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"Stop-Loss" loses battle in wider ideological war (Spin till ya puke!)
Reuters via Yahoo ^
| 04/04/08
| Gregg Kilday
Posted on 04/04/2008 11:27:08 AM PDT by Abathar
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Spinning it 50 ways to Sunday doesn't change the fact that the makers of this flop are praying that it just breaks even, much less makes money.
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:27:08 AM PDT
by
Abathar
To: Abathar
1978's "The Deer Hunter" ($49 million in domestic grosses) and "Coming Home" ($32.7 million) paled in comparison to that year's "Grease" (nearly $160 million in its initial release). You'd think they would have learned their lesson -- but the Reds in Hollyweird are dedicated anti-Americans come hell or high water.
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:29:35 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: Abathar
The debate is overIs he talking about the war or globull warming?
I am confused.
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:31:09 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Abathar
STOP-LOSS = Something I wish Hollywood and it’s ilk would do.
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:31:54 AM PDT
by
Lucky9teen
(Note to McCain: The voters are not united FOR you, they are uniting AGAINST Clinton/Obama)
To: BenLurkin
They must be in it for the long haul, over the decades enough liberals will breed that there will be a steady flow of sales to the new crop of American haters they can sell to...
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:32:52 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Puppage
Either, they took a stand on both so that means there can be no other opinion on the matter...
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:34:22 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Abathar
The reason these movies bomb is very simple. We want to see movies about our soldiers bravely fighting a war. We’ve yet to have a movie about Iraq in which soldiers fight terrorists. But Hollywood thinks that our soldiers are fighting the evil DoD, the military industrial complex, and the Republican party.
Why haven’t moviegoers watched war movies since halfway through Vietnam? Because since that time, every movie has been critical of the war. If you look at the movies that HAVE been successful, they were the ones that told the story of the soldiers and their combat. Black Hawk Done, Saving Private Ryan, etc.
We don’t want some producer or writer’s “social dialogue against war” when we go to movies. We want to see soldiers fighting alongside their comrades. The last real movie like that was Black Hawk Done, and go figure it did really well.
Since then we’ve had Jarhead, Stop Loss, etc. And when the movies bomb, Hollywood can’t figure out that we don’t want to see that crap. They think that it’s because the war is unpopular, and keep churning out garbage.
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:35:54 AM PDT
by
The Black Knight
(I don't care who's running this year, I'm voting for Reagan...)
To: Abathar
LOL.
how’s “Lions for Lambs” doing ?
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:35:54 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
To: The Black Knight
I meant Black Hawk Down, btw.
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:36:56 AM PDT
by
The Black Knight
(I don't care who's running this year, I'm voting for Reagan...)
To: Abathar
"A mid-March Gallup Poll found that 59% of Americans said the U.S. should have stayed out of Iraq. In a CBS poll, 65% said the war was not worth it. And according to CNN, 66% now oppose the war."
After the Civil war battle of Cold Harbor the numbers of those in the North opposing the war were much worse than those cited above. This is why true leaders don't run wars based on poll numbers.
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:38:07 AM PDT
by
joebuck
(Finitum non capax infinitum!)
To: WOBBLY BOB
I don’t even remember seeing it displayed, is it even out in video yet?
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:38:09 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Abathar
****Today, the majority of Americans have turned against the war in Iraq. The debate is over. A mid-March Gallup Poll found that 59% of Americans said the U.S. should have stayed out of Iraq. In a CBS poll, 65% said the war was not worth it. And according to CNN, 66% now oppose the war.****
The debates over yea and since so many oppose the war Obama,”the only one against it when it started”, should win hands down, but wait,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996729/posts
Is he really against the war?
Did he really oppose our presence from the start?
Obama from July 04 to the CSM,
The failure of the Iraqi state would be a disaster,.It would dishonor the 900-plus men and women who have already died. . . . It would be a betrayal of the promise that we made to the Iraqi people, and it would be hugely destabilizing from a national security perspective.
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:40:14 AM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: Abathar
Mrs. Snickersnee is convinced that H’wood grinds out anti-American movies like this because they know they will get good boxoffice abroad — to hell with what American audiences do or don’t do....
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:43:18 AM PDT
by
Snickersnee
(Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
To: Abathar
In a "memo to Hollywood" posted on his site, Fox News talk-show host Bill O'Reilly proclaimed "Stop-Loss" "a bomb, a major disaster at the boxoffice." O'Reilly added, "There is a difference between loyal dissent, a good thing, and trying to make your country look bad. You, Hollywood people, often do the latter. And the folks know it." Needless to say, the reality is a good deal less black and white.
Although he prints O'R's comment, he doesn't really address it.
To: Abathar
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:44:31 AM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: Abathar
“The Deer Hunter”
*Spoiler alert*
*Spoiler alert*
Was that a war movie? I just remember the movie being about a Polish/Russian wedding, some guy blowing his own head off and a hunter who gave a deer a break at the end./s?
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:45:07 AM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
To: BenLurkin
1978's "The Deer Hunter" ($49 million in domestic grosses) $49 million would be equal to $165.8 million today.
Stop-Loss isn't going to come close to $165.8 million.
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:45:41 AM PDT
by
Tribune7
(How is inflicting pain and death on an innocent, helpless human being for profit, moral?)
To: BenLurkin
The Deer Hunter was made to be anti-war/anti-American?
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:45:43 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
To: The Black Knight
Well we had ‘The Kingdom’ that came out.
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:46:21 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
To: Abathar
"After all, Hollywood waited several years after Vietnam ended before approaching that topic."
Bull Cookies!
Exibit A:
John Wayne in "The Green Berets"
1968
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posted on
04/04/2008 11:46:23 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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