Now, that’s more like it. This new promotional poster for The Eye (click image to enlarge) produces the same uneasy thrill as during The Ring when that evil girl climbed out of the well. Admittedly, the whole “Jessica Alba screaming into an oven” aspect of the film sounds pretty hilarious, but the nightmarish aspects of the film will still pull me to the theatre. The Eye looks to be the first Jessica Alba movie that does not directly bill Alba’s Ass™ yet still produces some rather respectable eye candy.
Meanwhile, Tom Cruise and his staff are pondering the uncaring nature of the American public, who only tossed a paltry $6.7 million in ticket sales into the tin cup of his latest snoozer. Similarly, Reese Witherspoon, Angelina Jolie, and Kevin Spacey must all be wondering why people don’t want to spend their precious spare time in a movie theatre and stressing out over real-life shit.
I hate to bring this next bit up, but Americans have had more than enough of the preachiness associated with Hollywood’s take on the War On Terror. Much more compelling (and even accurate) information can be found in articles, journals, and the nightly news. Already, we have enough versions of the so-called truth without Tom Cruise giving us the razzle dazzle and telling us to take some vitamins, and we’ll get over it all. Maverick will make it all better.
Hollywood is completely out of touch with the actual concerns of Americans. These directors and actors operate under the impression that mere civilians are incapable of turning on the nightly news and thinking for ourselves. Quite simply, we are unenlightened and in need of a reeducation. Or something like that. What these gurus fail to realize that we’ve already had the ultimate movie seared onto our retinas, and it wasn’t of Hollywood’s creation.
Poster image from Cinematical.
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There’s already been an excellent movie made on this subject:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0475276/
No need to fictionalize it or dramatize it; as you say, the real thing was plenty dramatic.
Hollywood’s agenda seems to be to try to convince us that we imagined the whole thing, or failing that, that it was all our fault anyway because we’re such a bunch of selfish bastards.
Maybe they are projecting a bit?
Now, onto more important subjects — Jessica Alba’s ass in a decent horror movie? I am all over that.
Great piece on the non-Alba angle of this:
http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/11/post_257.php
Yup. I can get the anti-war side for free from numerous sources: “The Daily Show”, Olbermann, non-Fox nightly news shows.
I can get, for lack of a better term, “pro”-war stuff from blogs and reporters like Michael Yon and Bill Roggio, both of whom are actually in country and on the front lines, who actually see the hits and misses that result from both our strategy and tactics.
Neither side wastes any time on hackneyed speeches – Olbermann et al go straight for the jugular and spread their irritation across political and occasionally military targets; the others offer detailed and harrowing treatments of our troops’ everyday heroism as well as analysis of why, God forbid, the strategy may actually be working (*Note: Not covered by any mainstream media).
Long story short: We already get the rhetoric and the reality. We don’t have to wait – nor do we have to pay – for a bunch of hack actors/directors/writers to preach at us and vilify us when we don’t appreciate the enlightened “nuance” that drips from every pore of “The Lions of Elah Invading the Redacted Valley of Rendition”.