DISNEY/MIRAMAX SET TO RELEASE FILM DEPICTING AMERICA MILITARY AS DRUG DEALERS, CRIMINALS

drudgereport.com ^ | 7-13-03

[Victoria Delsoul]

Where are Jesse Jackson and the NAACP now!? Huh?

The last I've heard, he's working to get the peace process moving between Palestinians and Israelis. :-D

[Noumenon]

It's always cotton pickin' time on the old liberal plantation. Serf's UP!

[Kip Lange]

Watch out for Drudge & movies. He's notorious for leaking info given to him by sources who want to see the movie sink for other-than-ideological reasons. I don't endorse this plotline, but I also remember Drudge way way way hyping up the sex scenes in "Eyes Wide Shut" and also running a bit on "The Last Castle" about the flag being flown upside-down distressing veterans (if you've watched the movie, you know the flag never gets flown upside-down...then again, they may have changed that).

Anyway, I'll still be skipping it. :-) Just beware rabid Drudges, 'tis all.

[Choose Ye This Day]

1989? Oh so Hollywood, that would be Bill & Hill "don't ask don't tell" military you on the left were hoping for Huh? Bush Sr. was president in 1989, if my history is correct. What did you mean?

[weegee]

The film features an excessive amount of profanity by senior officers, suggestive sex [oral sex in bed, sex in a car, sex in a swimming pool], theft of government property, and rampant drug use by soldiers.

Actor Phoenix explains, "I don't know why anyone would be offended. It wasn't a movie that was intended to offend. And if we don't show things as they really happen, then what's that about? Censorship!"

They could have shown ALL of these things in a movie about Bubba Clinton but they chose not to make that exploitive "tell all" movie. We were told that it was none of our business, it's just (rape) sex; his brother's own quote that Bill had a nose like a vaccuum cleaner was considered less reliable than some Star Trek biographer's book on George W. Bush. These people don't care about sex or drugs or theft. Rats lie. This is nothing but a stab at middle America.

Warts and all. I wonder if Hollywood has looked in the mirror lately. Airbrushing and frosted lenses can make it appear that actors have no blemishes but they (and we) know the truth.

[weegee]

This is Disney's consolation prize for giving up the Michael Moore schlockumentary.

Last I read, it was still Miramax financing Michael Moore.

"Is Disney Lying to America About Michael Moore?" (ABC-Disney-Miramax funding project)

[weegee]

I also remember Drudge way way way hyping up the sex scenes in "Eyes Wide Shut"

The American version of this film still contains a "shadow" figure that was digitally inserted to block out the scenes of coitus at the orgy. This was done theatrically and on video.

The other nations of the world do not have this enhancement.

[Tribune7]

"The Last Castle" about the flag being flown upside-down distressing veterans (if you've watched the movie, you know the flag never gets flown upside-down...then again, they may have changed that)

Never saw the movie but the ads sure featured the flag upside down.

[weegee]

Ever see Hollywood make a movie about the guy who pilfers pens, paper, staplers, and stamps at the office?

This even happens in Congress and there are no films about it.

Is Miramax alledging that this is based on a true event?

[GOPJ]

If you haven't had reason to boycott Disney before this, you have it now.

[visualops]

Ah yes the Ed Harris who preaches about being a man, but admits his wife "educated me over the 20 years we have been together to the point where she's got me in her hip pocket"

[Steel Wolf]

By changing this -

The film features an excessive amount of profanity by senior officers, suggestive sex [oral sex in bed, sex in a car, sex in a swimming pool], theft of government property, and rampant drug use by soldiers.

to read this -

The film features an excessive amount of profanity by noncomissioned officers, suggestive sex ['nuff said], redistribution of government property, and rampant alcohol use by soldiers.

I think you could paint a pretty accurate picture. That having been said, this movie doesn't give me a playful and irascible 'SGT Bilko' vibe. They're definitely out to sling some mud and portray it as 'commonplace'. I know of a drug running ring composed of supply sergeants that was busted a few years back, but that's not even a sizable minority. It's a bunch of criminals who happen to be soldiers.

The real military is not made up of saints and angels by any means, but reality doesn't appear to be too high on their agenda.

[PPHSFL]

That is the most disgusting movie poster I have ever seen!

[tophat9000]

brain fade I saw it as 1998 not 1989

[GOPJ]

bump

[jwh_Denver]

Down with Disney -- Boycott anything and everything associated with Disney.

Bad mouth the hell out of them too.

[Hildy]

If the movie is as bad as THE THREE KINGS as, nobody will go and watch it anyway. But it is disgraceful. Hollywood just can't take any responsibility for the mess we're in. They truly think they're above it. It's sad.

[grania]

Miramax - Buffalo Soldiers Studio's profile of this military comedy includes plot and cast information. Check back for updates and the trailer. www.miramax.com/buffalo_soldiers

The website itself wouldn't paste and copy, but the information from an MSN search for buffalo soldiers brought this up. The website describes it as a comedy, based in Germany quite a few years ago. I'll give it a "pass" as a comedy, for now. It isn't based in current Afghanistan or Iraq, so I don't think it holds our soldiers up to disrespect.

Sorry, folks. It's a freedom of speech think. Individually, decide not to go. But this Dixie-Chicks mentality of trying to stop cultural things from happening that other people might want to see or hear is kind of not what tolerance and the Constitution are about.

[banjo joe]

I don't remember the band's name, but years ago I recall seeing an LP record titled "Stukas over Disneyland". Very cool cover art on that one.

Just thought I'd bring it up.

[KansasConservative1]

How is this any different that the movie "Three Kings"... That was the most disrespectful representation of the Military that I have ever seen. KC1