the makers of this wanted, it seems, to make a war movie of the same sort as "My Dinner with Andre." Meaning a of lot sitting around talking about such important subjects while the real business of the world gets done elsewhere. Though there is a nod about how the two worlds interact.
There is a minor aspect of the movie where two guys are stranded on a mountain fighting the worst people in the world (Taliban,devils, pure evil, whatever you want to call them, shadows in a snowy hell). But it seems so much an afterthought of the script. Most of it is the very much anti-war foolishness trowelling out junk that the mainstream media has been glopping up the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Boston Globe, NBC news, ABC news, 60 minutes, the list is endless.
The movie is a series of discussions -- remarkable in their self references -- about academia, the media, and the politicians. And the condescending attitudes toward the poor helpless fools who actually fitht the wars the US ends up in.
The movie is contemptible -- not because of the acting, which is quite good, or the structure, which is okay, nothing wrong with a movie about talking -- it's contemptibile because of the contempt is shows toward America and Americans.
Others will disagree, no doubt. But here is where Hollywood shows what they really think.
There is a minor aspect of the movie where two guys are stranded on a mountain fighting the worst people in the world (Taliban,devils, pure evil, whatever you want to call them, shadows in a snowy hell). But it seems so much an afterthought of the script. Most of it is the very much anti-war foolishness trowelling out junk that the mainstream media has been glopping up the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Boston Globe, NBC news, ABC news, 60 minutes, the list is endless.
The movie is a series of discussions -- remarkable in their self references -- about academia, the media, and the politicians. And the condescending attitudes toward the poor helpless fools who actually fitht the wars the US ends up in.
The movie is contemptible -- not because of the acting, which is quite good, or the structure, which is okay, nothing wrong with a movie about talking -- it's contemptibile because of the contempt is shows toward America and Americans.
Others will disagree, no doubt. But here is where Hollywood shows what they really think.