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""In the Valley of Elah""

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

To review this movie without discussing its leftist political agenda is to reveal a bias of one's own (something confirmed by calling Crash "brilliant"). A better read on what this movie is really about can be found from conservative commentators, including Debbie Schlussel, who labelled it Bin Laden Cinema and called for a boycott of the actors.

Steve supposedly dislikes political and ideological bias involving race or genetics, but yet he practices it so consistently in his movie reviews. Makes you wonder about his other positions.

12/29/07, 11:56 AM

Anonymous Evil Neocon said...

Steve -- your problem as a movie reviewer (all due respect) is that you suffer from the same elitism and social distance and feeling of superiority that Hollywood does.

Elah was a horrible movie, who's basic message was that America, Americans, and all American institutions are irretrievably evil.

What else can you expect from Haggis, who's Crash had as it's main point that only the approval of the maid would make a wealthy Anglo woman's life worthwhile? Or that all whites are irretrievably racist and evil unless redeemed by noble ethnic types?

Haggis had some interview, at his Malibu mansion, where he mentioned that Communism was the way to go, as the interviewer noted, with his porsches and a Ferrari in the driveway.

That in a nutshell is Hollywood. Constantly telling the millionaires and billionaires of Hollywood how much better they are than ordinary people.

It's cliched and done to death and symptomatic of an artistically decaying, terminally insular Hollywood.

12/29/07, 12:15 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...


In a brief role, Sarandon is even better than Jones. Having lost her older son to a helicopter crash in training, she asks her husband, "Couldn't you have left me just one?" When he protests that he didn't tell their boy to enlist, she responds that their son couldn't have grown up in their home without feeling that he'd never be a man until he served. Jones has no answer.


Jones was also in No Country for Old Men. Just saw it. Superb.

Of course the writers and directors and many women simply do not realize that the fate of the sons was in their genes.

Men take risks.

12/29/07, 3:39 PM

Anonymous icr said...

Elah was a horrible movie, who's(sic)basic message was that America, Americans, and all American institutions are irretrievably evil.
This is the same tired message that has been dominating Hollywood for 30+ years. Why point out something so prosaic?
That in a nutshell is Hollywood. Constantly telling the millionaires and billionaires of Hollywood how much better they are than ordinary people.
I really hate to say this (it's yet another tired cliche, but from the anti-semitic Right), but could there possibly be an ethnic factor involved here? And, if so, can you really be a neocon if you are "objectively"* anti-semitic?
It's cliched and done to death and symptomatic of an artistically decaying, terminally insular Hollywood.
Maybe you should try to explain why the Hollywood gang has such a hatred of its own country.


*old Marxist-Leninist terminology

12/29/07, 5:36 PM

Anonymous William said...

Just some interesting info: IMDB shows "Elah's" box office biz, from 9/16 to 12/9, only hitting $6.8 million. In the week between 12/2 and 12/9 it added just $5,200 to its gross.

It could be worse. The Mark Cuban-financed/Brian de Palma-directed movie "Redacted" only managed $63,000 in its first three weeks.

12/30/07, 10:40 AM

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