[Gritty]

I can't believe this hasn't been posted already!

[Support Free Republic]

A Recall AND a Fundraiser? I'm toast.

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[CCCV]

a painted US flag is on the ground and is stepped on by marching soldiers. I don't know about everyone else but while I was in, if this had happened someone would have gotten hurt. Maybe things have changed since 1982-if so we are really in trouble.

[PeterPrinciple]

"At the film's open, a painted US flag is on the ground and is stepped on by marching soldiers.................but we didn't intend to offend anyone....."

Why can't they say what they mean?

[IYAS9YAS]

Okay, first of all, this is a comedy, right? Before everyone starts salivating at this...we have Stripes, Sgt. Bilko (the early t.v. series and the movie), Down Periscope...all the other movies that poke fun at the military. Let's not get all agog over this. There have always been military comedies.

[Cinnamon Girl]

We discussed on the Drudge thread last week that Disney, on top of everything else, is doing a disservice to the real Buffalo Soldiers with their movie title.

[CCCV]

And if we don't show things as they really happen, then what's that about? Censorship! Really happen?? I got you Censorship - right here in my wallet. My money, where it's going to stay with reguard to Disney

[Chad Fairbanks]

Wow! A movie portraying the military as crimainals and druggies - THAT'S never happened before... I'm shocked. Shocked, I say.

[Lysander]

I got a great plot!

It could star a a military guy selling drugs in LA and weapons in Iran to get money to fund terrorists in Central America. A real funny scene would be the President of the United States sleeping through the cabinet meeting when approval is sought. The CIA director could mysteriously die before he could testify about it. What a hoot this could be. The military guy could go on to be a star news reportor on Fox and have a huge following of fans. It has a ring to it.

[vaudine]

Yes, there have been military farces--Andy Griffith in Onionhead, TV series Gomer Pyle, etc. However, Buffalo Soldiers (BS for short) sounds like it portrays a really criminal element as rampant in the military. I'll wait and see--the reviews, not the movie. My "won't look,won't pay"list of H'wood is too long.

I always loved "Mash" because of the sophisticated humor, and characters like Radar and Clinger--even hard, but good-hearted Hotlips. However, even at first viewing, I thought some of their dialogue about the army and the US was a little over the top. Recently, watching reruns with morning coffee, I've taken time to really access them. There is a lot of portrayal of the US as war-mongering and the army as bloody-minded idiots who just want to kill. Given the recent statements about Iraq by Mike Ferrell (BJ) it just points to the fact that Hollywood since WWII has gone over almost completely to US hating commie,homosexual-sympathisers. Frank Burns I always hated as unbelievable;Klinger was a great fictional character. Now I realize Frank was "Mash's" version of the left's typical conservative image-idiotic, bumbling, and completely superfluous. So BS is nothing new.

vaudine

[aBootes]

The WALT DISNEY CO. is set for maximum controversy when it releases a "warts-and-all" portrait of U.S. Army life with the fuss-film BUFFALO SOLDIERS.

The use of "Buffalo Soldiers" as the title is uncharacteristically un-PC for Hollywood. I find it hard to believe that it was picked at random, either. So it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

[chainsaw]

"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!"

First they should prove that this is the norm in the military, which they can't do. So it's not really about censorship, but defamation of the military, and influencing the minds of the young people in America. And yes, I, like many thousands of other veterans., are offended by this type of so called entertainment.

This type of production makes me wonder who the candy man is at Disney!