]

One of the first was the movie version of Sum of All Fears changing Islamofascists to Nazis.

Terrible movie. It would have tanked too if Clancy’s name wasn’t attached to it. Even with his name there I doubt many movie goers realized before they went that the story line had been changed so as not to upset a group of people.

[tophat9000]

The thing is Hollywood almost genetically incapable of doing what this article suggest for success

The political ideology in Hollywood is more inbred than a hundred years of a couple redneck cousin's trapped on a deserted island

[karnage]

As the director of ABC’s “Judas,” I would say the author didn’t see the movie before spouting off. I’m a Catholic, and made sure the scriptural elements of the script were sound before I got involved in it.

[karnage]

Also, “Judas” was ABC’s 4th-highest rated movie of the year - hardly a blockbuster, but hardly a flop, either.

It was not designed to “offend” Christians.

The author is an ignoramus.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Eventually you would think that some studio would figure it out and actually want to make money and make a plain ol kick ass war film that shows America IS the damn hero saving the world and there are 1000 tales of glory to tell from this war people are aching to hear!

300 was in a way proof people are starving for this.

They dont have to shield us from the sacrifices and horrors.
But damn them to hell for not showing the glory and the rightousness of our troops!

The only explaination is pure and simple... standard issue Hollywood liberalism.

[NordP]

Just another example of how what’s being said says more about the one saying it.

[DoughtyOne]

I’ll tell you what, never did industries deserve to be undercut by bootlegging more than the music and movie industry of today. If they could be bankrupted by this, more power to the bootleggers. I’m sick of the excuses. I’m sick of the perverted crap they peddle to our kids. I’m sick of the filth they distribute for adult consumption.

My wife and I quit going to the movies. I think we’ve seen about two movies this year. We started to purchase DVDs years ago, and today we purchase previously viewed movies just to know what’s going on. It’s gotten so bad that we often purchase a DVD, watch part of it and schred the thing.

We have a collection, but some of these movies are so over the top we won’t keep them in the house, and couldn’t in good concience hand them off to someone else.

The movie and music industries, should rot in their own stench.

[Jack Deth]

Stephen Bochco explains the failure of these war films (as of his own TV series on the war, Over There) by saying, "It's a hugely unpopular war, and there's a staggering amount of depressing coverage.... I don't know if you can do a serious drama about this war and locate any angle that would overcome the negativity about it."

Wrong, Steve!


"Over There" tanked in one season due to the crappy writers, their plot lines, lack of any "Technical Advice" whatsoever and general over-all lousy acting through most of the series.

The only good episode of "Over There" was early on, with Michael Cudlitz (Sgt. "Bull" Randallman from "Band Of Brothers") as a by-the-book Intel Officer.

Having been raised on "Combat!", "The Gallant Men", "12 O'clock High" and later, "Tour Of Duty". I was expecting something at least half-way believeable from the guy who created the best cop show, ever; "Hill Street Blues".

Sadly, "Over There" came off as a bungled mess of "Desperate Housewives" and "Camp Runamuck" shepherded by just about every living member of the Bochco family tree.

Note to David Mamet.

Lose the wives of "The Unit" and you'd have a much more solid ratings winner!


Jack.