Disappointing news about ’24’, and I am sure the fans are crushed. Please write in and voice your displeasure with this crap. And adding Janeane Garofalo to the cast? What in god’s name were you guys thinking? I guess they really wanted to kill the show, because that is a great way to do it.
As for the movie State of Play, who knows how that will turn out. But obviously Hollywood is in bash PMC’s mode, and to me, that is an extremely tired and way overplayed theme in today’s cookie cutter film industry.
How’s this for a unique idea… make a cutting edge movie that actually supports the concept of PMC’s and shows them saving the day for once? Now that would be some interesting film making, because it would actually take some courage to make. Or you guys could continue to be cowards and take the easy way out with these poorly made and poorly received, PMC bashing flicks. Pffft.
And what really kills me, is where is the profit motive for making these types of flicks? I have yet to hear of a ‘PMC bashing flick’ that has been successful. For example, here is the Wikipedia on War Inc., an absolutely terrible film that did not do well at all. –Mudeer
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Critical reception of War Inc. (Wikipedia)
War, Inc. received generally negative reviews from critics. As of May 24, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 30 percent of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 34 reviews — with the consensus that the film “attempts to satirize the military industrial complex, but more often than not it misses its target.”Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 37 out of 100, based on 21 reviews.
Box office performance