[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.

[Comstock1]

Where’s this generation’s Red Dawn?

Everybody in 80s Hollywood was all about learning to live with the Soviet Union. All of a sudden this little movie comes out of nowhere and upsets the apple cart. It didn’t set any box office records but a lot of people like me who were of high school age thought it was the best movie in years.

A good sharp stick in the eye to the antiAmerican establishment.

[usurper]

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.

That’s what happened with The 300. They were spiting their venom at the movie so I knew it would be great.