No Oscar For You: Matt Damon’s Iraq Critique Moved to March

Why would a company interested in making money (so they say) make yet another film trashing the Iraq War? By my count (narratives and documentaries), 13 have already flopped miserably and yet Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass team up for number 14, this one a big-budget studio critique of a war that successfully liberated 25 million innocent people.

Companies truly interested in making a profit don’t behave this way, which is why there’s never been a New Coke 2, much less a New Coke 14. And yet, Universal doubles down on more anti-Americanism using the fig-leaf of “based on a true story” to hide their malicious intentions which — to anyone paying attention — are always exposed by which “true stories” they choose to drop in theaters all over the world.

Here’s the New Yorker description of the book “Green Zone” is based on: (more…)

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Tags: "Green Zone", "Wolfman", Benicio Del Toro, Iraq, Matt Damon
Posted Jul 31st 2009 at 11:11 am in Film, Politics | 195334188 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/07/31/no-oscar-for-you-matt-damons-iraq-critique-moved-to-march/No+Oscar+For+You%3A+Matt+Damon%27s+Iraq+Critique+Moved+to+March2009-07-31+18%3A11%3A28John+Nolte