tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1738287973310007635..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: "In the Valley of Elah"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28540286926220233552007-12-30T10:40:00.000-08:002007-12-30T10:40:00.000-08:00Just some interesting info: IMDB shows "Elah's" bo...Just some interesting info: IMDB shows "Elah's" box office biz, from 9/16 to 12/9, only hitting $6.8 million. In the week between 12/2 and 12/9 it added just $5,200 to its gross.<BR/><BR/>It could be worse. The Mark Cuban-financed/Brian de Palma-directed movie "Redacted" only managed $63,000 in its first three weeks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83382090619657671882007-12-29T15:39:00.000-08:002007-12-29T15:39:00.000-08:00In a brief role, Sarandon is even better than Jone...<I><BR/>In a brief role, Sarandon is even better than Jones. Having lost her older son to a helicopter crash in training, she asks her husband, "Couldn't you have left me just one?" When he protests that he didn't tell their boy to enlist, she responds that their son couldn't have grown up in their home without feeling that he'd never be a man until he served. Jones has no answer.<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>Jones was also in No Country for Old Men. Just saw it. Superb.<BR/><BR/>Of course the writers and directors and many women simply do not realize that the fate of the sons was in their genes. <BR/><BR/>Men take risks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53450794768369215352007-12-29T12:15:00.000-08:002007-12-29T12:15:00.000-08:00Steve -- your problem as a movie reviewer (all due...Steve -- your problem as a movie reviewer (all due respect) is that you suffer from the same elitism and social distance and feeling of superiority that Hollywood does.<BR/><BR/>Elah was a horrible movie, who's basic message was that America, Americans, and all American institutions are irretrievably evil.<BR/><BR/>What else can you expect from Haggis, who's Crash had as it's main point that only the approval of the maid would make a wealthy Anglo woman's life worthwhile? Or that all whites are irretrievably racist and evil unless redeemed by noble ethnic types?<BR/><BR/>Haggis had some interview, at his Malibu mansion, where he mentioned that Communism was the way to go, as the interviewer noted, with his porsches and a Ferrari in the driveway.<BR/><BR/>That in a nutshell is Hollywood. Constantly telling the millionaires and billionaires of Hollywood how much better they are than ordinary people.<BR/><BR/>It's cliched and done to death and symptomatic of an artistically decaying, terminally insular Hollywood.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12314749035948393762007-12-29T11:56:00.000-08:002007-12-29T11:56:00.000-08:00To review this movie without discussing its leftis...To review this movie without discussing its leftist political agenda is to reveal a bias of one's own (something confirmed by calling Crash "brilliant"). A better read on what this movie is really about can be found from conservative commentators, including Debbie Schlussel, who labelled it Bin Laden Cinema and called for a boycott of the actors.<BR/><BR/>Steve supposedly dislikes political and ideological bias involving race or genetics, but yet he practices it so consistently in his movie reviews. Makes you wonder about his other positions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com