shempmcgurk wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If you live in New York or Los Angeles. Unfortunately John >> > Cusack's > >> "War, Inc." is opening this weekend in only two theaters. The >> > Angelica > >> in New York and the Landmark in Los Angeles. It is a hilarious >> > satire > >> on corporatism and war with Cusack and Dan Ackroyd playing a Dick >> > Cheney > >> like character. Cusack was interview on Thom Hartmann's show this >> morning in the second hour and said he has fought an uphill battle >> > to > >> get it in theaters. Seems out "liberal" Hollywood has fallen in >> > line > >> with the fascists even telling him the war is still going on and >> > the > >> film inappropriate. >> > > > > > Perhaps it has more to do with the fact that anti-Iraq war films > simply don't do very well at the box office since the beginning of > the Gulf War. > > Can you name one anti-war film that's done well? "Redacted"? > > And I don't think the reason is that the movie-going public is PRO > Iraq War; it's more a factor of fatigue. > Same thing happened during WWII. "Flags of Our Fathers" covers the subject as did Ken Burns in his documentary. People are tired of hearing about the war and just wish Bush, his fascist regime and war would go away (many Germans felt the same about Hitler and his regime too). The movie and record industry turned protest into a new genre during the Vietnam war but then most of them weren't owned by the military industrial complex back then.
"Idiocracy" was shelved by Fox and finally released on DVD a good two years after it was finished. It has become a cult hit. It is not about war but the dumbing down of society. There are a number of films that have done well and have anti-war themes in them. I haven't seen "Iron Man" but what I've read the theme was anti-war. "Lord of War" is another film that did okay at the box office and has been popular on DVD. Cusack in his interview the other morning said it was clearly the executives who didn't want this film in theaters. It would probably do well at the box office and will do well on DVD.
