The lead for this story might be Matt Damon’s heartbroken disappointment over Obama’s inability to strip away our health care as the millionaire actor holds on to his, but the news about “Green Zone” — which hits theatres March 12th — is the more interesting part:
It’s hard to think of a movie that’d play better in the Obama White House screening room than Matt Damon’s new Iraq War thriller, “Green Zone,” in which the Oscar-winner adroitly portrays a soldier fighting to expose the Bush administration’s weapons of mass destruction deception. …
Damon … vouches that “the people who worked on ‘Green Zone’ come from all across the political spectrum.”
His character, Roy Miller, is based on real-life Army chief warrant officer, Richard (Monty) Gonzales, whose Mobile Exploitation Team was charged with finding the WMDs during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
“Monty was a Republican – he’d voted for Bush,” Damon told us at Nobu 57 after the movie’s Cinema Society premiere. “He went to Iraq with the absolute conviction he was going to find the WMDs.”
Makes sense. After child-raping directors, Hollywood’s favorite hero is The Disillusioned Republican.
In the movie, Amy Ryan plays a reporter obviously modeled after Bush water-carrier Judy Miller. Greg Kinnear plays the oily Bush operative who leads her to believe an Iraqi general has confirmed the existence of WMDs. A chase commences to find the general.
Since Paul Greengrass is directing, think of “Green Zone” as Bush-bashing filmed with a shaky-cam set alternately on WhatInTheAlmightyHellIsGoingOn or ICan’tSeeShit.
The advertising for this $150 million piece of propaganda is desperate to make it look like “Bourne 4: Undermining An America Still At War,” which brings us to today’s survey question…
After more than a dozen-plus anti-Iraq/War on Terror films flopped something terrible, many of them starring the biggest names in the business, would a money-driven industry greenlight $150 million for yet another? Is that the behavior of a money-driven, profit seeking, bottom line industry?
Or is that the behavior of Leftist propagandists?
Okay, I lied, that’s a rhetorical question.
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