Posted on 11/19/2007 3:37:30 AM PST by SkyPilot
A very insightful, and mighty smackdown, of Brian De Palma's propaganda movie "Redacted" by Michael Medved.
He calls the movie "The worst film I have ever seen."
Medved has been reviewing movies for over 25 years, and certainly knows his subject.
Brian De Palma really layed an egg with this one.
He couldn't even make an effective propaganda movie.
The DI’s on the Island would never allow anyone to get off that island in that condition.
That picture says it all, doesn’t it.
It’s a shame DePalma couldn’t work a Globe and Anchor in there, somewhere. You figure a genius like him could have figured that out.
Yep! They bomb in USA theaters ... but it is the overseas CD market that they targeted ... a hate USA CD will bring in the money.
I didn’t see the movie but did they call the Marine who was called Rush by a nickname Rusty????
You are right on the money. Bin Laden will buy millions of these DVDs.
This movie was not made to sell in the US, it was made to tarnish the President and the US military in the eyes of the world.
It will do gangbusters when it’s released overseas.
This stinker directly attacks the military and our national image.
Many of the more famous offerings habitually attack morality, marriage, family, virginity, parental authority, American traditions etc.
Sometimes the liberal's attack comes in a prettier wrapper than this one, but they are still harmful garbage.
$21000 wouldn’t even pay the bar bill at DePalma’s presser.
It was definitely made for a target audience. Unfortunately we are the targets.
Yes but the only Country that makes these dirt bags rich is the USA.
“DePalma must think all US movie goers are dumber than a stump.”
Perhaps DePalma is not too bright himself, and believes all moviegoers think the same way.
“This movie might be SO BAD that it won’t even be nominated for an Oscar.”
Maybe not, “An Inconvenient Truth” won.
It isn't bad enough the families have to deal with the loss of their loved one. This swine had to add more grief to the families
Now that’s funny! I didn’t know De Palma was making a comedy.
not to mention the “association” the slime intended for Rush.
Abraham Lincholn where are you when we need you?
The guy in the picture is wearing an Army uniform, except the color is wrong. At first I thought it might be due to the "rendition" of the colors in the image, but the rest of the color tones seem right. It almost seems like they made up a uniform that almost looks like Marine marpatt, but isn't.
Oh, and the rank tab, and the title "Specialist" is Army-only. So are they defaming the Army or the Marines? They need to be more accurate, so I can either be pissed, or really, really, really pissed.
I somehow don’t think its about the money for these people. Its about about making God-loving, Troop-supporting Americans angry. Its about making people on the Left hate their country and feel ashamed about being an American.
Money?, Thats way down the list of reasons for making movies like this. They may take a beating at the box office, but its their red badge of courage they are happy to accept, just for the opportunity to hurt us where it hurts the most, our love for God and Country.
Figures the Hollywood types do not even know the different uniforms of our armed forceas.
That gross of 21K is beyond awesomely bad!
You’d expect more revenue from a film where you managed to get all your friends and acquaintances to the theaters, and were a novice or zero-profile director with no track record. Yikes, that’s bad. Yes, movies like Lions for Lambs and this one, though very different, are doing poorly because most of the viewing audience has seen through the do-gooder (L for L) and do-badder (R) propaganda devices of the Hollywood “community”.
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