Stop Loss Movie Trailer

wow.... (0.00 / 0)

incredible.. and bold...  this could be the movie of the year!!!

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by: princemjkt @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 00:13:14 AM CDT

don't know if I could sit through it in a cinema... (0.00 / 0)

at least not on first run-thru...   what's the chance of getting a deal for free pre-screenings for vets only?

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by: princemjkt @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 00:45:26 AM CDT

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Did a review of... (0.00 / 0)

..."Over There" back in 2005 for the newspaper I worked for at that time. (NOTE: the referenced review was not mine)

 This was about 6 months after I came back from Iraq, and found Bochco's show was full of BS and out of touch, as the referenced Seatlle PI folks above did. My big issue was that the show had privates - supply-types, even (right out of the Jessica Lynch story, no dis on PFC Lynch) - fighting a whole gang of insurgents in BFE with no combat arms backup, even tho it was set well after the invasion.

 I'm very, very wary of "current" war movies, so am looking at "Stop-Loss" with a jaded eye. May watch it 10 years from now, may not.

 Hollywood is out of touch, as is most of the American public.

 All that said, I may need to go review this movie for my newspaper...and post said review on this site.

 IV

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by: IrritatedVet @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 01:22:09 AM CDT

nope. (0.00 / 0)

looks like some bullshit hollywood movie. Seems like a high school football movie.

just my 2cents of course.

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by: Ernie1812 @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 01:22:49 AM CDT

Roger... (0.00 / 0)

...but for the sake of giving it a fair shake, I may sit through it all the same. Will have barf bags at the ready, tho.  

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by: IrritatedVet @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 01:31:03 AM CDT

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I don't know. I didn't get that impression (0.00 / 0)

from the trailer.  It's a delicate subject and, from the trailer, it looks to me like they at least tried to handle it well.  I'd probably get too frustrated watching it, though (me being subject to mobilization and all).  Not sure if I'll see it.

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by: Brandon Friedman @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 01:36:39 AM CDT

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Me and some buddies are going opening day (0.00 / 0)

Planning on laughing at all the inaccurate hoopla.

Just from one promo picture I saw, there were two guys in a parade with CIBs, but no combat patch. Yikes!

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by: ThisDudesArmy @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 01:35:16 AM CDT

I don't know why (0.00 / 0)

it's so hard to hire a military advisor for movies.  I know a hundred guys who'd be willing to do it.

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by: Brandon Friedman @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 01:38:44 AM CDT

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Amen: (0.00 / 0)

  My wife hates going to movies with me if there's a military aspect, because I pick it to pieces without hesitation. Like Brandon said, why is it so hard to get a military adivser who knows his/her shit?

 I was a lousy CPL, and I could do a lot better than Hollywood.

 I should team up with R. Lee Ermey...we'd win an Oscar together.

 IV

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by: IrritatedVet @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 01:46:05 AM CDT

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Clarification: (0.00 / 0)

  I was not a "lousy CPL," in that I was not lousy as a Corporal...

 ...what I wore on my collar wasn't big shakes... and I wasn't hard-core. I was an MI nerd. But I was not lousy.  Not one lice on me. Ever.

  Just reviewed my previous comment and wanted to clarify.

  As far as me being a CPL, well, I was Rambo!

  OK, maybe not...but you get the point. I hope.

   

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by: IrritatedVet @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 02:07:20 AM CDT

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I'm totally there (4.00 / 1)

I'll try to do a full-blown post tonight on how pro-war pundits are trying to make low turnout for war movies mean that America Loves This War! because most of the movies do NOT glorify war (thus liberal slant perhaps?).  There is an article about this, sorta, in WaPo today. So, I'll be there to end this argument.

Second reason I'll go, is because the director/writer? is the Boys Don't Cry director, who dealt with a delicate subject well in the past.

Finally, the previews have looked pretty honest . . . glaring combat patches aside.

Finally, finally, I also understand why many don't go to these movies.  Frankly hard to watch because too close to home (Brandon).  My boyfriend won't see Valley of Elah because the issues are still too raw.  In addition, I was actually told to STOP seeing these types of movies because I have PTSD, but I refuse to let the fact I jumped in my seat when I saw an explosion in the Kingdom make me hibernate.

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by: Combat Infantry Bunny @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 07:15:04 AM CDT

Would love to see it, but won't (4.00 / 1)

Movies like this are either too hokey, and I pick them apart, or they are way too real, and I'm up all night.

"No U.S. soldier ever dies in vain because they're carrying out the missions of their commander in chief. And we honor all the service that they've provided." - Barack Obama

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by: Chris LeJeune @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 09:49:35 AM CDT

Time to begin (0.00 / 0)

a full, open, honest national debate on re-instituting a draft.

Not just to eliminate stop loss practices.  But more, to give the American People  a say in the use of military force.

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by: Viet71 @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 10:05:48 AM CDT

I'm going to drop my dime... (0.00 / 0)

...to see this movie for one reason and one reason only: If the mainstream media is going to continue to keep Iraq off the public's radar screen, then culture has to pick up the ball. I bet out of 100 civilians you might could find one who even knows what a stop-loss order is. Culture -- literature, music, film, and art -- are very often the most powerful ways of educating the public. This war in Iraq belongs to the American public, even if the mainstream media is allowing them to forget about it. It's not fair to the military to have to try to figure out a way of handling this overload by itself and that's what a stop-loss is all about -- trying to fill in the gaps that the public is not filling. The public needs to know about it, and, who knows, maybe some of those Y.A.F. and Young Republican lads who tout a war that they refuse to serve in might finally step up to the plate. You never know.

Anyway, it's worth it to me to pay a few bits even if it turns out to be a crappy movie if it will help put Iraq back in the public's mind. But if the film doesn't make any money, that won't happen. This is America. Money talks. In fact, it seems it's the only thing that talks.  

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by: Gage @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 10:53:46 AM CDT

This might be... (0.00 / 0)

...another uphill battle.  I spend 4.5 years in an art school and it was pretty amazing how disconnected that community is from pretty much everything.

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by: ryuujin359 @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 14:09:00 PM CDT

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Spent... (0.00 / 0)

...not spend.  Why english so unpossible?

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by: ryuujin359 @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 14:10:03 PM CDT

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Blame the germans. (0.00 / 0)

Germanic language and all.

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by: Brian McGough @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 14:16:06 PM CDT

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Always pointing fingers, you are. (4.00 / 1)

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by: Combat Infantry Bunny @ Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 18:26:05 PM CDT

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