Comments on: Why Americans are anti-antiwar http://www.ipatrix.com/2307/why-americans-are-anti-antiwar/ Crossing Borders Crossing Cultures Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:20:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patrixhttp://www.ipatrix.com/2307/why-americans-are-anti-antiwar/#comment-11805 Patrix Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:05:10 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/why-americans-are-anti-antiwar/#comment-11805 <strong>Prasenjeet</strong>, True. And you are right about Oscar season. Initially I was looking forward to the movies but the Tomatometer suggested otherwise. So as much as a war critic that I am, I'm not gonna waste my hard-earned money on a badly made movie just because it is made on a premise that I agree with. On a related note, making movie previews is an art they have perfected now. They just make you want to watch all the movies :) Prasenjeet, True. And you are right about Oscar season. Initially I was looking forward to the movies but the Tomatometer suggested otherwise. So as much as a war critic that I am, I’m not gonna waste my hard-earned money on a badly made movie just because it is made on a premise that I agree with.

On a related note, making movie previews is an art they have perfected now. They just make you want to watch all the movies :)

]]> By: Prasenjeethttp://www.ipatrix.com/2307/why-americans-are-anti-antiwar/#comment-11803 Prasenjeet Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:51:57 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/why-americans-are-anti-antiwar/#comment-11803 Right wingers never look more foolish than when they apply a lens on popular culture. Applying a lens on pop culture was for the longest time the job of underemployed English dept types, and no one does a good job of it. But frankly, if you think overseas audiences would care about snoozefests like "Lions for Lambs", you've got another thing coming. Even Cruise's presence can't rescue that one. Frankly I'm surprised no one has mentioned the most obvious reason for these films' release now -- Oscar season. And the fact that there's a good deal of copycat-ism in commissioning movies in Hollywood -- that's why you get pairs like Antz/Bugs Life, Deep Impact/Armageddon and Dante's Peak/Volcano. Right wingers never look more foolish than when they apply a lens on popular culture. Applying a lens on pop culture was for the longest time the job of underemployed English dept types, and no one does a good job of it.

But frankly, if you think overseas audiences would care about snoozefests like “Lions for Lambs”, you’ve got another thing coming. Even Cruise’s presence can’t rescue that one.

Frankly I’m surprised no one has mentioned the most obvious reason for these films’ release now — Oscar season. And the fact that there’s a good deal of copycat-ism in commissioning movies in Hollywood — that’s why you get pairs like Antz/Bugs Life, Deep Impact/Armageddon and Dante’s Peak/Volcano.

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