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Cinema - Movies against the war

Cinema and the war discussed Hollywood's failure to cover the modern War on Islamism, the great story of our age.

Here I collect reviews of the vast number of movies sneering at the war effort, and promoting enemy victory.



The photo "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima".
See full size. From here.
This represents the reality of the heroism of free men standing against a tyranny.
Whereas Clint Eastwood's anti-war movies about Iwo Jima represent a fantasy of how he thinks the world should be.




Reviews

Instead of proper movies about the great story of our age - the War on Islamism - we get this kind of stuff:



Other



Anti-Israel movies



The Hamburg Cell



The spoilt, wealthy butcher Ziad Jarrah.




V for Vendetta



Leftie dreams - Death of a President and The Trial of Tony Blair



Enemy propaganda

Seriously. If the enemy made propaganda (for infidel consumption), in what way would it look any different to these films?




Enemy propaganda: The Road to Guantanamo



Enemy propaganda: Redacted


thereligionofpeace.com shows how distorted De Palma's view of the war is:

  • Iraqi civilians killed (all deliberately) in 2006 by the Iraqi resistance: 16,791.
  • Iraqi civilians killed (all accidentally) in 2006 by Americans: 225.

  • In other words, the incredibly careful and skilled Americans have hardly killed anyone innocent since 2003, and those that have died have all been killed accidentally while engaged in street warfare with jihadis. Almost all the deaths in Iraq are at the hands of the resistance, not at the hands of the Americans. As Glen Reinsford says: "Iraqis aren't dying from war. They are being murdered by Islamic terrorists."


Clint Eastwood's failed movies

Not about the modern war, but Clint Eastwood's movies about Iwo Jima in WW2 betray a similar lack of understanding of reality as the rest of Hollywood.


The big rush of anti-war movies, 2007-08

At last, in 2007, a rush of movies about the war came out. Or, not really about the war. Rather, a lot of left-wing, anti-war, demoralising sermons and so on.

As you know, I'm obsessed by the war on Islamism, and I go to the movies a lot, and I'd love to see good movies on this topic, and I know I have this webpage and so I should really see these. But frankly my enthusiasm for seeing these is pretty much nil:


  1. Anti-war, anti-CIA movie Rendition (2007) - All jihadis are innocent family men targeted by the evil CIA. Obviously, stories about enemy POWs who may or may not be innocent are far more interesting than stories about the allied heroes actually fighting the enemy.

  2. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) - Documentary about "Dilawar", a taxi driver allegedly tortured and killed by U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan in 2002.

  3. Lions for Lambs (2007) - It's all evil neo-cons or something.

  4. Redacted (2007) - Wartime propaganda for the jihad that will encourage the killing of Americans. In no other war in history were enemy propaganda films like this made while the troops were still fighting in the field.

  5. The documentary No End in Sight (2007) - American errors led to the Iraqi fascist "resistance" (rather than, say, the widespread tribal, sectarian, totalitarian and Islamofascist beliefs in the Middle East).

  6. S.O.P.: Standard Operating Procedure (2008) by Errol Morris, a documentary movie about Abu Ghraib. No, not about Abu Ghraib when Saddam killed thousands there, silly.

  7. War, Inc. (2008), written by, produced by and starring John Cusack. A "satire" sneering at the effort in Iraq. With every leftist cliche in the book. Please tell me I never have to sit through this movie.

  8. Battle For Haditha (2008), not about allied bravery (of course), or jihadi crimes (of course). Rather about the Haditha massacre.

  9. Infinite Justice (2007) by French-Pakistani writer and director Jamil Dehlavi. About a Jewish reporter captured and murdered by Islamist terrorists in Pakistan (like Daniel Pearl). Sounds full of moral equivalence. Tagline is the leftist slogan: "With every battle that you win, you make another enemy". Well that wasn't exactly true in 1945.


The above is as good as it gets in actual depiction of the war. There are also a whole bunch of anti-war, anti-victory films set at home:


  1. In the Valley of Elah (2007) - A returning U.S. soldier is murdered by members of his own platoon after a rowdy night on the town. Because that's what U.S. soldiers do. Another soldier drowns his dog and then his wife in the bathtub. Oh yes, and in Iraq they drove over children in their way on the street.

  2. Home of the Brave (2006) - U.S. soldiers traumatised by the war. Heaven forbid that we should see confident U.S. soldiers displaying their skill and bravery.

  3. Stop-Loss (2007), not about the fight in Iraq. Rather about a soldier's fight to avoid going back to Iraq.

  4. Day Zero (2007) - Three young men get drafted to fight in the Middle East, and agonise about whether to go. Why would anyone want to watch this boring, depressing, anti-war, anti-morale crap? Why stick us with these whiny people when there are hundreds of thousands of clear-minded volunteers in the US? Why not give us just one film about what is going on in the Middle East? Just one film showing us this war against evil and depravity.

  5. Grace Is Gone (2007), produced by and starring John Cusack. Not about the war, but rather about a father who does not want to tell his 2 daughters that their army mother has been killed in Iraq.


Other flawed films:


  1. Charlie Wilson's War (2007) looks at the ill-advised (but understandable) aid to the Afghan jihadis against the Soviets.

  2. Postal (2007) starts off by laughing at 9/11. Tasteless. Unfunny. Don't take my word for it. Watch the trailer and see if you laugh once.

  3. Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008), documentary by Morgan Spurlock.



These anti-war films are making no money

These anti-war films are making no money. Hurray! Maybe Hollywood will stop making them!

Maybe they'll make one pro-war film. Just one.





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