Posted on 03/15/2010 9:44:32 AM PDT by Haiku Guy
In Team America: World Police, the first Hollywood-financed movie inspired by the U.S. invasion of Iraq and its attendant political controversy, South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone dispatched a squad of U.S. guerrillas — all in marionette form — to take down an Axis of Evil dictator and, in the process, slaughter the real villains of the piece: a bunch of self-important celebrities who had publicly opposed the U.S. policy. One of these stars is Matt Damon, who is portrayed as such an idiot that all his dialogue consists of is his grinning stupidly while saying, "Matt Damon!" The puppet Damon ends up dead, his head snapped by a Team America hero.
The real Matt Damon didn't fare much better as the star of the new Green Zone: he went looking for the truth about Iraq's WMDs, and got blown up by the IED of public indifference.
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(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
The box-office curse of movies about the U.S. Mess-o-potamian escapade remained unbroken, as Damon became the latest star — after George Clooney, Jamie Foxx, Tom Cruise, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, not to mention the South Park guys — whose attempt to address the blood and blunders in our Mideast wars tanked with the mass audience.
Americans recognize antiAmerican propaganda when they catch a sniff of it (and the spouting of Hollywood Reds patting themselves on the back for living with BDS).
It's being filmed in the city of Detroit because the filmakers thought they would have the least amount of set work to do to make the impression of a post apocalyptic cataclysm having occurred. Ought to be good for the Detroit economy if nothing else. Maybe the city fathers will use the opportunity for using Hollywood demolitions to start some real urban renewal?
There was no more hint of America's fatal foreign policy frustrations in Iraq than there was of homosexuality in the trailers for A Single Man. But somehow, just possibly through the Internet, people know. Both films couldn't escape their true identity, and suffered — not for their sins but for their boldness.
The public doesn't support Hollyweird's propaganda efforts. If Hollywood hadn't rewritten hundreds of years of copyright law, many of the films that keep them solvent would be in the public domain now (anything 28 years old) and Hollywood would HAVE to be more accountable to the public's taste in current movies.
Is it going to be about a Communist takeover threat? Or Islamic jihad?
They will air it around the clock on cable until it meets the needed receipts. So in the end, it’ll serve to sell the lie and sell the lie and sell the lie.
Problem is that Hollywood actors keep getting rewarded for their political activism with UN Ambassadorships. People like Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Nicholas Cage, Orlando Bloom.... and the list goes on and on....all are UN Goodwill Ambassadors for some cause -- AIDs, Humantiratian, to a country, etc.
In short actors are getting prestigious awards for their social & political activism, so there is nothing to discourage and everything to encourage them to keep up the politics.
“Humantiratian” How the heck did I misspell “Humanitarian” that badly? LOL!
Personally, I feel that Team America was Damon’s finest film.
Wow, a $230 million Matt Damon movie makes $14.5 million in it first three opening days.
What wonderful news!
Roger Ebert didn’t like Team America. One star and ranted against it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1245726/posts
“I wasn’t offended by the movie’s content so much as by its nihilism. At a time when the world is in crisis and the country faces an important election, the response of Parker, Stone and company is to sneer at both sides — indeed, at anyone who takes the current world situation seriously. They may be right that some of us are puppets, but they’re wrong that all of us are fools, and dead wrong that it doesn’t matter.”
Maybe the right-wing cabal can be backed by Michigan-Militia types, NRA members and armed Tea Partiers... The Wolverines can repel them with water balloons!
Squirt guns.
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Red Dawn
Must be on everyone’s must see list as an “instruction manual” for our future.
That is one series misspelling!
Oh man! Look at that roster of stink-o-rama!
And I'll bet both Shmuger and Linde sit around all day talking about how GW Bush was no good at his job!
I see a little "Welcome to WalMart!" in their futures.
Great idea! Do you know how much it costs to see a movie these days?! Popcorn? Fergetaboutit. Soda? Ha! We need price controls on movie theaters! That's the ticket. Going to the movies has been priced out of the "average" citizen's ability to pay! Nancy get on the job!
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You nailed the plot EXACTLY on another recent bomb, "The Edge of Darkness" with Mel Gibson. Seems that Mel wanted to puke out an "evil repub senator from MASS(?) in cahoots with an evil nuclear dev facility trying to sell nuclear bombs to rogue nations (not identified as Islam of course). His daughter gets blown away, and he spends the rest of the stupid movie going after the dastardly repub & nuke company execs. The good people (like other progressive whistle blowers) are all blown away or exterminated".
Mel Gibson is shilling in this movie just to get back in good graces with Hellywood liberals & media. A stupid, stupid, movie with wooden, scripted acting.
SLM = Stupid Liberal Movie.
It bears remembering that the money isn’t actually ‘lost’ in the sense I suspect you mean. After all, while the investors are being skinned, the actors, director, crew, writers, et. al. are walking home to a nice payday.
And they’re pretty much all liberals who fund the Democratic machine. Hopefully, all of the investors also were dyedinthewool liberals so there’s no new Demo funding money.
I really dislike how the Damon / Bourne Identity thoroughly perverted Ludlum’s storyline. They clearly have no “artistic integrity”.
A lot of people who were blind just a year ago have waked up. They have seen Bush’s success in Iraq, and have seen Obama blunder in A-Stan.
I think he wigged out.
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