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2008-09-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Movie review: The Lucky Ones -- 2 out of 5 stars

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-09-26 06:40|| || Front Page|| [10325 views ] Top

#1 I've seen the trailers for this...looks like typical hollyweed horse-hockey...anything marrying up tim robbins w/the iraq war is gonna suck.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-09-26 08:17|| 2008-09-26 08:17|| Front Page Top

#2 I boycott anything with Tim Robbins.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-09-26 09:25|| 2008-09-26 09:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like another winner...

Posted by tu3031 2008-09-26 10:09|| 2008-09-26 10:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Have to pass; the air in my tires needs rotating.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-09-26 12:07|| 2008-09-26 12:07|| Front Page Top

#5 It is aggravating that if someone were just to produce a low budget movie with Americans as the good guys in the Iraq war, it would probably be a huge hit.

Hell, you could film it in Iraq, with Iraqis as extras and even supporting stars. To avoid any sectarian problems, make al-Qaeda the bad guys, and script the movie based on real anecdotes by US and Iraqi military.

The Pentagon would probably give full cooperation, which would multiply your budget by a factor, and you could use veterans as actors.

Even going direct to DVD, you would probably clear $50M net.

A rule of thumb is that a drama is made by its villains, not its heroes. No problem here. Some of the al-Qaeda shit would be banned in one of the Saw movies. It would have to be seriously toned down, and parts would have to be edited out to make it just an R rating (even though it would not need a rating, being DVD release.)

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-09-26 16:46|| 2008-09-26 16:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Wasn't Bruce Willis going to do a movie about the unit in Iraq Michael Yon was embedded with? Deuce Five I think the unit was called.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-09-26 17:20|| 2008-09-26 17:20|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't support Tim Robbins or his wife Susan Sarandon in their endeavors. They can get on without me. They think we are all chumps.

This movie sounds a lot like a remake of a movie about three retuning wounded vets during the WWII era except for the car wreck, tornado, personal issues, willy nillyness, Tim Robbins, etc. Forget it, it doesn't really sound similar.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-09-26 19:12|| 2008-09-26 19:12|| Front Page Top

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