Posted: 3/1/2010 10:16:03 AM EDT
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Jason Bourne goes to Iraq to find WMD's.  thats my take, I saw a preview this weekend. Mal_means_bad gave it this assesment in a prior thread over the subject In a Matt Damon Iraq war movie? Surely not.
I feel like I've already seen the movie based on the trailer alone. The plot will be that Damon is assigned to search for WMD's early in the Iraq occupation, watches several buddies get killed in the process, finds out that the intel was complete bullshit. Confronts the reporter, reporter leads him to the Iraqi source, Iraqi source is protected by slimy politician Greg Kinnear (who will be clearly and repeatedly identified as a Republican). Damon pushes on and discovers that Kinnear planted the WMD story to justify the invasion, Kinnear orders US special forces and/or a Blackwater clone to assassinate Damon. Damon flips reporter, sends proof of Kinnear's treason, reporter goes all Watergate on him. The end. I think he's probably spot on with the assesment. I still kind of want to see it as i can sift through the political Bullshit and still enjoy a movie and I am a fan of the Bourne Series. |
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http://kylesmithonline.com/?p=5605 I can’t believe what I just saw, so I’ll think about it some more before I go into detail. But if I were the kind of excitable guy who believes in boycotts, I’d say “Boycott NBC-Universal” for its appalling new anti-American flick “Green Zone,” an absurdly awful would-be actioner that stars Matt Damon as a US warrant officer in 2003 Baghdad.
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The director Greengrass did make the excellent 9/11 movie, but it looks like he has been turned.
Damon is a big fan of Howard Zinn, don't let your kids grow up in Boston, they will be corrupted. I might still see it, just buy a ticket for another flick. I don't think it is an anti-war movie, just a anti-corporate, anti-blackwater, anti-Bush, etc. |
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New Damon flick Slanders America 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.) 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. Before the war, he interviewed a general of Saddam's who told him pointedly that there were no WMDs in Iraq after 1991 but that he'd be willing to work with the Americans after Saddam was deposed. The Kinnear figure then lied to a gullible reporter (Amy Ryan) that he had a rock-solid source, "Magellan," who had given him proof of WMDs in Iraq. Such is this movie's eagerness to turn reality upside down that, although the Ryan character is obviously based on Judith Miller of The New York Times, the reporter is said to work for the Wall Street Journal. In full-on liberal daydream mode, Damon and his friends can pretend their favorite lefty paper is untainted by flawed reporting. To cover his tracks from Chief Miller, the Pentagon official sends out a goon squad to assassinate the Sunni general –– who, according to the movie, is also the sole figure responsible for whether Iraq will erupt into an insurgency. Even for Hollywood, "Green Zone" is dumbfoundingly brazen in its effort to rewrite the facts. As any reasonably informed person knows, many intelligence services (including the French, German, Chinese, Russian and British) believed Iraq had WMDs. And the CIA (which along with Chief Miller is a hero of "Green Zone") was among them. Plus, such intel reports predated the Bush administration –– and Saddam's refusal to allow the UN weapons inspectors to finish their work gave us every reason to think he was hiding something and sealed his fate. It's one thing to make a fantasy film laced with snarky jibes at the United States and its military. It's of another order entirely for an American studio (Universal, a unit of GE) to perpetrate, during an ongoing war, such vicious anti-American lies disguised as cheap entertainment. "Green Zone" tells US troops that all of their efforts have been based on a deliberate deception. Worse, it blames the insurgency that has killed so many of our fighting men and women on US treachery. Movies like "In the Valley of Elah," "Rendition" and "Redacted" have shown US forces doing nasty things –– but none went anywhere near as far as this picture in suggesting original sin corrupted the entire Iraq war and that American officials are more blameworthy than the insurgents for the most violent years. "Green Zone" isn't cinema. It's slander. It will go down in history as one of the most egregiously anti-American movies ever released by a major studio. |
