Wow, this sounds really, really bad.
From Kyle Smith via ACEof Spades
After all of Hollywood’s Iraq movies have flopped (even the Oscar-garlanded “The Hurt Locker” earned only $15 million at the box office), one studio thinks it has the following secret to success: The previous films didn’t insult the United States enough.
“Green Zone,” opening Friday, is a $100 million slime job that conjures up a fantastically distorted leftist version of the war and wraps it around a frantic but preposterous action picture.
Annnnnnd GO!
Matt Damon plays Miller, an Army “chief” (chief warrant officer) assigned to searching for weapons of mass destruction in Baghdad in the opening days of the war in 2003.
Matt Damon in ‘Green Zone’: The movie’s plot substitutes leftist lies for historical fact.
The preposterous part comes in almost immediately: After Chief Miller comes up dry a couple of times, he decides to launch a one-man internal-affairs investigation into US intelligence-gathering.
He bypasses his chain of command, endangers good men (when one of his soldiers asks why he’s following a random Iraqi into what could well be an ambush, Miller snaps, “Put your game face on”) and forges a secret alliance against his fellow soldiers with a Baghdad CIA officer (Brendan Gleeson).Despite being guilty of gross insubordination, lying to his superiors and concealing important evidence from them (a notebook containing the addresses of Saddam’s top officers), Miller is the hero of the film.
Others we’re supposed to cheer for include Sunni officers who shoot down helicopters carrying American soldiers sent to assassinate them. Those death squads are acting at the behest of a duplicitous Pentagon intelligence mandarin (Greg Kinnear) who has single-handedly drummed up a fake casus belli.
Once again I’d like to state that as a Warrant Officer for over 20 years I’m doubly pissed. While it’s bad enough that we have a movie being presented about a war that is still going on…and the thesis of this movie is that WE made everything up making all of THIS a sham…AND the lead character is a Warrant Officer.
On the bright side Matt Damon’s portrayal of Chief Warrant Officer Miller may eclipse Nicolas Cage’s Jake Preston in “Firebirds” as the worst Warrant Officer ever in film history. I guess we will see. That is a lofty goal I know but there is hope especially given Mr. Damon’s track record.
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Oh, c’mon! Firebirds was awesome!
I still love that movie. And Tommy Lee Jones has to have been the best warrant officer on film ever, so it had that going for it as well.
I can sympathize with Tommy Lee Jones’ portrayal of the attitude “I can’t believe I’m standing here explaining this stuff to this idiot”, but I think the best Warrant Officer on film is R Lee Ermey as Eagle Thrust Seven flying the OH-6 in Apocalypse Now. Even if it was only for a few minutes it was worth it.
No one’s mentioned the last big team-up between Damon and Kinnear was “Stuck On You,” and I think we all know how well that did. I saw a snippet of an interview with him a few days ago, and I could’ve sworn he had some shots of botox into that neanderthal forehead of his.
Here’s hoping this little turd does a spectacular crash & burn!
On Floyd’s scale of H’wood funding annoyance, this would have to rate a solid 10!
As I’ve said before, I have consciously avoided giving this douche any of my hard earned money for at least 15 years. I have conservative friends who insist I have to see the “Bourne” movies, “they’re really good,” they say.
I don’t care if I’m missing the best movies ever made. This idiot is involved and he’s not getting a dime of my money.
There was an article in the Dallas Morning News this morning about a retired US Army officer who served as a technical consultant and had a small part in the movie. He sounds like a stand up guy, even though he is now a Democrat serving in the Texas state house. If interested:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/legislature/stories/DN-green_10tex.ART.State.Edition1.4bc1aec.html
Makes you wonder how someone who served honorably there could be happy with being associated with this PoS.
He is a democrat….nuff sed.
Two things:
Rufus: technically, your friends are correct. All three Bourne movies ARE terrifically entertaining. HOWEVER, it took until film # 3 for me to realize – shame on me! – that the theme of all three is, essentially, the “US Gov’t is evil.” Despite these movies’ aesthetic excellence, that decidedly is NOT okay.
67 Cougar; the retired Army consultant probably needed the money, enjoyed the attention, and figured, “Ah, no big deal, it’s just a movie anyway.” It might seem hard to believe in this day, but there really ARE folks who still mount the tired and tedious “just a movie” defense of their favorite anti-military, anti-Christian, anti-capitalist, or anti-American piece of celluloid propoganda. Yet, someone literally used that line on me just yesterday when I was warning them off of “Green Zone”. They’re out there. Which is why we must speak out.
And I missed Outlaw13′s main point, which was bashing the incredible cinematic masterpiece ‘Firebirds’. I mean, come on … The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences really f***ed up when they didn’t award that the ‘Best Film’ when it came out. Nicholas Cage … Tommy Lee Jones … and the incredibly hot Sean Young as Ms. Bad Ass Helo Jock … Totally realistic, edge of your seat action and drama – totally awesome, dude!
It just don’t get any better than that. Add that to the fact the flying stuff was shot at Outlaw13′s home field, and I can’t imagine why he doesn’t have signed posters all over his wall. Ranks right up there with Patton, Saving Private Ryan, 12 O’Clock High …