Posted on 02/20/2009 3:12:35 PM PST by EveningStar
"Taking Chance" airs tomorrow at 8PM on HBO.
Taking Chance is based on a true story about a Marine officer who escorts the body of a dead Marine home from Iraq.
Michael Medved has given it 4 stars (out of 4) and called it the first good movie about the Iraq war.
Army casualty assistance officers have also praised the movie.
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Thanks for posting this - after listening to Michael Medved’s review on the drive home, I was just about to post this myself!
My DVR is set, and we will be watching!
This reminds me how the left wanted to despoil the dignity of coming home by demanding pictures of the flag draped coffins.
Good on W for not allowing it.
We miss you Mr Bush.
what are Kevin Bacon’s politics? He’s not one of the
Bushhaters is he?
I think he is just acting in this one. He is married to Kyra Sedgewick [sp] who is positively rabid. However, I must give them some credit because they’ve been married for about fifteen years which, in Hollywood, is a rarity. That said, I’m very interested in watching...
Medved said that Lt Col Strobl gave major kudos to Bacon for the job he did in this movie (Bacon portrays Strobl, who wrote the story based on his own experiences).
He and his wife were Obama supporters.
He just appeared in a movie that depicted Nixon as a buffoon.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/chancephelps/index?tab=articles
Just passed their 20th anniversary, so I just read.
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2004/04/taking_chance.html
I attended the Tonight Show last Monday with two Marines. Kevin Bacon was Leno's guest. After the show we went onstage to meet Kevin. He couldn't have been more gracious and wanted to chat about the movie and the Corps.
He was in Quantico last week presenting the movie on his own time. He invited us backstage and we chatted for about 20 minutes.
Regardless of his politics, he is a genuine American and a patriot.
watching it now and crying all the way thru it
Bacon is really good in this
I have trouble believing this of Obama-supporters since they would cut back on the WOT, allow Guantanamo to be closed, negotiate with Iran, implement socialism which curtails freedom, promote gay marriage, promote abortion, implement global warming policy which would gut our economy,keep prayer out of school, take away your guns,etc. etc. etc.
But if you want to believe he's a patriot because you spent time chatting with Bacon and he is going to make millions off a movie he's promoting you, of course, are free to do so.
It’s a made for HBO movie.
If you think he did this purely for altruistic reasons, I think you don't get how a movie star thinks.
Maybe if he hadn't just made a move making a buffoon out of Nixon (much of it fiction) and maybe if he hadn't supported the most leftist person ever to be elected, I might entertain the thought that he was a patriot. But I have a HARD time thinking any person with such values is a patriot. Patriots live for freedom. Socialists definitely do not.
The young PFC "Chance" was a fine young man and a precious loss and a honorable soul to give his life for his country.
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