Even Ryan Philippe couldn't save Stoploss this weekend. It's numbers look absolutely abysmal.
Sadder yet, it got blown out of the water by fucking Superhero Movie, the umpteenth superhero parody this year.
Tracy Morgan should have made Fat Bitch 2.
But this is hardly news. It seems every Iraq War film released in the past few years has fallen on deaf ears. It seems this War is a place where good movies go to die.
Are people apathetic, yes. It seems that after 9/11, we as a whole(No one, not even Anti-war folks are watching these movies), prefer escapism in the movies. And on TV. It to me is the main difference between Vietnam and Today. Then, nightly news actually showed what War looked like, people made movies about the War that people went to. Nowadays, thata don' happena so much-a.
I'm just as guilty as the next person. Sure, I could have seen Lions for Lambs, but I wanted to watch Zombies. And Milla Jojovich cuz she's naked in every one of those movies.
Still I'm not giving up hope. Someone will eventually make a powerful film on this war that people will see. Let's just hope it doesn't take untill 2034 for that to happen.
Sadder yet, it got blown out of the water by fucking Superhero Movie, the umpteenth superhero parody this year.
Tracy Morgan should have made Fat Bitch 2.
But this is hardly news. It seems every Iraq War film released in the past few years has fallen on deaf ears. It seems this War is a place where good movies go to die.
Are people apathetic, yes. It seems that after 9/11, we as a whole(No one, not even Anti-war folks are watching these movies), prefer escapism in the movies. And on TV. It to me is the main difference between Vietnam and Today. Then, nightly news actually showed what War looked like, people made movies about the War that people went to. Nowadays, thata don' happena so much-a.
I'm just as guilty as the next person. Sure, I could have seen Lions for Lambs, but I wanted to watch Zombies. And Milla Jojovich cuz she's naked in every one of those movies.
Still I'm not giving up hope. Someone will eventually make a powerful film on this war that people will see. Let's just hope it doesn't take untill 2034 for that to happen.
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