The War Movie Problem

Conservatives are, of course, wrong again in their pronouncements that because we're "winning" in Iraq, ergo war movies flop at the box office. I don't know about you, but I always go to the people who push Pat Boone as the go-to folks on entertainment analysis. What has actually happened is that the market is saturated and the national consensus has changed considerably. Four years ago when Fahrenheit 9/11 was released, it was the rare moment where a voice against the administration got to break through the mainstream media. In 2007 producing an anti-war movie is a little like yet another badly written CGI film trying to copy the success of Pixar's work without any of the originality, heart and soul of Pixar's best movies.