Posted on 11/19/2007 2:32:07 PM PST by Dane
War PornBrian De Palma's Redacted is schlock fantasy. By Fred Kaplan
Brian De Palma's Redacted is a movie that gives war criticism a bad name.
It's a nasty piece of work—and not in a good way. He means to shock, but his film is merely distasteful. He thinks he's exposing the hidden horrors of war, but it comes off more like The Last House on the Left than Goya or even the jailhouse photos from Abu Ghraib. Some have denounced the film as anti-American or as propaganda for al-Qaida, but that exaggerates its potency. De Palma's grist is too thin for a sophisticated terrorist's mill.
The film's structure is very clever. Rather than making a straight drama, as he did with Casualties of War (his similarly themed Vietnam movie of 18 years ago), De Palma designs Redacted to look like a pastiche of documentary footage covering an American unit in Iraq—some of it seemingly shot by a French news crew, some by a soldier who aspires to be a film student, some taken from jihadist clips on the Internet, but, in fact, all of it staged with actors and shot by De Palma.
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I know there are some on FR who believe that there is no such thing as bad publicity, but to them I say, the idle left will never learn.
De Palma’s a hack. Always has been.
Martin, maybe you should do a Pittsburgh ping, after all the person who financed this dung, was Mark Cuban, born and bred in Mt. Lebanon.
De Palma is a dead career walking.
De Palma gets b!tch slapped by a lefty. OOOhhhhh Brian, that’s gotta hurt.
I know there are some on FR who believe that there is no such thing as bad publicity, but to them I say, the idle left will never learn.
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They MIGHT learn if people stay away in droves. Seems that all these anti-war propagandists listen to is the almighty dollar.
Who is Cuban?
Owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
Martin, maybe you should do a Pittsburgh ping, after all the person who financed this dung, was Mark Cuban, born and bred in Mt. Lebanon.
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Wow! Never knew that. Mt. Lebanon is a nice upscale town. One of the few bright spots in the Pittsburgh area.
Good critics put Art above politics.
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I want to see these bastards in a bread line. Don't spend your money on Hollywood.
Film is supposedly Sean Penn's area of competence. Penn made "All The King's Men" and "Shanghei Surprise". How dare he criticize anyone about anything.
Penn is also a racist. Had Marina del Ray flooded, do you think he'd be armed with a shotgun and wearing body armor like he was in NOLA?
And Tim Robbins, you're an ass too, but I liked Howard The Duck. The acting was so bad, it was good.
De Palma’s made exactly one good movie, THE UNTOUCHABLES. And that’s more attributable to screenwriter David Mamet and producer Art Linson.
And don't call me "surely", :*)
Been watching Airplane reruns much? :=)
IMHO, Cuban is the guy you go after on this one. He paid for it. Boycott the Mavs and HDNet.
...and the acting of Sean Connery!
Cuban made a fortune in the 90’s selling an internet deal to Yahoo for a few billion. He is acts like an idiot at times in regard to the Dallas Mavericks of which he is majority owner but no mistake he is not a fool....very good businessman. That being said, he lives in another world and probably screwed the pooch on this venture. Personally, I think he is a pain in the a$$, but that may be jealousy talking..
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