August 24, 2007
Article: Shame of a Nation
The Hollywood studios have taken their own sweet time facing up to the Iraq war. The conflict has dragged on for four and a half years, longer than America's involvement in the second world war, yet only now is Hollywood beginning to address it head on. And even though documentarists have been tearing into the subject almost from the beginning - to say nothing of novelists, musicians, artists and even videogame designers - Iraq seems to have utterly paralysed Hollywood's ability to address war with its usual vigour and bloodthirsty enthusiasm.
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thanks Conscientious
~"Let's go down to the multiplex buy our tickets and see if we've won the war."
"I want a big box of raisinets!"
[still from R. Eberts 2005 review of War of the Worlds\ not above]
Posted by Stubbornson at August 24, 2007 01:17 PM