Anti-war films tank, left baffled

Posted By Uncle Jimbo

The American Prospect features an apologia for the craptastic results of the lefty agit-prop that passes for entertainment from Hollywood these days. Somehow all these portrayals of the evil Bush admin stand ins and their jack-booted thug, storm troopers prison raping the Constitution have failed to catch on. I have an idea why, but let's hear the spin first.

Are audiences suffering from war fatigue, as many have suggested? Do they have little interest in following a war on the big screen when they are surrounded by images and stories of it on the small screens in their home?

Maybe. But it's not like the American news media have been particularly effective at saturating the public with images from Iraq and Afghanistan. And it is tough to argue that the often critical stance these films take on U.S. foreign policy is keeping people away -- it's hardly considered unpatriotic these days to claim the war was a policy failure.

I take the position that the only people even willing to talk to pollsters these days are angry lefties. That and the inherent silliness of polling have led to the conventional wisdom that Americans are sick of the war. Of course they are, war is awful. But what the pollsters and the left leave unexplored is American's natural disgust at losing. They may be sick and tired of the war and the fact that our troops are still dying, but they aren't willing to raise the white flag. And what about this freakin' whopper of a line.

But it's not like the American news media have been particularly effective at saturating the public with images from Iraq and Afghanistan.

You can actually hear a whining that the media have not gotten the bad news out. I really wonder where in the world this clown has spent the last 4 years. We had the first calls of quagmire about 3 days into the invasion, and I can't recall a day since where the carnage, bloodshed, death & destruction hasn't led coverage. I can only assume that this maroon had his brain wiped in about July and he has only been watching coverage since then. Sad news for him and the rest of those who really could have used a US loss to prove that war has never solved anything.

Well sorry chumps you have some major narrative surgery to attempt because we are gonna win in Iraq and that is good news for Iraqis, Iranians, Syrians, Israelis, Palestinians and bad for dictators, petty tyrants, religious fanatics and the American left.

The folks who went all in for defeat just need to get used to the idea of a Victory in Iraq (VI Day) parade in DC this July 5. See ya' there.

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[LT Nixon]

I find it really surprising that people didn't want to see a bunch of preachy movies from 60's era liberals. Especially when the movies have nothing to due with the reality of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[defendusa]

Yep, that war has never solved anything poster baffles even folks in their "right minds"! At a GOE Rally in Chapel Hill, a guest speaker/military man even asked me what did my sign mean? I was ready for a fight, until I realized he was the guest speaker. All was forgiven and I explained what it meant-to which he gave me a thumbs up/aha! and said I should "hunker down" (the sign was bigger than me...A freep gave me some bungies to tie it down to a fence) We scared the left away with our PW/GOE signs.

[defendusa]

PS- The left is always angry. Over and over, they are angry and to me, always for the wrong reasons. The trouble with the left is that they cannot seem to deal with their own inadequacies time and again...hence,everything is someone else's fault, and they never find the solutions, the big picture ones to fix the problems. Maybe it's just me?
I'm not sick of the war because I know we will be the victors. And, besides, I read Michael Yon,LW, and all other truth-tellers, see the photos, hear the stories. Did I say,"and I Love B5, too!!"

[jordan]

People may well be war weary, but that doesn't mean they're comfortable seeing individual military men smeared gratuitously. That's why the Betrayus ad backfired so disasterously.

They don't offer a cogent argument against the war, or even America's place in the world, only films that incite hatred toward the troops. You couldn't get away with this against blacks, gays or minorities without being prosecuted for hatespeech.

Poor Oliver Stone even had to reach waaay back to Vietnam to get fodder for his anti-American movie on MyLai. Guess our military's being a little too disciplined and law-abiding for his taste. Or prejudices.

[mindy1]

I did not see them because they looked boring, and I have no desire to see movies which make our soldiers look bad.

[DinobotPrime]

Transformers the movie made a killing in the Box office and on DVD sales here in the US . It is not just the special effects of seeing Autobots and Decepticons interacting with live actors and fighting with each other . It also showed the US military in a very positive light which appealed not only to americans but other moviegoers worldwide . The values of leadership , sacrifice and heroism as well as fighting against impossible odds is shown throughout the movie while Redacted ignored everything the US military stand for and smeared them all with the crimes of some of it's rogue members .

The saddest part is this , a Sci-fi movie based on a cartoon showed the whole world what the real US military is really about while the movie Redacted which is based on a real incident showed the ignorance and bigotry of the left in regards to everything about the US military . It's really a pity .

[David]

If asked I would have to say I was tired of the war on the first day. BUT, losing is not an option and I support the troops and the mission.

[Zoe1951]

Hollywood no longer has any connection to the rest of the country. How many of the movie characters are believable? Very few because "they" don't know who we are anymore. And because they don't know who we are they don't know that those serving in the military are our sons & daughters, fathers, husbands, mothers, wives, friends.....they are loved by us.
For the first time Americans are having a real interface with the people in the Middle East. We are in new territory and the possibility of real dialog with these people because our military didn't give up! God bless them all!

[rick554]

I've always considered it to be MY war AND George Bush's war.The fact that my Son is a SOLDIER only makes it just a tad more personal. WIN the WAR!!!
God bless our TROOPS!!

[Arch]

I am a movie freak – 54" HDTV with sound so realistic that it scares my dogs. In my collection of 200+ movies, 57 are about armed military conflict. Ancient Greece 2, Rome 1, Napoleonic War 1, Civil War 4, Meiji Restoration 1, Sudan 1, Boer War 1, Mexican Incursion 1, WWI 7, WWII 20, Korea 2, Vietnam 8, Cold War 4, Rwanda 1, Somalia 1 and Bosnia 1.

In Band of Brothers, Black Hawk Down, The Great Raid and Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima, Hollywood seems to have gotten it right. Only one over the top Vietnam War film, Mel Gibson's We Were Soldiers bore any semblance to reality.

The good war movies are old. I own two versions of All Quiet on The Western Front. The 1930 production starring Lew Ayers is by far the better. 12 O'Clock High, Mister Roberts and the Caine Mutiny are classics, but if I had to pick one war film, it would be Paths of Glory.

Many of my favorite war films are foreign. Master & Commander and Enigma are British films. Australia has an amazing cinema industry. Their Boer War & WWI films, Breaker Morant, Gallipoli and Lighthorsemen, are wonderful. Everyone needs a copy of the German submarine film, Das Boot.

There are many people who spend what I do on home theater and Hollywood isn't appealing to my taste in entertainment to their own detriment.

Arch

[Uncle Jimbo]

There is an excellentVietnam era flick about the Aussies called "The odd angry shot" that is brilliant

Cordially,

Uncle J

[Arch]

UJ

Where can I get The Odd Angry Shot?

Arch

[Uncle Jimbo]

C'mon Arch, did you just ask me to go to Amazon.com or e-Bay for you. I bet both have it, although I don't know if it's on DVD.

Cordially,

Uncle J

[Arch]

Jimbo:

I'll look. Thanks.

Arch

[Robert]

No one likes war but it has to go on tell some one wins and seeing these signs makes me wonder if they have ever took history in school with out war we would not be as great as we are now.

GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!