Thursday, October 29, 2009
Funny Stuff: Steven Seagal in the Reality TV Show ‘Lawman’!!!
Film: Chalk Up Another Crappy Iraq War Movie–‘Green Zone’
Friday, October 16, 2009
Film: Security Contractors Depicted in Television Show ‘Occupation’
Check it out and let me know what you guys think? I have yet to see the show, and I really don’t know how we will be depicted in this thing. I tend to not have much faith in today’s film industries out there, when it comes to presenting this industry in film. But you never know, and I will wait and see….-Matt
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Television Review | ‘Occupation’
Knocked Around by the Winds of War
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
October 16, 2009
War movies focus on friendship because it’s the one steadfast reward of combat and perhaps the only consolation.
“Occupation,” a British look at the Iraq war on BBC America on Sunday, is one of the best television depictions yet of that conflict, and it isn’t even a straightforward war story. Nor, despite its title, is it exactly a tale of foreign occupation, though “Occupation” does take a long, disturbing look at the chaos, corruption and mayhem that choked the American-led reconstruction effort.
Mostly the film follows three British soldiers who fought together in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and then, for three entirely different reasons, keep returning there over the course of several years. And in that time soldiers, contractors, engineers, doctors and government officials — and billions of dollars in vacuum-sealed packs — are pinned down by an insurgency their leaders failed to anticipate.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Film: The Video Game ‘Army of Two’ to be Made Into a Movie
“The ambiguity of these private military corporations lends weight to an intelligent thriller with relevance to what’s going on in the world right now. You have contractors with their own agendas, and two guys whose friendship supersedes all the politics.”
Wow, so the guy who wrote the Bourne Ultimatum, Scott Burns, is writing the script for Army of Two? And he wants to give it a serious treatment? Wow, and I applaud that. So will this film be like Tango and Cash, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Starsky and Hutch, (fill in favorite action buddy film)? lol
Although I am highly skeptical of what the end product will really be. Unfortunately, hollywood is on the kick of defining PMC’s and PSC’s as evil. Would they and could they actually give the subject fair treatment? I wonder what the investors have to say about what the ‘correct’ money making view on PMC’s and PSC’s should be?
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Film: ‘District 9’, Another Attack on PMC’s
As the movie begins, a wave of violent prawn unrest — not unlike the one that rocked South Africa’s real townships only last month — has prompted the good people of Jo’burg to crave even greater distance from their subhuman neighbors, and a forced relocation of all alien residents to a Guantánamo-style tent city known as District 10 has become law. Enter Multi-National United, a smarmy private military contractor that places the relocation in the hands of one Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), a not very bright corporate lackey who also happens to be married to the boss’s daughter.
I wanted to post this portion of the review, because it is an important aspect of this movie. Instead of using military forces or police forces in South Africa, the movie makers here decided to use a Private Military Company called Multi-National United as the evil ‘relocation’ forces, or what we will call ‘hollywood’s default evil storm troopers of death and wanton destruction’. Why the movie did not have enough guts to use the country’s actual military or police forces for this part, is certainly telling.
Other than that, I would like to see this movie, just because it seems like really interesting science fiction. Not your typical sci-fi. –Matt
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District 9: Divide and Conquer
Alien invasion as apartheid metaphor? It works in this film.
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By Scott Foundas
Published on August 11, 2009
Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and David James. Rated R.