Sony blinks on Bin Laden movie

[Locutus]

Sony, director Kathryn Bigelow, and screenwriter Mark Boal will now have a full year to try and fix the damage done to this project after the attempt to politicize it created the kind of PR nightmare that can only bring death to the box office.

Over the past five years, a dozen-plus anti-war films have flopped at a 100% rate (Boal and Bigelow’s Oscar-winning “Hurt Locker” only grossed $17 million domestically — and in my opinion it did not look favorably on our military), and if that doesn’t prove the power New Media has to compete with and even defeat The Hollywood PR Machine, nothing does. Why Sony ever believed they could get away with releasing into the 2012 election narrative a multi-million dollar feature focusing on one of President Obama’s very few successes is beyond me.

Sony’s plan was an obvious one. Not only would the release of the film in the crucial weeks leading up to the election bring this event back to the forefront of voter’s minds, it would also give Obama’s Media Palace Guards the excuse and cover they desire to resurrect this story just when the President might need it most. This was cynical, sinister, and the worst kind of exploitation of our Military.

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[Retired_Can_Soldier]

John Nolte is an idiot. The Hurt Locker was not anti-war movie and in my opinion it was a good film.

 

[WLDB]

Oliver Stone did the same thing by releasing W. a few weeks before the 2008 election. I doubt it had an impact, but it was rushed through production to get out before the election.

Its not surprising someone else is doing something similar. With politics in the US, anything goes it seems.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

W was terrible. Although Josh Brolin did his best and had he had a better director and script it might have been a good movie

 

[WLDB]

W was terrible. Although Josh Brolin did his best and had he had a better director and script it might have been a good movie

I thought it was ok. I'm not crazy about Oliver Stone movies in general. Nixon was interesting. JFK was good if you ignore the fact that the whole movie is fiction. What he did with Jim Morrison in The Doors annoys me. He generally is good at casting but sucks at everything else.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

I thought it was ok. I'm not crazy about Oliver Stone movies in general. Nixon was interesting. JFK was good if you ignore the fact that the whole movie is fiction. What he did with Jim Morrison in The Doors annoys me. He generally is good at casting but sucks at everything else.

Stones problem is at some point he decided that all his films had to be controversial which is about the same time his movies started to suck. You should hear what Quentin Tarantino has to say about Natural Born Killers.