Redacted SUCKS!
Outside The Wire beats Redacted
Written by JD Johannes
Monday, 26 November 2007
Brian DePalma's award winning anti-war movie earned $25,628.
It was made for $5,000,000.
That is a .5% return.
My first documentary cost $35,000 to make, and thanks to the supporters of the Outside the Wire project, has made $23,464 or 67% return.
When one guy with a camera is beating Hollywood in rate of return and almost beating Hollywood in gross receipts--Hollywood has a problem
(previously posted)
As mentioned earlier, Brian De Palma is showing yet another P.O.S. anti-war movie. Yet this time, the movie will provide aid and comfort to the enemy. Confederate Yankee has a good take:
...As sweat drips in the eyes of soldiers and Marines as they attempt to bring peace to a land that has rarely known it, their enemies will be watching pirated and crudely-dubbed bootlegs of Redacted in training camps in Syria, in mosques in Saudi Arabia, and in homes throughout the Arab world, who already take a suspicious view of the American soldier in Iraq.
We will not see the pictures that would actually win the war, of an Iraqi father wrapping his arms around a suicide bomber to keep him from entering a mosque, or of the Iraqi interpreter who proudly dreams of becoming an American Marine. We won't see American ssaving Iraqi lives, or Iraqis saving American lives, or the brutality of those we fight.
Those, you see, are the pictures that Brian de Palma has redacted.
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