Comments on: Can Movies Lose Wars?

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:26:59 +0000

Have you been to Israel? Have you lived with younger Israelis in Israel? Are your opinions about Israel based on what you see on TV News?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:35:25 +0000

Did this guy actually see Waltz with Bashir? It's not anti-Israeli or anti-USA. It's a soldiers story about reclaiming supressed memories from his time in Lebanon and how war affects the young people fighting it and it only shows the Israeli soldiers perspective of the war. So i really dont think you know what you're talking about.

By: Harry R. Sohl

Harry R. Sohl — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:36:13 +0000

“Film has an impact.”

Yes, in the exact way that drivel “by Ben Shapiro” doesn’t and never, ever will.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:54:01 +0000

This kid is great! Do not let him get away. Between his article on “Lost” and this one, I can not wait. Like I said before, it is exactly like a car wreck I can’t stop looking at.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:31:32 +0000

@Dirk – Yeah, that’s a pretty awful and uninformed cartoon. So, there was unfounded left-wing criticism of Tillman after his death. Despite appearances, I don’t spent every waking minute on the Internet.

Other than this isolated cartoon, was there widespread criticism of Tillman after his death?

My question is, which is more unfounded – a low-rent partisan cartoonist writing something out of his San Francisco studio, or the soldier’s commanding officers blatantly lying to his family and working to cover up the circumstances of his death?

I’m just saying, Tillman is a poor example to use to show a soldier being denigrated by liberals.

By: Dirk Belligerent

Dirk Belligerent — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:31:00 +0000

@Sasha – “And who denigrated him, exactly? I have never read or heard a negative word about this man.”

Well, since you probably only seek out views that confirm your prejudices – typical of the incurious nature of liberals – you must’ve missed this charming Ted Rall cartoon which smears Tillman as a racist killer who is an “idiot” and “sap”. It was all over teh Intarwebz and you missed it? Really? Was there a Very Special Barney on that day?

Back under the bridge with ya, troll!

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:48:28 +0000

This brings up an interesting fact of American life. American film-makers especially, but folks in TV and the news media, too, are exceptionally good at airing American ‘dirty laundry’. Thus, the entire world has an understanding of all the warts and faults of only their own country and America.

Since people worldwide have a higher tolerance for their own foibles than they do for those of others, the net effect of America airing its dirty laundry so efficiently is contempt for America.

If such a lens were placed on every other country, the world would see that America is not more evil, degraded and dysfunctional than other nations. Rather, the world would see that the problems besetting the US are human failings that affect all nations.

The world would also likely see that the people of the US are the most generous group in the world. Flawed, but well-intentioned and generous. And, Americans are largely lacking in the long-standing group vs. group hatreds that have festered for centuries in most other nations of the world.

By: Keith_Indy

Keith_Indy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:25:08 +0000

And of the hundreds of total releases, how many were pro-war/pro-American, or even just neutral in it’s treatment of the subject?

Where would anyone find a balanced view of the war in popular culture?

The news certainly hasn’t provided it.

By: DoktorZoom

DoktorZoom — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:12:20 +0000

16 anti-war films, including documentaries, in two years? Out of how many total releases over the same two years? A few hundred, at least, I’d assume. Wow. How will patriotic Americans ever withstand that relentless flood of propaganda?

By: Keith_Indy

Keith_Indy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:43:57 +0000

In America, this sort of self-indulgent caterwauling is scorned by the mass public.

The film community in the United States may skew heavily to the left. It may see its true mission as reshaping American foreign policy along European lines. And it may make anti-war films with that mission in mind. But the American public rejects the Hollywood view.

The point isn’t that the films aren’t profitable, it’s that the “American public rejects the Hollywood view.”

So, why are you bringing up the fact that some of these films did have wonderful box office takes worldwide???