Saturday, March 29, 2008

Another Hollywood ‘Failure’

Great reviews for Stop Loss, but....

....the general public just don’t buy it.

I’m told #7 Stop-Loss opened to only $1.6 million Friday from just 1,291 plays and should eke out $4+M. Although the drama from MTV Films was the best-reviewed movie opening this weekend, Paramount wasn’t expecting much because no Iraq war-themed movie has yet to perform at the box office.”—Commentor

So. What did you expect? From another anti-American POS.

As for the concept behind the film....

...that once you’ve sworn to lay down your very life to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies—foreign and domestic—you’re ‘out’ when your ETS arrives?

How dense are you anyway?

Once you’ve shown you’ve got more courage than those who never took that oath, why should US forget?

On another note....were you, or your parents or friends, asleep during Gulf War 1? They used Stop Loss then.

As for me. I know I could be called back at ANY time, if the government felt I had something they needed. And I’m quite prepared to do it, should they send that call. In my case it is not called “Stop Loss”. Rather, it is called ‘Operation CERTAIN SAGE’. I even practiced it once.

As one sergeant I knew would put it, “Shut up and soldier.”

“‘It’s not looking good, a studio source told me before the weekend. ‘No one wants to see Iraq war movies. No matter what we put out there in terms of great cast or trailers, people were completely turned off. It’s a function of the marketplace not being ready to address this conflict in a dramatic way because the war itself is something that’s unresolved yet. It’s a shame because it’s a good movie that’s just ahead of its time.’—Commentor, citing some studio shill

Oh. Great. Another studio hack with his evasions and obfuscations.

The only reason this movie, like so many others of its ilk, is ‘failing’ is because it is, as they are, nothing more than anti-American propaganda. And SHAME on Paramount and other such studios and their staffs and management for attempting such.

If they hate America so much, let them practice their craft in Communist China.

Either that or take the pledge to become a Muslim. [Note: I’d really like to see what they’d think of being ‘cut off’ from all those Hollywood starlet bimbos by Sharia law.]

Personally? I don’t see this as a ‘failure’. I see it as a re-affirmation that Americans still love their lives and their country and are not as stupid as Hollywood and other such propagandists would like to believe. It reminds me of Lord of the Rings, wherein Gandalf comments, that the men of the West are not as weak as Sauron would like to think. That there is still strenght. And Sauron—or his latter-day ilk—fear this.