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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 small number of movies supportive of the war effort.



The movie 300. Not about the modern war, and yet still perhaps the best movie relevant to the war since 9/11.
The ambassador from the tyranny of the Persian Empire says there is no need for the Persian Empire to exterminate all of the people of Sparta, if only they will submit to Persian rule. All they ask is: "A token of Sparta's submission to the will of Xerxes."
King of Sparta: "Submission ... That's a bit of a problem."
He refuses: "You threaten my people with slavery and death."
Persian ambassador: "This is blasphemy! This is madness!"
King of Sparta hurls ambassador to his death: "Madness? This .. is .. SPARTA!!"




Reviews


Team America: World Police - The only movie at all about the war in 2001-2005 (albeit a comedy).



Munich (Dec 2005) - The first proper movie since 9/11 in which the bad guys are Islamists

Steven Spielberg (like everyone else in Hollywood) ignores the modern war:

But in fairness he then makes an important movie. It's still not about the modern war, but it is a modest breakthrough:



The TV movie Flight 93 (Jan 2006) - The best movie of the last 5 years



The cinema movie United 93 (June 2006) - The first proper cinema-released movie about 9/11. The first cinema-released movie about the War. The first cinema-released movie since 9/11 in which the bad guys are the modern Islamists.

It took nearly 5 years, but at last we have a single cinema-released movie about the war. What a bunch of cowards Hollywood are.


The Kingdom (Oct 2007) - The first fictional movie since 9/11 in which the bad guys are the modern Islamists.



Further movies about the war


I haven't seen these yet:


Honourable mention

  1. The James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002). The enemy is the communist genocide state of North Korea. Braver than most Hollywood movies.

  2. Tears of the Sun (2003). Haven't seen it yet. Sounds good. The bad guys are rebels in Nigeria. They are identified as Muslim, but whether they are really Islamists I don't know.

  3. The Lives of Others (2006) - A real, serious film about communism.

  4. 300 (2007) - Cracking, subversive stuff. The best movie since 9/11.

  5. The Kite Runner (2007). Haven't seen it yet. Sounds good. About Afghanistan. Not about the Americans (it's all set before 2001), but rather about the Soviets and the Taliban.

  6. The quality monster movie Cloverfield (2008). Very pro-military. The U.S. military are portrayed as brave and heroic, rushing forward to fight this monster as all the civilians run away. Right from the start, the U.S. military are the only hope to save the day. The civilians can't help at all. They can only hope the military win. At the end, a B-2 stealth bomber appears like an avenging angel, and when it drops its bombs you cheer with relief.

  7. Vantage Point (2008)

  8. The comic-book movie Iron Man (2008) features Afghan jihadi bad guys.

  9. Rambo (2008) - not about the war, but about the brutal Burmese regime, so still braver than almost all films since 9/11. Making the bad guys a foreign tyrannical government has become very rare in cinema.



A Mighty Heart



The movie 300 (2007)

Not about the modern war, and yet perhaps the best film since 9/11. How they were allowed make this kind of film in the current stifling climate is hard to imagine.



300 is the no.1 grossing R-rated movie in the world since 2004



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