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'Stop-Loss' DOA
DeadineHollywoodDailt ^ | 3/29/08 | Nikki Finke

Posted on 03/29/2008 7:12:49 AM PDT by NRPM

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Another anti-military movie underperforms.

I was hoping for this. Thank you American viewing public!

1 posted on 03/29/2008 7:12:52 AM PDT by NRPM
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To: NRPM

ditto.


2 posted on 03/29/2008 7:13:25 AM PDT by mainerforglobalwarming
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To: NRPM

I saw the previews for this and was amused at the transparency of their effort to push propaganda.


3 posted on 03/29/2008 7:14:46 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: NRPM

The link works but I mistyped the source. It’s http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com


4 posted on 03/29/2008 7:15:49 AM PDT by NRPM
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To: NRPM

Hollywood keeps a-tryin’, and Hollywood keeps a-dyin’ (propaganda, that is).


5 posted on 03/29/2008 7:16:42 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: NRPM

Available on Blu-Ray and DVD in time for Mother’s Day...


6 posted on 03/29/2008 7:17:13 AM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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To: NRPM

Could you imagine this movie being made during World War 2?


7 posted on 03/29/2008 7:18:30 AM PDT by Perdogg (Reagan would have never said "She's my girl")
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To: NRPM
It's a fricken MTV film. Any wonder why it is worthless.


8 posted on 03/29/2008 7:20:36 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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To: Perdogg

My son and I watched 3:10 to Yuma on PPV last night. Had to shut it off about 2/3 of the way through. Can you imagine a western where the good guy is beguiled by the bad guy and is afraid to use his gun?
WHAT in God’s name are these Pansies thinking?


9 posted on 03/29/2008 7:21:19 AM PDT by acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here)
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To: NRPM

10 posted on 03/29/2008 7:22:21 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Perdogg

Film Noir was pretty bleak stuff, but it was after the war.

I simply must wonder if these studios are at all interested in earning any money at all? And why do their shareholders put up with the creation of such turkeys?


11 posted on 03/29/2008 7:22:22 AM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3/Cry havoc and let slip the RINOS)
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To: NRPM; All

“... Paramount wasn’t expecting much because no Iraq war-themed movie has yet to perform at the box office....”

These idiots still don’t get it. It’s not because it’s an Iraq war-themed movie .. IT’S BECAUSE IT’S A SLAP IN THE FACE OF OUR COURAGEOUS MILITARY - AND THAT’S ALL HOLLYWOOD’S WAR-THEMED MOVIES ARE ABOUT - STICKING IT TO OUR MILITARY.

During WWII - there was no such type of movie - and I think my Dad took our family to all of them. When the enemy bit the dust - the whole theater would stand up and cheer.

Hollywood is just too full of itself.


12 posted on 03/29/2008 7:23:06 AM PDT by CyberAnt (AMERICA: The greatest nation on the face of the earth.)
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To: raybbr

I didn’t know about the MTV connection until I read the article.

That does tell you just about everything you need to know!

(love your tagline!)


13 posted on 03/29/2008 7:24:14 AM PDT by NRPM
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To: acapesket

These are the same pansies that go to anti-war rallies, scream and cry that “Bush lied and people died”. These are the same pansies whose dad’s and grandads fought in WWII. They tried to give their kids more than they had. It backfired and created loose, immoral, liberal pansies who beget even more pansies.


14 posted on 03/29/2008 7:24:31 AM PDT by LottieDah (Democrats and liberals never fail to disappoint.)
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To: glorgau

Director] Peirce wants to leave us with something heavy to ponder, but I’ll be damned if I can figure out what that is.


15 posted on 03/29/2008 7:25:35 AM PDT by SO RIGHT
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No kidding.

My husband got me a book for my birthday. It’s a book about rabbits. Specifically, meat rabbits. It’s a propaganda book from the early 1940s...but still very informative.

I read it and sometimes yearn for that time. The pride the author had in his country and his meager effort to improve the lives of the folks on the Home Front, many of whom had very little to eat and no meat at all, is so bittersweet to me. The motive of the book is to grow and process meat rabbits so other meat products can be saved for use in the War Effort.

Why doesn’t Hollywood make movies about people like this man? They’d make a fortune.


16 posted on 03/29/2008 7:26:14 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Tragic eyes I can`t even recognize myself behind...)
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To: NRPM

Good. I earnestly hope these SOB’s lose money on this film.


17 posted on 03/29/2008 7:27:00 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: CyberAnt

Didn’t one old time Hollywood mogul once say, if you want to send a message, used Western Union (meaning that movies should be for entertainment and escape). Today’s film makes want to send “messages”. Unfortunately not all of us want agree with what they are sending.


18 posted on 03/29/2008 7:27:24 AM PDT by LottieDah (Democrats and liberals never fail to disappoint.)
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To: NRPM
Great news.

Here's Kyle Smith's devastating review. Smith, a Gulf War I veteran, is fast becoming my favorite movie critic:

"Stop-Loss" is as phony as a re-enactment with finger puppets.

"Stop-Loss" is a highly patriotic film, if you happen to dream of the restored caliphate as you sleep in your Osama bin Laden pajamas.

Its message is that the good guys are US soldiers who decide to desert, such as a sergeant played by Ryan Phillippe. (Another soldier, played by Channing Tatum of "Step Up," is the villain: He wants to re-enlist.)

19 posted on 03/29/2008 7:28:33 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: NRPM

I can’t imagine why nobody wants to watch it. Hell, Rolling Stone says it’s great.


20 posted on 03/29/2008 7:31:04 AM PDT by VR-21
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