Redacted: This Movie Can Kill

Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation ^ | Nov. 26, 2007 | Robert A. McMahon

[Phil Harmonic]

Redacted

How many American soldiers will lose their lives because of this anti-war movie? That is the first question anyone who sees the recently released anti-American film should ask. I was one of only four people at the Ritz Bourse theater for the first showing in Philadelphia last Friday. I hope this suggests that it will fail to find an audience in the United States. I have no doubt it will be a hit with those who seek to destroy America.

While the pattern of Hollywood’s anti-American commitment is the same as it was in Vietnam, one of the major differences between Vietnam and Iraq is the timing of the Hollywood movies. At least Hollywood generally waited until the troops were out of Vietnam before their movies were released vilifying American soldiers. Today, the studios are competing to get the movies out NOW while our troops are still in the line of fire.

[Phil Harmonic]

Robert McMahon, board member of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, on the price likely to be exacted...and from WHOM...by this abominable leftist assault on our military.

[Izzy Dunne]

I have no doubt it will be a hit with those who seek to destroy America.

I would assume that, too; but all reports are that EVERYBODY is staying away.

[Red Badger]

Redacted is Red Acted.............

[3AngelaD]

Bombs away. In its opening weekend, “Redacted” earned $25,628 while “Beowulf” earned $27,515,871. Theaters earned $8,100 per screen for “Beowulf” while “Redacted” only earned $1,708 per screen. Subtitle: Mark Cuban watches his money circle the drain.

[trumandogz]

Is there any evidence that the events as portrayed in Redacted ever took place?

[Jeff Chandler]

all reports are that EVERYBODY is staying away.

Yes, they are staying away in droves.

[bpjam]

But the overseas markets for these movies will be very specific. Watch for a Farsi and Arabic translation to be hurried into print so they can be released to the Middle East and Asia. And within six months, we’ll be seeing them sold in the street markets in Baghdad, Kabul and the West Bank.

Its impossible to believe that the film makers/producers/promoters/etc are too naive to understand that people who do actually hate America are going to be using their films as the ‘proof’ that America is the Great Satan and a recruiting tool for more suicide bombers.

[adm5]

Subtitle: Mark Cuban watches his money circle the drain.

To all the Dallas Mavericks fans out there, you need to know that the owner of this NBA franchise, (Mark Cuban) financed this awful anti-American, anti- U.S. Soldier fiction-piece during a TIME OF WAR!!!!

I can only hope and pray that Mav's fans stop supporting this leftist/socialist P.O.S. until that point when the franchise is sold to a more Patriotic person(s).

Does Michael Moore like basketball?

[3AngelaD]

Yup. Brian De Palma ought to be made to live in one of those hell holes, instead of this country that he hates so much. Of course, he is the kind of wuss who wouldn’t last five minutes in one of those places.

[dfwgator]

Subtitle: Mark Cuban watches his money circle the drain.

And his Mavs are going down the very same drain.

[been_lurking]

But the overseas markets for these movies will be very specific. Watch for a Farsi and Arabic translation to be hurried into print so they can be released to the Middle East and Asia. And within six months, we’ll be seeing them sold in the street markets in Baghdad, Kabul and the West Bank.

The cash flow from middle eastern countries for movie theater tickets is what exactly? I would think there is a small population that can afford to pay for a movie. Street markets will be selling knock-offs and nobody in Hollywood will see a penny of those sales.

As to the propaganda value -- they hate us already, will this movie make them hate us more? I think not. The whole issue is a tempest in a tea pot.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Yeah. Something like it happened once in Iraq and the perpetrators were arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/04/army.rape.slaying.ap/index.html

But DePalma tries to convey the impression that these incidents happen constantly, are covered up, and “redacted” from news media reports.

DePalma is a sleazy sack of human garbage. Sadly he is like most in Hollywood—an industry incapable of producing anything anymore but celluloid dog feces.

[50sDad]

I boil over stuff like this. In WWII, Hollywood cranked out potboilers about how brave and valient our boys were to keep up the hope in the homeland. Of course, that was in the Studio Era when the producers and management "owned" the talent, and you acted in the movie you were given, and the embarassing personal leanings of your favorite stars were mostly kept out of the limelight, hidden away in Hollywood, because the people who sold the movies knew what we didn't want to know about the stars. To them, selling movies was like selling soap powder. If you gave people what they wanted, you sold product.

With the demise of the Studio powers-that-were, the stars became disproportionately powerful. Today, actors don't give a damn about impressing anyone but other actors...and you know where that leads.

[GOP Poet]

I am surprised this film got distribution. I wonder what company was foolish enough. It only takes three fools to make and bring to the theaters such a disgraceful film--a director, a financier, and a distributor. Why pray tell are theaters even showing this? They are the fourth that could put an end to it all right here. However when no one shows up for the ball . . . that is the nail in the coffin and the biggest and best statement by the people saying, "Get this trash off the screen."

Did anyone see the montage with Cuban's Dancing with the Stars footage and the American soldiers fighting on Fox news last night. I loved it.

Why does Dallas continue to support his team?

[GOP Poet]

celluloid dog feces

:-) apt description.

[Rummyfan]

Brain De Palma should be forced to spend a week in the streets of Baghdad for producing this treasonous filth. See how the jihadis treat him....

[Rummyfan]

And take Mark Cuban too!

[bilhosty]

Mark Cuban is also the A-hole that signed Dan Rather to a contract. I hope his money is going south on that one too.

[Wright Wing]

How Hollywood “Supports” the troops...

[GOP Poet]

So many names to play with here . . . my choice for today is: Regurgitated. As in Hollywood just eats this poo and throws it back up and it gets more and more nasty.

Sorry folks for the visual, but apt as well I think as it is just disgusting and our honorable service men and women pay the price for a film that needs to be buried with lime in the sewer. Sounds as though it is already being buried by the American people though :-). Thank you for posting the article. It is right on!