'Battle: Los Angeles': Go. See. This. Movie.

The entire leftist, elitist entertainment media agrees: “Battle: Los Angeles,” the new alien invasion flick from director Jonathan Liebesman, is not worth your time.

So clearly, you have got to go see this movie!

On the most recent addition of Take A Movie to Work over at Declaration Entertainment, Bill Whittle discusses the importance of this terrific action movie, which – MOST SHOCKING, EXHILARATING SPOILER ALERT OF ALL TIME – makes American soldiers, the best people our society has to offer, look like THE BEST PEOPLE OUR SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER!

Missing are all of the clichés we have come to expect from movies that depict our fighting men and women. There are no brooding loaners bemoaning the futility of war, no racist loud-mouth adrenaline junkies itching to kill anything they don’t understand, the troops aren’t victims of nefarious political posturing or trying to steal from the third-world…

Even the relationship between Aaron Eckhart’s battle-hardened Staff Sergeant Nash and the fresh-faced, just-out-of-school, naive Lieutenant is respectful and authentic. When the Lieutenant breaks down from his first exposure to the chaos of battle, there is no condescending moment of the wise-old enlisted man rising up to take command. Instead, Eckhart reminds the younger man of his responsibility, pulls him out of his own head, prompts him to make a decision, and then says “Yes sir.”

Every moment of this film inspires envy of the discipline, decisiveness, charity, and just general good character our military demands of its fighters.

Plus, they kick butt. Lots of it.

You know, according to German authorities, Arid Uka, the terrorist who shot and killed two US Servicemen last month, had recently viewed an Islamist propaganda video titled “American Soldiers Rape our Sisters!”

The four-minute YouTube video featured footage to backup its claim – footage of American soldiers sexually assaulting a Muslim girl – courtesy of Hollywood, USA. Specifically, the fictional footage is from Brian De Palma’s anti-American, anti-Military film, Redacted.

Redacted, of course, is just one of the litany of films to come out since Vietnam that portray our soldiers as rubes, murderers, rapists, dope-fiends, adrenaline junkies, or all of the above.

Movies have power. People spend almost as much time watching film and television as they do working – almost 1,500 hours a year. How much of our view of our military is informed or at least influenced by the way Hollywood typically portrays them?

It’s about time we started portraying them as the heroes they actually are.

“Battle: Los Angeles” deserves our support. Boycotting anti-military movies isn’t enough. You need to use the carrot as well as the stick.

While this movie, with its strong violence and salty language, is not for the kiddos, it is for everyone else – everyone who complains about the way Hollywood usually degrades our best and brightest, and who longs for a better day.

For a full video look at this film from Bill Whittle, and some great commentary, visit Declaration Entertainment and enjoy this week’s Take A Movie to Work.