Badland:yet ANOTHER anti troop/war/America movie!

http://www.badlandfilm.com/ ^

[World_Events]

SYNOPSIS (from main website):

"Jerry is a Marine reservist who was a young patriot and idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he is called up for deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq, Jerry is a father of three; older and embittered by a life besieged by broken promises, and unfulfilled desires.

Jerry returns a changed man, transformed by horrors committed that go beyond comprehension and sanity, pain inflicted that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of his unexplained outbursts of rage, his wife, Nora, unsympathetic to the nosebleeds and night terrors he suffers. She hides money her sons earn from their paper route in case they need to leave. Their crowded trailer home becomes a prison. His failure as a man, his actions as a soldier, is the punishment which they share. He realizes that the respect and dignity he has spent his life trying to achieve will always elude him.

When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he has experienced in combat could have prepared him for.

Badland is a gut-wrenching, poignant look at the aftermath of war on a returning Iraq war veteran and his family. It is the story of a man who loses his soul and how a daughter's love and faith brings redemption to his unspeakable crimes"

[World_Events]

Unbelievable. We had to suffer from movie after movie beating us over the head about how bad the war is, how evil our troops are, etc. etc. etc. Flop after flop like redacted, lions for lambs, valley of elah, and yet they STILL come out with this garbage. Can't they at least come up with something a wee bit more original than the "vet" who comes home traumatized and goes john rambo?

I swear....

[roses of sharon]

Hollywood Hatefest.

[wideawake]

I suspect that Hollywood keeps making these anti-American propaganda films even though they lose tons of money at the box-office because they will eventually make their way to cable, where they will run ad nauseam to an impressionable, semi-captive audience.

By the time election season rolls around, these films will have spent a couple of months on Showtime, HBO, Cinemax, Starz, Encore and maybe even on USA or TNT.

[darkwing104]

Just think of the phrase "Stuck on Stupid"...It describes Hollywood perfectly.

[randog]

Can't they at least come up with something a wee bit more original than the "vet" who comes home traumatized and goes john rambo?

They will when it becomes too painful to make crap like this, i.e. when it hurts their wallets. I've heard reports that Hwood is rethinking the whole lefty war movie concept because no one (including lefties) is watching them. Unfortunately, I don't think they'll completely turn the corner and make good war movies. I think the era of "Midway" et.al. is long gone.

[dfwgator]

I liked the movie better when it was called, “Born On the Fourth of July.”

[Thrownatbirth]

I liked the plot better when it was called “Iliad and Odyssey”.

[Little Ray]

I suspect they are being funded by our enemies...

[afnamvet]

Hollywood Hatefest.

It's not just Hollywood. Colleges, Universities, Congress and a husband of the leading Donkey candidate.

[Borges]

This appears to be a Canadian film.

[wideawake]

Thanks for the detail. I was taken in by its Hollywood premiere.

[Borges]

Well it was made by a Canadian filmmaker and filmed in Canada. And the production company is ‘Badlands Productions’.

[wideawake]

Well it was made by a Canadian filmmaker and filmed in Canada.

You raise an interesting question.

What makes a Hollywood film a Hollywood film?

Clearly any production by a major Hollywood studio is a Hollywood film. But what are the limiting factors?

Having a Canadian director, like Norman Jewison, doesn't necessarily deHollywoodify a film.

Being filmed in Canada doesn't either, e.g. Billy Madison or How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days.

The cast of Badland is more English and American than Canadian (except presumably for the bit parts on location).

The production company, Badland Corporation, lists its address in North Hollywood.

The executive producers seem to have two other productions in common - the director's first film 20 years ago, and the decidedly Hollywood I, Robot.

And the film is premiering in LA and New York.

Less important is that the film's action putatively takes place in America and its characters are Americans.

Maybe the question should be, what qualifies a film as a foreign film for Academy purposes?

Or maybe the question should be, is the production company fully independent, or does it have studio backers?

[Borges]

The same principal applies to something like Redacted. One may as well call it an NBA film.

I regard Hollywood as the Big Studios (Disney, Time Warner, NBC Universal, Viacom, Sony/Columbia). Anytime someone starts a production co. that's named after the film they're currently making I take it as an Indie.

The Academy Foreign Film Branch only considers films that were submitted by a given country. They don't go out hunting for foreign films to choose from. I suspect this rule is a Cold War relic so they don't cause the sort of problems for filmmakers in oppressive circumstances that the Nobel Committee caused for Pasternak.