First!

How about a scary thriller called What Lies Beneath Iraq's Vast Oilfields.

I can't believe these other Harrison Ford/WW2 classics didnt make the cut:

1)Indiana Jones is not the Last Crusader!

2)The Fugitive: Why Nurenberg should indict FDR.

3)Presumed Innocent: Hirohito, Tojo and Pearl Harbor

4)Lucky & Me: Pseudo documentary produced by Leni Reifenstahl detailing Ford's attempt to meet with nazi apologists Charles "Lucky Lindy" Lindbergh and Henry Ford.

I mean, let's be honest, Ford wanted to win the People's Choice award for all these films......

Considering how much can change in a film until it gets to a final cut, I think it is far too early to get excited either way. I re-read the article, and it doesn't even mention a director.

Let's see where it goes, and hold off on the excitement for the year, or two or three (or whatever) until it gets to the screen (if at all).

LOL...after typing my previous comment, can't you just hear the voice of Simpson's character "Troy McClure"

"Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such Nazi propaganda films as 'The Final Solution: Urban Renewal within the Warsaw Ghetto' and 'You Spell it Adolph, I spell it Adolf, Can't we all spell it F-U-H-R-E-R?"

Man i miss Phil Hartman.

Man! So far, I own this thread!!!

Just one last question Ace.....Do any of these WW2 Harrison Ford movies star Anne Heche as a leading lady?

Cause I don't know about you, but nothing creates "big screen chemistry" like an poorly aging make lead and an on-again, off-again lesbian 30 years his junior!

I mean to carry this thought further....For true box office gold under this formula any WW2 movie only had to be promoted with the following two words:

Ford/Hepburn.

Emporer CONSTANTINE?!?!?

It's Emporer PALPATINE, you poser. Turn in your polyhedral dice, you're not one of us.

... but seriously, #3 was a hoot. And I'd imagine that the movie may be pro-US in that it shows only the Bush administration are evil war-mongers, and the US military honorable but misguided pawns.

They're claiming West is pro-troops. But still, I'd just like to say:

Where is Mel Gibson when we need him???

Ditto on the Mel Gibson remark. God, I love Mel.....

But not in a gay way, never in a gay way....

Midaz,

I believe the phrase you are looking for is "like a viking".

Ford DID make a WW2 film based on the premise of doing the guy's wife back home. It as called Hanover Street.

10. A light romantic comedy titled Guess Who's Giving It To Your Wife Back Home?

I've always kind of liked Harrison Ford, mostly on the grounds that he's not Adam Sandler, so I'm not sure he deserved to get worked over like that. (altho now that I think about Sabrina and that Anne Heche thing...)

OTOH, you definitely nailed the Hollywood bravery-in-a-pointless cause template. Why is such a reflexively predictable approach regarded as a "thoughtful" view of the subject? Ironically, the last movie I recall that really broke the mold was called Glory...

Funny story about #1. Anybody else read Jonathan Last's The Case For The Empire essay in the Weekly Standard?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/248ipzbt.asp

Best. Star Wars Conservative Analysis. Ever.

If you watch Air Force One (good movie, BTW), Ford plays a US president who goes after terrorists, international condemnation, domestic political considerations and multilateralism be damned. The tough guy president Hollywood and ordinary Americans idealize, right? Then when we get the real deal, Hollywood and liberals start shrieking.

Ace--

I take the football and run with it on my site: "Are There Any *Pro* War Movies?"

http://garfieldridge.blogspot.com/2004/12/are-there-any-pro-war-movies.html

Not a lot out there. . . but I've thought of a few.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

NOTE: There was a great Desert Storm movie that I thought was very supportive of the troops -- 'Courage Under Fire' with Denzel Washington. He comes to grips with his friendly fire mistake while researching a medal recommendation for a female officer. Told in 'Rashoman' style, it was good stuff.

Three Kings was very pro war (I guess), and if you remember the end of the movie then you realize that the American soldiers are all good guys.

1) Hanoi Hilton. See it.

2) I can't fucking resize the comments window. What the fuck? Just because you can do something with javascript doesn't mean you have to do it. Plus, everything is flush to the left fucking side of the window, which makes reading content annoying.

Josh:

You thought Three Kings was very pro-war? Hmm.

I guess the soldiers came off well (those who had brains--conspicuously excluding one of the principal four, several peripheral soldiers including an officer), at least well enough to piss off some lefties at us.imdb.com.--too sympathetic. However, the director's sympathies are made clear with Clooney's character shouting at his CO just after Desert Storm, "Tell me what we did here!" The latter, interestingly, asks if he'd prefer to fight Vietnam all over again by staying and running the place.

Having an Iraqi character tell his captive of the grievous harm visited on his wife and child by our bombing? Fair enough. Making the poor sympathetic bastard a Republican Guard officer (who, we are given to believe, joined for the sake of his family and country, not to support Saddam) is crossing the line a bit--rather like having a sympathetic SS man tell us of his poor wife and kid in Dresden. Oh, and naturally he tells us of all the advanced training he received from--wait for it--the US! during the Iran-Iraq war. All our fault, y'see.

Wahlberg's character, under remarkably mild torture at this man's hands, makes a rather fumbling spokesman for the war, getting decisively answered by the RG captain. Then he gets a can of oil poured down his throat. Which I thought was a nice metaphor--for the audience's treatment at the hands of director David O. Russell, that is.

(I like this movie anyway, incidentally.)

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