STOP LOSS... we went to see the movie today

[nadinbrzezinski]

some observations

1.- the audience tended on the older side... and if this was directed at the MTV generation they failed horribly, at least on this showing

2.- Without giving the plot away, the movie touches on all major points we have o'ver here

3.- The Reviewers in the Entertainment Magazine (the only one I have seen) missed quite a bit of the movie, and what it meant... even the fact that the hero (or anti hero), had served more than one tour...

It is worth watching and of course at the end we had a young man scream GOD BLESS AMERICA...

Given this is a military town either that was a Marine trying to adjust to what going on, or more likely a clueless civvie for whom this is the closest he will ever get to the actual war. We didn't feel like confronting him. The rest of the audience left heads down and silent.

Oh and on the rant department.. why the fuck do I need to go to a hollywood movie to see the war? (Though they did miss quite a bit of news footage)... and to see the effects of the war?

Rant off

[GOPNotForMe]

1. Maybe that guy was trying to be ironic?

Probably not... I heard the movie didn't fare well at the box office.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. No ironacy... in his tone

we live in a town with many marines AND right wngers, the 19 percenters... if you get me drift

And NONE of the iraq movies have done well...

Now you know what will happen when they release Rambo\ the Iraq Story?

Yep, the same that happened when he single handledly defeated them gooks in Nam... yep I tell you, the studios are gonna win the war for us... since the Country cannot deal with loosing wars

[msongs]

3. ummm, isn't the mtv generation pushing 50? nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. No, the MTV generation are young

they are young kids, and this is being pushed on teens, specifically female teens...

I am in the age group you think is the MTV generation. I believe the last time I watched MTV is over twenty years ago

They reinvent themselves every so often to attract the youth, since THAT is their market and they go for the COOLNESS factor

It is kind like Nickelodeon... unless you have a five year old in the house, I doubt you turn it on (perhaps nick at night, but you get the point)

[marmar]

6. I'm from the first MTV generation....and the oldest of us just passed 40....

I've only got four more glorious years left in the 30s myself. :(

[mvccd1000]

5. I haven't seen the movie, but I don't understand the hype.

The concept was very clearly called out, and even verbally explained, before I ever signed a contract to join the Armed Forces.

I'm sure it absolutely sucks to be held in when you think you're getting out, but you can't say you didn't accept the possibility when you enlisted. And since the war has been going on for five years now, nearly every person in the military has either enlisted or reenlisted at least once since it started. (There may be a few six-year enlistees out there who signed up in the last year before the war started, but they are few and far between.)

You may be able to convince me that it's unpleasant, but not that it's unfair.

(As I said, I haven't seen the show, so I don't even know if that's the thrust of the movie - just my .02 on stop loss.)