Make a movie showing the USMC kicking ass all over Falujah, I mean kicking ass, taking names, sacrificing for their friends, units and country to kill the enemy in the traditional way we have always killed our enemies and it would make untold millions, imo.
How bout just one unabashedly patriotic, John Wayne stye movie to balance out the half-dozen lessons in Bill Moyers-approved angst.
My daughter’s boyfriend , a USMC, kicked ass all over Falujah. Five of his friends were sacrificed. Thank God he is back home. We love him. I spoil him rotten because he is a great guy and a Marine through and through.
I think what is going on is a combination of your two posts, #12 and #13. Hollywood makes a lot of money on foreign distribution. What sells in the US and what sells in the rest of the world are not the same.
In the US we want to see the US kicking ass and taking names.
The rest of the world wants to see the US getting it’s ass kicked.
Judging by the number of films made that have no hope of a profit in the US, I’d say the US market is smaller than the world market and Hollywood has given up on it.