Scott R. Sullivan

March 29th, 2008 by Scott

Stop-Loss is a film released by the Hollywood about the Iraq war. At the heart of the film is negative commentary about the war and another attempt to begin placing the idea of desertion in the minds of the people.

How did the film do?

Stop-Loss opened to only $1.6 million Friday from just 1,291 plays and should eke out $4+M. Although the drama from MTV Films was the best-reviewed movie opening this weekend, Paramount wasn’t expecting much because no Iraq war-themed movie has yet to perform at the box office.

“It’s not looking good,” a studio source told me before the weekend. “No one wants to see Iraq war movies. No matter what we put out there in terms of great cast or trailers, people were completely turned off. It’s a function of the marketplace not being ready to address this conflict in a dramatic way because the war itself is something that’s unresolved yet.

Source: Hollywood Daily

Translation:
People like feeling good about their country. We love our country and we want to see success. People want to be rallied and feel good. They don’t like being told everything is our fault and we should feel bad about ourselves.

When Hollywood begins making films people want to see instead of trying to force a political view on us, then people will want to see their films.

April 20th, 2007 by Scott

I’ve said it before and this time, I don’t have to say it again. The Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Democrat) said it for me. Yesterday, that head Democrat, Harry Reid said the “war is lost.”

It makes me sad and disappointed to think that the Senate Majority Leader would say the war is lost during a time of war, while our troops are fighting for his freedom to say something so demoralizing.

The Democrats never wanted to go into Iraq. They feel that if we just cut and run, if we just hide in our country, no one will hurt us and those pesky terrorists will go away.

Sorry, but they attacked us before we went into Iraq on September 11. In fact, they attacked us almost a decade earlier on the first WTC bombing. The attacked us before, they will try again.

What the Democrats still do not understand is that these terrorists want to destroy us becuase of what we believe. They despise our way of life and they hate everything for which we stand.

As long as we are on the offensive, we are breaking their network. We are slowly eroding their ability to be effective. It will be a long fight, yes. But a needed fight.

Meanwhile, the Democrats want to cut and run. They want to hand over the battle to the terrorists. If we cut and run today, the Democrats have no idea what type of propaganda that would give the enemy. It would embolden them and we would see more attacks closer to home.

Remember the last elections? Kerry had to be “against” the war and the current strategy. He couldn’t give a single thing he would do to fix what he said was broken. All he said we have to fight “smarter.” The entire election was “against” President Bush. They had nothing to offer of their own.

Of course, he then got caught saying that if you don’t study, you end up stuck in Iraq.

They don’t have respect for our brave military.

They don’t have anything to stand “for.” They can only oppose and be “against” something.

Doesn’t sound like a very happy way of life.