Box Office: Alice Turns Damon a Sickly Green (Green Zone Bombs)

Time ^ | 3/15/10 | Richard Corliss

[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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[hsalaw]

I just loved “Team America” - it was vulgar, gross, politically incorrect, and hysterically funny.

[gleeaikin]

I understand there is going to be a new Market instrument so people can buy stock or ETFs on movies. Anyone have any details on that?

[Haiku Guy]

Well, short this one!

I would avoid that market without a real good source of inside information...

[bamahead]

[Lucky9teen]

I still find it ironic that the HOLLYWOOD sign on the hill, which originally read "HOLLYWOODLAND", was to advertise a new housing development in the hills above the Hollywood district of Los Angeles.

[caww]

I just wish Hollywood would keep their political opinions to themselves. Hanks, Damon, Baldwin, Penn and others.. I will not see their movies now to support their platforms. Can’t stand watching them now.

[Haiku Guy]

Every dollar lost on a project like this is a dollar that cannot be donated to a Democrat politician...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Ditto.
I havn’t run short of old Jimmy Stewart movies...

[Haiku Guy]

I just wish Hollywood would keep their political opinions to themselves. Hanks, Damon, Baldwin, Penn and others.. I will not see their movies now to support their platforms. Can’t stand watching them now.

They're doing you a favor. By coming out and announcing their idiotic point-of-view, they prevent you from watching one of the propaganda flix unawares.

[Haiku Guy]

I havn’t run short of old Jimmy Stewart movies...

NETFLIX should have this one in my mailbox when I get home tonight...

[counterpunch]

We have real people getting killed and maimed by IEDs in Afghanistan right now. I think it was very careless for Time to use “IED” in such a nonchalant fashion to discuss a movie’s box office.

[Haiku Guy]

It’s TIME! Whaddayagonnado?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Was that a staged gag, or did Demon really wig out like that?

[Allegra]

Every time Hollywood sinks another $200 Million into yet another disaster project like this, I smile...

Yep. And I look at it this way. That's money that could have gone to some slimy Dem's campaign.

Keep wasting it, Hollywood.

[Rastus]

The invaders this time are the Chinese.

[ExSoldier]

I saw this movie yesterday because it was billed as another Bourne Identity and while it was interesting in spots, I dozed off several times. As I looked around the audience as we exited the theater and it seemed to me the overall anti-war message was largely lost on them.

[Haiku Guy]

I suspect that was a gag. Cute. You can tell by the wak Kimmell sells the looong introduction.

[Personal Responsibility]

Earn: Fourteen million
Cost: Two hundred plus million
Lesson learned: Priceless

[a fool in paradise]

[a fool in paradise]

“...he went looking for the truth about Iraq’s WMDs...”

Bullstalin. This is a conspiracy nut’s wetdream.

And Time-Lies-Warner has the audacity to call Tea Partiers “birthers”.