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In response to "You know what movie goers love? "You were wrong and you were lied to by the people you voted for. Pay me $10 and I'll show you how." (nm)" by David

You don't think a lot of Americans want to see a movie that basically re-enforces their belief that they were right about Iraq all along?

Posted by Name Withheld By Request (aka BlueKopo) Jul 5 '10, 09:51

Opposition to the Iraq War has been mainstream for at least five years now. It's not like this is coming out in 2005.

If it had, then yes, it definitely would be considerably more of a gamble, but Matt Damon running around proving that Bush and company were wrong on going in and then clusterfucked the early days setting the scene for a long resistance isn't exactly spilling any state secrets that aren't pretyt much already widely held to be the truth.

There's just nothing shocking there.

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No and the box office performance for a de facto Bourne film backs me up on this. - David Jul 5, 09:55 6
- What was the final BO for it? I don't recall. - Name Withheld By Request Jul 5, 10:02 5
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  - It made $35 million domestic, which is barely half of what the last Bourne film opened to doing. - David Jul 5, 10:05 2
    - One last note before the roll...I always felt that trying to compare them to the Bourne's was ridiculous. Had he been named Bourne, it would have... - Name Withheld By Request Jul 5, 10:13 1
      - *tips cap* - David Jul 5, 10:19
  - $35m -- nm - Roger More Jul 5, 10:05
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- Yeah, I guess I can't really argue that, though this was far more sold on the action than politics, whereas the others were the opposite. - Name Withheld By Request Jul 5, 09:56 1
  - I think David's point is not that it's controversial, but it's on a topic that many, if not most, people would rather forget ever happened. -- nm - Roger More Jul 5, 09:59

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You don't think a lot of Americans want to see a movie that basically re-enforces their belief that they were right about Iraq all along?

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