[CyberAnt]

Well .. Bush may enforce the ban .. BUT IT WAS THEIR FAVORITE PRESIDENT - ["I didn't kill the kid"] BILL CLINTON - WHO WROTE THE EO.

Bill Clinton didn't want the public to see the bodies of our brave soldiers he had recklessly sent into battle .. with NO PLAN FOR VICTORY .. and because Clinton didn't want to take the heat for their deaths.

[armymarinemom]

I feel that people will be interested in seeing the story of the human cost of this" war,

Oh, like he knows all about dealing with the war on a personnel level. The audacity of these jerks is simple amazing.

[OKIEDOC]

Just another feel good movie for the left.

A flash in the pan that will end up no better than many B grade movies of yore.

In fact many of todays Hollywood movies can not hold a candle to some of those old B movies from the 1930's and 40's.

I watch TCM and AMC more than I do HBO, Cinemax, Showtime or Starz put together.

With 30 or more movie channel choices I find it hard to really find a decent movie on most nights.

Hard Rain, Bourne Supremacy, Father of the Bride, Maria Full of Grace, The Hamburg Cell, Man On Fire and Open Range are some of the better ones I have seen lately.

[dennisw]

Cusack was v good in the Grifters. He was in "Eight Men Out" Other than that who cares?

[Charles Martel]

"I'm not worried about how it turns out in the first two months after it's released. A piece of art takes a while to be appreciated or not - if it is a piece of art. You try to make something that has some value and then in three, four or five years, it will still be interesting or it will have a pulse.

He should check the current sales and rental figures for Fahrenheit: 9-11 if he wants to sample the shelf life of agitprop films.

[eleni121]

Cusack...embarrassing. Wants to be the neurotic everyman...but comes across as the forgettable everyman.

[FlashBack]

John who?????

[ChildOfThe60s]

[Gondring]

Immediately after 9/11, I worked at the mortuary where the bodies come in...and where Pentagon victims were. I wonder if this maroon would accept my invitation to go into a soundproof room and close the door and let me explain what a horrific war we're in.

[Kellykoop]

I liked him better when the paperboy was chasing after him for his two dollars.

[Homer1]

Memo to John Cusack: People are not so dumb they don't understand the cost of war. We don't need to see caskets to understand what an awful, freadful decison it is to have to go to war.

[Major Matt Mason]

John Cusack plays the exact same character in every movie that he is in. He's the white Will Smith.

[weegee]

John Cusack's motivation for his latest film grew out of something he did not see - flag-draped caskets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Pentagon policy bans media coverage of America's war dead as their remains are returned.

5 years after the 9-11 attacks and I have still only ever seen 1 picture of a body from the attacks. 3,000 people died and no photos.

Odd that John Cussak should choose to highlight his hatred of the war in Iraq but not do anything to shout outrage at the Islamic war against the west.

Consider how many times the conspiracy link photos and internet movies have been posted about the 9-11 attacks (not so much to FR as to apolitical forums and email lists). And yet dead bodies from the 9-11 attacks don't "exist" in the minds of Americans.

[Sprite518]

Too bad for you John. I enjoyed many of your slap stick movies, but I will no longer watch them.


What the heck is in the water in Hollywood? Why do Actors come out of the blue and start lecturing to the rest of us? Oh well his loss....

[Question Liberal Authority]

I think people are probably tired of being manipulated endlessly on the reasons and realities of this misadventure

Is he talking about the war here, or Hollywood's contant churning out of movies like this?

[Global2010]

If Cussack wanted to know about what happens once a US Serviceman's coffin comes home why didn't he just ask that Cindy lady who camped outside of Bush's Texas Ranch?

[Mr. Silverback]

The administration of U.S. President George Bush has strongly enforced the ban, something Cusack describes as "one of the most shameful, disgraceful, cowardly political acts that I've seen in my lifetime."

How sad that he can't see it...nobody's dead boy should be a media spectacle. Preventing such a sick circus is far from cowardly, it is simple decency.

It's also sad that Cusack thinks he matters.

[fr_freak]

George Bush has strongly enforced the ban, something Cusack describes as "one of the most shameful, disgraceful, cowardly political acts that I've seen in my lifetime."

The ban is in place precisely so that jackals like this Cusack fool can't dishonor the bodies of American servicmen for political gain. These leftist fools, if given the chance, would be plastering pictures of the caskets on front pages everyday, probably listing them by name, without the slightest repsect or regard for the soldiers or their families.

[bannie]

I just wanted to put it somewhere, and this seemed like a good place. :-)

[wizardoz]

I remember a story about Cusack called "celebrity looting," about celebs who go into very tony stores in Beverly Hills and just... steal things. Quite boldly. And the store lets them get away with it because having a star wear your clothing becomes sort of free advertising. "Look, John Cusack's wearing so-and-so's leather jacket!" (He didn't pay for it, but...)

I used to think he was pretty cool, way back in the 1980s. I'll never forget that image of him holding the boombox up over his head with "In Your Eyes" playing. But after the "celebrity looting" story I started thinking, hm. Maybe he's just a jerk like all the others. Increasingly, nothing any of them does surprises me.