Comments on: Memo to Hollywood: There’s Money Sitting On the Table

By: revhatchell

revhatchell — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:13:35 +0000

congratulations! you are only 40 yrs behind the times. i suppose there were people like you in the 60s that pined for the roaring 20s.

8 yrs of unpopular war and you think this is fertile ground for a pro war movie? easy money, huh.

well, why don't you and your john wayne wanna be mouth breathers pony up the dough for an independent film? hmmmm?

your a writer for fux sake. you and the rest of the hacks here can whip up something and get britefart to produce it and he could drudge to link to it.

By: Aesop

Aesop — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:43:57 +0000

The "Hollywood elite" (usually self-appointed) jackholes never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

By: EdGi

EdGi — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:03:16 +0000

7042, the broardcast standards offices of the purchasing nets and studios is the "decider" of such things; they produce the guides of acceptible negatve and positive portrayals, and what they do not buy does not get shown. Our vet groups public affairs commitees, including your own, have not had the "discussions" with broadcast standards that our enemies have had, and in fact, some of our own groups have actually encouraged the negative portrayals in the mistaken belief that it encourages vet program funding.

By: rsmith7042

rsmith7042 — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:37:44 +0000

Gover, You should renounce your citizenship and live in Vietnam or Cambodia. Clearly you are not happy with America. Perhaps France will take you, if you are man enough for them. Communists are bad, Americans are good.

By: LawhawkSF

LawhawkSF — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:14:29 +0000

Thank you for the kind words. Those were terrible times. Almost a mini-civil war. Brother against brother, friend against friend, and some of those wounds have never healed. It sparked the rise of the radical left which is still fighting the war by other names. It created an opportunity for our enemies, foreign and domestic, to make anti-Americanism a virtue. And it created an entire generation of politicians and academics who are determined that we should never go to war, any time, for any reason, anywhere. Even 9-11 was not enough to wake them from their stupor. My generation will have to be long gone before there's a proper historical perspective. As you can tell from these posts, even those of us who love America and wish her only good, still have strong emotional reactions to a discussion of the topic. And the trolls are the offspring of those politicians and academics I mentioned.

By: Teacher in Tejas

Teacher in Tejas — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:10:20 +0000

My problem with "Full Metal Jacket," and I am not the first to comment on this or have this idea, is that the first 45 minutes at Parris Island are absolutely stunning examples of acting, writing, directing editing and that ends with one of the most jaw dropping middle-of-the-movie surprises EVER. The rest of the film is anti-climactic. I really didn't care what happened to Joker and the boys in that battle. Others have pointed this out. I think it may have been TIME's reviewer says, the second half just boils down to whether or not to shoot the teenage sniper.

By: Teacher in Tejas

Teacher in Tejas — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:59:45 +0000

Thank you Lawhawk. I was ten when Saigon fell in 1975 so I really didn't have a dog in the Vietnam fight. That was one of the most thoughtful, fair, balance and inciteful commments on that huge mess that I have ever read.

Braveo

By: Carl Parsons

Carl Parsons — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:38:32 +0000

The Protestant revolution in Europe resulted in similar church/state bastardizations. Again, the purity of Christ's church was diluted by the power-hungry who utilized the church/state relationship to stifle independant study of God's word and man's relationship to God. In these states, to have a relationship to the state was to have a relationship with the church, and therefore a pre-defined relationship with God. It is interesting that only in America did we see both a rise in non-denominational Christianity and a rise in oft-times bizarre cults. This is a by-product of freedom. But these do not undermine the supremacy of God. Lesser men will throw up their hands and declare that God is unable to be understood because of the confusion a freedom loving society produces, but God has promised that those who genuinely seek Him will find him, therefore God is not out of reach of anyone.

By: Carl Parsons

Carl Parsons — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:37:59 +0000

The founders of this nation understood that while God created man with liberty, government was the greatest impediment to liberty. And one of the greatest dangers to liberty was a bastardized government that utilized religious tradition to subjugate people to tyrannical obedience and established itself as God's spokesman on earth. This is what took place within the Roman Catholic church during the Dark Ages, a period of time where, I might add, the Bible was out of the hands of the common man and reserved to the Latin readings of an educated, elitist clergy.

By: Carl Parsons

Carl Parsons — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:37:12 +0000

Leviticus 25:10 is inscribed on the Liberty Bell. While it is not a founding document, it is a clear indicator that Liberty is a product of God as sourced in the Bible. "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof."