http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2686&p=.htm

Speaking of director-actor collaborations, director Paul Greengrass and actor Matt Damon failed to replicate the box office success of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum with their third teaming, Green Zone. The Iraq-set action thriller posted a mediocre estimated $14.5 million on approximately 3,400 screens at 3,003 sites, and it will ultimately gross only a fraction of its reported $100 million production budget. This was the latest Middle East-themed movie to disappoint, landing between the opening weekends of The Kingdom ($17.1 million) and Body of Lies ($12.9 million). Instead of politics, though, Green Zone’s marketing sold nondescript action and intrigue and stressed the Bourne connection, banking that that would carry the day. According to distributor Universal Pictures’ exit polling, Green Zone’s audience was 54 percent male and 67 percent over 30 years old, and its “B-” from moviegoer pollster Cinemascore suggests that word-of-mouth will likely be tepid at best.

Matt Damon has lost it – on the scrape heap of lefty losers.

And I’m glad I don’t have HBO, after the stupid remarks made recently by Tom Hanks saying that we fought a racist war in WWII and were bent on annihilating the Japanese. It looks to me as though Tom Hanks has no clue about the lives of the men his production “The Pacific” will portray, which by the way began airing this evening.

A Marine such as Gunnery Sergeant “Manila” John Basilone, for example, who will be one of the three Marines the mini series is based on. After John Basilone was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on Guadalcanal in 1942, he was returned to the states to enhance the war effort by touring the country to help sell war bonds. He wanted to go back with his men, though, got his wish, and was shipped out in August, 1944. He hit the beaches at Iwo Jima in February, 1945, and again performed above and beyond the call of duty, was killed on that first day, and was awarded the Navy Cross. This was a soldier who was a gentleman, first, then a Marine. He didn’t have a racist bone in his body. He loved his fellow soldiers, wanted to be with them in battle, and ultimately gave his life for them. It wasn’t about annihilating the Japanese.

It makes me wonder how Hanks will be portraying John Basilone. I don’t think it will be anything like this 7-8 minute tribute to John Basilone, but we’ll see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLCqO3WRoco

Says all I thought it would be;

Paranoid Anti-Military Movie ‘Green Zone’ Hailed by Top NY Times Movie Critic
By Clay Waters
Fri, 03/12/2010 – 15:59 ET

The New York Times’s top movie critic A.O. Scott on Friday reviewed “Green Zone,” a leftist fantasy about the Iraq War starring Matt Damon, in which the U.S. military are the bad guys. As shown by the headline, “A Search for That Casualty, Truth,” Scott embraced the movie’s hard-left politics and fantastical anti-military plot, showcased in the movie’s “hero” played by Damon, disillusioned Army officer Roy Miller:

….when his search for phantom weapons of mass destruction has led him to uncover a web of lies, spin and ideological wish-fulfillment, Miller expands on the point. “The reasons we go to war always matter,” he says, throwing in an expletive to make sure his meaning is clear. “They always matter.”

Miller’s words put him at odds with some of his comrades and with a military culture that discourages service members from questioning whatever mission they are charged with carrying out. But this dutiful, serious officer is also offering a pointed, if implicit, critique of a lot of other recent war movies that have carefully pushed political questions to one side in their intensive focus on the perils and pressures of combat.

Scott saw “a hidden history of manipulation and double-dealing” in the real-life fruitless quest for WMD in Iraq:

To anyone who was paying attention in 2003 and after, this is familiar territory. Mr. Greengrass and the screenwriter, Brian Helgeland, deftly glean material from the historical record, and while they compress, simplify and invent according to the imperatives of the genre — this is a thriller, not a documentary — they do so with seriousness and an impressive sense of scruples. They have clearly studied journalistic accounts of the early days of the war, citing Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s vivid “Imperial Life in the Emerald City” as a particular inspiration, and while the picture they paint of infighting among the Americans and growing factionalism among the Iraqis may not be literally accurate in every particular, it has the rough authority of novelistic truth.

Without divulging the paranoid plot points of the narrative (Damon’s character is targeted for assassination by the U.S. military and corrupt government officials) Scott vouched for the basic truth of the anti-American story. In a June 2004 review of “Fahrenheit 9/11,” Scott treated Michael Moore’s disingenuous left-wing screeds in similar fashion, admitting the documentary film-maker was sometimes “tendentious” yet also “a credit to the Republic.”

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aside from it being anti-, the story arc was crap

but it got academy awards — was it 4?

in Best Boot Costumery, Best Sandblasted Walls, Best Shrapnel, Best Psycho Portrayal

really minor awards, but just to make that “Winner of FOUR ACADEMY AWARDS!!” sticker on the face of the disk case.

pathetic.

He will never get another dime from my pocket. I hope his movie tanks but good!

…of this movie “brilliant” with “the best war action sequences of the Iraq War” you will find anywhere. “Four Stars” for the first hour.

He went on to say the second hour was a total waste. Zero stars, with a Two Star rating overall.