Hmmm... maybe the American people actually do know something the Lame Stream Media don't know. If it looks like shit, smells like shit, then it must be....SHIT! Looks like the people have spoken. I hope both DePalma and Cuban lose a ton of money.
I saw the free screening on cuban's hd channel.
Suckfest does not even begin to describe it.
Hoping for images from Iraq? shot in jordan.
Looking for crowd scenes, simulating large scale ME? nope.
This was a bunch of actors, given video cameras and a trite script and instructed to act like soldiers.
One could excuse the lack of score and visuals, becuase it is a 'mock'-umentary, but the failure of it to even look like a documentary, make this film an abyssmal failure.
I hope this becomes the film that Depalma is known for...europe heaping awards on an absolute piece of crap.
I think that the hope(from the left) was that this 'film' would give a human face to a horrible and gruesome story. It fails to do even that...
the film actually diminishes the event, for how completely lacking by the director to use ANY cinematic technique to salvage it. Scary when the AP is a better story teller, than depalma.
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/a...116/
story.jhtml
Kurt Loder's review sums it up nicely.
The truly funny?
That Joe Strummer flick bit fat ass.
/and I am a Ramone
//yes, it wasx THAT BAD
I knew Cuban was a pantload, but I didn't know that he was this far gone.
Is there any doubt that if Hollywood made a patriotic movie about what is going on in Iraq, (perhaps the story of a Medal of Honor winner?) that it would make hundreds of millions of dollars?
Yet no one in Hollywood has seen fit to do so?
It makes you wonder doesn't it?
Who was it in central casting who decided that the fat guy was representative of America's professional military?
Geez.
The MOH winner, Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy, lost his life heroically in Afghanistan, not Iraq, but his story (detailed in Lone Survivor by former fellow SEAL Marcus Luttrell) WOULD make a fantastic movie. Supposedly that is in discussion. However, Vince Flynn, who writes the outstanding counterterrorism novels featuring everyone's hero Mitch Rapp, says Hollywood is not in a place where it can make a heroic movie about the GWOT yet. It sounds like maybe he's been in discussions for his books and Hollywood can't handle it. (Yet Joel Surnow can in "24" on TV - go figure.)
I think what "Redacted" does is put a "human" face on the putrid Hollywood Left, who are now completely devoid of morals or scruples.
You'd think these Hollywood and TV nitwits, whether you're for against the Iraq war, would have finally figured out the American public isn't buying our military guys are anything but heroes.
The KKKos kidz, the Code Pink loons, William Arkin, Mark Cuban, and several lib Senators like Dick Durbin are still too stupid to have acquired this knowledge.
And when the war is over and America has won, let's not forget to scorn these traitorous cowards. All of the listed above and a whole lot more aren't worthy to live in our great country. If there was justice, they would be banished.
Brian DePalma: Living proof that talent, intelligence, good taste, and common sense are no barriers to a successful career in Hollywood.
Never knew Kurt Loder was so sane (thought he was like the rest at EmptyV).
$25,628? Hell that hardly pays the time charged for the work by Cuban's investment advisor's gofer's gofer.
And the outlook doesn't look much brighter for it, either. Right now, they don't have plans for other foreign openings until Feb. 2008 and by that time anyone who will have wanted to see it will have already seen it on the Internet.
De Palma can, however, console himself in knowing that this is the worst movie he will probably ever make and it's all up from here. Anyone know if Cuban ever made a worse investment decision or is it that he has plans for writing this off as a charitable contribution somehow or other?
I saw an extended clip of Redacted with the sound off, and it utterly reeked.
That's quite a feat, to make such a bad movie that even when the sound is turned off and the actors are shouting and breaking down doors, there's still an overwhelming sense of fakery and amateurishness, like something your eighth-grade nephew and his pals threw together in an afternoon.
Eat crap, Brian, you talentless drunk.
TO: All
RE: Redacted
F--- the Frogs at Cannes!
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. Do it by not spending one-red-cent on their tripe.
P.P.S....
After all....money is the only think they live for.
Back in the late 70s, a film critic for a weekly paper in the Twins Cities published a book hailing De Palma as the next Alfred Hitchcock!
Needless the say, De Palma's next film sucked, and the book failed. I'm still hunting for a copy of this nostaligic irony.
Ever since then, De Palma's films have been generously described as uneven. Mediocre is closer to the truth.
The only one I've enjoyed since then was his Mars picture - the titel I forget. No masterpiece, but watchable.
They released it to 15 theaters? That means they knew it was a bomb or they were hoping for word of mouth before expanding. I believe Cuban and company are delusional enough to have bet on the later possibility.
"De Palma's picture about US soldiers who rape a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, then kill her and her family."
So it's loosely based on Clinton's presidency.
It was released in 15 movie theaters so that it could qualify for the Academy Awards for this year -- it doesn't really matter whether it makes any money or not.
It will probably be nominated in one or more categories...
Was in Paris last week, and everywhere I went there were large adverts for the French language version of "Lions into Lambs", or whatever that crap piece of Redford propaganda is called. A great pleasure to see that it's bombing this side of the pond.
How sad was it's opening?
It lost to both Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix (released four months ago and already available on DVD) and a new version of Blade Runner (also out almost two months, originally released 1982). This movie was seriously ignored.
The real question for Hollywood is: "Will you INSIST on nominating/selecting and absolute bomb when you must know it will drive more consumers away from your product?"
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