Hollywood's Next Anti-War Flop

And this one isn't just anti-war, it's unabashedly anti-troop.

Not satisfied with its string of war flops and smears of the US military in Iraq, from In the Valley of Elah to Redacted, in March Hollywood will serve up Stop-Loss.  Starring Ryan Phillipe, Stop-Loss tells the story of a soldier who is retained in the military on his last day of service and told he’s being shipped back to Iraq. But watch the trailer. Not content just to preach against one clause that’s in every single military volunteer’s contract, the film suggests that the soldier and his unit committed war crimes in Iraq. It promotes re-instating the draft. It states flatly that desertion is more honorable than service. In taking these lines, Stop-Loss is promoting the extreme left, Cindy Sheehan World Can’t Wait point of view.

Bryan at Hot Air (quoted above) offers up the preview of this ugly little film and surmises that the producers who keep cranking out this garbage are indifferent about the heavy financial losses they're yielding.  I'm not sure I agree.  I suspect the self-involved cinematic preachers producing these movies truly believe this message simply must resonate with Americans, and that the box office will eventually bear that out, if only they can get the formula just right.  I suspect even the most venomously anti-American studio execs are still fiercely bottom-line driven and that it's just a matter of time (admittedly, perhaps a long time) before a big enough mountain of disconfirming data piles up to convince them that - for some reason - the boorish American movie-going public does not in fact share the Dream Factory's left-wing enlightenment.