We can argure all day about this war and this president. I won’t change your mind and you won’t change mine.

But damn straight those soldiers are tough, strong and insanely brave and it actually truly does sadden me that they are over there right now fighting for nothing. It pisses me off. And it just sucks cuz it’s just people like me against this gigantic machine that won’t fuckin stop because it doesn’t give a shit about “the people.” It doesn’t think of us as human beings. We are nothing but chess pieces on a game board to them.

Though, I was a little suprised by the personal attacks after my first posting. I’m a passionate guy with strong opinions and was expecting powerful rebuttals, but I had to laugh at some of the names like ‘neo-con’. That made my day. I just thought this was a forum for discussing movies. Guess I struck a nerve. And I thought there was a no cursing rule. LOL!

I agree somewhat with what you say. There has so far been only one point of view displayed in the movies depicting our current military situations. However, it is still pretty early for these movies to be coming out, and I hold out hope that more will follow showing alternative points of view. It is a fact that Hollywood and movie creators and producers tend to be more liberal, and so it makes sense that most of their movies would show that point of view. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Eventually, however, we can count on a few releases showing the other side of the coin.

Film makers can create whatever they want – I am in no way disagreeing with that. But it’s my right as a customer to refrain from attending those films. And, judging by recent boxoffice recipts, so have many others.

I just wanted to point out that Black Hawk Down, We Were Soldiers, and many other war movies took place during wars and conflicts that were highly unpopular at the time, i.e. Vietnam, Korea, and even Mogadishu. These films managed to show the bravery and greatness of the soldiers while at the same time showing the pointlessness of the wars that were being fought. Black Hawk Down showed that soldiers were in a completely useless engagement, not even allowed to protect the purpose of their mission, and yet still so many of them died over there. Hollywood is yet to put out a major production about this war that manages to honor the sacrifice nearly 4,000 men and women have given to the cause, whether they agree with their purpose or not. While I was over there, many of my friends felt that the war was useless and we should not have been there, but they participated in some heroic actions that I wish were being shown on the screen instead of constant Bush bashing and anti-war propaganda. The job these soldiers are doing in impossible conditions deserves to be told, as much as how the administration bungled the war in the first place.