--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > shempmcgurk wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> 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.
The first 10 minutes of "Idiocracy" -- in which they explain the genetical evolution of how idiocy came to characterize future American society -- is brilliant. And it is brilliant because the theme of the movie may actually have hit upon something that will actually happen! I simply didn't enjoy the rest of the movie, however. Too contrived, too overacted, which is a trap that is easy to fall in when you are playing idiots. But back to the theme of "Idiocracy" for a minute. I was thinking about it the other day when I was watching a news show on the new Russia in which it was claimed that the vast majority of Russians were very happy with Putin and the regime he has set up, despite the return to stifling of free speech, free press, and essentially support for the oligarchies. I thought: well, could it be that Stalin, by killing millions of his own enemies and perceived enemies, removed from the Russian gene pool much of the courage gene? Is that why the people are so complacent about what befalls them? If I understood "Idiocracy" correctly, it directly has to do with breeding, over generations, stupidity. Well, we're talking genetics here and if that is possible (I know, I know; it's just a movie!) then it would also be possible to "breed out" positive characteristics as well, no? > > 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. >
