The Not So Green Zone

After two weeks of release, Matt Damon's movie, "Green Zone," is out of the top five in revenues. So much for word of mouth propelling ticket sales. That was about all the movie could count on after it's dismal opening. A movie like that needs to open huge, over fifty million dollars at least, and it did a quarter of that.

All I can say, is, Matt, you had it coming. You rock your anti-Sarah Palin views all you want, just keep them to yourself. And keep the fraudulent history of Howard Zinn out of your movies. I get the message: If you read and believe Howard Zinn, then you are a genius, just like your character. Was that the whole point of the movie?

I think Hollywood should go back to the old studio system. In the old days, the stars had publicists who were their mouthpieces, and the dreck that preoccupies them was never known by the public. I think Damon will be okay. His career is on a trajectory that one bad movie cannot derail. The movie will make up some of it's losses on DVD sales. The fact is, that this movie is a huge money-loser, costing over two hundred million. Whoever green-lighted this bumper sticker against Bush 43 should lose his or her job. Or worse. This movie provides more propaganda for the radical jihadi than Abu Ghraib. Both are scandalous, and should have been prevented from happening.