I don't get it.

Another persecuted wingnut? It sucks when your family tells you that you're full of shit, but sometimes it's true.

BRG:

I don't get it.

That's okay. Pat Dollard will be by to make sure you get it very, very soon.

J. Alva:

Another persecuted wingnut?

I know! It's almost like a pattern or something. Fortunately I've had the pattern-recognition part of my brain removed, and have never been happier nor more drooly.

Can we NOT refer to someone who's IMDb credits describe as mostly a self-important moneybag who drops cash on obscure movies which produce no income as "a bigtime Hollywood manager"? Can we reserve praise for those who deserve it? Can we not appear to promote wingnuts?

Please?

No. Let's lavish praise on this guy. I couldn't get the quicktime to work when I went to either site, but he says he's boldly and courageously standing up against Hollywood, and that's good enough for me.

He's right. I'm going to apologize for how much I hate war. Everything is my fault. Even Castro still being in power, and how GM stopped making Oldsmobiles.

Hmm, I can't say I hear either of those actual troops bitching about war protestors in the opening section of the trailer before Mr Dullard's heavy-metal hate-montage. It sounds to me like they were making fun of civilian military-fetishists who think they're tough enough to fight but don't do so. You know, chickenhawks. Funny how the director failed to notice that.

I also like how he completely loses his train of thought in the opening paragraph to "Who is Pat Dollard?". You don't see that very often in a written medium.

i think bowie should sue for defamation by association

also, (roger L) simon sez ""More interesting than Steven Spielberg et al's latest"

interesting in the "where can i get what HE's having sense of course

Egad. Dollard certainly seems to have issues. Yeah, how dare the rest of us detest war and the needless slaughter of civilians. Ah, the roaring blast of his adolescent ego sure is a hoot to behold.

I note that the only film of note on which he has a producer credit is Paul Schrader's wonderful Bob Krane bio-pic Auto-focus. Alas, as that one has several producers I'm inclined to believe that Dollard's input was minimal.

I think I get it. What's not to get? He doesn't like spoiled American rich kids (the MTV generation, I guess) who don't know anything about the real world, who haven't suffered authentically, who haven't demonstrated that they have big brass balls like those soldiers fighting in Iraq, pretending like they know what the world is really like. Also he believes in what our soldiers are fighting for in Iraq. So he made a movie about it.

I think I get it. What's not to get?

How anything you just wrote ties to that preview. I mean, I can sort of see how you could squeeze those ideas out of the trailer, but I'm still mostly confused.

Alexis, I believe he actually was a big time manager (as opposed to producer, where he mostly failed). He managed Steven Soderbergh.

The Iraq War is yet more proof that nothing is so stupid that people won't passionately support it.

The song refrains says it all: wasted youth.

Yeah, it is a bit confusing. The soldiers, indeed, seem to be disliking military fetishists whom they identify as being MTV-watching party animals. Then footage of protestors--whom the soldiers never really mentio--alternates with footage of the aforemention MTV-spring-break style partyers, as if they were one and the same--when of course, they are almost certainly largely underlapping groups of people.

Comparing this to the interesting and well-done Gunner Palace, I have to think Dollar fits into the very group the soldiers are making fun of at the beginning.

OMFG!!! I'm totally excited. This is going to be excellent agiprot for all my hipster fashion-specked friends and their irony-induced mtv-hating hyperapathy. I can hardly wait.