Lions For Lambs
Cost est. $35 million
Opening Weekend Domestic Gross : $ 6,710,000

In the Valley of Elah
Cost est. $25 million
Domestic Gross : $6,704,576

Rendition
Cost est. $27 million
Domestic Gross : $9,283,593

The Kingdom
Cost est. $70 million
Domestic Gross : $46,844,125

The pundits claim that the Iraq War doesn’t sell…

But what Iraq War movies have been released that aren’t condescending anti-war/anti-American propaganda?

Here is a template for success for you…

300
Cost est. $65 million
Domestic Gross : $210,614,939

Here is a clue. Men. Men go to war movies… and they like war movies that have positive heroes that are heroic. Then they buy the DVD.

Chicks don’t go to war movies. Chicks don’t care if those movies, they don’t go to, are historically accurate and they won’t go even if General Patton has self-loathing reflective moments that displace his entire campaign kicking the krauts across Europe.

Ken Burns? He made a multi-part chick flick and shoved it up our ass on PBS.

Men go to war movies.

Make some.

“We’ve all heard the stories, many true, some apocryphal, of soldiers returning home from Vietnam only to be disrespected and shunned by an ungrateful nation. How many were called war criminals or spat upon is as controversial as it is unknowable. But there’s one thing we know our troops never experienced. We never filled the movie theaters during wartime with films calling them war criminals, rapists and, figuratively, spitting on them or on their mission.” — Jonah Goldberg

“Hans, Hans, you’re breakin my….”

91Veteran on November 17, 2007 at 11:55 PM

“… boughs, Hans, you’re breakin’ ma boughs!”

(Mr. Il’s Korean accent is unmistakable here… :-)

How do DePalma and Cuban sleep at night?

Probably together…

MsUnderestimated on November 18, 2007 at 12:19 AM

AAAAHHHH! You’re stabbing my eyes!

From that page:
Friday Estimate: $6,279 – $483 PTA – $6,279 cume
Three Day Estimate: $21,663 – $1,666 PTA – $21,663 cume

At less than five hundred bucks a theatre a day, does that even pay the physical costs of showing the film in the first place?

How do DePalma and Cuban sleep at night?

Probably together….

Let’s not overlook the most epic of all war movies.

Team America: World Police

TheSitRep on November 17, 2007 at 11:12 PM

“Hans, Hans, you’re breakin my….”

Team America: World Police

Passion of the Christ was going to be a big hit no matter what. Are you perhaps thinking of The Last Temptation of Christ because your statement definitely fits what happened with that movie more.

Passion of the Christ was going to be a big hit, in no small part due to the innovative marketing of advance group sales to churches, etc.

Last Temptation, however, was not a hit. It made about 8.3 million at the box office. The estimates for the production budget run from 7-15 mil, which means it maybe broke even after you factor in advertising and distribution costs.

But go too far with the criticism and you run the risk of doing what the ADL did with The Passion of the Christ, and turn what otherwise probably would have been a flop into a hit.

Umm….what? Passion of the Christ was going to be a big hit no matter what. Are you perhaps thinking of The Last Temptation of Christ because your statement definitely fits what happened with that movie more.

“Blog – Where is Raed?”

Salam Pax (a pseudonym) blogged the war from Baghdad, as the bombs were being dropped around him. Where is Salam Pax today?

leepro on November 17, 2007 at 7:20 PM

That’s a great list of war movies. You missed a great one, “Patton.” How about a new movie called “Patraeus?” I think Micheal Yon’s experiences would make a good movie too.

Where are the patriotic movies today? Still in Hollywood, I guess. Geez, I sure hope they’ve begun working on some good movie projects by now.

“The Battle for Baghdad.”
“Anbar Awakening.”
“Blogging War” (Iraq the Model)
“Taking Back the Neighborhood – Police Transition Team”
“Standing Up An Army And A Country”
“Regime Change”
“Insurgency”
“Zarqawi”
“Jihad”
“Cyberwar”

To Hell and Back
Midway
The Longest Day
Battle of the Bulge
Failsafe
Sands of Iwo Jima
A Bridge Too Far
The Great Escape
The Guns of Navarone
Patton
Run Silent, Run Deep
Sink the Bismarck
Stalag 17
The Story of G.I. Joe (war correspondent Ernie Pyle)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Where Eagles Dare

…and that’s just a few.

What I want to know:
Where are our patriotic movies today???!!??!!!

Ignore the movie and ignore Cuban. Boycotting feeds their ego and will draw attention (and dollars) to the movie. Remember Fahrenheit 911? The buzz turned a flop (like Moore’s other movies) into a $110 million dollar profit PLUS an academy award.

Exactly, but you know it almost seems that O’Reilly, Melanie Morgan, Beverly Perlson and of course Dennis Miller are using this to get some attention/ratings for themselves as well. Especially Miller, who needs attention desparartely, I think he just got a new gig, they need to direct some of the attention to themselves obviously for the airtime.

I mean really – how much of it is real bonafide patriotism and how much is just plain old media whoring?

A real patriot would ignore the crap and not want to cataput it to legitimacy, like what happened to Farenheit 911.

See this is where I wish I could sit O’Reilly down and ask him a simple “why?”.

This is one of the most profound comments on liberalism and liberal mindset that I have ever read.

Well said.

Ignore the movie and ignore Cuban. Boycotting feeds their ego and will draw attention (and dollars) to the movie. Remember Fahrenheit 911? The buzz turned a flop (like Moore’s other movies) into a $110 million dollar profit PLUS an academy award.

How do DePalma and Cuban sleep at night? There’s no doubt that FDR would have had them jailed.

JetBoy on November 17, 2007 at 9:50 AM

If something truly seems best and the government is unwilling, one must look elsewhere. Divine retribution on DePalma would probably cost Cuban some sleep; it could work just as well in reverse. Of course, a valuable, but little-appreciated feature of divine retribution is getting away with it; I suppose one would have to think twice about divine retribution, if it could lead to jail time.

…is what I meant to say.

He and O’Reilly need to stop beofre they put this film “on the map”.

Let is die into oblivion.

The discussion at the IMDB

As for Redacted … I’d say just ignore the stupid thing. It’s being slaughtered even by liberal critics. No boycotts, please – boycotting it may be the only way to get people into the theater.

Ignore it. Watch it die. Eat popcorn and laugh while it bombs. It’s on track to make Ishtar look like a hit.

Exactly, people are going to want to see what all the fuss is about, I think Bill O’Reilly jumped the shark again on this one. I don’t know what it is with him, he always does this, he did the same thing with Rosie O’Donnell and drove up the ratings on The View.

Someone needs to avise him. We already know he is a Patriot and a T Warrior, why the need to prove it to Mark Cuban and the other freak, who btw, almost killed his first wife – Nancy Allen – while filming “Blow Out” with John Travolta. That’s kind of why she dumped him.

Fortunately, they won’t, and Pat Dollard is one major reason why. The good news in all of that quoted above is that Dollard’s documentary series will finally see the light of day on Showtime.

No secret here, but it’s telling that Cuban or anyone like him didn’t back Dollard’s film. It’s great that it will come out anywhere, but why Showtime when these anti-war POSs are hitting the big screen?