Stop-Loss, stopped dead.

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I'm told #7 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. It's a shame because it's a good movie that's just ahead of its time."

As usual, the elites in Hollyweird remain clueless. To reiterate:

"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.

WTF do you mean "no matter what we put out there," when the only thing that you do put out are bilge-driven baby-killer movies or movies that badmouth the mission.

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.

Thank you, Captain Clueless, for that bit of self-absorbed, ill-informed tripe. But it is your constant drumbeat of anti-mission, anti-troop bilge that the marketplace refuses to buy.

If the almighty dollar means anything to you clueless Hollyweird bastards, perhaps you'll be able to reverse your fortunes at the Box office if you take a realistic view of the situation:

1. There are Islamic bastards with whom our soldiers are engaged who would just as soon bomb a marketplace filled with civilians as look at you.
2. Our soldiers are there to protect innocents, and to defeat the above-mentioned bastards.
3. Iraqi forces are taking over an increasing role in protecting their own.
   
4. Our soldiers are making a difference, not only in defending the innocent, but in restoring and improving infrastructure around Iraq.
   
5. A healthy number of soldiers are re-upping.

Give me a movie that portrays our soldiers as they really are-- brave American heroes, and I'll give you a box-office smash.