'Redacted' Grosses $25,000!
Monday, November 26, 2007 at 02:08PM Bottom Line Up Front: Redacted Sucks!
Redacted, a smear film on U.S. troops in Iraq centered around the rape of an Iraqi girl, grossed $25,628 in theaters across the U.S. its opening weekend. Here are some headlines:
All CBS can ask is, "Too Soon to See Iraq on the Big Screen?"
Please! Bad acting and slander against the troops are always too soon.
This summer at the Venice Film Festival, other Hollywood types loved the movie. Reuters reported that Redacted' Stunned Venice. The film's director, Brian De Palma, said this in Venice:
"The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people. The pictures are what will stop the war. One only hopes that these images will get the public incensed enough to motivate their Congressmen to vote against this war."
Oh, not so much! People are incensed enough to boycott the movie, though!
Listen to the trailer and tell me, those of you who actually know soldiers serving in Iraq, if they sound anything like their portrayal in the clips. Of course they all joined for the college money, none are patriots, they're all moral reprobates....
The global war on terror has been going on since 2001. How many wars can you name that have lasted 6 years with an all volunteer military and no draft? All branches consistently meet or exceed retention and recruitment goals. Most soldiers and commanders believe in the mission and are good, decent, heroic human beings.
Take a lesson from history, Hollywood: America wants movies like The Best Years of Our Lives, The Longest Day and The Sands of Iwo Jima. Patriotism is cool; enemy propaganda isn’t.
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Reader Comments (11)
If you had’t reminded me I would have forgot that this film ever existed.
Cal, it's worth forgetting, but its just so much fun laughing at these failed movies.
PS... I love seeing these godless filmmakers invest a ton of money only to lose it.
what made me laugh is the Ian O'Doherty piece you reference here, amy. first he denounces the makers of the film, Redacted then turns right around and chides those who denounce the anti-christian film, The Golden Compass.
Good post, Amy. this should be the lead story on the Army home page.
At some point Redacted & Co. will graduate to the status of "cult" movies among the chattering classes. A cult movie is usually a movie that gains an enthusiastic following among a tiny portion of the population (and I do mean "tiny").
Another way for a movie to achieve cult status is to be so hideously bad (acting, writing, dialogue, plot, etc.) that audiences split their sides laughing. Brokeback Mountain may reach that level one day, but I doubt that the current crop of anti-war flicks can raise itself to even that meager benchmark.
In the end, though, I suspect that these movies will take their rightful places alongside Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph des Willens
Of course they all joined for the college money, none are patriots, they're all moral reprobates....
Right - My 'adopted soldier son' is currently on his second deployment as a reservist - and he VOLUNTEERED to go back earlier than he had to. He has a college degree and a great job - costs him money to go on active duty - and he makes me proud to be an American...
DePalma and Cuban will never be good enough Americans to be in the same room as 'my kid'!
At last! A challenge to "Plan 9 from Outer Space" for worst movie ever made.
At least Plan 9 was funny (however unitentional)
By the way, Mr. DePalma, my youngest did not join to pay for college. Nor is he a moral reprobate (those his anti-military older brother disagrees). A week ago today he stood on the parade ground at the Sandhill part of Fort Benning as he graduated basic training. He and his fellow graduates were in combat dress, a reminder we are at war. Mr. Depalma et al seem to have forgotten with who.
Fellas, Johnny above, my husband, re-enlisted in Baghdad with ZERO signing bonus. He did it for God, honor, duty and country. And as far as I know he didn't rape anyone in Iraq or use foul language. How about that. He didn't join for the college money, either, even though he did earn a BS and is working on a Masters. He certainly didn't re-enlist for college money (he worked for a degree while serving full time) because he already had a degree by 2001.
I like the way Mr. DePalma's plot to spoil the minds of Ameircans against the mission has completely flopped and taken his investment with it. He should have collaborated with real soldiers to get a more accurate story, eh?
People want to feel good about their country and there's plenty to feel good about. We have one of the greatest generation of soldiers in our country's history. The bad ones are liberals and I vote for a policy change excluding all liberals from military service. They simply do too much damage to the military and our foreign relations.
Justice Lives! Is this the lowest first weekend return by % (0.5) of all time? Ahhh, it looks so GOOD on him!
Against targets like DP, Schadenfreude is so much FUN! :) :D
Anyway, Amy, there's no possible way he would have been interested in a "more accurate story", as he made clear in Vienna. Don't forget The Narrative™.
Here's my personal Q&D summary of it:
All the evils and suffering of the World are due to and the fault and responsibility of the West because it exploited weaker and ethnically purer cultures everywhere which are better anyway and continues to suppress and disrespect and exploit them and has to pay it all back and fix everything including all the dictatorships which are the West's fault because it installed them or propped them up and if not could get rid of them but doesn't want to but should because it's the only force that can and that means the West is dictatorial too and when it finally gets rid of them all-at-once because you can't just pick and choose and after that should get rid of itself too and distribute all it has fast because the way the West got wealthy was by taking it from those who don't have any which is the only way to get rich. So I'll have mine now, please! Or else.