Anti Iraq War Films
One of the more satisfying, under-reported barometers of cultural trends is the dismal box office take of recent movies attacking U.S. foreign policy and the war in Iraq.
Read that article in its entirety, and observe that, in all the reasons offered for why these films have met with public indifference and scorn, the 800-pound gorilla in the room is ignored:
These films are all anti-U.S.
Post here.
You have no idea how happy I am that these films have all bombed at the box office. It was an unexpected bonus that they even the critics didn’t like them. Surprising given the slight liberal tilt of reviewers in the aggregate.
It makes me genuinely happy to see the Anti-America crowd in Hollywood have their shit shoved back in their face.
November 11th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
This is something that plenty of us have been saying all along. You can be against the war and not anti-american. You continue to call people unpatriotic when they go against the administration (summary judgement probably). But the fact remains that one can be against the war, but also equally be against the portrayal of our country as bad. Unfortunately, too many folks in hollywood use summary judgements to decide that if someone is against the war, they must also be anti-american. This lack of logic has made these movies fail.
November 11th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Or maybe it has nothing to do with anti-Americanism and the movies are just poor purely from the perspective of entertainment? After all, that would be the most straightforward interpretation of supposedly liberal-biased critics panning them?
November 12th, 2007 at 12:25 am
It’s always weird when you’re reading one blog, and they refer to a post on another of your preferred blogs. I’ve been reading Bidinotto for a while, have you?