Looks like Hollyood is trying to put the cart before the horse, and is looking for the next Deer Hunter, or Apocolypse Now with all of the WOT films that are due for release, or have been released.
From Breitbart:
The wave of recent films set against the backdrop of war in Iraq and post-9/11 security has failed to win over film-goers keen to escape grim news headlines when they go to the movies, analysts say.
In a break with past convention, when films based on real conflicts were made only years after the last shots were fired, several politically-charged films have gone on release while America remains embroiled in Iraq.
Almost without exception, however, the crop of movies have struggled to turn a profit at the box-office and in many cases have received a mauling from unimpressed critics as well.
"Rendition," a drama starring Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal about the CIA's policy of outsourcing interrogation of terror suspects, has taken just under 10 million dollars at the box office, a disastrous return.
Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis's latest film "In the Valley of Elah," about a father investigating the death of his son in Iraq, earned favorable reviews but less than seven million dollars following its release in September.
Even the action-packed "The Kingdom," starring Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner, fell well below its 70 million budget with around 47 million dollars in ticket sales.
The poor returns do not augur well for more war films due for release in North America later this month, notably the Robert Redford-directed drama "Lions for Lambs" and Brian De Palma's hard-hitting "Redacted," based on the real-life rape and murder of an Iraqi schoolgirl by US soldiers.
Lew Harris, the editor of website Movies.com, said the films have struggled to be successful because the subject matters of Iraq and 9/11 remain too close to home. And in many cases, the films have not been entertaining enough. "These movies have to be entertaining," Harris told AFP. "You can't just take a movie and make it anti-war or anti-torture and expect to draw people in. "That's what happened with 'Rendition' and it has been a disaster," he said.
"People want war movies to have a slam-bang adventure feel to them ... But Iraq is a difficult war to portray in a kind of rah-rah-rah, exciting way. "And it's just too close to home. The Vietnam war movies didn't start until long after the war was over".
The majority of these movies are politically charged, and some do not portray the United States, or it's soldiers in a good light. During WWII several movies about the war were released but were patriotic, and portrayed our troops, and our nation as the good guys. Perhaps Hollywood may want to rip a chapter out of history, and revisit the past. It's not movies Americans are tired of, it's Hollywood once again injecting conspiracy, and leftist drivel, and shilling the Democrats political line.
"These movies have to be entertaining," Harris told AFP. "You can't just take a movie and make it anti-war or anti-torture and expect to draw people in.
No, they just have to tell the truth. You just cant' make it anti-war, ant-torture, anti-America, and anti-troops, and expect to draw the majority of Americans in. We get that pounded into us all day, and all night long from just about every MSM print, and broadcast source out there, America bad, every body else victims.
American's want their war movies showing us kicking a$$ ,taking names, and portraying our troops, and our nation as heroes, not zeroes. We want Top Guns, and Rambo's, we want The Longest Day,and The Green Beret's. We want John Waynes, not Jane Fonda's.
Once again Hollywood doesn't get it.............
..........but their new War On America movies should do well in the Middle East.
From The Jawa Report
Terrorists Plan Hollywood in Gaza
(Gaza Strip) Coming soon, Hamaswood! The leaders of Hamas are planning to build a $200 million media city and movie production facility.
So far, though, the Islamic group has raised only a tiny fraction of the money it needs for its own Hollywood, at a time when the Gaza economy has ground to a standstill and its people are struggling to feed themselves because of Israeli and international sanctions against the Islamic group listed as a terror organization.
Even so, Hamas envisions a glittering facility with production and graphics studios, satellite technology, gardens, water ponds, a children's entertainment area and an array of cafes and restaurants, said the Felasteen daily, a Hamas paper.
It will even feature mock towns and villages similar to those that Palestinians fled or were forced out after Israel's creation in 1948, the newspaper reported, quoting Fathi Hamad, a Hamas lawmaker and head of the project.
Not mentioned in the report is the presumed receipt in Gaza of a substantial quantity of strong, hallucination-producing hashish.
What about all those poor oppressed starving Palestinians? Wouldn't the money best be used supporting, and feeding them instead? Not to mention with all of that high grade hashish floating around Gaza somebodies liable to have a serious case of the munchies.
Hamas can save their cash, and invest in Hollywood. They both seem to be on the same page these days anyway.
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