Sure – as if I expected Matt Damon and Hollywood to produce a movie about Iraq that was accurate in any way. FYI – Matt Damon was part of the team that put together “The People Speak” for the History Channel. You can read about that one here. It includes an interview with a socialist school teacher in California (click that previous link to see her video) that openly called for American factory workers to physically take over their factories. Now back to Damon’s latest film. The NY Post covers it here and Big Hollywood’s Nick Nolte gives his review of the movie here.
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. (Spoilers about the plot follow.)
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.
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I think it’s time for average Americans to create their own movie studio. Call it the American Film Project (AFP) or something. Then run it like as a mutual fund, open or closed end, with the managers serving the role of the producers. They’ll select the scripts, hire the actors and engage all the companies needed to put together the high tech magic.
Think about it for a moment. If Mel Gibson can put up the money to produce blockbuster films then maybe we can too. Are you telling me that the only movie scripts handed to Hollywood producers these days about Iraq are the let’s bash America kind? If not then we should find some Americans that are tired of Hollywood and willing to invest in the only industry that Barrack Obama hasn’t bashed for high salaries.
