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Box Office: Alice Turns Damon a Sickly Green (Green Zone Bombs)
Time ^ | 3/15/10 | Richard Corliss

Posted on 03/15/2010 9:44:32 AM PDT by Haiku Guy

In Team America: World Police, the first Hollywood-financed movie inspired by the U.S. invasion of Iraq and its attendant political controversy, South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone dispatched a squad of U.S. guerrillas — all in marionette form — to take down an Axis of Evil dictator and, in the process, slaughter the real villains of the piece: a bunch of self-important celebrities who had publicly opposed the U.S. policy. One of these stars is Matt Damon, who is portrayed as such an idiot that all his dialogue consists of is his grinning stupidly while saying, "Matt Damon!" The puppet Damon ends up dead, his head snapped by a Team America hero.

The real Matt Damon didn't fare much better as the star of the new Green Zone: he went looking for the truth about Iraq's WMDs, and got blown up by the IED of public indifference.

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(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


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Yet another self-important revisionist anti-Iraq War movie bombs. Every time Hollywood sinks another $200 Million into yet another disaster project like this, I smile...
1 posted on 03/15/2010 9:44:32 AM PDT by Haiku Guy
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To: Haiku Guy

Green Zone first week returns of $14.5 Million on an investment of $230 Million.

Gotta love it!


2 posted on 03/15/2010 9:46:41 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave.)
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Plus Universal has tainted the already-flagging Borne Identity brand by tying it to this stinker...
3 posted on 03/15/2010 9:47:31 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave.)
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To: Haiku Guy

I completely stopped going to movies several years ago. Don’t miss it a bit.

But I love that this propaganda hit piece bombed.


4 posted on 03/15/2010 9:51:23 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Haiku Guy

I enjoyed Alice.

I’m glad it whooped that POS Damon and his POS movie.


5 posted on 03/15/2010 9:51:36 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: Haiku Guy

Good. I hope they all go bankrupt while nobody listens to their “message”.

..of course, they’ll just expect a guhmit handout when that happens.


6 posted on 03/15/2010 9:57:29 AM PDT by envisio (My wife don't care if I smell like welding rods and gasoline. She actually kinda likes it.)
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LOL! Maybe Jimmie Kimmel will invite him his show again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PZNfOZXPJk

7 posted on 03/15/2010 9:58:34 AM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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Matt Damon sucks.

Go Alice!


8 posted on 03/15/2010 9:59:32 AM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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“One of these stars is Matt Damon, who is portrayed as such an idiot that all his dialogue consists of is his grinning stupidly while saying, “Matt Damon!” The puppet Damon ends up dead, his head snapped by a Team America hero. “

To be fair, the reason this was, was because the puppet came out very bad and so they just ran with the appearance.

Just for the sake of truthfulness.


9 posted on 03/15/2010 10:01:29 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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How many ‘Air Americas’ do these lefties need to create before it finally sinks in that is doesn’t sell.


10 posted on 03/15/2010 10:02:08 AM PDT by rod1
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"How many ‘Air Americas’ do these lefties need to create before it finally sinks in that is doesn’t sell."

The "fairness doctrine" will be expanded to cover movies....

11 posted on 03/15/2010 10:05:28 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Democracy, the vilest form of government, pits the greed of an angry mob vs. the rights of a man)
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Maybe Pelosi can cram a government takeover of Holllywood into the health care reconciliation bill...

ObamaStudios! For the Children!


12 posted on 03/15/2010 10:07:22 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave.)
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public indifference

Um, no. But thanks for playing.

If the public were indifferent, Damon's movie would have fared considerably better. Be certain, the public is not indifferent.

With the exception of Avatar, anti-American films don't do well. Were Avatar anything less than a 3D motion capture/computer animation extravaganza, I'd dare say it would have done about as well as Ferngully. I only know of two folks (libs) who have actually seen it.

13 posted on 03/15/2010 10:13:11 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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Paranoid Anti-Military Movie ‘Green Zone’ Hailed by Top NY Times Movie Critic

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2471355/posts?page=25


14 posted on 03/15/2010 10:13:20 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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“They fought the war, and the war won.”

UH Huh. Universal may end up on the financial cutting floor if they keep backing dogs. (apologies to dogs everywhere)

Wow, they are in the tank for 200 mil. Yikes.


15 posted on 03/15/2010 10:15:30 AM PDT by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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Ah, if only Damon had invested a considerable amount of his own fortune in making the movie. That would be even sweeter.

BTW, on an (almost) completely unrelated note, a remake to the 80’s action classic “Red Dawn” is scheduled to come out this summer. I’m wondering how much of the film’s politics will be Damon-esque this time around?


16 posted on 03/15/2010 10:20:33 AM PDT by DemforBush (Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
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Thanks for posting the delicious details about the Green Zone. I heard on the radio that Green Zone came in second to Alice this last weekend and had no idea it had been smoked. Hopefully Green Zone tanks quickly and turns into a major money loser for the studio.

OT - I heard Tom Hanks' ignorant comments about WWII on Laura Ingraham's show this morning and they come across even worse that they did in print since you can hear the snidely superior tone in his voice. IMDB lists quite a few products involving Hanks coming up this year and next which I sincerely hope flop big time. He is definitely on my permanent sh!t list.

17 posted on 03/15/2010 10:21:48 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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I’m wondering how much of the film’s politics will be Damon-esque this time around...

Betcha the plot will be right wing generals pull a coup and the wolverines will be the brave progressive force that is trying to get "their" country back.

18 posted on 03/15/2010 10:24:29 AM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Another day, another injury, another step closer. Are you prepared?)
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Betcha the plot will be right wing generals pull a coup and the wolverines will be the brave progressive force that is trying to get "their" country back.

Maybe the right-wing cabal can be backed by Michigan-Militia types, NRA members and armed Tea Partiers... The Wolverines can repel them with water balloons!

19 posted on 03/15/2010 10:28:57 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave.)
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i have overheard some of these Hollywood writers recently, trust me THEY DON’T GET IT.


20 posted on 03/15/2010 10:32:48 AM PDT by echomike23
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